kiwiguo的部落格

 Oral presentence=>Unit 11 Biology:The science of life

new root:

1.ac=take it for granted(acknowledgement,accept)

   e.g. He would have to accept it; there was no other way.

2.con=associate with the meaning(contents)

   e.g. Empty the contents of the pan into the sieve.

3.vir=true or truth(virtual,Virgil,could you verify this wallet is yours?/could you provide the verification of your credit hours you've taken at Cambridge?)  

   e.g. All charges against her are dropped pending the verification of her story.

4.se=apart from(select,sequence,seclusion)

   e.g. Only the opening sequence could claim to be genuinely innovatory.

new knowledge:

1.你太超過了You've gone too far<=>You're too over(Chinese English)  

2.Motto=校訓,四字校訓:four pilars of Motto

   e.g. Our motto is "Plan for the worst and hope for the best".

3.run for one's life逃命

   e.g. The occipital chakra directs the dream and dream weaving for one's life dance and ascension thereafter.

4.roll call點名

   e.g.  Roll-call will be at 7 a.m.

生字筆記

1.bait=to bait means tostop on a journey to take refreshment

   e.g. Television programmes are essentially bait to attract an audience for advertisements.

2.balustrade=a row of vertical columns that form railings

   e.g. She leaned over the balustrade and shouted to the man downstairs.

3.bandbox=a large lightweight box for carrying bonnets or hats

   e.g. In spite of the long trip, Jody arrived looking as if she had come out of a bandbox.

4.barren=a barren here is a stretchbor expanse of barren land

   e.g. He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child.

5.basin=a cup without a handle

   e.g. When he had finished washing he began to wipe the basin clean.

6.battalia=the order of battle

   e.g. "Don't try to psych out the test," says Jo Bennett, a partner at Battalia Winston, an executive recruiting firm in New York.

7.battery=a battery is a fort or a place where guns are positioned

   e.g. The battery in my car gave up the ghost.

8.battledore and shuttlecock=it was an early version of the game now known as badminton.The aim of the early game was simply to keep the shuttlecock from hitting the ground 

   e.g. Dad: Cool, we can take the football, shuttlecock and badminton racket to the park.

9.beadle=a local official who had power over the poor

   e.g. Mr. Snagsby's suggestion is the practical suggestion after all, and the beadle must be called in.

10.bearings=the bearings of a place are the measurements or directions that are used to find or locate it

   e.g. An oil seal was replaced, along with both front wheel bearings.

11.beaufet=a sideboard

12.beck=a small sream

   e.g. No disrespect to John Beck, but the club has been happier since he left.

13.bedight=decorated

14.Bedlam=a lunatic asylum in London which had statues carved by Caius Gabriel Cibber at its entrance

   e.g. It was bedlam at our house on the morning of the wedding.

15.beeves=oxen or castrated bulls which are animals used for pulling vehicles or carrying things

   e.g. YuanZhi has a breeding base for 2000 priority beeves annually.

16.begot=created or caused

   e.g. He begot three children.

17.behoof=behoof means benefit

   e.g. The money was spent for his own behoof.

18.berth=a bed on a boat

   e.g. Goldring booked a berth on the first boat he could.

19.bevers=a snack,or small portion of food,eaten between main meals

20.bilge water=the bilge is the widest part of a ship's bottom,and the bilge water is the dirty water that collects there

   e.g. Shipbuilding: bilge water, waste oil, all kinds of fresh fuel.

21.bills=an old term meaning prescription.A prescription is the piece of paper on which your doctor writes an order for medicine and which you give to a chemist to get the medicine

   e.g. Hampton had been given the bills for safekeeping by a business partner.

22.black cap=a judge wrote a black cap when he was about to sentence a prisoner to death

   e.g. He wore a black cap with the peak pulled down low over his eyes.

23.black gentleman=this was another word for the devil

   e.g. Then a gentleman in black came forward.

24.boot-jack=a wooden device to help take boots off

   e.g.  I a boot - jack and a brush that I never used.

25.booty=treasure or prizes

   e.g. I a boot - jack and a brush that I never used.