Giải thích từ vựng_IELTS Cambridge 11_ Test 2 Raising the mary rose

so that sb/sth cannot get through = to prevent sb/sth from doing sth or making progress = to hinder synonym ngăn cản, cản trở, làm tắc nghẽn • You can't park here, you're obstructing my

Reading text 1: IELTS Cambridge 11 – Test 2

Raising the Mary Rose

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1 Seabed (n) / si bed /ˈ ː = the floor of the sea/ocean (đáy biển)

2 Fleet (n) / fli t /ː = a group of military ships commanded by the same person

(đội tàu, đoàn tàu, hạm đội)

3 Engage in sth (v)

/ n e d /ɪ ˈɡ ɪ ʒ

Engage sb in sth

= to take part in, to make sb take part in sth (tham gia, tham dự)

4 Overladen (a) /ə və le dən/ʊ ˈ ɪ = having too large or too heavy (quá nặng, quá tải)

5 Mishandle (v) /m s hændl /ɪ ˈ

 mishandling (n)

= to treat sb / sth in a rough and careless way / in a bad manner (hành hạ, bạc đãi, ngược đãi)

• The equipment could be dangerous if mishandled

6 Undisputed (a)

/ nd spju t d /ʌ ɪˈ ː ɪ

= irrefutable (synonym)

= that cannot be questioned or proved to be false

= that everyone accepts or recognizes (không thể nghi ngờ, không thể tranh cãi, không thể bác bỏ được)

• undisputed facts

• The date of the painting is now undisputed

• the undisputed champion of the world

• an undisputed masterpiece

7 Starboard (n) / st bəd /ˈ ɑː

≠ port (n) / p t /ɔː

= the side of a ship or an aircraft that is on the right when you are facing forward (mạn phải tàu / thuyền, cánh phải máy bay)

 port: the side of a ship or aircraft that is on the left when you are facing forward (mạn trái, cánh trái)

8 Degrade (v) / dɪˈɡ ɪre d /

 degradation (n) / de rə de n /ɡ ˈ ɪʃ

= to spoil or destroy the beauty or quality of sth

= to make sth become worse, especially in quality (phá hủy, hủy hoại, làm hư hại)

• Every day the environment is further degraded by

toxic wastes

 degradation (n) = the process of sth being damaged or made worse

• environmental degradation

9 Intact (a) / n tækt /ɪ ˈ = undamaged (synonym)

= complete and not damaged, in original states (không bị ảnh hưởng, không bị hư hại, còn nguyên vẹn)

• Most of the house remains intact even after two

hundred years

10 Obstruct (v) / əb str kt /ˈ ʌ

 Obstruction (n)

= to block a road, an entrance, a passage, etc so that sb/sth cannot get through

= to prevent sb/sth from doing sth or making progress = to hinder (synonym)

(ngăn cản, cản trở, làm tắc nghẽn)

• You can't park here, you're obstructing my

driveway

• The pillar obstructed our view of the stage

• They were charged with obstructing the police in

the course of their duty

 = sự cản trở, vật cản trở, vật gây trở ngại

11 Protrude (v) / prə tru d /ˈ ː

 protrude from sth

= to stick out from a place or a surface (thò ra, nhô ra, lồi ra)

• protruding teeth

• He hung his coat on a nail protruding from the

wall

12 Intermittent (a) / ntə m tənt /ɪ ˈ ɪ

 intermittently (adv)

= stopping and starting often over a period of time, but not regularly (từng cơn, từng hồi, gián đoạn, lúc có lúc không)

• intermittent bursts of applause (lúc vỗ tay lúc

không)

• intermittent showers (lúc mưa lúc không)

• Protests continued intermittently throughout

November

13 Obscurity (n) / əb skj ərəti /ˈ ʊ = the state in which sb/sth is not well known or has been

forgotten (tình trạng lu mờ, tối tăm, ít người nhớ đến hay biết đến)

• He was briefly famous in his twenties but then sank

into obscurity

• He rose from relative obscurity to worldwide

recognition

14 Wreck (n) / rek /

 wreck (v)

= a ship that has sunk or that has been very badly damaged (đắm tàu, tàu bị chìm)

 (v) = to damage / spoil or destroy sth completely

15 Excavate (v) / ekskəve t /ˈ ɪ

 excavation (n) /ekskə ve n /ˈ ɪʃ

 excavator (n) / ekskəve tə/ˈ ɪ

= to dig in the ground to look for old buildings or objects that have been buried for a long time; to find sth by digging

in this way (đào, khai quật)

• The site has been excavated by archaeologists.

 excavation (n) = the activity of digging in the ground

 excavator (n) = a person who digs in the ground to look for old buildings and objects; a large machine that is used for digging and moving earth (người khai quật, máy đào, máy xúc)

16 Salvage (v) / sælv d /ˈ ɪ ʒ

 salvage from sth

= to save a badly damaged ship, etc from being lost completely; to save parts or property from a damaged ship

or from a fire, etc (cứu đắm, cứu khỏi hỏa hoạn, cứu hộ)

• The wreck was salvaged by a team from the RAF.

• We only managed to salvage two paintings from

the fire