Weekly Knowledge Gains

1. Something about the word hazard

The result depends on mere hazard. = 结果如何全碰运气;
hazard a remark = 斗胆进言;
hazard one’s life = 冒生命危险.

2. 万万不是本人所能望其项背(wàng qí xiàng bèi)。项：颈的后部。望见他的颈项和后背。比喻赶得上。

3. 子曰：人非圣贤，孰能无过？过而不改，是谓过矣。

4. put/set something down to something = to explain something as being caused by something else. I put his bad humor down to his illness. We set your failure down to your emotional upset.

5. Why would Facebook launch a stripped-down version of its website? = 精简的 = trimmed-down

6. Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open call. In Chinese, it is called 众包.

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