VIP Class Notes (Nemo)[W]

Vocabulary

walkie-talkie (n): 1-a small radio held in the hand, used for both sending and receiving messages对讲机；步话机
E.g.: The policeman was speaking to the station on his walkie-talkie.
那位警察正在用对讲机与总部通话。

bump (n)-a round, raised area on a surface or on the body
隆起；凸块；肿块
E.g.: Her bicycle hit a bump in the road and threw her off.
自行车撞上了路上的一个鼓包，她摔了下来。
E.g.: Enrique had a nasty bump on his head from when he fell down.

name sb/sth after sb/sth
us also name sb/sth for sb/sth-to give someone or something the same name as another person or thing用…的名字给…命名
E.g.: Paul was named after his grandfather.保罗的名字跟他的爷爷一样。

colonize (v): 1-to send people to live in and govern another country
使殖民地化；将…建为殖民地
E.g.: Peru was colonized by the Spanish in the 16th century.
秘鲁在16世纪沦为西班牙的殖民地。

colony (n): 1-a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country that is often far away殖民地
E.g.: Australia and New Zealand are former British colonies.
澳大利亚和新西兰从前是英国的殖民地。

mammal-哺乳动物

energy drink (n): 1-a cold drink that contains a lot of sugar and caffeine and that is said to give you energy能量饮料

Advantages and Disadvantages of the Mobile Phone”

I remember when I was at high school it was popular to use beeper to contact with each other, and some of my classmates have one. I didn’t have one and I thought it wasn’t convenient, because you have to send a message to the paging centers and then they send the message to another beeper owner who you want to contact. But the beeper just be used for several years, and almost overnight, the mobile phone was popular. Through mobile phone we can talk to each other easily and directly. At first mobile phone just be used to call or send a message, but with the advent of smartphones, we can do a lot of things with them. we can have a radio call, that means we can see each other through our phone, and send a voice message or a short piece of video to someone, and we also can watch movies or take pictures throw it. All of the these give us a huge convenience of our life. But mobile phone also take us a lot of attention, we can be disturbed easily and sometimes when we want to find something on our phone, after we open it we’ll watch other things first and forget the purpose of we start it. So everything has their advantages or disadvantages, we should face it objectively.

I remember when I was at high school it was popular to use beeper to get in touch with each other/contact each other , and some of my classmates had one. I didn’t have one and I thought it wasn’t convenient, because you had to send a message to the paging centers and then they would send the message to another beeper owner who you want to contact. But the beeper was be used for only several years, and almost overnight, the mobile phone became popular. Through mobile phone we could talk to each other easily and directly. At first, mobile phone could just be used to make a call or send a message, but with the advent of smartphones, we could do a lot of things using them. we could have a video call, that means that we could see each other through our phones, and send a voice message or a short piece of video to someone, and we also can watch movies or take pictures trough/with it. All of the these made our lives much easier. But mobile phone also takes us a lot of our attention, we can be disturbed easily and sometimes when we want to find something on our phone, after we open it we’ll watch other things first and forget the purpose of why we took it. So everything has their advantages and disadvantages, we should face it objectively.we should be objective about it