dailies

dailies — 名詞

1. newspapers that come out on each weekday rather than only on Sundays.

1.名詞B2
釋義

日報

每個平日出刊的報紙

newspapers that come out on each weekday rather than only on Sundays.

例句

Caio reads three dailies before driving to his office in São Paulo.

Caio 開車到聖保羅辦公室前會先讀三份日報。

plural count noun: 'three dailies'

Most British dailies put the royal wedding on their front pages that morning.

那天早上，大多數英國日報都把皇室婚禮放在頭版。

collocation: British / American / national dailies

同義詞
  • newspapers

    general term — includes weeklies and Sunday papers

  • the press

    broader — covers all news media, not only daily papers

反義詞
  • weeklies

    papers that come out once a week

文法句型

the dailies

用法筆記

Plural-only in this sense — a single paper is 'a daily'. Often appears as 'the dailies' when referring to a market's main newspapers as a group.

常見錯誤

❌I bought a dailies at the kiosk.
✅I bought a daily at the kiosk.
💡Use the singular 'a daily' for one paper; 'dailies' is the plural.

2. the day's raw film footage that a director and crew watch each evening to decide

2.名詞C1
釋義

毛片

拍攝當天未剪接的原始影片

the day's raw film footage that a director and crew watch each evening to decide what was captured well and what must be reshot.

例句

After dinner, the director Noor sat down with her crew to review the dailies.

晚餐後，導演 Noor 和劇組坐下來審看當天的毛片。

collocation: review / watch / screen the dailies

Christopher noticed a microphone in the corner of one shot while screening the dailies.

Christopher 看毛片時注意到一個鏡頭角落裡露出了麥克風。

同義詞
  • rushes

    British production equivalent for the same daily footage

  • raw footage

    broader — any unedited shot, not necessarily reviewed daily

反義詞
  • final cut

    the edited, polished version released to audiences

文法句型

watch / view the dailies

用法筆記

Specialist film-industry term — used in production, not consumer-facing reviews. Sometimes called 'rushes' in British production.

3. people who are paid to come to someone's house each weekday to clean and do smal

3.名詞C1
釋義

鐘點女傭

每天上門打掃的家事幫手

people who are paid to come to someone's house each weekday to clean and do small household jobs.

例句

Kofi's grandmother in Manchester had two dailies who came on alternate weekday mornings.

Kofi 在曼徹斯特的祖母請了兩位鐘點女傭，輪流在不同平日早晨來幫忙。

plural count noun: 'two dailies'

Greta hires her dailies through a small agency near Hyde Park.

Greta 透過海德公園附近的一家小型仲介公司聘請她的鐘點女傭。

collocation: hire / employ one's dailies

同義詞
  • cleaners

    modern neutral term for the same job

  • char

    older British slang, similar register

文法句型

have / hire a daily

用法筆記

Old-fashioned and chiefly British. Modern Taiwanese readers will rarely meet this sense outside period drama or older British novels — 'cleaner' is now the everyday term.

4. small tasks, exercises, or routines that someone is expected to do on each day o

4.名詞B2
釋義

每日任務

每天要完成的小作業或例行練習

small tasks, exercises, or routines that someone is expected to do on each day of the week.

例句

Nadia finishes her language dailies on the train before her first meeting.

Nadia 會在通勤火車上完成她的語言每日任務，然後再進入第一個會議。

collocation: do / finish / complete one's dailies

The piano teacher gave Adina a short book of dailies for finger practice.

鋼琴老師給了 Adina 一本短短的每日任務練習簿來訓練手指。

同義詞
反義詞
  • weeklies

    tasks that reset once per week, not per day

文法句型

complete / finish one's dailies

用法筆記

Informal, often heard in fitness, language-learning, music practice, and video-game contexts where a set of small tasks resets every day. Distinguish from sense 1 ('newspapers') by context — sense 4 is something you do, sense 1 is something you read.