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【Weekly Topic 2025.07.27】Familiar Words, Uncommon Meanings

12樓 lizhenxuan 2025-7-31 18:06
chalk(n)
common meaning: something teachers use to write on a blackboard.
uncommon meaning: a kind of soil called "bai e".
啊啊是谁都对In Genshin, Albedo's pen name "Bai E" is "Calx"

and the name "Albedo" is also a stage of alchemy. (It is also "Bai E" in Chinese)

13樓 啊啊是谁都对 2025-7-31 22:59
They wander like specters on the fringes of the Dreamscape, carefully concealing their emotions and avoiding memories that smell sour or bitter.


There are two words worth mentioning in this sentence.


1.specter

common meaning: sth unpleasant that people are afraid might happen in the future

uncommon ones: a ghost


2.fringe

common meaning: the front part of sb’s hair that is cut so that it hangs over their

uncommon meaning: the outer edge of an area or a group


圆环之理Well, about the meaning of "specter", the meaning "a ghost" is the common meaning for me, and "sth unpleasant that people are afraid might happen in the future" the uncommon one
14樓 啊啊是谁都对 2025-8-1 22:34
keen (adj.)


common meaning: 

①wanting to do sth or wanting sth to happen very much

②quick to understand


uncommon meaning: highly developed (senses) , for example: Dog has a keen sense of smell.

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