Thẻ ghi nhớ: OLP 30/4 2018 - L11 - Chuyen Nguyen Dinh Chieu - Dong Thap | Quizlet

rental

tiền thuê

broker fee

phí môi giới

grudgingly

unwillingly

with impunity

without being punished

ex: When corporate monoliths flout environmental mandates ..., ecological degradation accelerates exponentially.

imprudence

the quality of being unwise, because you fail to consider the possible results of your actions

be infested with

to be full of (bị xâm chiếm, tàn phá)

ex: Margins of urban squalor are chronically ... pathogenic vectors, exacerbating public health disparities.

infuse with

to instill someone with a particular quality or emotion (thổi vào, truyền ngập)

infuse into

to provide new money for a project, activity, etc.

ex: ... targeted capital investments ... marginalized communities catalyses grassroots empowerment and mitigates systemic deprivation.

con into/out of

to deceive someone by using a trick, or to cheat someone of money

ex: Malicious actors utilizing deepfake technologies easily ... vulnerable demographics ... transferring substantial financial reserves.

call on

to visit

to ask someone to do sth or ask someone in a group to speak

call for

collect someone

widen/bridge the gulf between

nới rộng / thu hẹp khoảng cách giữa

ex: Regressive taxation regimes inevitably ... affluent plutocrats and the disenfranchised proletariat.

Proactive educational subsidies serve to ... sociocultural ... between marginalized demographics and privileged echelons.

done/cooked to a turn

cooked for exactly the right amount of time (nấu chín tới mức hoàn hảo, vừa vặn tuyệt đối)

as hard as nails

very tough, strong, and determined

muck around

fool or mess around

omnipresent

present or affecting everywhere at the same time

autoimmune disease

bệnh tự miễn

ex: Environmental toxicity and chronic microplastics ingestion are hypothesized to exacerbate the prevalence of debilitating ....

a smokescreen for

bình phong , màn khói che mắt cho

ex: Superficial environmental pledges by industrial monoliths are merely a duplicitous .... relentless ecocide and greenwashing.

humanoid

having an appearance or character resembling that of a human.

librettist

a person who writes the words for an opera or a musical play (người viết lời nhạc kịch)

expropriate

to illegally take property or money that belongs to someone else

biennial

2 năm 1 lần

biannual

2 lần 1 năm

barbed-wire fence

hàng rào dây thép gai

mount

a horse

homeland

country that is your home; your native land

over your head

too difficult or strange for you to understand

through the agency of

as a result of the action of sb/sth (nhờ vào sự can thiệp / qua sự tác động trung gian của)