- 1完全正確、一點都沒錯、講到重點了。語氣是口語稱讚,接近台灣說的「你講的完全對」「一針見血」——注意這是英式用法,美國人比較少講。
Spot-on means exactly right — not roughly right, but right on the mark. You say it about an answer, a guess, an , a description, a measurement: 'Your guess was spot-on.' It is British and Australian, informal, and it usually turns up as a warm little compliment, often on its own as a whole reply: someone explains something and you just say 'Spot-on.' Americans understand it but rarely say it; they would say 'exactly', 'nailed it', or 'right on the money'. Two things to notice about how it behaves. First, it does not usually go in front of a noun — you say 'her timing was spot-on', not 'a spot-on answer', though people do break that from time to time. Second, it resists more and most: something is spot-on or it is not, so 'more spot-on' sounds wrong. It also works as an adverb: 'He landed spot-on in the middle of the target.'
spot-on 指完全正確,不是大概對,而是正中紅心。它常用來形容答案、猜測、模仿或描述,例如「Your guess was spot-on」。它是英式和澳式的口語,常當作一句稱讚的回應,單獨說「Spot-on」也可以。美國人聽得懂,但通常用別的說法,例如「完全對」或「正中要害」。它通常不放在名詞前,比較常見的是「her timing was spot-on」這樣的句子,不過偶爾也有人會放在名詞前。因為它要嘛正確,要嘛不正確,所以不說更正確的比較級。它也可以當副詞,例如「He landed spot-on in the middle of the target」。
組成spot + on. The picture behind it is a target with a spot in the middle — landing on the spot. The hyphen is normal in British writing, though you will also see it without.
同家族的字
- on the spotthe same spot as a precise point, though it has drifted to mean immediately or right there
- spotlessthe same spot, in its other everyday sense of a mark or stain — spotless is having none
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- spot on
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。