English note week 11

上課筆記

Dart means: bats fly.

Acoustic: architecture romaine antique

It worked means: it is useful!

Preditor <-> prey

Emit, e means out

 

For example: evaporate, evacuate

Chirp: birds chirp

Bounce: jump, leap

Hush lullaby

Hush puppies

Utilize: use

Utilities: running water, electricity, heat

Convert: change

Device: equipment, machine

Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society.

單字筆記

1.      Dismiss: to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go:

I dismissed the class early.

2.      Domestic: of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family:

There are domestic pleasures in family.

3.      Layout: an arrangement or plan:

We objected to the layout of the house.

4.      Maintenance: care or upkeep, as of machinery or property:

With proper maintenance the car will last for many years.

5.      Movement: the act, process, or result of moving.

Friendship is the trump card in the movement for equality, not etiology.

6.      Partition: to divide into parts or portions

On March 19, 1948, the United States withdrew its support for the partition plan.

7.      Practical: of or relating to practice or action:

We learn practical mathematics at school.

8.      Prior: preceding in time or in order; earlier or former; previous:

A prior agreement prevents me from accepting this.

9.      Storage: the act of storing; state or fact of being stored :

All my furniture is in storage.

10.  Census: to take a census of (a country, city, etc.):

The entire nation is censused every 10 years.

11.  Loft: to hit or throw aloft:

He lofted a fly ball into center field.

12.  Float: to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant:

The hollow ball floated.

13.  Impose: to pass or palm off fraudulently or deceptively:

He imposed his pretentious books on the public.

14.  Mount: to go up; climb; ascend:

He is mounting stairs.

15.  Ongoing: continuing without termination or interruption:

The research projects are still ongoing.

16.  Radiance: radiant brightness or light:

The radiance of the tropical sun is hot.

17.  Replicate: to bend or fold back

The attention to detail is the same, the desire to replicate a real object is identical.

18.  Shift: to transfer from one place, position, person, etc., to another:

He shifts the blame onto someone else.

19.  Storage: the act of storing; state or fact of being stored :

All my furniture is in storage.

20.  Suspend: to hang by attachment to something above:

He suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.

21.  Tear: to pull or snatch violently; wrench away with force:

He tear wrappings from a package.

22.  Transformation: the act or process of transforming

Fussy eaters who glorify the transformation of nutrition into fashion.

23.  Remote: far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away:

There are remote jungles in Brazil.

24.  Control: to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command:

That zone is controlled by enemy troops.

25.  Hinge: to be dependent or contingent on, or as if on, a hinge (usually followed by on or upon):

Everything hinges on his decision.