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及物动词

I feed the animals.

The woman cuddles the child.

The child embraces the toy.

The doctor obliterates the bacteria.

Our team dominates the competition.

The student buries the pet.

The butcher slaughters the pig.

The government reduces the budget.

The tester eliminates bug.

The child tricks his mother.

The officer holds a different view.

The kid wraps the plastic toy.

The worker molds the part.

A husband praises his wife.

A person wrestles the robber.

不及物动词

A boy dances with a girl.

The plane flies in the sky.

The crocodile crawls on the riverside.

The worker escapes from the fire.

The bomb explodes in the room.

The dog gallops across the square.

The criminal kneels on the ground.

The man leans on the wall.

The girl listens to music.

A cat pounces at the rate.

She relaxes at the beach.

A boy rolls on the grassland.

The man runs across the playground.

The cat screams at me.

A boy rushes to toilet.

A turtle lives in a forest.
He swims in the lagoons.
He devours apples.

The birds chirp.
They land on a tree branch.
The turtle listens to their songs.
He rolls around in the mud.

The sun sets behind the hills.
They go home.

1984 book vocabs (Part 1)

    fitfully (adj) – irregular intervals

  • The wind howled fitfully.
  • The sporadic raindrops fell fitfully.
  • The drunk driver swerved along the road fitfully.
    guesswork (noun) – process of guessing

  • The way we learn english in China is pure guesswork.
  • We use guesswork to find our candidates.
  • America has been using guesswork to find its spies.
    distaste (noun) – mild dislike

  • I regard my mother with distaste.
  • They eye me up and down with distaste.
  • There is a certain amount of distaste in her voice
    succumb (verb) – failed to resist pressure; to accept defeat.

  • The soldiers succumbed to their injuries.
  • After so many deaths, we succumbed.
  • The Titanic succumbed to the freezing ocean.
    procure (verb) – obtain something carefully and with much effort.

  • I managed to procure the secret from her.
  • We managed to procure some edible food from the dumpster.
  • Have you procured the documents?
    actuate (verb) – cause to take action; motivate; put into motion.

  • My dislike for America was actuated by political zealots.
  • A high performing athlete is actuated by good warmups.
  • The sudden heavy rain actuates the crowd to disperse.
    shirk (verb) – neglect a duty.

  • The massage therapist shirked when she saw her client.
  • I shirked the cleanup because the environment was too dangerous.
  • She shirks her agreement because he was just too creepy.
    incongruous (adj) – out of harmony with its surrounding; out of place

  • I felt incongruous on my first day in an American school.
  • The bottles of soda looked incongruous sitting there on the gym floor.
  • My black girlfriend and I were incongruous in American’s dating scene.
    convolute (verb) – make something difficult to follow.

  • The US government convolutes her people’s wishes.
  • The remnants of the crash convolutes the investigation.
  • Their selfish ways convolute our team work.
    innumerable (adj) – too many to count

  • They are indifferent to the innumerable sufferings of children.
  • The amount of problems that Andy has is innumerable.
  • The innumerable army surges forward.
    pugnacious (adj) – eager to argue/fight

  • Those brats are pugancious.
  • The most pugnacious countries in the world has the most insecure citizens.
  • When I’m hungry, I become pugancious.
    sordid (adj) – involving immoral actions and motives

  • I ignore their sordid explanations.
  • The overcrowded slums are sordid.
  • The sordid affairs of Israel’s president should be investigated.
    eccentric (adj) – odd; unconventional

  • You have very eccentric behavior.
  • The girl behind the tree is eccentric.
  • The eccentric teacher takes a nap.
    sanguine (adj) – optimistic in the face of a bad situation.

  • I am sanguine about my test scores.
  • I have a sanguine view on the Palestine-Israel conflict.
  • Young people always have sanguine opinions on love.

Vocab by owen-02-14

panic(n)恐慌
They are in panic.

Ok!

He is in panic because he has no food.
Ok!

Everyone are in panic this time.
{Everyone} is the third singular, so we use {is} instead of {are}.
Everyone is in panic at this time.

Vocab by owen-02-12

mainframe (n) 主机
It’s mainframe is big.

Distinguish {its} and {it’s}.
Its mainframe is big.

It has a small mainframe.
The mainframe is cheap.

Good!

silicone (n) 硅酮
The toy is made out of silicone.
Let’s use silicone.
Let’s use silicone to make it.

Vocab by owen-02-10

synonymous (adj) 同义的
Wealth is not necessarily synonymous with happiness.

barren (adj) 贫瘠的
That place is barren.
We are in a barren place.
They want to go to a barren place.

Good!

exception (n) 例外
Most of the buildings in the town are modern, but the church is an exception.

extremely (adj) 极其
She found it extremely difficult to get a job.

occur (vi) 发生
Something unexpected occurred.

frostbite (n) 冻伤
The survivors suffered from frostbite.

recognize (v) 认识
I recognized him as soon as he came in the room.

tingle(v)感到刺痛
The cold air made her face tingle.

dressed (adj) 穿着衣服的
Hurry up and get dressed.

gloriously (adv) 光荣地
Harrison had a glorious career.

Vocab by owen-02-09

folks (n) 人们 – people in general/ people who belong in your family.

They are folks.

My folks are from China.
These are my folks.
Let’s go meet her folks.

immigrated (v) 移民 – To come to live in a different country
{Immigrated} is the past form of the verb {immigrate}.
They have immigrated.

He is a Immigrated.

He immigrated.
He is an immigrant.

I am a immigrated.

I immigrated.
I am an immigrant.

Vocab by owen-02-02

peering (v) 端详
He is peering himself.

{Peer} is an intransitive verb. We always use {peer at}.

He is peering [at] himself.

They are peering the animals.
The same reason mentioned above.
They are peering [at] the animals.

They are peering everything in the museum.
The same reason mentioned above.
They are peering [at] everything in the museum.

If relationships are about benefits, does love exist?

Let’s define what relationships are.

The way in which two or more people are connected.

  • (blood) Family?
  • Attraction/intimacy?
  • Work?
  • Friends?
  • Business?

How do they benefit?

(blood) Family? Lineage, power, money, self preservation.

Attraction/sex?

I’m attracted to femininity.
She’s attracted to my masculinity.

Work?

I give them my years of experience and expertise. Certain value.

In return, they give me money dictated by the market. They then try to convert this value magnitudes of they paid me.

Business?

I earn money, you earn money.

What is love?

Intense feeling of deep affection (a feeling of liking and caring for someone/something).

Family – Reciprocal

Parents want to see their offspring be the best. Children (offspring) are the extension of their parents. Due to self interest (ego, vanity (vain – excessive pride of self..usually appearance of achievements), and pride (feeling of deep pleasure from one’s own achievement).

Parent do a lot to take care of their children. And in return, these children develop affection for their parents. Affection turns to love, and this is familial love. Children mimic their parents.

Example:

Father
Grandmother/Grandfather

Love from intimacy

love is a dopamine hit from attraction/intimacy.

1st gf (ABC) –

love????????

Farm – Friends with benefits (she had a 14 son)

there was love. But it wasn’t deep because she has her own child.
She will never be my wife.

Work

Through contributions, giving value, and making the company better:

– Companies love their co-workers.
– Co-workers love co-workers.
– Love develops from interaction. They swirl and flow, and sometimes become relationships:

Luna and Zhao Di (Irving)

Friends

Friendship love. Appreciation. Appreciate what your friends have done for you. They were there to help. You grew up with them. Sometimes, they are connected like family.

Infatuation

an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone

Crush – intense infatuation, especially someone unattainable.

(Obsess)Obsessed – preoccupation (constantly thinking)

fixated [verb] (fixation) – cause to develop an obsessive attachment.

attachment – deep, unlinkable connection