VIP Class Notes (Mike)

Vocabulary

thriller (n) 悬疑，惊恐（小说或电影）

Shinning 《闪灵》

nap (n) 午睡
In our school, every student has to take a 30 minute nap from 12:30-13:00.

mansion (n) 豪宅

maze (n) 迷宫
This maze is ten times the size of a football stadium.

pajama (n) clothes for sleeping 

dead body
The police found 2 dead bodies under the bridge last week. 

gunshot (n) the sound of a gun

tie (v) 绑，系
He was tied to a tree by the gangsters.
My dad taught me how to tie my shoelace.

stab (v) 刺，插，捅
I saw a man stabbing a beggar the other day

serial killer 连环杀手

fence (n) 围栏，栏杆

skeleton (n) 骨骼，骨架

starve (v) 挨饿 – starvation
I am starving! Give me some food, please.
They starved for 2 days! Poor kids！

famine (n) massive starvation, starvation on a large scale(a whole village, province, country)
The Great Famine in Ireland caused over 1 million deaths.

mid-semester/mid-term exam

he was frozen to death.

When they find him, he was very hungry and he seems to be scared, and suddenly, 3 boys and 3 ghosts went in front of them and the parents were scared.
When they found him, he was very hungry/he was starving and he seems to be scared, and suddenly, 3 boys and 3 ghosts appeared in front of them, which scared the parents. 

a dead
a dead person

die – dead – death
they are hunger
They died from hunger

We will have a big test after one week.
We will have a big test in one week.

We will test 4 subjects
We will be tested on 4 subjects.