Listening 14/5 (3)

treadmill

máy chạy bộ

lift weights

nâng tạ

argue

to speak angrily to someone, telling that person that you disagree with them, tranh cãi

argue over They were arguing over which film to go and see.

explanation

giải thích

explanation of This is a good explanation of the difference between "affect" and "effect".

give someone an explanation Could you give me a quick explanation of how it works?

explanation for What was her explanation for why she was late?

unexpectedly

không như mong đợi

Their campaign was unexpectedly successful.

sign

dấu hiệu

a big chunk of

khối lượng lớn/ phần lớn

the rest of the day

thời gian còn lại 1 ngày

couple of

một, một vài thứ giống nhau/ người có quan hệ

We'll see you in a couple of weeks

verbatim

in a way that uses exactly the same words as were originally used:

I don’t think I will read the whole thing verbatim to you.

explain

giải thích, to make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it:

If there's anything you don't understand, I'll be happy to explain.

explain something to someone The teacher explained the rules to the children.

complain

phàn nàn

to say that something is wrong or not satisfactory:

complain about Lots of people have complained about the noise.

You're always complaining!

compare

to examine or look for the difference between two or more things:

If you compare house prices in the two areas, it's quite amazing how different they are.

That seems expensive - have you compared prices in other shops?

Compare some recent work with your older stuff and you'll see how much you've improved.

This road is quite busy compared to/with ours.

Children seem to learn more interesting things compared to/with when we were at school.

determined

xác định

cheat

gian lận

Any athlete caught cheating will be disqualified from the competition.

cheat at He cheats at cards.

I suspect he cheats on his taxes (= avoids paying as much tax as he should).

cheat in She cheated in the exam by copying from the boy in front.

They cheat people by charging too much for building materials.

cheat on She found out that he'd been cheating on her (lừa dối)