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Schizophrenia: noun [uncountable]
a serious mental illness in which someone's thoughts and feelings are not based on what is really happening around them.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia: noun [uncountable]
a serious mental illness in which someone's thoughts and feelings are not based on what is really happening around them.
Reckon
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Reckon: verb [transitive not in progressive]
Definition:
1. spoken especially British English to think or suppose something.
2. to guess a number or amount, without calculating it exactly.
3. [usually passive] to think that someone or something is a particular kind of person or thing.
Chorus
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Chorus: noun [countable] verb [transitive]
Definition:
noun
1. the part of a song that is repeated after each EVRSE.
2. a large group of people who sing together [= choir].
3. a piece of music written to be sung by a large group of people.
4. a group of singers, dancers, or actors who act together in a show but do not have the main parts.
5. a chorus of thanks/disapproval/protest etc something that a lot of people all say at the same time.
6. in chorus if people say something in chorus, they say the same thing at the same time.
verb
if people chorus something, they say it at the same time.
Naive
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Naive: adjective
Definition:
not having much experience of how complicated life is, so that you trust people too much and believe that good things will always happen.
Disproportionate
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Disproportionate: adjective
Definition:
too much or too little in relation to something else.
Idiosyncrasy
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Idiosyncrasy: noun
Definition:
1. an unusual habit or way of behaving that someone has.
2. an unusual or unexpected feature that something has.
Rehearse
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Rehearse: verb
1. [intransitive and transitive] to practise or make people practise something such as a play or concert in order to prepare for a public performance.
2. [transitive] to practise something that you plan to say to someone.
3. [transitive] formal to repeat an opinion that has often been expressed before.
Devastating
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Devastating: adjective
Definition:
1. badly damaging or destroying something.
2. making someone feel extremely sad or shocked.
3. very impressive or effective.
4. literary extremely attractive.
Slacker
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Slacker: noun [countable]
Definition:
someone who is lazy and does not do all the work they should - used to show disapproval.
Addicted
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Addicted: adjective
Definition:
1. unable to stop taking a harmful substance, especially a drug.
2. liking something so much that you do not want to stop doing it or having it.
Hangover
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Hangover: noun [countable]
Definition:
1. a pain in your head and a feeling of sickness that you get the day after you have drunk too much alcohol.
2. a hangover from something something from the past that still exists or happens but is no longer necessary or useful
Threesome
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Summary：
Produced in 1994 and Directed by Andrew Fleming and three main characters were respectively performed by Lara Flynn Boyle as Alex, Stephen Baldwin Starring Stuart and Josh Charles for Eddy.
College girl Alex was assigned to a male dormitory by mistakes, with the mild-tempered Eddy and Jock Stuart. They made an agreement that they will maintain their status quo not involving in a dual relationship to protect their pure friendship as a trio team. The funny thing in the movie is Alex falls for the She-male Eddy who have a crush for Stuart， and Stuart want to be with Alex badly. In the end they drifted apart and lived a separate life, with Alex stayed single, Stuart got married and Eddy found his boyfriend.
Analysis：
The Threesome is a hilarious movie and time killing movie but as Wiki quotes:
"Upon release, the film received negative reviews. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 26% of critics gave Threesome positive reviews, based on 23 reviews. Critics such as Roger Ebert felt that film was unfunny, and that "Like many kids their age, these three are more bold in talk than action, and the movie sounds right; it sounds like undergraduate human dialogue, intended to shock, to liberate, to amuse."
My understanding as an international student will reckon this movie as an absolute incomprehensible subject to tease about in U.S, and trio living in the same dorm is considered crossing the moral line and the movie theme seems a bit lacking reality foundation, or a bit too much fantasy of the director.
Reaction:
It's a movie released in the early 1990s and it helped to pave the way for more openness in American movie culture about human sexuality and more positive portrayals of a Gay Character. And believe it or not, the Critics are more giving a negative feedback, and audience doesn't favor that much of a movie that loses real touch of campus life.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Arrow
The source of picture:Arrow: noun [countable]
Definition:
1. a weapon usually made from a thin straight piece of wood with a sharp point at one end, that you shoot with a BOW.
2. a sign in the shape of an arrow, used to show direction.
Contrast
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Contrast: noun,verb
Definition:
(noun):1. [uncountable and countable] a difference between people, ideas, situations, things etc that are being compared.
2. [countable] something that is very different from something else.
3. [uncountable] the differences in colour, or between light and dark, that an artist uses in paintings or photographs to make a particular effect.
(verb):1. [intransitive] if two things contrast, the difference between them is very easy to see and is sometimes surprising.
2. [transitive] to compare two things, ideas, people etc to show how different they are from each other.
Self-esteem
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Self-esteem: noun
Definition:
the feeling of being satisfied with your own abilities, and that you deserve to be liked or respected .
Exhaustion
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Exhaustion: noun [uncountable]
Definition:
1. extreme tiredness.
2. when all of something has been used.
Alarm
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Alarm: noun,verb
Definition:
(noun):1. [countable] a piece of equipment that makes a loud noise to warn you of danger.
2. [uncountable] a feeling of fear or worry because something bad or dangerous might happen.
3. [countable] an alarm clock.
(verb): [transitive]
to make someone feel worried or frightened.
Gravel
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Gravel: noun [uncountable]
Definition:
small stones, used to make a surface for paths, roads etc.
gravel pit (=a place where gravel is dug out of the ground)
Monday, April 6, 2009
Cramp
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Cramp: noun,verb
Definition:
(noun):1. [uncountable and countable] a severe pain that you get in part of your body when a muscle becomes too tight, making it difficult for you to move that part of your body.
2. [plural] severe pains in the stomach, especially the ones that women get when they.
(verb):1.[transitive] to prevent the development of someone or something
2. cramp somebody's stylein formal to prevent someone from behaving in the way they want to.
Apology
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Apology: noun
Definition:
1. [uncountable and countable] something that you say or write to show that you are sorry for doing something wrong.
2. [plural] a message that you send to a meeting to say that you will not be able to come to the meeting.
3. make your apologies to say that you are sorry but you have to leave.
4. [countable] literary a statement in which you defend something you believe in after it has been criticized by other people.
5. an apology for something a very bad example of something
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