1. Sam was twitterpated by Linda at first sight, no wonder she is considered a campus fairy. (pate)
Twitterpated: say mê, lo lắng vì ai đó.
2. Most homeless people in the US are free-livers/freegans, they are al around cafes
and restaurants ready to pick up wasted food or leftovers. (free)
Free-livers/freegans: người ăn chơi phóng túng, chè chén lu bù
3. I have to admit that this textbook has too many longueurs for it’s price. (long)
Longueur: đoạn chán trong 1 tác phẩm (phim, sách,...)
4. Many students consider coding as an utterly inscrutable language distinct from
human language in general (scrutiny)
Inscrutable: impossible to understand, khó nhìn thấu được, (nghĩa bóng) bí hiểm, khó hiểu
5. Anaerobic species require little oxygen, but animals or humans need a fair supply. (Air)
Anaerobic: kị khí, relating to, involving, or requiring an absence of free oxygen.
6. This cover brings back my childhood memories, I wonder why it could speak such
resonant nostalgia and make me a crybaby when I’m literal y a man. (sound)
Resonant: vang dội, (of sound) deep, clear, and continuing to sound or ring
7. Sections of the rails were sent to a laboratory for metallurgical analysis (metal)
Metal urgical: luyện kim, relating to metallurgy (= the scientific study of the structures and uses of metals)
8. The col ege is a stronghold of the child-centred approach to teaching (Strong)
Stronghold: đồn, thành lũy, (nghĩa bóng) nơi tồn tại những quan niệm và ý niệm đặc biệt, a
place where a particular cause or belief is strongly defended or upheld
9. It is left to the commentariat and the Australian people to address big-picture global
issues which have dogged us for years but seemed too big to comprehend, let alone tackle. (comment)
Commentariat: Ban bình luận, members of the news media considered as a class.
10. Poetry is often created anew by unforetold hands and voices (Tel )
Unforetold: Không lường trước được, not foretold; unpredicted.
11. The headline-grabbing story focuses on his concerns about drug-taking, swearing,
and a host of other antisocial teenage activities (Line)
Headline-grabbing: Giật tít, attracting prominent notice in the news.
12. Transgender Studies Quarterly bil s itself at the first nonmedical journal focusing on
issues facing the trans and gender-nonconforming communities. (GENDER)
Gender-nonconforming: Không theo những quy ước về giới tính trong xã hội
13. The presence of glass 4 bil ions years old on the Moon elucidates water is essential
to the rate of devitrification. (vitreous)
Devitrification: Sự hóa mờ, sự mờ đục của thủy tinh
14. Most malocclusions can be corrected by extractions and removable appliances. (Occlude)
Malocclusion: tật răng so le, sai/lệch khớp cắn
15. Great cities and conurbations are developed by visionaries who instil pride and
optimism in their fel ow citizens. (Urban)
Conurbation: Cụm thành phố, vùng đô thị liên hoàn
16. Weapon training can be troubling for the gunshy (gun)
Gunshy: Nervous and apprehensive, lo lắng và hay hồi hộp
17. Water baptism is a tautological phrase. (logic)
Tautological: lặp lại không cần thiết
18. When he doesn’t like anyone, he often speaks in monosyllables (SYLLABLE)
Monosyl able: từ đơn tiết
19. She is one of those imperturbable people who never get angry or upset. (Perturb)
Imperturbable: bình tĩnh, không bối rối
20. Nadal has defeated his compatriot Ferrer in the quarter final. (patriot) Compatriot: đồng hương
21. She enumerates the things we need to buy - sugar, tea and sandwiches. (Number) Enumerate: đếm, liệt kê
22. Friends think his devil-may-care attitude runs even deeper now than before (devil)
Devil-may-care: liều mạng, bất chấp tất cả
23. If you believe the urban legend, coming face to face with your doppelganger is a
bad omen, and it means that both you and your double could be in danger (DOUBLE)
Doppelganger: Phần xấu của một con người
24. The children were being so rambunctious that the librarian asked them to be quiet (ram)
Rambunctious: ồn ào, mất trật tự
25. The tree was about to topple over in the strong wind. (top) Topple: ngã đổ
26. No one cleans the trash dump outside. Therefore, the garbage is putrefied. (put)
Putrefy: thối rữa, nhiễm trùng
27. The turbulence of the airplane during the storm made everyone feel queasy (ease) Queasy: say sóng, buồn nôn
28. My room is shipshape, so we can invite them to the party in my room. (ship)
Shipshape: trật tự, gọn gàng, ngăn nắp
29. She was warned that her contumacious conduct would not be tolerated. (tumour)
Contumacious: bướng bỉnh, ương ngạnh
30. The affair inadvertently presaged a calamity they were bound to face up to. (sage)
Presage: điềm, linh cảm, thấy trước
31. I was shocked to learn my best friend was spreading invidious rumours about me, (envy)
Invidious: gây sự ghen ghét, ác cảm, tự ái
32. My friend bought a nosegay for his girlfriend owing to her interest in flower (nose) Nosegay: bó hoa thơm
33. The art of viticulture or wine-making is a very ancient one. (culture)
Viticulture: nghề trồng nho
34. Many were geared to specific sub-industries such as those for livestock and sericulture (culture)
Sericulture: nghề nuôi tằm
35. You can be good humored (and consequently attractive, or at least a sourpuss)
without being outright funny (puss)
Sourpuss: người bẩn tính, khó tính, hay gắt gỏng
36. Charles Dickens caricatured lawyers in several of his novels. (Caricare)
Caricature: lối vẽ biếm họa, tranh biếm họa
37. Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion pol s suddenly started to swing the other way. (foot)
Be caught flat-footed: bắt quả tang
38. Apples represent people in this allegorical contest between wilderness and civilization. (al ege)
Al egorical: bóng gió, ngụ ý
39. Only scaremongers who are seeking to make political capital out of the situation are
peddling such malicious and unjustified rumours. (scary)
Scaremonger: kẻ phao tin đồn nhảm
40. Working hours, including those accruing on a flexitime basis, are monitored by line
managers local y and no central figures are available. (time)
Flexitime: hệ thống giờ làm việc linh hoạt
41. The sparse dialogue is as mind-numbingly declamatory and unsubtle as political oratory. (claim)
Declamatory: hùng hồn, hùng biện
42. I wish she would stop evangelizing about the virtues of free market economics. (angel)
Evangelize: giảng giải, truyền bá
43. Their hardline tactics were as irresponsible and counterproductive as those of the
racial fanatics from whom they had so assiduously sought to distance themselves. (fan) Fanatics: kẻ cuồng tín
44. Segments are recorded in the field by a group of young, tech-savvy contributors with
diverse backgrounds in science and technology. (technological)
Tech-savvy: am hiểu về công nghệ
45. An intermediary acting as go-between among agents is known variously as a
translator, embassy or mediator depending on its specific characteristics. (go)
Go-between: trung gian, làm mối, môi giới
46. His choice of breakfast foods became more abstemious and of wine more that of an oenophile. (abstain)
Abstemious: tiết chế, điều độ, sơ sài, đạm bạc
47. She took copious notes, fil ing page after page. (copy)
Copious: phong phú, dồi dào
48. The district is pock-marked with caves. (mark)
Pockmarked: có nhiều lỗ và vùng trũng, (da) rỗ
49. Unbeknownst to me, he had rented out the apartment while I was away. (know)
Unbeknownst: không được biết, without knowledge of
50. Shakespeare was such a logophile that he took the words he already loved and
crafted them into new ones. (language)
Logophile: người yêu chữ và ngôn ngữ
51. A nosocomial infection is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other health care facility (social)
Nosocomial: thuộc bệnh viện
52. Exactly how important abnormalities in personality functioning are in the aetiology
and onset of late-life paranoid psychoses is unclear. (etiology)
Aetiology: thuyết nguyên nhân, nghiên cứu nguyên nhân của một bệnh
53. Immunogenicity is the ability of a foreign substance, such as an antigen, to provoke
an immune response in the body of a human or other animal. (immune)
Immunogenicity: tính sinh miễn dịch; the ability of a foreign substance, such as an antigen,
to provoke an immune response in the body of a human or other animal.
54. Even at higher temperatures, there may be problems of having enough time for the
solid to ful y equilibrate as the system is cooling. (equal)
Equilibrate: làm cho cân bằng
55. The new digital technology makes it possible for deaf and hearing-impaired
patrons to enjoy the movies without the need for assistive devices (hear)
Hearing-impaired: bị tổn thương chức năng nghe
56. The New Year 2020’s allstar show involves almost every famous face of the country (star)
Al star: gồm nhiều diễn viên, ngôi sao
57. Just because she’s read some trashy paperback she thinks she’s some kind of
expert on the modus-operandi. (trash)
Trashy: tồi, có chất lượng kém, không ra gì
58. Although she was from a well-to-do family and could have led a very comfortable
life, Judith had chosen otherwise. (do)
Wel -to-do: giàu, có điều kiện
59. He had sidled up to it crabwise but to his surprise Tory Central Office had welcomed him. (crab)
Crabwise (adv): khó nhọc, cực nhọc
60. Several countries have suffered soccer match-fixing scandals. (fix)
Match-fixing: dàn xếp kết quả
61. Staff felt as if they had been hoodwinked when they discovered the new management’s plans. (wink)
Hoodwink: lừa dối, lừa bịp
62. AXJ’s growth wil likely slow meaningful y, possibly even undershoot our own forecasts. (shoot)
Undershoot: thất bại trong việc đạt được điều gì
63. Londoners have long been perversely proud of a health service that does not serve them wel . (verse)
Perversely (adv): cố chấp, ngoan cố
64. Aflame with desire, he took her in his arms. (flame) Aflame: rực cháy
65. Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical
ideas were either dropped or blunted. (mouth)
Mealy-mouthed: ăn nói quanh co
66. He was fascinated by her physiognomy — the prominent nose, brooding eyes and thick hair. (physic)
Physiognomy: nét mặt, diện mạo, gương mặt.
67. She tested children's awareness of inflectional morphology in her famous wug/wugs experiment. (inflect)
Inflectional morphology: hình thái không hướng của từ mới sinh ra từ từ cũ
68. The evident physical presence of music became subordinated to the higher reality of
transcendental perfection. (transcend)
A transcendental experience, event, object, or idea is extremely special and unusual and
cannot be understood in ordinary ways. Mơ hồ, trừu tượng, không rõ ràng; huyền ảo
69. His coach believes in rules and regulations and has puritanical standards for behavior. (puritanism)
Puritanical: khắt khe. Puritanism: Chủ nghĩa đạo đức
70. When you press the spacebar, a message appears informing you that "Set-up is
inspecting your hardware configuration" (figure) Configuration: Cấu hình
71. Companies can be punished for making unsubstantiated claims about their products. (substance)
Unsubstantiated: không được chứng minh, không có căn cứ
72. The last time she went out wearing those ripped jeans she got several wolf whistles. (wolf)
Wolf-whistles: Tiếng huýt sáo (do một người đàn ông phát ra để biểu lộ rằng anh ta thấy một
người phụ nữ là hấp dẫn về tình dục)
73. The film became a massive box-office hit and my song was on the soundtrack
album, which sold zil ions of copies. (box)
Box-office: quầy bán vé => box-office hit: một bộ phim thành công về doanh thu
74. When we came to the platform on the railway station we were met by the station
master, an officious little man with a peaked cap. (office)
Officious: Ân cần, quan tâm đến những điều nhỏ nhặt
75. There was a party after the ceremony where much drinking and backslapping went on. (slap)
Backslapping: Cư xử vui vẻ, hồ hởi ồn ào
76. Researchers found that high levels of neuroticism were linked to lower life expectancy. (neurotic)
Neuroticism: Tình trạng loạn thần kinh
77. This does not mean that psychotropic drugs have no role in the treatment of
patients who might attempt suicide. (psycho)
Psychotropic: thuốc tác động đến tâm thần
78. It is at best awkward, and at worst useless and embarrassing, to try to retrieve earlier
talk for the purpose of making a wisecrack about that talk or off it. (Wise)
Wisecrack: lời nói lém lỉnh
79. I know no private business that cannot be improved by independent investigation, by
a clear-sighted policy provided by "new blood" and so on. (sight)
Clear-sighted: nhìn xa trông rộng, bao quát
80. The moderate aggregate output effect of the environmental taxes dissimulates
substantial variations at the disaggregated sectoral level and real ocation of
resources across sectors. (simulate)
Dissimulate: che giấu, che đậy
81. I did not find them hard-bitten or dogmatic about the position and the relationship between our countries. (hard)
Hardbitten: Ngoan cường, bền bỉ dai dẳng; ngoan cố
82. The buildings, solid, massive and often sphinx-like, with an unmistakable sense of
compression, also took themselves pretty seriously. (sphinx)
Sphinx-like: khó nhìn thấu được, (nghĩa bóng) bí hiểm, khó hiểu, không dò được
83. The pol s are too close to cal , and it looks like this election is going to be a real cliffhanger. (hang)
Cliffhanger: (từ lóng) câu chuyện hấp dẫn được kể từng phần. A story or a situation that is
exciting because its ending or result is uncertain until it happens
84. Political gamesmanship has earned some politicians considerable international
esteem thanks to sophisticated public relations skil s. (game)
Gamesmanship: Tài làm cho đối thủ lãng trí để được cuộc
85. Could we concertina the three meetings into one morning? (concert) Concertina: Thu nhỏ, nén
86. Negotiators have reached a dead end in their attempts to find a peaceful solution. (dead) Dead end: Ngõ cụt
87. I've never been very money-minded - I leave al my business affairs to my financial adviser. (money)
Money-minded: Quan tâm đến tiền hoặc giỏi trong việc kiếm tiền.
88. However, this new style of theatre caused some bemusement among the
spectators, who criticized anything that lacked complete realism. (muse)
Bemusement: tình trạng bối rối hoặc kinh ngạc
89. Hence, without his saying it in so many words, Aristotle's logic perforce became a
logic of deductive reasoning, or syl ogism. (deduce) Deductive: Suy diễn
90. The author was consulted by a married woman with late-stage cancer who was
bemoaning the fact that her husband 'cannot boil an egg'. (moan)
Bemoaning: Bày tỏ nỗi thất vọng
91. However, it is no good in this connection expostulating about that. (postulation)
Postulation: Sự thừa nhận, đòi hỏi
Expostulate: Phê bình, vạch chỗ sai trái
92. We can corroborate our timescale of the circulation by looking at the changes in
density surface of the salinity minimum. (robust)
Corroborate: Làm vững chãi, mạnh thêm lý lẽ
93. The defendant is a cantankerous individual gripped by the dangerous delusion that his opinion matters. (rancor)
Rancor: Hiềm thù, thù oán, cay nghiệt
Cantankerous: Khó tính, gắt gỏng hay gây thù oán
94. Burgess’ il egal use of alcohol ran afoul of the code, a point the righteous Karnaugh
was quite eager to make. (foul) Afoul: Đâm vào, húc vào
95. A transvestite is a man who enjoys putting on woman’s clothes (vest) Transvestite: Cross-dresser
96. It was a misery memoir of a woman escaped from North Korea to which everyone
expressed their sorrow and sympathy. (memory) Memoir: Ký sự
97. Motel is a portmanteau word that is made when combining “motor” and “hotel”. (port)
Portmanteau: Từ được ghép từ 2 từ khác
98. It’s grotesque to expect a person of her experience to work for so little income. (grotty)
Grotesque: Kì cục, buồn cười
99. To save space, we focus here upon deductive reasoning, and specifical y upon
syllogistic reasoning. (syl ogism)
Syl ogistic: tam đoạn luận; theo hình thức tam đoạn luận, là một tam đoạn luận 100.
They were acculturated in the tradition of 'public service' from their contact with older regimes. (culture)
Acculturate: Tiếp nhận văn hóa, thay đổi vào 1 nền văn hóa 101.
Those who are deprived of sleep have a tendency to be accident-prone. (accident)
Accident-prone: Thường xảy ra tai nạn 102.
The picture captures the two lovers with their arms entwined. (twin)
Entwined: Bện, tết, quấn vào 103.
When we arrived, the party was in ful swing and the room was abuzz. (buzz)
Abuzz: Đầy tiếng rì rào, ồn ĩ. 104.
They found it uproariously amusing that this hot-shot chef couldn't even use a tomato slicer. (roar)
Uproariously: Rất ồn ào, om sòm 105.
His writings cover a vast array of topics from world politics and sociology to
surrealism and literature critique. (real)
Surrealism: Chủ nghĩa siêu thực 106.
Material culture, by definition, belongs both to the ethereal realm of culture and to the material world. (real)
Ethereal: Thiên tiên, trên trời 107.
Sampling was conducted using ground and baited arboreal pitfal traps, and
yielded a total of 95 ant species. (arbor)
Arboreal (a): Cây, sống trên cây 108.
Traditions that to some twentieth-century academicians seemed to be inevitable
had, in fact, been crafted through a process of conflict and negotiation in previous centuries. (academy)
Academician (n): Viện sĩ hàn lâm 109.
We went the wrong way and had to backtrack til we got to the right turning. (track)
Backtrack (v): Quay về theo lối cũ, rút lui 110.
"Say after me," he would intone, and the class dutiful y repeated whatever he said. (tone)
Intone (v): Ngâm, phát âm có ngữ điệu 111.
Because opera is a col aborative genre, the mechanisms of its production and its
resulting meaning(s) are often heteroglossic or at best ungainly. (gain)
Ungainly (adv/adj): lóng ngóng, vụng về 112.
Emotionality is also central in language choice for positive affect, such as
endearments or praise for one's partner or children. (dear)
Endearment (n): Lời âu yếm 113.
The CEO has been in the cross-hairs of politicians and businesspeople alike for
his recent comments on immigration. (hair)
Be in the cross-hairs of sb (ph): If you are in someone's crosshairs, they intend to catch, arrest, or stop you 114.
We thought we would die of asphyxiation on that crowded train. (physical) (?) Asphyxiation (n): Sự ngạt 115.
This is an interesting psychiatric case study of a child with extreme behavioural difficulties. (psych)
Psychiatric (a): thuộc về bệnh tâm thần 116.
Like Stein, they became pregnant through in vitro fertilization, using donor eggs. (fertile)
Fertilization (n): Sự thụ tinh 117.
The police said his car had been weaving al over the road, so they pul ed him
over and gave him a sobriety test. (sober)
Sobriety (n):: Sự tỉnh táo (do không uống rượu) 118.
Rather than change dramatical y from administration to administration,
government policy wil remain moderate and imperturbable. (perturb)
Imperturbable (a): Điềm tĩnh, không bối rối 119.
Instead, throughout his term as minister, he rode in the vehicle used by his
predecessor and continued to live in an unpretentious house. (pretend)
Unpretentious (a): Không khoe khoang, khiêm tốn 120.
But there was no affectation in her assumption of a becoming bearing or in her picturesque words. (affect)
Affectation (n): Sự điệu bộ, sự giả trân, giả tạo 121.
When taxed with the matter, the headmaster was unrepentant in his defence. (repent)
Unrepentant (a): Ngoan cố, không chịu sửa lỗi 122.
Their invisible, androgynous voice differs drastical y from the human knights on stage. (gender)
Androgynous (a): Không rõ nam nữ 123.
A considerable portion of the GDP comes from the tertiary sector. (third)
Tertiary (a): Thứ ba. The tertiary sector: Khu vực ba của nền kinh tế 124.
It looks to me as though we are much too gentlemanly, too slow-witted and too
traditional in the conduct of this war. (wit)
Slow-witted (a): Không nhanh trí 125.
We have gone through the evidence with a fine-tooth comb. (tooth)
With a fine-tooth comb (ph): kiểm tra kỹ lưỡng 126.
No wonder then that data monetization – literal y defined as the process of
increasing the economic value of data – is becoming such an important and growing
area for al businesses. (money)
Data monetization (n): Kiếm tiền dữ liệu, một hình thức kiếm tiền, có thể đề cập đến hành
động tạo ra lợi ích kinh tế có thể đo lường được từ các nguồn dữ liệu có sẵn. Ít phổ biến
hơn, nó cũng có thể đề cập đến hành động kiếm tiền từ các dịch vụ dữ liệu. 127.
We suspect, however, that most feel the way we do, bothered that our dogma has
somehow been upended. (End) Upended (a): Không giám sát 128.
Digital retouching in the field of photography applies to nearly every sector of the
job market, with opportunities across entertainment, fashion and beauty. (touch)
Retouch (n/v): Sự chấm sửa lại/ Sửa lại 129.
I am pleased to bear glad tidings from my own country. (tide) Tidings (n): tin vui 130.
The paper has decided not to go ahead with the serialization of her memoirs. (Series)
Serialization (n): Sự nối tiếp hóa 131.
The Yankees won by the lopsided score of 17 to 2. (side)
Lopsided (a): Cong, lệch, không phẳng, không cân 132.
The ambassador was typical y noncommittal when asked whether further
sanctions would be introduced. (commit)
Noncommittal (a): Không thể hiện 1 quan điểm hay ý tưởng 133.
The defender of the correspondence thesis is likely to feel nonplussed. (plus)
Nonplussed (a): Ngạc nhiên, bối rối và không biết phản ứng như nào 134.
The outgoing leader of Britain’s electronic eavesdropping agency has offered a
vigorous defense of its work, insisting the organization had delivered security while
protecting privacy to the greatest extent possible. (ear) Eavesdropping (n): Nghe trộm 135.
I had two miscarriages before I gave birth to my daughter. (Carry) Miscarriage (n): Oan sai 136.
I suggest that what happened then was essential in making possible the
subsequent totalitarian departures. (total)
Totalitarian (a): Chuyên chế. 137.
We live in a technocracy where progress involves the mastering of increasingly complex data. (tech)
Technocracy (n): Chế độ kỹ trị 138.
The supposed trickle-down effect of lower taxes for the rich has not yet resulted
in greater prosperity for society as a whole. (trickle)
Trickle-down (a): (of wealth) gradually benefit the poorest as a result of the increasing wealth of the richest. 139.
Computer whizzkids can become mil ionaires in their bedrooms. (kid) Whizzkid (n): Thần đồng 140.
Within months the student had become a full-fledged instructor. (fledge) Ful -fledged (a): đầy đủ 141.
He had a plan to turn the properties into upmarket retail centers with high-end tenants. (market)
Upmarket (a): Dành cho giới thượng lưu, hảo hạng, loại sang 142.
Top-heavy organizational structures refer to companies with too many managers,
which mean too many presidents, vice presidents and other mid-level managers
between the president and the junior worker. (heavy)
Top-heavy (a): dễ chao đảo 143.
She said if his results were good, she would reward him handsomely. (handsome)
Handsomely (adv): hào phóng, hậu hĩnh 144.
Inclusion of a word in a dictionary does not connote approval. (note)
Connote (v): Bao hàm, có nghĩa là 145.
The Johns Hopkins team has identified a genetic change, or biomarker, that can
be measured in the blood of colon cancer patients. (mark)
Biomarker (n): Dấu ấn sinh học, hoặc dấu hiệu sinh học là một chỉ số đo lường được của
một số trạng thái hoặc tình trạng sinh học. Dấu ấn sinh học thường được đo lường và đánh
giá để kiểm tra các quá trình sinh học bình thường, quá trình gây bệnh hoặc phản ứng dược
lý với một can thiệp trị liệu. 146.
Christmas has been grossly commodified over the years. (commodity) Commodify (v): Hàng hóa hóa 147.
The longer the party opposite put off this matter the more shabby, the more
shop-soiled, becomes the issue. (shop)
Shop-soiled (a): Cũ kĩ, gây nhàm chán 148.
Even such a simple combinatorial system al ows for 720 pair sequences, most of
which are nonsensical.(sense)
Nonsensical (a): Vô lý, vô nghĩa, bậy bạ 149.
Her plans to make him jealous backfired on her when he started dating her best friend. (fire)
Backfire (v): (of a plan) to have the opposite result from the one you intended. 150.
Instead of doing something about the problem, the city council is hiding behind a
smokescreen of bureaucracy. (screen)
Smokescreen (n): Bình phong, hỏa mù. Hide sth behind a smokescreen nghĩa là che giấu 1 thứ gì đó. 151.
His book was seen as an apologia for the war (apologize)
Apologia (n): Lời biện hộ, biện minh 152.
She brandished a saucepan at me so I ran out of the kitchen. (brand)
Brandish (v): Múa, khua, vung, throw sth in the air 153.
Don't be browbeaten into working more hours than you want. (brow) Browbeat (v): Hăm dọa 154.
We are one of the country's leading broker-dealers, supporting independent
investment advisors nationwide. (break)
Broker-dealer (n): Người môi giới kinh doanh 155.
Smoking is a causative factor in the development of several serious diseases, including lung cancer. (Cause)
Causative (a): Là nguyên nhân, nguyên cớ để dẫn đến 1 kết quả. 156.
A confluence of events is pushing nuclear policy into the national spotlight. (influence)
Confluence (n): Trường hợp mà nhiều yếu tố hợp thành 157.
We need to contextualize the problem before we can understand its origin. (context)
Contextualize (v): Bối cảnh hóa 158.
It's not "left-wing or right-wing" - political opinion is a long continuum. (continue)
Continuum (n): 1 thứ thay đổi 1 cách dần dần hoặc quá nhỏ mà không có điểm thay đổi 159.
However, since the high-fal ing tone is for the most part no longer contrastive,
this alternation is irrelevant to the phonologies of most speakers. (contrast)
Contrastive (a): Để nêu lên nổi bật sự tương phản 160.
The relationship between social democratic government and corporatism is
captured by these variables themselves and by their interaction. (corporate)
Corporatism (n): Chủ nghĩa nghiệp đoàn 161.
The externalist approach focuses on the way a belief is produced in order to
assess its epistemic credentials. (credit)
Credential (n): Khả năng hoặc kinh nghiệm để 1 người phù hợp với 1 công việc 162.
In many cases, the domain name that has been reserved by the cybersquatter
has already been trademarked or service marked by another organization. (squat)
Cybersquatter (n:) Người trả tiền để để tên miền, để sau đó họ có thể bán nó cho người
hoặc tổ chức mà cần tên đó. 163.
Both were watching her as if she had something earth-shattering to say. (earth)
Earth-shattering (a): Quan trọng như kiểu vỡ đôi trái đất vậy! 164.
To my mind, the reports which have resulted from that are quite epoch-making in the farming world. (epoch)
Epoch-making (a): Đánh dấu một thời kỳ lịch sử 165.
We do get to see very gory footage of a man disemboweled by a broken beer bottle. (bowel)
Disembowel (v): Mổ bụng moi ruột 166.
This eighteenth-century fascination with funerary exactitude was not limited to
the distaff side of society. (exact)
Exactitude (n): Tính chính xác, tính đúng đắn 167.
They insisted that al expletives be deleted from the article. (explain)
Expletive (n): Từ chêm vào, lời nói tục tĩu, chửi rủa 168.
He became a sort of general factotum for the band. (factory)
Factotum (n): Người được thuê để làm nhiều thứ việc 169.
'You feather-brain! Surely you checked when you booked the holiday?' (brain)
Feather-brain (n): Người ngu ngốc, người đần độn 170.
I want this place spotless. (spot)
Spotless (a): Sạch không tì vết 171.
Many new immigrants have not yet assimilated ful y into the new culture. (similar) Assimilate (v): Đồng hóa 172.
Every character stands out in the crowd, being true to their individuality. (individual)
Individuality (n): Tính chất cá nhân 173.
Irwin also remarked on a gal ery practice that has occasional y al owed
show-offs to pretend they own something that they have no intention of paying for. (show)
Show-off (n): Kẻ phô trương, khoe khoang 174.
Children are natural exhibitionists. (exhibition)
Exhibitionist (n): Người thích gây sự chú ý bằng cách hành xử 175.
Oral disease, especial y dentel carries, is complicated and multifactorial, and it
often begins to develop during infancy. (factor)
Multifactorial (a): Đa nhân tố 176.
Australian voters are natural y very risk-averse and wil not rush headlong into a change of government. (risk)
Risk-averse (a): Ngại đầu tư 177.
From an easy-going young girl, she had metamorphosed into a neurotic middle-aged woman (morph)
Metamorphose (v): Biến hình, biến hóa 178.
Practise good personal protection against mosquito bites to prevent
mosquito-borne infections (mosquito)
Mosquito-borne (a): Lây nhiễm qua muỗi 179.
First, the closure was said to be too hasty and was a knee-jerk reaction in a
situation where calm and a steadfast stand was needed. (jerk)
Knee jerk (n): Phản xạ bánh chè
A knee jerk reaction (ph): phản xạ theo 1 cách có thể dự đoán được mà không cần nghĩ 180.
What an intemperate boy! We are utterly ashamed of his nitwittery. (wit) Nitwittery (n): Sự ngu dốt 181.
The extremists final y decided to execute the infidel people for not joining their religion. (fidel)
Infidel (a): Không theo đạo 182.
We are having a nice luncheon in our backyard while listening to pieces of classical music. (lunch)
Luncheon (n:) Tiệc trưa 1 cách xịn xò 183.
The criminal was sentenced to death for drug-muggling and gun-running (run)
Gun-running (n): Việc buôn lậu súng 184.
The whipper-snapper smashed the neighbor’s window with a soccer bal . (snap)
Whipper-snapper (n): (thông tục) nhóc con bắng nhắng, nhóc con hay quấy rầy 185.
Luckily, the horror film was eventual y passed by commissar at the last minute. (commiss) Commissar (n): Ủy viên 186.
I am not afraid of that little pipsqueak. Under no circumstances wil he become
skil ed enough to beat me in a duel. (squeak)
Pipsqueak (n): Người tầm thường 187.
It was a light-bulb moment for Kousei when he realized he wouldn’t have been
able to go on but for his friend’s sincere encouragement. (light)
A light-bulb moment (ph): 1 tình huống chợt nhận ra cái gì đấy 188.
Men tended to be expected to play the breadwinner role in the family. (bread)
Breadwinner (n): Người kiếm sống chính trong 1 gia đình 189.
Hikaru Nara is such a good and catchy song that I get goosebumps every time I listen to it. (goose)
Goosebumps (n): da gà, gai ốc 190.
She’s one of those touchy-feely people, always putting her hand on your arm
while she’s talking to you (feel)
Touchy-feely (a): 1 người tốt tính nhưng hay chạm vào người khác và khiến họ khó chịu 191.
He has earned the little of Britain’s top trainspotter, after spending 57 years on
the nation’s railway platform. (spot)
Trainspotter (n): Người thích xem tàu hỏa và đếm số 192.
Our green-fingered experts have once again picked up the top prizes in the
gardening competition. (finger)
Green-fingered (a): Có khả năng làm cho cây mọc 193.
He forsook me when I needed his help most. Now I know he is a fair-weather friend. (Weather)
Fair-weather friend (ph): bạn phù thịnh, bạn khi vui thì vỗ tay vào 194.
It is a Pokemon that appears almost tailor-made for me. We are as thick as thieves. (make)
Tailor-made (a): Đo ni đóng giày => rất phù hợp 195.
Once the news of the assassination of their beloved leader reached the public,
pandemonium broke out in streets throughout the country. (Demon)
Pandemonium (n): Cảnh tượng tồi tệ giống địa ngục 196.
How can you stand living in this godforsaken town? (god)
Godforsaken (a): Tiêu điều, hoang vắng 197.
Another prominent explanation of North Korea’s behavior is that its nuclear
sabre-rattling is meant for a domestic audience. (rattle)
Sabre-rattling (n): Sự đe dọa bằng tấn công hoặc trừng phạt 198.
James was original y blue-blooded but he decided to leave his wealthy family
and then joined Team Rocket. (BLOOD)
Blue-blooded (a): Thuộc dòng dõi quý phái 199.
Lavender Town is a real spine-chiller at night. It is rumoured to be a ghosts' lair yet worth exploring. (CHILL)
Spine-chil er (n): Một thứ thú vị nhưng có thể khiến bạn sợ những bạn vẫn thích xem, đọc về nó 200.
You can’t lose your temper with your Pokémon like that and then expect
everything to be hunky-dory. (hunk)
Hunky-dory (a): Cừ khôi, chiến 201.
What sounded like a stampede of wild rhinoceroses roused her from her sleep. (STAMP)
Stampede (n): Sự chạy toán loạn 202.
Insurance companies with an almost blasphemous attitude cal such events "Acts of God". (BLAME)
Blasphemous (a): Báng bổ, hồ đồ 203.
They remain convinced the cause was organophosphates in sheep dip. (ORGANISE)
Organophosphates (n): Một chất hóa học được dùng trong thuốc trừ sâu, dược phẩm và tác nhân thần kinh 204.
Those pictures later served as aides-memoires for the decorative panels. (MEMORY)
Aides-memoires (n): Vật gợi nhớ 205.
Most big companies usual y have teleconferences so that the CEO can contact
al directors of subsidiary companies. (conference)
Teleconference (n): Hội nghị qua điện thoại 206.
My closest friend is living in the countryside.At this time,he is winterizing the
straw for the cattle to eat in winter. (winter)
Winterize (v): Chuẩn bị rơm rạ cho mùa đông 207.
An econometrician is the one who uses statistics and mathematics to
study,model and predict economic principles and outcomes. (economy)
Econometrician (n): Nhà toán kinh tế 208.
If we take the bypass, we wil avoid the traffic jam. (pass) Bypass (n): Đường vòng 209.
The castle had been beset with foes for 3 days before the heroes came to save it. (set) Beset (v): Bao vây 210.
People say that the corpses of the sacred monks wil be indecomposable
due to their divine power. (compose)
Indecomposable (a): Không thể phân hủy 211.
We have to join an urgent meeting with the CEO about yesterday’s bad outputs. (put)
Output (n): Đầu ra sản phẩm 212.
Last week, Jimmy and his friends found some prehistoric paintings on a cave near his house. (history)
Prehistoric (a): Thời tiền sử 213.
Don’t believe in fortune-tellers. They only want to cheat you out of your money. (tel )
Fortune-tel er (n): Nhà ngoại cảm đọc được tương lai 214.
Both tight-fitting clothes and tight bedclothes are bad for the circulation. (fit)
Tight-fitting (a): vừa khít, bó chặt 215.
The objective is to make the property wind and weatherproof, and thereby
habitable, as soon as possible. (weather)
Weatherproof (a): Chịu được thời tiết 216.
After checking the patient’s health, they looked at the blood samples under the microscope. (micro)
Microscope (n): Kính hiển vi 217.
He wants to prevent interruption in production and forestall reflection on a
vicious economic cycle that leaves people poor despite their long hours of work. (Stal )
Forestal (v): Dự đoán trước 218.
Pointing gestures and responses, yes\no gestures and responses, imitations,
unintelligible utterances, and utterances that included a participant that was not
visible were excluded. (intel igence)
Unintel igible (a): Khó hiểu, không thể hiểu được 219.
Knowing they wouldn't welcome too much verbosity, he simplified his talk. (verb) Verbosity (n): Sự dài dòng 220.
His explanation was wrapped up in so much technical verbiage that I couldn't understand it. (verb)
Verbiage (n): Sự nói dài, sự lắm lời (dùng chồng chất những từ không cần thiết); tính dài dòng (báo cáo, bài văn) 221.
I thought it impolitic to ask any questions about her ex-husband. (political)
Impolitic (a): Vụng về, không tính toán trước 222.
Adult spel ers use orthographic knowledge of English to analyze structures in other languages. (orthography)
Orthographic knowledge (ph): refers to the information that is stored in memory that tel s us
how to represent spoken language in written form. 223.
These people are caught in a toxic fetishization of what they cal "the Old Way". (fetish)
Fetishization (n): Sự tôn thờ hoặc thích thú một cách không hợp lý cho việc gì 224.
The company had to make reparation to those who suffered il health as a result
of chemical pol ution. (repair)
Reparation (n): Sự bồi thường thiệt hại 225.
During her lecture on her discoveries, she made/took several sideswipes at the
leaders of the expedition. (swipe)
Sideswipe (n): Nói cạnh khóe ai đó 226.
He has been often blamed for this and people backbit him more than ever after his death. (bite)
Backbite (v): Cắn, nói xấu sau lưng 227.
Of his origins he said very little, merely mentioning in parenthesis that his background was poor. (thesis) Parenthesis (n): Ngoặc đơn
In parenthesis (ph): If, while you are talking, you say something in parenthesis, you say it as
something extra and then continue with the main part of the sentence 228.
Saying she was wrong was a difficult climbdown for Sarah. (climb)
Climbdown (n): Sự nhượng bộ 229.
Some British public figures have indulged in breast-beating about colonialism. (breast)
Breast-beating (n): Sự chống đối một cách ầm ĩ 230.
In epilepsy, the therapeutic goal is to reduce the risk of seizure activity by raising
the convulsive threshold. (convulse) Convulsive (a) co giật 231.
Down-and-outs warmed themselves at bonfires on the lorry park. (down)
Down-and-out (n): Người thất cơ lỡ vận, người sa cơ thất thế 232.
The opening of the superstore wil sound/tol the death-knell for hundreds of
smal independent shops. (death)
Death-knel (n): Tiếng chuông báo tử
To sound/tol the death-knel for sth: Cause the failure of 233.
He suffers from Parkinson’s disease and has occasional y experienced blackouts. (black) Blackout (n): Ngất 234.
Merchandise imports have expanded significantly faster than world trade in both
real and nominal dol ar values. (name)
Nominal (a): Trên phiếu, trên danh nghĩa, không có thật 235.
Jean wil look after Harry, I'm quite sure - she's a pushover for babies. (push) Pushover (n): -
Người dễ dàng bị thuyết phục, ảnh hưởng hoặc bị đánh bại -
Công việc dễ thực hiện 236.
Of course, these primitive processes of alignment are not foolproof/ idiotproof. (proof)
Foolproof/ idiotproof (a): Cực dễ để làm 237.
I just use a few basic and self-explanatory symbols, for the most part just
crossing out errors and inserting the correct version. (explain)
Self-explanatory (a): Không cần giải thích gì thêm 238.
Pupils often had to stand to attention and repeat lessons parrot-fashion. (fashion)
Do sth parrot-fashion (ph): Như vẹt 239.
After two hours spent wandering in the snow, I realized we were on a wild-goose chase. (wild)
A wild-goose chase (ph): Sự theo đuổi phi thực tế, xa vời 240.
An early example of product placement is in the 1949 movie Gun Crazy, where a
Bulova clock is repeatedly shown in important scenes. (place)
Placement (n): Sự sắp xếp
Product placement (ph): Marketing nhúng, a way of advertising a product by supplying it for
use in films or television programmes 241.
The balance of the pairs of opposites which comprise a square is the insignia of its perfection. (sign) Insignia (n): Dấu hiệu 242.
You've got your hat on skew-whiff. (skew)
Skew-whiff (a): Không thẳng, nghiêng 243.
On Wednesday night the UN issued its toughest ultimatum to date, demanding
that al troops withdraw from the city. (ultimate)
Ultimatum (n): Thư tối hậu 244.
Police imposed a lockdown in the building until the shooter could be stopped. (lock) Lockdown (n): Phong tỏa 245.
Seven coastguard stations have been closed since 1979, leaving 21 stations to
cover 6,000 miles of coast. (coast)
Coastguard (n): Lính phòng hộ ven biển 246.
The boss cal ed a meeting to give us a heads-up on the way the project was going. (head)
Heads-up (n): Dấu hiệu, tín hiệu
Give sb a heads-up (ph): Thông báo cho ai đó về 1 thứ gì 247.
They claim that the fal in unemployment is based on a fraudulent manipulation of statistics. (fraud)
Fraudulent (a): Do gian lận, lừa lọc 248.
There are stil those who regard the move as an unconstitutional usurpation of private property. (usurp)
Usurpation (n): Sự chiếm đoạt, tước quyền 249.
The river serves as the line of demarcation between the two counties. (demarcate)
Demarcation (n): Sự phân ranh giới 250.
This is regarded by many as a lame-duck initiative that has failed to deliver its promises. (lame)
Lame-duck (a): Không thành công, bom xịt