Thẻ ghi nhớ: NEC - Road to NEC 2 - Test 10

blister

vết phồng rộp, bọng nước

lesion

an injury to a person's body or to an organ inside their body (thương tổn)

dengue

sốt xuất huyết dengue

pupa

nhộng

=> pupae

kerosene

dầu hỏa

lamentably

regrettably, disappointingly

natural wastage

reduction in the number of people who work for an organisation which is achieved by not replacing those people who leave

= attrition

the shoe is on the other foot

the situation is reversed (tình thế đã hoàn toàn đảo ngược)

the school of hard knocks

lessons learned through difficult challenges in life

= the school/university of life

get short shrift

be treated without sympathy and given little attention

plump for

to choose something after thinking carefully about it

make short shrift of

to deal with or get rid of something quickly

be under the gun

under pressure to meet a deadline or solve a problem

deadpan

looking or seeming serious when you are telling a joke

garden-variety

ordinary, common

a plain Jane

a woman or girl who is not attractive

standard-issue

the usual product or model that is given to everyone in a particular situation, to do a particular job, etc.

dissolute

living in a way that other people strongly disapprove of (buông thả, phóng túng, sa đọa)

remuneration package

the pay and additional benefits that an employee receives

bamboozle

to trick or deceive someone, often by confusing them

ex: She was ... into telling them her credit card number.

stopgap

biện pháp tạm thời

ex: .... measure

buzzworthy

likely to arouse the interest and attention of the public

short-circuit

to do something more quickly than usual, by avoiding some of the parts of the process (bỏ qua, làm tắt)

foodstuff

thực phẩm, lương thực