feats

IPA/fiːt/
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feats — 名詞

  • featssingular
  • featsesplural

1. a difficult action or achievement that shows great skill, strength, bravery, or

1.名詞B2
釋義

非凡創舉

需技巧、力量或勇氣的困難行動

a difficult action or achievement that shows great skill, strength, bravery, or cleverness

例句

Carlos trained for six months to finish the feat of running a marathon on crutches.

Carlos 訓練了六個月，才完成拄著拐杖跑完馬拉松這項驚人創舉。

collocation: feat + of + [activity]

The engineer described the suspension bridge as a remarkable feat of modern design.

工程師稱這座吊橋為現代設計的一項卓越成就。

collocation: remarkable feat + of + [field]

常見搭配
  • remarkable feat
  • impressive feat
  • extraordinary feat
  • amazing feat
  • no mean feat
  • quite a feat
  • technical feat
  • engineering feat
  • feat of strength
  • feat of endurance
  • feat of daring
  • feat of engineering
同義詞
  • achievement

    more general; any positive result reached through effort

  • accomplishment

    similar weight to achievement, often with a sense of completion

  • exploit

    adds a note of daring or heroism, often in adventures or battles

  • masterstroke

    a single very clever action that turns a situation decisively

反義詞
  • failure

    opposite of a successful outcome

  • disaster

    something that goes badly wrong

文法句型

adjective + feat

feat + of + [quality/noun]

用法筆記

Feat is often used in the plural form feats, especially with modifiers such as remarkable, impressive, extraordinary, or amazing. The singular form is also correct and common. This is the only modern noun sense; historical adjective senses (meaning 'neat' or 'dexterous') are now archaic.

常見錯誤

I did a feat of finishing my report on time.
Finishing my report on time felt like quite a feat.
A feat implies something notably difficult, not a routine task.
He achieved many great feets.
He achieved many great feats.
The plural of feat is feats, not feets (do not follow the pattern of foot → feet).
慣用語

no mean feat

idiom

something that is very difficult to achieve, and therefore impressive

絕非易事；了不起的成就

Getting all the children to sit quietly for an hour was no mean feat for the camp leader.

Lin finished the race in under three hours, which is no mean feat at her age.

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常見搭配

常用片語

  • feat of strength
  • feat of endurance
  • feat of daring
  • feat of engineering
  • no mean feat
  • quite a feat

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