17 Flashcards
transient
theater is to find way of talking about something that ’s really so transient,
landmark
It was the landmark production.
track down
track somebody / something ↔ down
phrasal verb
to find someone or something that is difficult to find by searching or looking for information in several different places:
I finally managed to track down the book you wanted in a shop near the station.
Detectives had tracked her down in California.
roughly
Approximately
which I am roughly defining as the period from 35,000 to 8,000 BC
Hood
كلاه پارچه اي
tusk
عاج
probably a mammoth’s tusk
intact
, and the layers are intact.
دست نخورده
discard
used for several generations before it was discarded
carve out
said the lady with the hood was carved out of ivory.
Ivory:عاج
charcoal
Charcoal
Dye
رنگ مو ،،
chip off
so you have to chip off bits of the object for testing.
reluctant
OPP. Willing
Narrow
Can we narrow it down?
trend
But trends in art in the last century or so certainly challenge that idea.
legal
I mean, I get the feeling that this is like a legal process, like building a legal case, the more pieces of evidence we have, the closer we get to the
analogy
Analogy
Great analogy
oval
بيضي
You are probably aware that the earth’s orbit around the sun, it is not shaped like a perfect circle. It is more of an oval,
elliptical
بيضي شكل
hemisphere
, the northern hemisphere,
tilt
The tilt of earth’s axis,
precession
Precession, basically is the change in the direction of earth’s axis of rotation.
Skeptical
many of his colleagues were skeptical
شكاك
calcite
كربنات كلسيم
negate
deny
Audition
I must have auditioned like ten times since I have been at the school,
rehearse
she spent the whole afternoon rehearsing her speech
obligation
And when you start having financial obligations, rents, taxes, you have to keep track of how often you pay.
revolve
Egyptian life basically revolved around the mysterious rise and fall of the river.
inundation
inundate
سيل گرفتگي
subsidence
Subsidence
submerge
زير اب فرو كردن
when the Nile valley was essentially submerged in water for a few months or soغ
subside
Subsidence
the water would subside, or recede, revealing a new layer of fertile black silt and allowing for the planting of various crops.
constituite
and about four of the months would constitute a season
glare
Actually, it’d be hidden in the glare of the Sun.
dawn
سحر سپيده دم
Lunar
Lunar moon
bureaucratic purposes
bureaucratic purposes
alongside
This administrative calendar existed alongside the earlier agricultural and religious calendar that depended on the heliacal rising of Sirius.
Speckle
and it ’s speckled with dark spots.
Sack
كيسه
Chromatophores consist of tiny sacks filled with color dye
contract
But if the muscle’s contract, then the sack expands
mimic
some animals mimic their environment
برخی حیوانات با محیط خود همگون میشوند.
come in
so that’s where the second kind of cell comes in.
projection
They have these little projections on their skin that allow them to resemble various textures.
برامدگي
squirt
I read that they often hide from predators by squirting out a cloud of ink, or something like that.
Spray
