Unit2,3 Flashcards
Keen
Interested in sth and wanting to do
She is keen to learn
Motivated
If you are motivated, you really want to do sth
Find difficult to (do sth)
Be difficult for an to do sty
After a while
Get better
Syn: improvement
Express
Say or show what you think or feel
Effectively
Obvious
obvious [ˈobviəs]
♦ adjective
easily seen or understood; evident: It was obvious that she was ill; an obvious improvement.
واضح؛ بدیهی
ˈobviously
♦ adverb
it is clear (that something is the case): Obviously, I’ll need some help.
بدیهی است که؛ بطور واضح
Encouraging
[enˈkərijiNG]
adjective - encouraging
دلگرم کننده: encouraging
مشوق: incentive, encouraging, challenging, exhorting, impellent
Slow down
Be aware of sth
If you be aware of sth, you know about it
Frustrating
frustrate [fraˈstreit, (American) ˈfrastreit]
♦ verb
1 to make (someone) feel disappointed, useless etc : Staying at home all day frustrated her.
سرخورده کردن
2 to make useless: His efforts were frustrated.
بی نتیجه کردن
fruˈstration
♦ noun
.
ناکامی
frusˈtrated
♦ adjective
1 disappointed; unhappy; not satisfied: She is very unhappy and frustrated as a teacher.
مایوس
2 unable to have the kind of job, career etc that one would like: Literary critics are often frustrated writers.
سرخورده
Expand
Become bigger or make sth bigger
Complex
Having a lot of details that make sth difficult to understand
Fluent
fluent [ˈfluənt]
♦ adjective
1 (of a language etc ) smoothly and skilfully spoken: He spoke fluent French.
فصیح
2 (of a person) able to express oneself easily: He is fluent in English.
روان
ˈfluency
♦ noun
ease in speaking or expressing: Her fluency surprised her colleagues.
شیوایی
ˈfluently
♦ adverb
He speaks Spanish fluently.
بطور روان
Achieve
Do or finish sth well after trying hard
be to do with sth/sb
Be connected with sth/sb
Definition
[ˌdefəˈniSHən]
noun - definition
تعریف: definition, description, compliment, explanation, praise, quantification
تعیین: determination, designation, definition, specification, nomination, fixation
Avoid doing sth
Idiom
idiom [ˈidiəm]
♦ noun
1 an expression with a meaning that cannot be guessed from the meanings of the individual words: His mother passed away (= died) this morning.
اصطلاح
2 the expressions of a language in general: English idiom.
اصطلاح
ˌidioˈmatic [-ˈmӕtik]
♦ adjective
(negative unidiomatic )
1 using an idiom: an idiomatic use of this word.
اصطلاحی
2 using appropriate idioms: We try to teach idiomatic English.
مصطلح
ˌidioˈmatically
♦ adverb
.
بطور مصطلح
Syllable
Related to sth
For instance
For example
Slang
slang [slӕŋ]
♦ noun
words and phrases (often in use for only a short time) used very informally, eg words used mainly by, and typical of, a particular group: army slang; teenage slang; stiff' is slang for
a corpse’.
زبان عاميانه
♦ verb
to speak rudely and angrily to or about (someone); to abuse: I got furious when he started slanging my mother.
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