English note week 14

上課筆記

What a nuisance: someone is bad

Radiance 閃閃發亮的光線，光彩

Ray 光線

More polite sentence:

How vexing: how confusing.

How kind of you to remind me.

How kind of you to do so.

Thank you for taking it so well.

Thank you ma’am.( Madame)

Good gracious.(good) OMG (not polite)

I met him at(specific time) the station.

Tavern(日式宵夜小店，深夜食堂) is not equal to pub.

Share a flat( apartment) with other girls.

Motto: To love to act 敦愛篤行

Harvard Motto: veritas vir means truth

psalm of life longfellow

單字筆記

1.      Abandon: to give up the control of:

The government decided to abandon a city to an enemy army.

2.      Abuse: to use wrongly or improperly; misuse:

He abuse his authority for money.

3.      Collapse: to fall or cave in; crumble suddenly:

The roof collapsed and buried the crowd.

4.      Drought: an extended shortage:

The writer feel a drought of good writing.

5.      Harsh: grim or unpleasantly severe

He is experiencing a harsh life.

6.      Link: anything serving to connect one part or thing with another; a bond or tie:

The locket was a link with the past.

7.      Resource: a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.

This runs in stark contrast to the temptation to privatize every resource and turn it into a profitable market.

8.      Settlement: the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.

Netanyahu may in any case have to enforce a settlement freeze to avoid this.

9.      Spray: water or other liquid broken up into minute droplets and blown, ejected into, or falling through the air.

He was arrested multiple times holding a can of spray paint with his hands and mouth “smeared with the stuff.”

10.  Standard: an object that is regarded as the usual or most common size or form of its kind:

We stock the deluxe models as well as the standards.

11.  Starvation: the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.

His poems, written in the quiet between battles, work and starvation, survive him.

12.  Deforestation: to divest or clear of forests or trees:

Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.

13.  Barrel: any large quantity:

There’s a barrel of fun during volunteer.

14.  Quintuple: five times as great or as much.

He failed quintuple then succeeded.

15.  Carbon dioxide: a colorless, odorless, incombustible gas, CO 2

“We are short of carbon dioxide for the needs of the plants,” Anderson said.

16.  Breeze: Informal. an easy task; something done or carried on without difficulty:

Finding people to join in the adventure was a breeze.

17.  Flush: a blush; rosy glow:

There’s a flush of embarrassment on his face.

18.  Generate: to create and distribute vitally and profusely:

He generates ideas that we all should consider.

19.  Microclimate: the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses

Its microclimate and soil cannot be replicated, nor can the wine.

20.  Orient: the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.

I pray regularly, and when I do, I orient myself toward my Holy City.

21.  Outskirts: Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like:

He live on the outskirts of town.

22.  Pedestrian: a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.

Every car passenger and pedestrian is checked, one by one, until the operatives find their target.

23.  Promising: giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well:

He’s a promising young man.

24.  Renewable: able to be renewed :

It’s a library book that is not renewable.

25.  Self-sufficient: able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance:

The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient.