VIP Class Notes (Mike)

Vocabulary

efficient (adj.)
inefficient (adj.) 无效率的
efficiently (adv.)
efficiency (n)
Online class’s efficiency is too low.

quarantine center (n)

quarantine (v/n) 隔离
You need to do a 7-day quarantine.
You need to quarantine for 7 days.

dine-in (n) 堂食

lockdown (n) 封城,封锁
25 million people were under lockdown in April.
lock down (v) 封闭,封锁
The government locked down SH at the end of March.

lift (v) 解除
After the lockdown was lifted, what did you do?

affect (v) 影响
My parents’ work wasn’t affected.

Venus (n) 金星
Jupiter (n) 木星
Pluto (n) 冥王星
Mercury (n) 水星/水银/汞
Sature (n) 土星
Neptune (n) 海王星
Uranus (n) 天王星

Asteriod Belt 行星带

matter (n) 物质
dark matter (n) 暗物质

Galaxy (n) 星系
Milky Way 银河

astrology (n) 占星术
astronomy (n) 天文学 – astronomer (n) 天文学家

cosmology (n) 宇宙学
universe = cosmos (n) 宇宙

widespread (adj.) 广泛传播

The Influenza (n) 1918大流感

AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. 获得性免疫缺陷综合症
No medicine can cure AIDS.

transmit (v) 传播
transmittable (adj.)
transmission (n) 传播
The transmission of AIDS is hard to stop.

Ebola (n) 埃博拉

deadly (adj.)致命的

vaccine (n) 疫苗

The Black Death: 鼠疫
The Black Death killed 25% of Europe’s population.

decade (n) 十年
century (n) 一个世纪
Two decades later, 20年后

cholera (n) 霍乱
It makes you very weak.

diarrhea (n) 腹泻

dehydrate (v) 脱水

The Yellow Fever:黄热病

sewage (n) 下水道

parasite (n) 寄生虫

Pronunciation

advertisement (n) = ad
advertise (v)

marketing (n) 市场营销/推广

Speaking exercise

I can take more notes.
I can take notes more efficiently.

They can bring me happiness.

Because if I has Corona virus,
If I had Covid

I sleep at 0pm.
I went to bed around midnight.

scientist book
science books

It is the nearest from the sun.
It is the nearest to the sun.