Faze/ PHase

Faze/ PHase

@FlexingEnglish


Faze - значит беспокоить или смущать, но phase - это стадия или шаг.

Это может расстроить(faze) вашу семью, если ваша стадия(phase) принцессы продлится в ваши студенческие годы.


To faze is to disturb, bother, or embarrass, but a phase is a stage or step. It could faze your family if your princess phase lasts well into your college years. 

Faze entered English around 1830 through American English as a variant of feeze, to mean "frighten." It's often in the negative, like when your mellow brother is unfazed by your crazy Cinderella costumes. Don't let these examples faze you:

Gasser didn't seem fazed by his teammates' early shooting woes. (Seattle Times)
Morgan doesn't seem fazed by Google overwhelming influence in the tech world. (Forbes)

A phase is a stage, like the phases of the moon or the awkward phase of teenage rebellion. As a verb, it means to do something in stages, like to phase something in or out:

Education officials are now considering phasing out the middle school grades and possibly housing a new district or charter middle school in the same building. (New York Times)

We will finish Phase One, and then we will look at Phase Two," says Peter Voser, Shell's chief executive officer. (Business Week)
I never know if musicians see bands going through all these different phases the way outsiders or music critics do. (Time)

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