English Vocabulary and Etymology

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Karen Mok 莫文蔚 is a quarter of ...血統人

Her mother is a quarter of Persian,a quarter of German,half of Chinese.Her father is half of Welshman.(韋爾斯人)

nine and three quarters 九又四分之三月台

期末考 ch22 sociology 考 fill-ins
thanks for your compliment謝謝你的讚美
compliment(n),complement(v): say something good to someone

Petro=Peter
ethnic group:

An ethnic group or ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience.[1][2] Unlike most other social groups, ethnicity is primarily an inherited status. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language and/or dialect, symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, art, and physical appearance.

For example:Asian,Hispanic,Black,White,Afro-American(非裔美國人),

Caucasian(高加索白人)

Hispanic(西班牙裔) Spanish: hispano

Anthropology(n):the study of the human race人類學

Physical Anthropology

indiscreet(a): not cautious↔discreet
trivial(a):瑣瑣碎碎輕微的/fastidious/tedious
vacuum(v):to use a vacuum cleaner to clean /hoover

(n): vacuum cleaner

idiom:do the hoovering

for example:He was busy hoovering the bedroom carpet when I got home.

Could you do the hoovering?

safety pin大頭針

builder Bob建築師巴布

reach goal

reach target

reach agreement達成協議

reach the age of majority

The age of majority is the threshold of adulthood as it is conceptualized (and recognized or declared) in law. It is the chronological moment when minors cease to legally be considered children and assume control over their persons, actions, and decisions

Age of consent

The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts, and is thus the minimum age of a person with whom another person is legally permitted to engage in sexual activity. The distinguishing aspect of the age of consent laws is that the person below the minimum age is regarded as the victim, and their sex partner as the offender.

These terms should not be confused with Marriageable age, school leaving age, drinking age, driving age, voting age, smoking age, etc.

consent(n): agreement mutual consent(n): an agreement between two people,companies or nations
irreparable(a): unnatural,not original
shoplifting 在店鋪裡偷竊

spontaneous(a): not planned,not rehearsed
politician政客 statesman政治家
---al suffix stands for noun

rehearse-rehearsal,remove-removal,approve-approval,refuse-refusal

contention(n): a negative claim

Harriet Tubman黑人民權鬥士奶奶

Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and, during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved family and friends,[2] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as theUnderground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage.