VOCAB - READ - CAM

A fresh angle (n)

Một góc độ mới

  • To present a surprising or fresh angle on it.

An outstanding way (n)

Một cách tuyệt vời

Can opener (n)

Dụng cụ khui hộp

Chasm (n)

a very large difference between two opinions or groups of people

  • There is still a vast economic chasm between developed and developing countries.

  • By the time children become adolescents, the linguistic division between parents and children has become an emotional chasm.

Chiefly (adv)

= Mainly

= Principally

= Primarily

Chính, chủ yếu

  • They exist chiefly for their own sake.

Concerto (n)

Buổi hòa tấu

Decay (v)

to become gradually damaged, worse, or less; to cause something to do this:

  • The smell of decaying meat.

  • Sugar makes your teeth decay.

Devise (v)

to invent something, esp. with intelligence or imagination

  • He devised a new way to treat mental depression.

Digestible (a)

Dễ tiêu hóa

Disgust (n)

Sự ghê tởm

  • Something in the kitchen smelled so bad that we all left in disgust.

Distinguish sth from sth (v)

Phân biệt

  • Knowing how to distinguish the main idea from the supporting details of a written passage or story.

Eccentricity (n)

Eccentric (a)

Sự lập dị

  • His eccentricity now extends to never washing or changing his clothes.

Elicit (v)

to get or produce something, especially information or a reaction (khơi gợi)

  • The questionnaire was intended to elicit information on eating habits.

  • The joke has elicited that reaction.

Experiment (v)

Experiment with/on

to try something in order to discover what it is like or find out more about it:

  • The school is experimenting with new teaching methods.

Fabricate (v)

= Produce

= Manufacture

= Make

to produce a product, especially in an industrial process:

  • He sealed food in bottles fabricated from glass and then heated them in boiling water to cook the contents.

Feel compelled (v)

to produce a strong feeling or reaction:

  • Artists may just make a work of art because they feel compelled to do so.

Fermentation (n)

Sự lên men

Herbivorous animals (n)

Động vật ăn cỏ

Hostile environment (n)

Hostile (a) = Difficult

difficult or not suitable for living or growing

  • Hostile environment for bacteria that can cause it to spoil.

Inedible (a)

Edible (a)

Không ăn được

Ăn được   

Instrumental (a)

= Influence

Ảnh hưởng

  • But even though the arts can sometimes be instrumental, that fact is not essential to their nature.

Justification (n)

Lời biện minh

  • There is no justification for treating people so badly. 

Marvel (v)

to show or experience great surprise or admiration

  • We paused to marvel at the view.

Population mobility (n)

The movement of people from one location to another, either within a country or across international borders.

Preserving food (n)

= Food preservation

Bảo quản thực phẩm

Provoke (v)

to cause a particular reaction or feeling (dẫn đến, gây ra)

  • His death provoked huge demonstrations.

to try to make a person or an animal angry or annoyed (khiêu khích, kích động)

  • He was trying to provoke me into a fight.

Repel (v)

Tránh xa vì không thích

  • Her arrogance repels many people.

  • She was repelled by his ugliness.

Resistant to damage

Khó bị hư hại

  • He produces containers that are resistant to damage.

Seismic (a)

  • Seismic/ Dramatic changes

having very great and usually damaging effects (Chấn động)

  • During the journey from our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the present day, there have been three seismic changes.

The arrival/emergence of sth

Sự đến, xuất hiện của cái gì

  • The arrival of agriculture

The freshly cooked product (n)

Sản phẩm mới nấu chín

The present day (n)

Ngày nay

  • During the journey from our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the present day.

To help with survival (v)

Để giúp sinh tồn

Transfer across languages (n)

Chuyển qua các ngôn ngữ

Unfortunate (a)

= Not suitable

Không phù hợp

  • They promote unfortunate educational policies that will make the problem disappear.



Sth all share one feature in common

Smoking, drying, adding acid by fermentation, or adding salt. These four methods all share one feature in common: they make the food a more hostile environment. 

Sth is a prime example

Music is a prime example

Vary widely

= be different

Educational policies and practices vary widely between and even within countries.

X has great advantages over Y

Appert’s method had great advantages over older methods of food preservation.

X is much harder work than Y equivalent.

Chewing raw turnips, a plate of uncooked rice, or a raw leg of lamb is much harder work than eating the cooked equivalent.