9-B:megacities Flashcards

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Inhabitant

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ساکن، زندگی کننده

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Commuters

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noun
[com’mut·er || -tə]
one who commutes, one who travels back and forth between home and work

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Rare occasion

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Rare:نادر

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Proof

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noun - proof
اثبات: proof, proving, demonstration, show, affirmation, substantiation
مدرک: evidence, evidence, proof, document, record, clue
دلیل: reason, proof, sake, testimony, symptom
گواه: witness, evidence, proof, voucher, testifier, warranter
برهان: argument, proof, logic
نشانه: sign, indication, symptom, mark, token, proof
ملاک: criterion, landowner, landlord, proof, ground, pattern
محک: benchmark, test, criterion, touchstone, proof, examination
عیار: cutie, carat, shifter, assay, karat, proof
مقیاس خلوص الکل: proof
چرک نویس: draft, scratch, scratchpad, proof

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Alienation and loneliness

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بیگانگی و تنهایی

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Recluses

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noun - recluse
خلوت نشین: recluse, anchorite
منزوی: hermit, recluse, solitudinarian
گوشه نشین: hermit, recluse, anchoret, anchorite, solitary, solitudinarian

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Ridiculous

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[riˈdikyələs]
adjective - ridiculous
مضحک: ridiculous, funny, absurd, ludicrous, comic, hilarious
خنده دار: funny, hilarious, comic, comical, laughable, ridiculous
مسخره امیز: ridiculous, burlesque, droll, farcical
چرند: corny, absurd, silly, nonsensical, ludicrous, ridiculous

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As a complete contrast to Tokyo

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Vibrant

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With energy

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Stroll through the boulevards

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verb - stroll
قدم زدن: stroll, stride, step, vamp, gait, pad
noun - stroll
گردش: circulation, flow, turn, excursion, twirl, stroll
پرسه زنی: truancy, stroll
قدم زنی: stroll

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People of all ages gather to dance

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verb - gather
جمع کردن: collect, roll up, stack up, gather, tot, floc
جمع شدن: gather, backlog, snuggle, retract, congregate, assemble
گرد امدن: agglomerate, assemble, constringe, convene, flock, gather
اجتماع کردن: forgather, congregate, gather
گرد اوری کردن: gather
بزرگ شدن: grow, amplify, gather, greaten, lump
گرد کردن: round, round off, agglomerate, conglobate, gather, globe
نتیجه گرفتن: derive, deduce, conclude, gather
استباط کردن: gather
فراهم اوردن: assemble, collect, gather

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Slums

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noun - slum
خیابان پر جمعیت: slum
محله کثیف: slum
محلات پر جمعیت وپست شهر: slum

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Wealth

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noun - wealth
ثروت: wealth, riches, fortune, worth, treasure, money
مال: property, wealth, riches, fortune, lucre, effects
دارایی: property, asset, wealth, finance, possession, estate
زیادی: wealth, extra, excess, surplus, immensity, excrescence
سرمایه: capital, fund, wealth, money, stock, cause
توانگری: wealth, opulence
وفور: abundance, wealth, affluence, profusion, bounty, exuberance
غنا: richness, enrichment, wealth, affluence, music, singing
سامان: order, country, region, knowledge, border, wealth
سرکیفی: wealth
تمول: richness, wealth
خواست: want, demand, desire, request, will, wealth

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Poverty

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noun - poverty
فقر: poverty, destitution, penury, indigence
بینوایی: poverty, impoverishment
خواری: ignominy, abasement, poverty, insult, abjection, abuse
تهی دستی: misery, poverty, indigence
کمیابی: scarcity, rarity, paucity, poverty, infrequency, famine
پستی: baseness, meanness, inferiority, degradation, debasement, poverty
فروماندگی: despair, desperate situation, fatigue, inability, poverty
تندگستی: poverty
بی پولی: poverty

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Bulletproof

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adj., vt.
● ضد گلوله،پاد گلوله،ضد گلوله کردن
a bulletproof vest
جلیقه (یا جامه‌ی) ضد گلوله
they bulletproofed his car
اتومبیل او را ضد گلوله کردند.

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Pollution

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آلودگی

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Resistant to

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مقاوم در برابر

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Intention

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قصد، نیت

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Reduction

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کاهش

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Myth

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noun - myth
اسطوره: myth
افسانه: legend, myth, tale, fable, fiction, mythos

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Cuisine

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Style of cooking

noun - cuisine
غذا: food, meal, dish, diet, chow, cuisine
خوراک: feed, food, meat, cuisine, dish, repast
دست پخت: cuisine
روش اشپزی: cuisine