vocab 26 Flashcards
elude
- to manage to avoid or escape from somebody/something, especially in a clever way, lảng tránh
Ex: The two men managed to elude the police for six weeks. - if something eludes you, you are not able to achieve it, or not able to remember or understand it
Ex: He was extremely tired but sleep eluded him.
defy
- coi thường, bất chấp
Ex: I wouldn’t have dared to defy my teachers. - to be impossible or almost impossible to believe, explain, describe, etc.
Ex: The beauty of the scene defies description.
abide
- chịu đựng
Ex: I can’t abide people with no sense of humour. - to stay or live in a place
Ex: May joy and peace abide in us all.
abandonment
sự bỏ rơi
compile
- to produce a book, list, report, etc. by bringing together different items, articles, songs, etc.; to collect information in order to produce a book, list, etc. ( sự biên soạn)
Ex:
We are trying to compile a list of suitable people for the job.
obtain
- to get something, especially by making an effort ( có đucợ)
Ex: I’ve been trying to obtain permission to publish this material.
secluded
quiet and private
ex: We managed to find a secluded spot for our picnic.
commit
phạm tội, mắc tội
Ex: Most crimes are committed by young men.
suspend
- to hang something from something else
Ex: A lamp was suspended from the ceiling. - đình chỉ ( officially, ngừng họat động)
Ex: Production has been suspended while safety checks are carried out.
hash
- a hot dish of cooked meat and potatoes that are cut into small pieces and mixed together
Ex: corned beef hash
spur
- khuyến khí ( movation)
Ex: His speech was a powerful spur to action.
delve into sth
nghiên cứu, đào sâu
attribute sth to sb/sth
quy cái gì đó do ai / cái gì
trike out at sth/sb
chỉ trích ai/ cái j
mark sth down
giảm giá cái j
boil sth down
- tính gọn, rút gọn
Ex: The original speech I had written got boiled down to about ten minutes.
die down
- lắng xuống
Ex: The flames finally died down.
climb down over sth
nhận lỗi với cái j
Ex: The government was forced to climb down last night over its handling of pensions.
change into sth
thay đổi thành cái j
make off
chuồn đi
hinge on/upon
phụ thuộc vào ai vào cái j
have intention of
có ý định làm j
boil down to sth
đăm sminh vào mình vào cái j
tie in sth
kết nối với cái j
ask sb in
mời ai vào
work off sth
xua tan cái j
Ex:She worked off her anger by going for a walk.
carry sth off
- to win something
Ex: He carried off most of the prizes.
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start off
bắt đầu
fall into disuse
không được ai sử dụng
fall down
- to be shown to be not true or not good enough
Ex: And that’s where the theory falls down - thất bại
go down
- if the price of something, the temperature, etc. goes down, it becomes lower
Ex: The price of oil is going down.
Oil is going down in price. - đucợ đón nhận
factor in
tính đến cái j
Ex: Remember to factor in staffing costs when you are planning the project.
be wrapped up in sth
- đắm chìm, quá mức chú ý vào cái j
Ex:
make sb redundant
sa thair ai
work on sth
- to try to persuade somebody to agree to something or to do something
Ex: He hasn’t said he’ll do it yet, but I’m working on him. - to try hard to improve or achieve something
Ex: You need to work on your pronunciation a bit more.
conjure up sth
khơi gợi cái j ( suy nghĩ, y kiến )
wind down
thư giản, nghỉ ngơi
embark on/upon sth
băt sđầu cái gì
Ex: She is about to embark on a diplomatic career.
occur to sb
xuất hiện trong tâm trí ai
ex: The idea occurred to him in a dream.
rule out sb/sth
loại bỏ ai cái gì
Ex: The proposed solution was ruled out as too expensive.
talk sb/sth around/ round
thuyết phục ai
grapple with sth
cố gắng giải quyết cái j
land sb in sth
khiến ai bị cái j
come at sth
- to move towards somebody as though you are going to attack them, làm ai bị cái j
Ex: She came at me with a knife.
resort to sth
viện đến cái j
Ex ;They felt obliged to resort to violence.
grasp at sth
nắm lấy cái j
be subjected to sth
- hứng chiu cái j
Ex: The city was subjected to heavy bombing.
talk sb into doing sth
thuyết phục ai làm gì
