{"id":946,"date":"2018-10-16T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T02:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2018-10-16T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T02:56:13","slug":"sudden-leaerning-in-the-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/sudden-leaerning-in-the-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden : leaerning in the tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org\/2018\/09\/26\/on-the-spur-of-the-moment-words-and-phrases-to-describe-sudden-actions\/#more-11363\">On the spur of the moment (Words and phrases to describe sudden\u00a0actions)<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An<strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/impromptu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impromptu<\/a><\/span> event<\/strong> is <u>not planned but it happens right at the time:<\/u> <em>The singer gave an impromptu performance at a restaurant in Paris last week.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>something that is done <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/ad-hoc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ad hoc<\/a><\/strong><\/span> is <u>not planned in advance but it is required:<\/u> <em>We deal with problems on an ad hoc basis<\/em> (=as they happen). \u2018Ad hoc\u2019 is also used as an adjective: <em>an ad hoc committee<\/em><\/li>\n<li>If you do something without\u00a0planning or thought beforehand, you are doing\u00a0something <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/on-the-spur-of-the-moment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">o<\/a><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/on-the-spur-of-the-moment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">n<\/span> the spur of the moment<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;\u00a0<em>spur-of-the-moment decision.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Of course, some actions are <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/reflex#cald4-1-2-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reflex<\/a><\/span> action<\/strong><b>\u00a0,\u00a0<em>instinctive response\u00a0<\/em><\/b>&#8211; you are <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/automatic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>automatic<\/strong><\/a>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/instinctive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instinctive<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/involuntary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">involuntary<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the spur of the moment (Words and phrases to describe sudden\u00a0actions) An impromptu event is not planned but it happens right at the time: The singer gave an impromptu performance at a restaurant in Paris last week. something that is done ad hoc is not planned in advance but it is required: We deal<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/sudden-leaerning-in-the-tube\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}