VIP Class Notes (Nemo)

Vocabulary

discriminate (v): (TREAT DIFFERENTLY) to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin color, sex, sexuality, etc.
歧视；区别对待
E.g.: She felt she had been discriminated against because of her age.
她认为自己受到了年龄歧视。

generalize (v): to say or write that something is true all of the time, when it is only true some of the time
概括，归纳
E.g.: You can’t generalize about a continent as varied as Europe.
对于欧洲这样一个异彩纷呈的大陆，你无法一言以蔽之。

plateau (v):to reach a particular level and then stay the same
稳定；停滞
E.g.: I’d been losing about a pound a week on my diet, but recently I’ve plateaued and haven’t lost an ounce.
我通过节食体重每周减轻1磅左右，但最近体重稳定了下来，1磅也没少。
E.g.: The economic slowdown has caused our sales to plateau.
经济发展减速导致我们的产品销量停滞不前。

milk teeth, baby teeth

overpopulation (n): the fact of a country or city, etc. having too many people for the amount of food, materials, and space available there:
E.g.: Overpopulation is one of the country’s most pressing social problems.
E.g.: People are dying because of overpopulation, poverty, and disease.

overpopulated (adj): If a country or city, etc. is overpopulated, it has too many people for the amount of food, materials, and space available there.

birth rate (n):出生率（某地区每年每1 000人中的出生数目）
the number of births every year for every 1 000 people in the population of a place
E.g.: a low/high birth rate-低 / 高出生率

death rate (n):死亡率（某地每年每1 000人的死亡人数）
the number of deaths every year for every 1 000 people in the population of a place
E.g.: a high/low death rate-高 / 低死亡率

Pronunciation

plateau-US /plætˈoʊ/