[英文 單字集] 選對慢跑鞋、控制下一個伊波拉、心的語言
Top three words this week
1. (因摩擦)起水泡: blister
Ex: If you get blisters, usually it's from either too small or poor-fitting shoes.
2. down the drain: 白花錢、付諸東流、浪費
Ex: That was $49 down the drain.
3. 最大功臣: all-star
Ex: The real all-star is the host mom.
下面是這周的單字集，點選標題可以看原文報導
藍色單字是我覺得常用的單字，
標在中文表示可以直接翻譯和中文做連結
標在英文表示先從英文記會比較好
Why running shoes matter: The wrong kind can hurt you
1. in
level of comfort: ...的程度
Ex:
Choosing the right running shoes could make a big difference in level of
comfort.
2.
malady: 病、毛病
Ex:
The wrong pair of shoes can cause a host of (= very large numbers) other
maladies.
3.
biomechanically: 人體工學的、生物力學的
Ex:
There are the biomechanically normal feet.
4.
fairly: 相當
Ex:
You're going to do fairly well in a lot of different shoes.
5.
overused: 濫用
Ex:
They are vastly overused and used incorrectly.
6.
make up: 占
Ex:
Stability shoes make up 56 percent of sales nationally.
7.
fall in: 落在
Ex: 70
to 75 percent of the population falls in the range of normal motion.
8.
inhibit: 妨礙
Ex: It
is going to inhibit you.
9.
disservice: 妨害、危害
Ex:
Shoe store that has you stand still to determine the best type of shoe for you
is doing you a disservice.
10.
orthopedic: 骨骼矯正
Ex: He
has a background in orthopedic.
11.
stationary: 靜止的
Ex:
It's not something that should be done stationary.
12.
stride (v.): 大步、快步
Ex: They
need a little bit of room in front of their toes for their feet to move forward
a little bit as they stride and land.
13.
blister: (因摩擦)起水泡
Ex: If
you get blisters, usually it's from either too small or poor-fitting shoes.
14.
tread: 胎紋、防滑花紋、鞋紋
Ex: If
the tread is starting to wear off, that's a sign that shoe is worn out.
15.
down the drain: 白花錢、付諸東流、浪費; drain: 排水孔
Ex:
That was $49 down the drain.
16.
shin: 小腿
Ex: I
had trouble with pain in my knees, shins and arches of my feet.
17.
gear: 裝備、衣服
18.
decreed: 說(命令或建議的語氣) = declare
Ex:
The sales man looked at my feet and decreed a wide-width shoe was the answer.
19. in
one's prime: 興盛時期(Reading articles and example sentences are from Running With the Right Shoes, Advanced magazine, Mar. 30-31, 2015)
1.
lurk: 埋伏、潛伏
Ex:
Many other threats lurk a plane ride away.
2.
step up: 加快腳步、加速進程
Ex:
Scientists step up work to find and contain potentially deadly viruses.
3.
pandemic: 大規模流行病
Ex:
Scientists are stepping up efforts to prevent the next pandemic.
4. fan
out: 散布各地
not used often
Ex:
Teams of researchers have fanned out across the globe.
5.
disarm: 使失去攻擊力
Ex:
Others are screening compounds to disarm the pathogens.
6.
epidemic: (疾病的)傳染、傳播
7. get
ahead of the curve: 搶先一步
Ex:
Instead of chasing the last epidemic, we want to be proactive, to get ahead of
the curve.
8.
veterinary: 獸醫的
9.
epidemiologist: 流行病學家
Ex: a
veterinary epidemiologist
10.
infectious: 傳染的、具感染性的
Ex:
infectious disease
11. population
boom: 人口爆炸
12.
humans proliferate: 人類激增
13.
encroach on:逐步侵占
Ex: As
populations boom and humans proliferate, they encroach on forests and encounter
new form of wildlife.
14.
strain: 類型、品種 =type, version
Ex: a
new strain of stomach virus
15.
outbreak: (疾病)爆發、發作
Ex:
The team helped Bolivia control an outbreak of yellow fever
16.
quash: 抑止、撤銷 = stop, squash
Ex:
The team also helped Congo quash Ebola before it spread out of control.
17.
nimble: 靈活、敏捷、機靈
18. reside:
居住、寄居
Ex:
Any potential therapy has to be nimble enough to kill the virus without
damaging the tissue in which it resides.
19.
make headway: 取得進展 = have progress
Ex:
Researchers are making headway.
20.
pediatric: 小兒科的
Ex:
pediatric infectious disease 小兒傳染疾病
21.
parasitic: 寄生物的
Ex:
parasitic disease 寄生物疾病
22.
primate: 靈長類動物
23.
genome: 基因組、染色體組
24.
gut-wrenching: 讓人反胃的
Ex:
gut-wrenching story
25.
potentially = likely= possibly
26.
confront: 面臨
Ex:
Dallas confronted its first cases of Ebola.
27. be
religious about something: 迷信
(Reading articles and example sentences are from Seeking 'the Ebolas of the Future', Advanced magazine, Apr. 1-2, 2015)
1.
hurly-burly: 喧鬧、喧囂 = hustle and bustle (old usage)
2.
Eurasia: 歐亞大陸 not used often
Ex: As
a resident of a remote country in Eurasia, he's not connected at all with the
hurly-burly of life in America.
3.
deformity: 畸形
4.
undergo: 接受手術、動手術
Ex
Born with deformities to both upper limbs, he underwent surgery last October.
5.
orthopedist: 骨科醫生
6.
reach out: 求助於
Ex: I
reached out to my friends on Facebook, and I had about eight people in two
hours who said they would take him for the day.
7.
inbound: 從外地到達的 = take people in from other country
Ex: He
is receiving treatment as part of the inbound program, where he was referred by
his orphanage (孤兒院)
8.
cheer sb on: 替某人加油
Ex:
Boris enjoys cheering him on at hockey practices.
9. all-star
(n.): 最大功臣
Ex:
The real all-star is the host mom.
10.
cast: 石膏
Ex:
The cast put Boris in a position unable to help himself at times.
11.
up-close (adj.): 仔細的、特寫的
Ex:
Boris is giving the family an up-close look at life through the eyes of a boy from
halfway around the world.
12.
avid: 活躍的
Ex: an
avid backpacker
13.
aide: 助理、助手
Ex: A
classroom aide helps him each day.
14.
attached to: 很親近、很黏
Ex:
His classmates have become very attached to him.
15.
fit in: 融入、適應
Ex: It
looks like he's really fitting in to one big aspect of life here.
16.
like it's going out of style: 比一般快又多、引申為狼吞虎嚥
Ex: He
eats fruit/ go shopping/ baking/ working on a garden like it's going out of
style.
17.
underdevelopment: 發育不良、發育不全
Ex:
Boris' deformities are caused by underdevelopment of the radius bone in the
forearm.
18.
pinch: 捏
19.
tendon: (連結肌肉和骨骼的)肌腱
20.
index finger: 食指
21.
all-American: 典型美式的 =typical American
Ex:
all-American breakfast, all-Canadian man
(Reading articles and example sentences are from The Language of Humanity, Advanced magazine, Apr. 3-4, 2015)
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