2010年5月6日 星期四

Gluten-free diet helps many 2

General practitioner- primary-care physician(doctor)
Practitioner - 開業者 (醫生, 律師)
Severe - 嚴重的
Deteriorate - become worst and worst
Digestive issue - IBS, gas in stomach, pain in stomach
Malnutrition - don't have enough nutrient
Nutrient - 營養物
Privilege - 特權, 優待, 殊榮
Prevalent - 流行的, 普遍的
Formable - 可成型
Biopsy - stick a needle into your body and take out a small sample of the area needed to examine 切片
Culprit - a reason for a problem 
Mimic - imitate 模仿
Villi - 嚥下, 絨毛
Projection - 凸出物
Breadcrumb - 麵包屑
Dietitian - making the menu for people
Anemia - 貧血
Dermatitis - 皮膚炎
Tapioca - 樹薯粉

Gluten-free diet helps many 1

Gluten free - cutting out gluten
Gluten - 穀蛋白黏膠質
Vigilant - 警惕的 It requires vigilant label reading and a dedication to eating at home
Immune system - 免疫系統
Chronic bellyache - long lasting stomach ache
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - a disorder that affects the small and large intestine 大腸急躁症
Intestine -  腸
Cramp - (腹部)絞痛, 抽筋
Abdominal - 腹部的 abdominal pain
Constipation - 便秘
Sinus trouble - 額竇性頭痛 (前額頭痛)
Fiber - 纖維
Bloat - 膨脹, 脹氣
Osteopath - a kind of doctor that treat with the bone, 整骨醫生
Protein - 蛋白質
Wheat - 小麥
Barley - 大麥
Rye - 黑麥
Contaminate - spoilt or made poison
Oat - 燕麥
Soy sauce - 醬油
Pharmaceutical - 藥物 pill, medicine
Intolerance - cannot put up with it
Lactose - 乳糖
Celiac = coeliac - 腹腔的
Autoimmune disorder - 自我免疫失調
Fad - trend
Staple - 主食 Chinese has rice as our staple food, American has pizza and burger as their staple food
Broccoli - 球花甘藍
Ailment - minor illness
Surge - increase amount
Overwhelming - 壓倒的, 勢不可檔
Allergy - 過敏的
Fibromyalgia - 全身肌肉無力
In lieu of - instead of
Creative spin - use different ways or method to reach the same objective or some goal
Starch - 澱粉
Break the bank - too expensive
Embrace - 擁抱

Coldplay's Chris Martin 2

Indulgent - do what feels good, do whatever you want, satisfied certain craving or desire;
Tom is an indulgent  person - He is more interested in pleasing himself, less considerate of others feeling
Righteously well-behaved - fake to being well-behaved
Vegan - a person who believes in having a diet where you don't have any animal product
Vegetarian - a person don't eat meat, they will consider milk, seafood, but they don't eat any land animal
Unabashedly - 不害羞地
Abuse - 濫用 drug abuse
Campaign -  traveling around the world to motivate people
Poverty - 貧窮 his family lives below the poverty line
Attribute - 歸因(功)於 he attributed his good health to exercise
The band is bigger than the sum of it's parts

2010年4月27日 星期二

Coldplay's Chris Martin 1

Vocal - 聲音的
Social theme - social idea
Adore - worship 崇拜, people adore him for his noble character
Deliberate - choice to
Low key - low profile
Gratitude - 感激之情
Greed - 貪心
Cull - 挑出, 選出
Morsel - 一點點
Charisma - power to influence, passion, 非凡的領導力
Introspective - to think about one's self, 內省的
Obliquely - the meaning is not clear, 拐彎抹角的
Lushly - 豐富的
Melodic - 有旋律的 
Potent - 強有力的, 有影響力的 He is a potent ruler
Poetic - 富有詩意的 The dance moved with poetic grace
Stature - 高度水準 achievement, Thomas Jefferson was a man of great stature
Parachute - 降落傘
Indie darling - independent small group, independent CD producer
Stellar - excellent, 顯著的
Splinter - dividing into different groups 

2010年4月26日 星期一

Newsworthy Clip 3

Forefront - leading position; he is in the forefront of the heart surgery field
Emerge - coming out, growing, becoming more popular; The sun is emerging from the behind of the mountain
Human tissue - 人體組織;
Bladder - 膀胱, the bladder store the wasted water in our body
Organ - 器官; The human organ is very fragile
Implant - 植入; John implanted an artificial heart pump in his body.
Tinkering with the car - trying to fix the car
Progenitor - earliest form, the source from which something is descended
Milestone - an important event in the development of something
Sidestep - to avoid gracefully
Controversial - 爭論的, against; This sidesteps the controversial use of embryonic stem cell
Specimen - 樣本, sample
Tumor - 腫瘤
Stem cell - 幹細胞
Amniotic fluid - 羊水
Placenta- 胎盤
Embryonic stem cell - 胚胎幹細胞
Nerve - 神經
Liver - 肝臟
Pancreas - 胰腺
Stem cell - a cell that doesn't have a clear identity, it can be define as any cell you want it to be

2010年4月22日 星期四

Newsworthy Clip 2

1. Blogsphere - whole collection of on-line journals(blogs)
2. Atmosphere - 大氣, 空氣, 氣氛 The atmosphere in the classroom is very intense.
3. Hemisphere - 半球 (North hemisphere, south hemisphere)
4. Fever chart - 曲線圖表
5. Mash it up - putting it altogether (blend it in)
6. Revenue - 收入, 稅收, 總收入 Tax revenue increased last year, The board of directors was concerned at the drop in the company's revenues
7. Delegate - 代表, 委託 give someone a responsibility and divide the job among different people. Boss can delegate tasks to his employees.
8. Crisis - 危機, We have finally overcome the global economic crisis
9. PR- public relation
10. Teaser - a small advertisement
11. Agile - 機敏的 The boy has an agile mind, 敏捷的 The kid is as agile as a hare
12. Swirl - 旋轉 The water swirl about his feet

2010年4月20日 星期二

Newsworthy Clip 1

Canary in the coal mine- (idiom) a warning system, when you're down in the coal mine and the canary stops singing, then you'll know you don't have enough air down there
Canary - 金絲雀
Coal mine - 煤礦
Discount carrier - lower price (cheap) tickets
Lashed out - got angry, criticize in an angry way
Lunatic - 瘋子 crazy
Insult - 侮辱, 羞辱
Glitch - a small problem
Conversely - opposite, on the other hand
Tweet - 推文
Meme - a perceived understanding, especially of some situation, that spreads quickly from person to person via the internet
Perceive - 感知
brutal - very aggressive, violent, unpleasant
Bask in - enjoy the way of other people admire you
Bask in the sun - soaking in the sunlight
Bask in the love - enjoying the affection of something
Raging tweet-stream - storm of comments
Parse - separate language into different functions (ex. positive, negative )