Tutor说我应该放弃托福单词,学些她觉得常用的。
的确,下面这5个词中,有两个在托福词汇中,3个不在。
这几个单词都跟目前的疫情和选举等大环境相关,使用频率非常高。
rig
Tutor说,她要to vote in person, because she thinks the election is might be rigged, mail-in voting is rigged.
rig是操纵的意思。
When you rig something, you connect parts in a way that's so crazy it just might work. You could rig your jeans by using a paper clip to replace a button that pops.
Rig can also describe deceiving people to achieve a certain outcome. Voting multiple times, purposely miscounting the number of votes a person received, even throwing out certain people's votes: these are all ways to rig an election. Outraged people say, "The election was fixed!" This doesn't mean it was repaired; it means it was rigged -- fraud played a role in the outcome.
Rig可以用来描述欺骗人们达到特定目标的行为。投票很多次,故意记错数,甚至扔掉一些票——这就是rig an election也就是操纵选举的各种方法。
deceive v. 欺骗
outrage n. vt. 愤怒,分开,暴行,侮辱
antibody
antibody就是抗体啦~ 总统全家现在都有抗体了~
An antibody is a protein made by the body that latches onto foreign bacteria and viruses to make them ineffective. Each antibody is designed to target a particular opponent.
A powerful part of the body's immune system, an antibody is produced when the body senses an invader -- called an antigen that it doesn't think should be there. The body then sends out the antibody to neutralize it. Don't think of an antibody as being anti or "against" your body; think of the body in the word antibody as the antigen, or foreign body that is being fought. Known antibodies have been especially useful in the creation of vaccines.
opponent n. adj. 对手,反对者,对立的
quarantine
n. v. 检疫隔离期,隔离,检疫,检疫区;对。。。进行隔离检疫
If you contract something highly infectious, such as pinkeye, please quarantine yourself so that you don't infect others with it. This means you'll have to say in isolation and avoid contact with other people.
Starting in the 16th century, a quarantine lasted specifically 40 days. The word is in fact derived from the Latin quadraginta, which means "forty". Originally, this referred to the amount of time a widow could remain in her deceased husband's house, then referred to the period of time a ship had to wait off a country's port if its passengers were disease-stricken. Now, it can mean a period of isolation of any length, and can be used as both a verb and a noun.
这个还蛮有意思的,说这个词的词根是来自于拉丁语的quadraginta,是“四十”的意思。最开始呢,这个quadraginta是说一个寡妇要在她故去的丈夫的房子里呆40天,然后呢,就用在表示如果船上有传染病患,那么要在港口停留的周期。现在这个词可以用在表示任何时长的隔离中。
asymptomatic
If you're asymptomatic, you don't show any signs of being sick. In some case, you can have a disease but still be asymptomatic.
When doctors talk about someone being asymptomatic, they are usually referring to a patient who has been exposed to an illness or is sick but doesn't have any symptoms. This is important in medicine because these asymptomatic people can often spread the illness, even though they don't appear to be sick. The a- prefix means "not," from the Latin ab, "away from."
adj. 无症状的
总统的小儿子就是无症状患者。
got infected with Covid
这个就不解释了,记下这个表达就好。