Starbucks brews $1 cup of coffee BBC News2008. 1. 24. 11:14
- Expressions -
Starbucks has started to sell a $1 cup of coffee in certain stores in Seattle as a trial. (시험삼아)
Higher dairy and energy prices have seen the firm push up prices of its letters and espressos...
- Words -
brew /bru/ (brews, brewing, brewed)
1. VERB
If you brew tea or coffee, you make it by pouring hot water over tea leaves or ground coffee.
I'll get Venner to brew some tea.
sack /sk/ (sacks, sacking, sacked)
2. VERB
If your employers sack you, they tell you that you can no longer work for them because you have done something that they did not like or because your work was not good enough.[ BUSINESS ]
Earlier today the Prime Minister sacked 18 government officials for corruption.
= fire
Sack is also a noun. N-SING : the N
People who make mistakes can be given the sack the same day.
rein back
PHRASAL VERB
To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
The government would try to rein back inflation.
rein = control
steer /st/ (steers, steering, steered)
1. VERB
When you steer a car, boat, or plane, you control it so that it goes in the direction that you want.
What is it like to steer a ship this size?
When I was a kid, about six or seven, she would often let me steer the car along our driveway.
2. VERB
If you steer people towards a particular course of action or attitude, you try to lead them gently in that direction.
The new government is seen as one that will steer the country in the right direction.
dairy = 유제품, 유제품판매점
diary = 일기