自现象级英语
TRANSFERABLE
1. 英英释义：able to be transferred or made over to another field
例句：Communication skills are highly transferable.
2. 为什么选这个词？
“transferable”是形容词，意思是“可用于其他工作的、通用于多领域的”，是一个灵活、地道的词。transferable 常用来形容一类知识或技能，表明它们可以被应用在其它的领域，用英文解释 transferable skills 可以说成：
Transferable skills are skills and abilities that are relevant and helpful across different areas of life: socially, professionally and at school.
我们经常说很多工作都需要很强的沟通能力，也就是说沟通技巧的普适性强，可以用在各种工作中，这时候就可以用到 transferable：
Communication skills are highly transferable. If you are a great communicator, you can easily take your skills from one job to another.
数学是最基础的学科之一，是很多其他学科的基础，我们可以说：
Mathematics is one of the most fundamental disciplines. Whether you want to be an engineer, a banker, or a computer scientist, you had better learn it well, because it's transferable.
《经济学人》在一篇关于各国成年人的技能差异的文章中有这么一段话，里面用到了 transferable skills：
Mr Giesen, who previously taught in a Berufsschule (vocational school), thinks one reason may be a gap between what vocational students learn at school and what they are expected to do in the workplace. Such schools are being encouraged to work more closely with businesses and teach more transferable skills.
3. 怎样学会使用这个词？
1）翻译下面的句子：
很多雇主常常会找那些能够展示出通用技能的人。
Many employers often look for people who can demonstrate a good set of transferable skills.
造句：
例1：The national ID card is not transferable. Once lost, the owner must deactivate his or her card and reapply for a new one. 身份证不可转让。一旦遗失，必须挂失，申请新证。
例2：Ideally, best practices in construction is readily transferable between the developed countries and the developing ones. 理想的情况是，建筑业的最佳做法可以在发达国家和发展中国家之间自由转让。
例3：Education is designed to pass on transferable skills and expertise from one generation to the next. 教育旨在代际传授技能。
个人拓展：
搭配：easily/ highly/ freely/ readily/ fully/wholly transferable between... and...
transferable from...to...
transferable to sth. What are sure this approach is transferable to all levels of the company.
Shares must be freely transferable.
背诵：
Communication skills are highly transferable.
I am in favor of a fully transferable allowance. --Nigel Lawson
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