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In this meaning, a cert is a thing you treat as already decided: it is sure to happen, or sure to succeed. People say “it’s a cert” or “a dead cert” when they feel there is almost no chance of it going the other way — a horse, a team, a person getting the job. It is mainly British, and it is informal; you would not put it in a careful report. Though actually, speakers still use it when they are not truly 100% sure — it is a strong, claim, not a scientific one. It is a noun in real use (“she’s a cert to win”), even if notes sometimes dress it up like a verb idea.
鐵定會成、穩贏(英式口語;不是「證書」的縮寫)
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
certnoun
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informalCertificate.
- I bought some gift certs for my family for Christmas.
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informalA certainty; something guaranteed to happen.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。