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Trendsetting is the adjective: it describes a person, thing, company or piece of work that starts a fashion others then follow. So a trendsetter is the person, and 'trendsetting' is what you call them or their work — 'a trendsetting designer', 'her trendsetting album', 'a trendsetting design'. It carries praise: it says this came first and changed what came after. Two useful habits of the word. First, it very often sits right in front of a noun ('a trendsetting show'); it is much less common after 'be' — people write 'the album was trendsetting', and it is understood, but 'a trendsetting album' sounds more natural. Second, it is a favourite of advertising and journalism, so it can feel a little inflated; when a shop calls itself trendsetting, treat it as a sales word. Used honestly, it is usually said looking backwards — we can only really see that something was trendsetting after other people copied it.
引領潮流的、開風氣之先的(形容詞,用來修飾人、作品或品牌)
組成trend + setting, from 'to set a trend' — to start a fashion and fix it in place. The '-ing' form here works like in 'record-breaking' or 'money-saving': it describes the thing that does the action.
同家族的字
- trendsetterthe person; same trend + set pair
- trendthe root word
- record-breakingnot the same root, but the same noun + -ing adjective pattern
原始詞典資料1 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。
trendsettingadj
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Taking a leading role in setting trends, particularly in business or the arts
- By 1989, she was selling to Zona, the trendsetting home-furnishings boutique in SoHo, where customers used to wait in line to get inside on holiday weekends.
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。