Weekly - Part 2

Question 1

venture

Answer 1

معامله‌ی قماری، داد و ستد مخاطره‌آمیز، کار الله بختی
*His bankruptcy was the result of several reckless business ventures.
*There are many joint ventures between American and Japanese companies.
*a real-estate venture

-joint venture
• Some analysts also said that a joint venture with Canon is possible.
• The decision point is particularly important for joint ventures projects.

Question 2

offender

Answer 2

متجاوز، متخلف، خلافکار، تخطی کننده
*first-time offenders
*sex offenders
*young offenders
*Community punishment is used for less serious offenders.

Question 3

devastate

Answer 3

خراب کردن، با خاک یکسان کردن، ویران کردن
گیج و سراسیمه کردن، خورد کردن

*Rob was devastated by the news of her death.
*The city centre was devastated by the bomb.
*I was so devastated I was crying constantly.

Question 4

interference

Answer 4

دخالت، مداخله، فضولی،
*I resent his interference in my work.
* Industrial relations should be free from state interference.
*She seems to regard any advice or help from me as interference.
*The government’s interference in the strike has been widely criticized.

Question 5

suspicious

Answer 5

شک برانگیز، موجب سوظن، بدگمان کننده،
شکاک، ظنین، بدگمان، دارای سوظن

-suspicious of
*Some of his colleagues at work became suspicious of his behaviour.

-suspicious about
* They were suspicious about my past.
*His reluctance to answer my questions made me suspicious.
*She gave him a suspicious glance.
* You’ve got a very suspicious mind!

*They found a suspicious package under the seat.
*a suspicious death
* He was behaving in a highly suspicious manner.
* a suspicious-looking character

Question 6

compensation

Answer 6

تاوان، خسارت، غرامت
جبران، پرداخت (در مقابل کار)، پاداش، مزد، اجرت

-compensation for
*compensation for injuries at work
-compensation from
*She received compensation from the government for the damage caused to her property.
-in compensation
*The jury awarded Tyler $1.7 million in compensation.
-as compensation
*The workers were given 30 days’ pay as compensation.
* People who are wrongly arrested may be paid compensation.
-demand/seek/claim compensation
*The parents are seeking compensation for birth defects caused by the drug.
-award/grant compensation
*The court awarded Jamieson £30,000 compensation.

*One of the few compensations of losing my job was seeing more of my family.
*She received £40,000 in compensation for a lost eye.
*You should claim/seek compensation.
*a compensation claim

Question 7

skew

Answer 7

کج رفتن، یک‌وری رفتن، پیچ خوردن
تحریف کردن، از شکل انداختن، کج و معوج کردن

-to cause something to be not straight or exact; to twist or distort

*All the people we questioned lived in the same area, which had the effect of skewing the figures.
*These last-minute changes have skewed the company’s results.
*These assumptions about Communism skewed American foreign policy for decades.

Question 8

Defeat

Answer 8

شکست دادن؛ مغلوب کردن
* Napoleon was defeated by the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo.
*They defeated the Italian team and reached the final.

شکست؛ باخت
مغلوب؛ شکست خورده
-defeat in
*The socialist party suffered a crushing defeat in the elections.
*She was a woman who hated to admit defeat.

-defeat of
*The defeat of the army was followed by the establishment of constitutional government.

Question 9

awkward

Answer 9

خودم: بد قلق- بدجور
-difficult to use, do, or deal with
*It’s an awkward corner, so take it slowly.
*Some of the questions were rather awkward.
*It was an awkward ascent, but we reached the top eventually.
*[ + to infinitive ] My car’s quite awkward to drive.
*He’s an awkward customer (= a difficult person to deal with).

-causing problems, worry, or embarrassment
*an awkward position/situation
*There followed an awkward silence while we all tried to think of something to say.
*They’d chosen an awkward time to call as I’d just got into the bath.
The police asked some awkward questions about where the money had come from.

ناجور
بدساخت
خجول و کمرو

Question 10

spark

Answer 10

جرقه
نشانه، علامت
تحریک کردن، انگیختن، موجب شدن ،درخشیدن
*Sparks were flying out of the bonfire and blowing everywhere.
*The scrape of metal on metal sent up a shower of sparks.
*That small incident was the spark that set off the street riots.

Question 11

content

Answer 11

راضی، قانع
قانع بودن، راضی بودن به
*He seems fairly content with (his) life.
*[ + to infinitive ] They’re content to socialize with a very small circle of people.

خوشحال، مسرور
*You’re quite easily contented, aren’t you?
*My explanation seemed to content him.
*We’ll be content with a respectable result in tomorrow’s match.

محتویات، درونه، مضمون، مفاد،
*The content of the media course includes scripting, editing, and camera work.
*the table of (= list of) contents
*It’s a very stylish and beautiful film, but it lacks content.

Question 12

reluctance

Answer 12

بی‌میلی، اکراه،
*I accepted his resignation with great reluctance.
*[ + to infinitive ] Her reluctance to talk to the press was quite understandable.
*Wells finally agreed, but with reluctance.
*a reluctance to share information

Question 13

glance

Answer 13

نظر اجمالی،نگاه کوتاه ،بسرعت نگاه کردن،

-glance at/up/down etc
*The man glanced nervously at his watch.
*Wyatt glanced around the restaurant.
*Emily glanced over her shoulder.
*She glanced around/round the room to see who was there.
*He glanced up from his book as I passed.
*Could you glance over/through this letter and see if it’s alright?

-to read something very quickly
-glance at/through etc
*Can you glance through these figures for me?

Question 14

taxonomy

Answer 14

علم رده‌بندی، آرایه شناسی، علم طبقه بندی

Question 15

scrutinize

Answer 15

(با دقت) نگریستن، وارسی کردن، پشت و روی چیزی را امتحان کردن، موشکافی کردن، (دقیقا) معاینه کردن

*He scrutinized the document.
* She scrutinized his face.
*He scrutinized the men’s faces carefully/closely, trying to work out who was lying.
*All new products are scrutinized by the laboratory.
*The data raises questions about how closely Wall Street banks scrutinized the loans.
*For example, unlike the United States, mergers should be very closely scrutinized.
• There were predictable objections from departments which did not want to have their own policy advice scrutinized by outside experts.
• The coach’s assistants stood along the field and scrutinized every move we made.

Question 16

tremble

Answer 16

لرزیدن، فراشیدن، لرزش داشتن، رعشه داشتن

*His lip started to tremble and then he started to cry.
-tremble with anger/fear etc
* Greene was on his feet now, his body trembling with rage.
*I was trembling with fear, panicking that I had not made the right decision.

*At her side Michael trembled uncontrollably. He was so distraught he could not speak.
*I could see them coming for me. I was already trembling in anticipation when they grabbed me.
*Her bottom lip trembled, and tears welled up in her eyes.
*His voice started to tremble, and I thought he was going to cry.
*The whole house trembled as the train went by.

دلواپس بودن، نگران بودن
*I tremble to think what will happen when she finds out.

Question 17

treat

Answer 17

رفتار کردن،
*My parents treated us all the same when we were kids.
*He treated his wife very badly.
*It’s wrong to treat animals as if they had no feelings.
*I treat remarks like that with the contempt that they deserve.

-treat somebody like/as something
* She treats me like one of the family.
*Penny doesn’t think her co-workers treat her as an equal.
*He treated his automobiles almost as tenderly as he did his wife.

-badly treated/well treated
* The prisoners were well treated by their guards.

مذاکره کردن، معامله کردن
*Please treat this information as completely confidential.
* She treats everything I say as a joke.

تیمار کردن، پرستاری کردن، درمان کردن، مداوا کردن
*It was difficult to treat patients because of a shortage of medicine.
*He is being treated for a rare skin disease.
*Western medicine tends to treat the symptoms and not the cause.

Question 18

Favicon

Answer 18

an icon (= a small symbol) associated with a website, that usually appears in the line near the top of a page on an internet browser where the address for that website is also displayed, or next to the site name in a list of bookmarks

Question 19

affiliate

Answer 19

شعبه، (شخص یا شرکت) وابسته، عضو،
به عنوان شعبه پذیرفتن
وابسته کردن یا شدن، همبسته کردن
-Affiliate is usually passive in this meaning, when used as a transitive verb.

-be affiliated with somebody/something
*The hospital is affiliated with the local university.
*The Society is not affiliated with any political party.

-be affiliated to somebody/something
*The group is not affiliated to any political party.
*the church’s right to affiliate to Rome

Question 20

recur

Answer 20

بازگشتن، رجعت کردن، تکرار شدن، دوباره روی دادن،

*This theme recurs several times throughout the book.
*a recurring illness/problem/nightmare, etc.
*There is a danger that the disease may recur.
* Love is a recurring theme in the book.

Question 21

exempt

Answer 21

معاف، مستثنی، بخشوده
معاف کردن، مستثنی کردن، بخشودن

*The interest on the money is exempt from tax.
*Some students are exempt from certain exams.
*Infant mortality was extremely high and the upper classes were not exempt.
*Research might be considered exempt from regulation.
*This income is totally exempt from taxation.
*The interest is exempt from income tax.
* Children are exempt from the charges.

Question 22

contempt

Answer 22

تحقیر، خوارسازی

-with contempt
*She looked at him with contempt.
*I shall treat that suggestion with the contempt it deserves.

-beneath contempt
*His treatment of his children is beneath contempt (= so bad that it is not even worth feeling contempt for).
*That sort of behaviour is simply beneath contempt (=does not deserve respect or attention).

• in contempt
  *Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by ordinary people.
• contempt for somebody/something
  *They had shown a contempt for the values she thought important.
  *The contempt he felt for his fellow students was obvious.

-utter/deep contempt
* The report shows utter contempt for women’s judgement.

-open/undisguised contempt
*She looked at him with undisguised contempt.
*The public is treated with contempt by broadcasters.
*How could she have loved a man who so clearly held her in contempt?

Question 23

retain

Answer 23

نگهداشتن، از دست ندادن
*She has lost her battle to retain control of the company.
*He managed to retain his dignity throughout the performance.
*She succeeded in retaining her lead in the second half of the race.
*I have a good memory and am able to retain (= remember) facts easily.

به یاد آوردن، به یاد داشتن
* I find it very difficult to retain facts.

Question 24

infant

Answer 24

نوزاد، شیرخوار
*a newborn infant
*An infant’s skin is very sensitive.

Question 25

mortality

Answer 25

میرایی، مرگ پذیری، فناپذیری،
*Her death made him more aware of his own mortality.
* Mortality from heart disease varies widely across the world.

Question 26

objection

Answer 26

ناخشنودی، بد آمدن، تنفر
*Her objection to/against the plan is based on incorrect facts.
*A couple of people raised/voiced objections to the proposal.
*[ + that ] I have no objection except that it may cost more than expected.
*Her objection was that he was too young.
-objection to
*He had moral objections to killing animals for food.
-over the objections of somebody (=in spite of their objections)
*The bill was passed over the objections of many Democrats.

Question 27

beneath

Answer 27

زیر، در زیر، پایین، تحت
*Jaime hid the letter beneath a pile of papers.
*We huddled together for warmth beneath the blankets.
*After weeks at sea, it was wonderful to feel firm ground beneath our feet once more.
*Emma was so tired and hungry that her legs were beginning to give way beneath her (= she was about to fall over).

Question 28

interest

Answer 28

علاقه، دلبستگی، تمایل
*I’ve always had an interest in astronomy.
*He never seems to show any interest in his children.
*Unfortunately, I lost interest half way through the film.
*She takes more of an interest in politics these days.
*(informal) Just out of interest, how old is your wife?

حق، ادعا، هده، سهم قانونی، نفع (منافع)، سود
-interest on
* The interest on the loan is 16% per year.
*How much are the monthly interest payments?
*an account that pays higher interest
* The more you save, the more interest you’ll earn.

Question 29

souvenir

Answer 29

یادگاری

Question 30

sanitize

Answer 30

-to remove particular details from a report, story etc in order to make it less offensive, unpleasant, or embarrassing – used especially to show disapproval
*the sanitized version of events which was reported in the government-controlled media

بهداشتی کردن، سترون کردن
زدودن، پاکسازی کردن

Question 31

Scatter

Answer 31

پاشیدن، پراکندن، فتالیدن، ولو کردن، پخش و پلا کردن،
*Scatter the onions over the fish.
* The flowers fell and scattered on the ground.
*The protesters scattered at the sound of gunshots.
*The soldiers came in and scattered the crowd.

Question 32

Dignity

Answer 32

والایی، بزرگی، بزرگ‌منشی، جاهمندی، شایستگی، وقار، متانت، فرهمندی، اورنگ
احترام، شان، مقام رفیع، فرهت، فرهی
نیک‌نامی، شهرت، خوش‌نامی

-with dignity
* The family faced their ordeal with dignity.
* an appearance of quiet dignity
*Patients should be allowed to die with dignity.
* Prisoners should be treated with regard for human dignity.
- your dignity
-dignity of
* the dignity of the occasion

*He is a man of dignity and calm determination.
*She has a quiet dignity about her.
*I think everyone should be able to die with dignity.
*How could you wear something so indecent? Have you no dignity?
*In hospital, she felt stripped of all her dignity.
*He longs for a society in which the dignity of all people is recognized.

Question 33

indecent

Answer 33

ناشایست، ناشایسته، زشت، قبیح
زننده (از نظر اخلاقی)، هرزه، جلف، منافی
عفت

*A Winnipeg man is facing charges after break-and-enter at a Wolseley area home where a suspect committed an indecent act and tried to force himself onto a woman who lived there.

*He was found guilty of possessing indecent photographs.
*You can’t go out in that dress – it’s positively indecent!
*an indecent act/photograph
*She accused him of making indecent suggestions to her.

Question 34

Moral

Answer 34

اخلاقی، فرخویی
*a moral obligation
*It’s her moral obligation to tell the police what she knows.
*It is not part of a novelist’s job to make a moral judgment.
*She was the only politician to condemn the proposed law on moral grounds (= for moral reasons).
*The Democrats are attempting to capture the moral high ground (= are trying to appear more honest and good than the other political parties).
*It is easy to have an opinion on a moral issue like the death penalty for murder.
* moral philosophy

-moral standards/values/principles
*I think you can run a business to the highest moral standards.
*If we accept that certain babies should be allowed to die, we place doctors in a moral dilemma.
*Man is gifted with a moral sense by which he distinguishes good from evil.

Question 35

enchant

Answer 35

سحر کردن، طلسم کردن، جادو کردن، افسون کردن
مسحور کردن، مجذوب کردن، فریفته کردن

*I was enchanted by the way she smiled.
* The garden enchanted her.
*The audience was clearly enchanted by her performance.

Question 36

legacy

Answer 36

میراث
بازمانده، یادبود
*An elderly cousin had left her a small legacy.

-legacy of
* The invasion left a legacy of hatred and fear.
-legacy from
*a legacy from the colonial period

*She received a small legacy from her aunt.

Question 37

invasion

Answer 37

(با قشون و جنگ) گرفتن، تاخت و تاز، تجاوز (نظامی)، تهاجم، اشغال،
هجوم، یورش
*They were planning to mount an invasion of the north of the country.
*the annual invasion of foreign tourists
-invasion of
* the invasion of Normandy
*the annual invasion of teenagers for the Glastonbury Festival
مزاحمت، دخول بدون اجازه،
*an invasion of privacy

Question 38

occasion

Answer 38

فرصت، اکازیون، یارا، وایست
-on … occasions
* I’ve seen Jana with them on several occasions.
*On this occasion we were sitting in a park in Madrid.
*She had met Zahid on two separate occasions.
*We met on several occasions to discuss the issue.
*I’ve heard him be rude to her on a number of occasions.
*I seem to remember that on that occasion he was with his wife.

-occasion for
*This was the occasion for expressions of friendship by the two presidents.

رویداد، رخداد، اتفاق، واقعه
*Sara’s party was quite an occasion - there were over a hundred people there.
*At the wedding he sang a song specially written for the occasion.
*I have a suit but I only wear it on special occasions.
*The coronation of a new king is, of course, a historic occasion.
*Congratulations on the occasion of your wedding anniversary.
*I’m saving this bottle of champagne for a special occasion.

Question 39

rude

Answer 39

-not polite; offensive or embarrassing
بی ادب، گستاخ، پررو، وقیح، بی‌شرم،
گستاخانه، بی ادبانه، بی شرمانه، وقاحت‌آمیز
*He’s a very rude man.
*It’s rude not to say “Thank you” when you are given something.
*He’s got no manners - he’s rude to everyone.
*He shouted a collection of rude words at me and stormed off.

*a rude remark
*I didn’t mean to be rude, but I had to leave early.

-rude to
*Why are you so rude to her?

-it is rude to do something
* It’s rude to stare.

Question 40

remark

Answer 40

اظهار، گفته، اظهار نظر، باز نمود
اظهار کردن، گفتن، نوشتن، اظهار نظر کردن
*[ + (that) ] Dr Johnson once remarked (that) “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.”
*[ + that ] He remarked that she was looking thin.
*Unfortunately, a local journalist overheard the remark.
*Her remarks on the employment question led to a heated discussion.
*The children made rude remarks about the old man.