Foreign Languages and Travel Flashcards
Globalization
جهانی سازی
Globalization is a catch-all term that refers to any activity that involves many countries.
عبارت فراگیر
The increasing globalization of business makes cross-cultural skills mandatory.
Cross-cultural = multicultural
Transnational
چند ملیتی
The dramatic increase in transnational travel in recent years has had potential impacts on countries.
Due to transnational industrialization the export capacity of both countries increased.
Mutual
متقابل
Nations can live together with mutual trust.
Mutual respect is necessary for any partnership to work.
Inhabitants
International travels would never bring conflict because visitors and local inhabitants are economically motivated.
A city of six inhabitants
Local inhabitants/ local residents/ local population.
Win over someone
پشتیبانی کسی را کسب کردن
Foreigners should learn the culture of a country before winning over the local people.
We’ll be working hard over the next ten days to win over the undecided voters.
Relations
ارتباط یا رفتار متقابل رسمی بین دو گروه یا کشور
Relations between the two countries have steadily deteriorated in recent years.
Relations between two countries have improved recently.
Relations between workers and management are generally good.
Conventions
Visitors disobey rules and conventions simply because they have no knowledge of them.
Arise
The increase in the international travel should not be taken as the cause of any conflict that arises between two countries.
They agreed to avoid conflicts arising from involvement in political groups.
Demise of
مرگ …
از بین رفتن …
There is widespread worry that we will have a demise of countries’ identities.
The imminent demise (=happening soon) of the local newspaper
از بین رفتن زود هنگام روزنامه محلی
Yield
To produce a result, answer, or piece of information
Culture can distinguish one country from others, attracting foreign visitors and yielding high income.
Our research has only recently begun to yield important results.
Time-honored + noun
یک روش یا سنت قدیمی
New people are breaking many of their time-honored traditions.
Undermine
Increased interaction between countries in the domains of business and culture can either strengthen or undermine the identities of countries involved.
Economic policies that threaten to undermine the health care system.
Incentive
Something that encourages you to work harder
Providing economic incentives for cultural preservation is one of the main contributions of tourism.
When prices are so low, farmers have little incentive to increase production.
Provide incentive انگیزه دادن
Contribution مزیت
Flock
هجوم بردن به جایی
When a historic site or a site that shows a country’s cultural heritage is made accessible to the public, visitors from all over the world will soon flock there.
People have been flocking to the exhibition.
Indigenous
بومی
Tourism can make an indigenous culture known to the world.
The many indigenous cultures which existed in Siberia
Blueberries are indigenous to America.
Cultural heritage
Immigrants are at crossroads whether to blend in with the local culture or to cherish their own cultural heritages.
Japan’s unique cultural heritage
Being at crossroads برسر دو راهی بودن
Merge into
Many immigrants, at the first stage of their life in a new country, are faced with merging into the new culture.
She avoided reporters at the airport by merging into crowds.
Merge into پیوستن به
Merge with ترکیب شدن با
Immigrate Immigrant Immigration Emigrate Migrate
از فعل immigrate برای مهاجرت کردن به یک کشور جدید معمولا استفاده نمی شود و به جای آن از فعل emigrate و یا اسم های آن immigrant , immigration استفاده کنید.
فعل migrateبیشتر در مورد پرنده ها و یا افراد زمانی استفاده می شود که مرتب از جایی به جایی دیگر برای غذا یا مکان زندگی کوچ می کنند.
Culture shock
India is where I first experienced real culture shock.
Moving to London was a bit of a culture shock after ten years of living in the country.
Adopt
پذیرفتن یک فرهنگ یا آداب و رسوم
Immigrants can adopt local conventions and cherish their own cultures simultaneously.
Cherish گرامی داشتن
Becoming a member of a society means adopting its values.
Barrier
In different areas of global communication, such as science and news, recognizing a common language removes communication barriers and increase convenience.
The removal of communication barriers…
Endanger
The rise of a global language would endanger other languages.
Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby’s life.
Minority
اقلیت
A global language over time put many minority cultures on the verge of extinction.
The teaching of minority languages in schools
Cultural/Linguistic Diversity
The effects of shrinking cultural diversity are destructive, causing people to live in a sample and monotonous world and thing and act in similar ways.
اثرات کم کردن تنوع فرهنگی مخرب هستند.
I have the greatest respect for linguistic diversity.
Holiday making
Tourism
The overall impact of international holiday-making has in fact been negative.
Holiday-maker = tourist
Social order
شرایط اجتماعی موجود
Newcomers should observe the laws of their adopted country for the sake of social order.
Observe a law = پذیرفتن یک قانون
The people of South Africa wanted a new social order.
Social norms
هنجارهای اجتماعی
Newcomers should respect the social norms of their adopted country.
The study of social norms
Alienate someone from something
کسی را از چیزی جدا کردن
Cultural diversity undermines a society by alienating people from each other.
He felt that his experience had alienated him from society.
Homogenous
یک دست/ همگن
A strong society is a homogenous society with shared values and goals.
A homogenous society
Frontier
In the future, frontier between countries become increasingly blurred.
Many of the cars crossing the frontier were stopped and searched.
Anthropology
When the time comes for anthropologists to run their attention to the 21st century, they will surely choose the label “Legless Man” because in this century, people have forgot how to use their legs.
Think nothing of doing something
کاری را ساده و عادی دانستن
These days, people think nothing of traveling hundreds of miles each day.
مردم در این روزها مایل ها مسافرت در روز را کاملا عادی و ساده می دانند.
He thinks nothing of staying up all night studying.
Mar
To make something less attractive or enjoyable
All the beauty spots on earth have been marred by the presence of large car parks.
Electricity cables and oil pipelines mar many of the world’s most beautiful landscapes.
Deprive somebody of something
کسی را از چیزی محروم کردن
We were deprived of the use of our eyes. In out hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way.
A lot of these children have been deprived of a normal home life.
Look forward to sth
I am really looking forward to our vacation.
Looking forward to doing sth
Weary
The traveler on foot, at the end of his journey, feels a delicious physical weariness.
I was so weary, I fell asleep as soon as I lay down.
