vocab 26

Question 1

elude

Answer 1

• 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.

Question 2

defy

Answer 2

• 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.

Question 3

abide

Answer 3

• 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.

Question 4

abandonment

Answer 4

sự bỏ rơi

Question 5

compile

Answer 5

• 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.

Question 6

obtain

Answer 6

• to get something, especially by making an effort ( có đucợ)
  Ex: I’ve been trying to obtain permission to publish this material.

Question 7

secluded

Answer 7

quiet and private
ex: We managed to find a secluded spot for our picnic.

Question 8

commit

Answer 8

phạm tội, mắc tội
Ex: Most crimes are committed by young men.

Question 9

suspend

Answer 9

• 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.

Question 10

hash

Answer 10

• a hot dish of cooked meat and potatoes that are cut into small pieces and mixed together
  Ex: corned beef hash

Question 11

spur

Answer 11

• khuyến khí ( movation)
  Ex: His speech was a powerful spur to action.

Question 12

delve into sth

Answer 12

nghiên cứu, đào sâu

Question 13

attribute sth to sb/sth

Answer 13

quy cái gì đó do ai / cái gì

Question 14

trike out at sth/sb

Answer 14

chỉ trích ai/ cái j

Question 15

mark sth down

Answer 15

giảm giá cái j

Question 16

boil sth down

Answer 16

• tính gọn, rút gọn
  Ex: The original speech I had written got boiled down to about ten minutes.

Question 17

die down

Answer 17

• lắng xuống
  Ex: The flames finally died down.

Question 18

climb down over sth

Answer 18

nhận lỗi với cái j
Ex: The government was forced to climb down last night over its handling of pensions.

Question 19

change into sth

Answer 19

thay đổi thành cái j

Question 20

make off

Answer 20

chuồn đi

Question 21

hinge on/upon

Answer 21

phụ thuộc vào ai vào cái j

Question 22

have intention of

Answer 22

có ý định làm j

Question 23

boil down to sth

Answer 23

đăm sminh vào mình vào cái j

Question 24

tie in sth

Answer 24

kết nối với cái j

Question 25

ask sb in

Answer 25

mời ai vào

Question 26

work off sth

Answer 26

xua tan cái j
Ex:She worked off her anger by going for a walk.

Question 27

carry sth off

Answer 27

• to win something
  Ex: He carried off most of the prizes.
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Question 28

start off

Answer 28

bắt đầu

Question 29

fall into disuse

Answer 29

không được ai sử dụng

Question 30

fall down

Answer 30

• to be shown to be not true or not good enough
  Ex: And that’s where the theory falls down
• thất bại

Question 31

go down

Answer 31

• 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

Question 32

factor in

Answer 32

tính đến cái j
Ex: Remember to factor in staffing costs when you are planning the project.

Question 33

be wrapped up in sth

Answer 33

• đắm chìm, quá mức chú ý vào cái j
  Ex:

Question 34

make sb redundant

Answer 34

sa thair ai

Question 35

work on sth

Answer 35

• 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.

Question 36

conjure up sth

Answer 36

khơi gợi cái j ( suy nghĩ, y kiến )

Question 37

wind down

Answer 37

thư giản, nghỉ ngơi

Question 37

embark on/upon sth

Answer 37

băt sđầu cái gì
Ex: She is about to embark on a diplomatic career.

Question 37

occur to sb

Answer 37

xuất hiện trong tâm trí ai
ex: The idea occurred to him in a dream.

Question 37

rule out sb/sth

Answer 37

loại bỏ ai cái gì
Ex: The proposed solution was ruled out as too expensive.

Question 38

talk sb/sth around/ round

Answer 38

thuyết phục ai

Question 39

grapple with sth

Answer 39

cố gắng giải quyết cái j

Question 40

land sb in sth

Answer 40

khiến ai bị cái j

Question 41

come at sth

Answer 41

• 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.

Question 42

resort to sth

Answer 42

viện đến cái j
Ex ;They felt obliged to resort to violence.

Question 43

grasp at sth

Answer 43

nắm lấy cái j

Question 44

be subjected to sth

Answer 44

• hứng chiu cái j
  Ex: The city was subjected to heavy bombing.

Question 45

talk sb into doing sth

Answer 45

thuyết phục ai làm gì