2. Flashcards
“power lines from South Africa were … by….”
sabotaged/rebel forces
This was … (ý định) sabotage the ceasefire.
a deliberate attempt to
He … (= very many) letters from listeners following the show.
got sackful of
The invaders sacked every village they …. (đi qua)
passed on their route
It’s late - I’m going to…(đi ngủ)
sack out
nhảy bao bối
sack race
đau xương chậu
sacral pain
an important religious ceremony in the Christian Church, such as baptism or communion
sacrament
a belief, custom, etc. that people support and do not question or criticize:
sacred cow
in a way that is connected with religion
sacredly
He said he wanted to be buried sacredly with his loved ones.
The Sabbath was always sacredly observed.
We stand by our right to criticize ideas, no matter how sacredly they are held.
I paid for this trip and it should be sacredly respected.
hy sinh rất nhiều
They cared for their disabled son for 27 years, at great personal sacrifice.
kể thể thân
He was a sacrificial lamb to a system that destroyed him.
không tôn trọng
Muslims consider it sacrilege to wear shoes inside a mosque.
treating something holy or important without respect:
sacrilegious practices/acts
thought to be too important or too special to be changed
I’m willing to help on any weekday, but my weekends are sacrosanct.
boring and never likely to be successful:
He’s just some sad-sack writer trying to get a book published.
to make someone sad:
It saddens me to think
We are deeply saddened by this devastating tragedy.
they have suffered but they have also learned something from it.
sadder but wiser
in charge or in control:
back in the saddle
to give someone a responsibility or problem that they do not want and that will cause them a lot of work or difficulty:
The company is saddled with debt.
getting pleasure, sometimes sexual, by being cruel to or hurting another person
sadistic behaviour/pleasure
His air of kindness and sagacity… him.
tempts people to confide in
wise, especially as a result of great experience:
my sage old grandfather
to succeed very easily in something, especially a test:
You can’t expect to just sail through without doing any work.
something that is unlikely to succeed because most people would oppose it:
He’s sailing against the wind in his attempt to
to do something that is dangerou
You were sailing a little close to the wind there when you made those remarks about his wife.
facts about something or qualities of something are the most important things
summarize the salient features/points
presented the salient facts
containing salt of the amount of salt contained in
very high salinity levels
very friendly and straightforward
It’s a community with a great sense of pride, full of salt of the earth people.
He’s a salt-of-the-earth type with absolutely no pretentions.
health-giving.
“the salutary Atlantic air”
to make something socially or officially acceptable:
a practice sanctified by many years of tradition
acting as if morally better than others:
sanctimonious
“what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?”
The government was reluctant to … intervention in the crisis.
sanction
something that causes a problem or prevents something from happening as it should:
Falling house prices are the sand in the gears that are causing growth to grind to a halt.
extremely violent and involving a lot of blood and injuries:
sanguinary
It was the most sanguinary and expensive war in modern times.
The film moves with a furious momentum toward its sanguinary conclusion.
clean and not dangerous for your health
Cholera thrives in poor sanitary conditions.
There were only very basic sanitary facilities on the site.
vệ sinh (thay clean)
sanitize the water
: intelligent; able to think:
She is sapient, conscious, able to hold an intelligent discussion.
wise:
his failure to heed my sapient advice
the sapient king
relating to the human species Homo sapiens:
We may inherit a universal linguistic blueprint from our sapient ancestors of 40,000 years ago.
C2: using remarks that clearly mean the opposite of what you say, in order to hurt someone’s feelings or to humorously criticize something:
a sarcastic comment/remark
Are you being sarcastic?
humorous in an unkind way that shows you do not respect someone or something:
a sardonic smile/look/comment
If a wish or a need is satiable, it can be satisfied:
The demand to end hunger is a satiable demand, because it is possible for it to be completely met.
One could claim that most needs are generally satiable.
to completely satisfy yourself or a need, especially with food or pleasure, so that you could not have any more
He drank greedily until his thirst was satiated.
Try not to eat beyond the point of satiation.
The appetite for internet stocks should reach satiation at some point.
châm biếm
Her play was a **biting/cruel satire **on life in the 80s.
criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point:
satirical cartoons/magazines
She was known for her satirical humour.
= very pleasing
The outcome of the discussion was highly satisfactory
in a way that makes you feel pleased by providing what you need or want:
This is a long and satisfyingly complex story.
These biscuits are light but satisfyingly crunchy.
bão hoà
saturable: bão hoà
This molecule binds to proteins in a saturable manner.
to provide too much of a product so that there is more of this product available than there are people who want to buy it:
saturate the market:
Since the US market has now been saturated, drug dealers are looking to Europe.
Don’t you think that the cosmetics market is saturated by now?
The top end of the market is saturated with luxury personal goods, but there is still a need for luxury services.
