READING

ink

ex: Their first idea was to use patterns printed with an ink that would glowunder ultraviolet light

mực

non-starter

ex: But the cost,together with the fact that their scanning equipment was rather unreliable, madethe idea a non-starter at that time.

an idea, plan, or person with no chance of success (không thể thực hiện được)

proprietary

ex: various systems came into use around the world in stores, libraries, factories, and the like, each with its own proprietary code, but there was no standardisation.

độc quyền (n)

mount

→ mount something on something

→ to fix something into position on something, so that you can use it, look at it or study it

ex: Tiny bar codes have even been mounted on bees by researchers to track their movements

gắn lên

track

ex: Tiny bar codes have even been mounted on bees by researchers to track their movements.

theo dõi (v)

plead (v)

→ plead with someone

ex: The president of a food chain was pleading with a professor to undertake research on a method of capturing product information automatically at store checkouts.

cầu xin

apparent

→ become apparent = to be accepted

ex: The adv of system were not clear immediately, as whole sales, retailers and customers remained suspicious….However, the benefits eventually became apparent

= the adv of the new bar-code scanner took sometime to be accepted by users

mô tả điều gì đó dễ dàng nhìn thấy hoặc hiểu được, không còn nghi ngờ gì nữa

advent (n)

ex: in the 17th century, European businesspeople invented a new type of card to act as miniature advertisements, signaling the advent of the business card.

= It was the Chinese who first began the practice of using business cards.

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