F2F Class Notes (Nemo)

Vocabulary

hide-and-seek-捉迷藏

commute (v): 1-to make the same journey regularly between work and home:
E.g.: It’s exhausting commuting from Brighton to London every day.
commute (n)-
E.g.: It’s at least an hour’s commute to work.

proximity (n): 1- the state of being near in space or time:
E.g.: The best thing about the location of the house is its proximity to the town center.

pestilence (n): 1- any very serious infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people

bamboo shoots-竹笋

social mobility-the ability to move from one level of society to another

give way to something/make way for sth – to be replaced by something, especially because it is better, cheaper, easier, etc.:
E.g.: In some areas, modern intensive farming is giving way to the re-introduction of traditional methods.

price yourself/sb/sth out of the market-to charge so much for a product or service that nobody wants or is able to buy it:
E.g.: There are concerns that London is pricing itself out of the market as a European business base.
E.g.: Sharp rises in house prices in recent years are increasingly pricing many people out of the market.

Grammar

also in the foreigner-also in the foreign countries

Pronunciation

mechanize-/ˈmek.ə.naɪz/