New knowledge
1.slogan:a kind of believe to encourage customers to buy the product.
e.g. They could campaign on the slogan "We'll take less of your money".
2.fetch a cab/grab a cab叫計程車
e.g. Shall we walk or take a cab?
3.blend:混为一體,调和
e.g. Blend the butter with the sugar and beat until light and creamy.
4.resource[rɪˈsɔːrs]
e.g. A country's principal resource is its brainpower.
5.cc=carbon copy副本
6.flip classroom翻轉教室
7.obligation責任,義務;oblige=強迫.迫使(be obliged to)
e.g. They felt under no obligation to maintain their employees.
8.primate(pri字首:主要.首要的)
e.g. The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
9.accommodate=適合,接納,容納
e.g. There is usually room to accommodate up to 80 visitors.
10.That's all for my part and I'll leave the rest to my partner.
生字筆記
1.widow寡婦=a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
e.g. She's a widow now.
2.claustrophobic=uncomfortably closed or hemmed in; "a claustrophobic little room",suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places
3. catch up on趕上
e.g. You ought to lie in tomorrow and catch up on your sleep.
4.distraction=an obstacle to attention,the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
e.g. Driven to distraction, he murdered the woman who jilted him.
5.implication=an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection,a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement
e.g. The implication that marital infidelity enhances a leader's credibility is preposterous.
6.miss the boat錯失良機
e.g. I'll invest in that company I don't want to miss the boat.
7.undeniable=not possible to deny
e.g. It is undeniable that the economic picture is brightening.
8.specialize=become more focus on an area of activity or field of study,be specific about,devote oneself to a special area of work,evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
e.g. There are restaurants, both humble and expensive, that specialize in them.
9.domestic=a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household,of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation,produced in a particular country
e.g. A special dispensation may be obtained from the domestic union concerned.
10.reprise=repeat an earlier theme of a composition
e.g. The second, another miracle, was the reprise Arellano.
11.recite=repeat aloud from memory,render verbally
e.g. Each child had to recite a poem to the class.
12.mediocre=平凡的moderate to inferior in quality,lacking exceptional quality or ability,poor to middling in quality
e.g. I thought the play was only mediocre.
13.reception=the manner in which something is greeted,a formal party of people,quality or fidelity of a received broadcast
e.g. He recently did the catering for a presidential reception.
14.contemporary=a person of nearly the same age as another,characteristic of the present,belonging to the present time
e.g. Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
15.crooked sixpence=it was considered unlucky to have a bent sixpence
16.croquet=a traditional English summer game in which players try to hit wooden balls through hoops
e.g. You can engage in croquet on the south lawn.
17.cross=across
e.g. If you ever cross him, forget it, you're finished.
18.culpable=if you are culpable for something it means you are to blame
e.g. The judge found the man culpable.
19.cultured=cultivated
e.g. His behavior was suggestive of a cultured man
20.cupidity=greed
21.curricle=an open two-wheeled carriage with one seat for the driver and space for a single passenger
22.cynosure=something that strongly attracts attention or admiration
e.g. Let faith be your cynosure to walk by.
23.dalliance=someone's dalliance with something is a brief involvement with it
e.g. It turned out to be his last dalliance with the education system.
24.darkling=an archaic way of saying in the dark
e.g. He reeled and recovered , the darkling abyss below beckoning to him, inviting his fall.
25.delf-case=a sideboard for holding dishes and crockery
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