درس هفدهم People: character and behaviour Flashcards
Your month of birth and your character
Astrological Forecast
January: You are good company (1) but you may have a
selfish streak (2).
- good company: people enjoy being with you
- selfish streak: you sometimes act in a selfish way
February: You have an outgoing personality and a
good sense of humour.
outgoing personality: Friendly sociable خوش برخورد
good sense of humour: شوخ طبعی
March: You have a vivid imagination, but you tend to
lose your temper too easily
vivid imagination: If you have a vivid imagination you are able to imagine ided, images, etc. خیالپردازی روشن
Lose your temper:عصبی شدن
April: You are highly intelligent with a razor-sharp
mind.
highly intelligent: خیلی تیزهوش
Razor sharp mind: کسی که مطالب رو خیلی زود میگیره، یا اصطلاحا آدم تیزیِ
May: You set high standards for yourself and are
fiercely loyal to your friends
Set high standarads: استاندارهای بالایی برای خود گذاشتن
Fiercely: stronger than extremely
June: The best aspect of your personality is the way you always
put others first.
aspect of your personality: وجهه شخصیتاتن
Put others first: اولویت رو بقیه گذاشن
July: Although you can be painfully shy in social situations, at work you** give the
impression** of being supremely confident
painfully shy: خجالتی
Give the impression of: به بقیه این تصوررو نشون میدی که
August You have a tendency
to make snap decisions
snap decisions: quick decisions
September You have a strong sense of responsibility
and always keep your word
Keep your word:
do what you say you will do, keep your promises
October= You are good at keeping secrets and never bear a
grudge.
Bear a grudge: resent for a long time bad things others have done to you
کینه شتری از کسی داشتن
November You find it hard to keep your temper if you think someone is making a fool out of you .
keep your temper: not get angry
Make a fool of you: trying to deceive or trick you احمق فرض شدن ، احمق جلوه دادن ، مجسّمه بلاهت ساختن ، اسباب خنده شدن ، مضحکه خاص و عام شدن
December: You can be brutally honest and sometimes
hurt others’ feelings
Brutally honest: honest in a way that may hurt
زیادی رک بودن و جریحه دار کردن بقیه
Behaviour: verb + noun collocations
play a joke/trick
The children played a joke on the teacher by hiding under their desks
before she came into the room.
سربهسر کذاشتن کسی
NOT make a joke/trick
take a joke
= didn’t mind a joke being played on her
جدی نگیر، جنبه داشت
Fortunately, the teacher could take a joke and didn’t punish them.
swallow your pride
Isabella swallowed her pride and admitted that she was wrong.
= she did it even though it was embarrassing for her
throw a tantrum^1
Sudden period of uncontrolled anger like a young child’s
The child threw a tantrum when I wouldn’t buy him any sweets.
= behaved in a very uncontrolled manner
گریه و زاری بچه گانه
lose your patience
Finally I lost my patience and shouted at her.
= lost my temper, became angry
**come to terms with **
Nick has found it hard to come to terms with his illness.
= accept something psychologically
دست و پنجه نرم کردن، کنار اومدن، به مصالحه رسیدن،
کلنجار رفتن برای ( یادگیری چیزی، یا پذیرفتن شرایطی یا گذر از یک سختی )
reveal your true character
Daniel’s failure to support her has certainly** revealed his true character**.
opposite = conceal/hide your true character
I know that I have a tendency to bear a grudge, but I just can’t forget something bad a friend did to me recently. She has a selfish streak and doesn’t care sometimes how much she hurts my feelings.
I am finding it increasingly hard to keep my temper with her. But perhaps it might be better to **lose my temper **and let her know how I really feel?
I have always tried to **put others first **and not to think of myself. I believe you should not lose your patience with your friends, but if someone seems to enjoy making a fool out of you in front of other people, do those rules of friendship still apply?
I’m a little shy, though not painfully shy, but sometimes I think I give the impression that I’m unfriendly. How can I convince people that I’m good company and worth getting to know?
Should I talk about personal matters to my closest colleague at work? She is not very good at
keeping secrets and she has a very vivid imagination. She always promises not to tell other people, but I’m not sure she always keeps her word
My boyfriend has a really friendly, outgoing personality and a great sense of humour. He’s highly intelligent and has a** razor-sharp mind**. The perfect man. We’ve been together now for a year, and I like him a lot, but don’t love him any more. Should I be brutally honest with him and tell him?
I think a friend is destroying himself with drugs. I feel a sense of responsibility towards him. He has always been fiercely loyal to me in good and bad times, which is a wonderful aspect of his personality. I feel I ought to contact the police or social services, but I don’t want to make a snap decision which I’ll regret later.
