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Old 31-Jan-2005, 17:28
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Hello

Would you take a look at the following sentence?
#1 My husband is a good cook.

I think #1 means that my husband is good at cooking.

So if you want to describe the pro cook, how do you say?

And how about describing the pro player?
#2 Nobu is a good swimmer.

In this sentence, is Nobu always not a pro swimmer?

Would you give me proper expressions?

Thank you.
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Old 01-Feb-2005, 03:08
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It would depend on context- without knowing whther they are pro or not, 'good' doesn't give us that information. With the first example, you could use 'chef', but I don't know of any word for swimmer that distinguishes a pro.
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