Common A1 English Words

a particular point in timenoun

If English disappears at the exact moment you need it, stay with me for this practice.如果在你需要英语的那一刻它恰好消失了，请跟着我一起做这个练习。

feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undoneadjective

If someone is late, they may say, "Sorry, I'm running late." If someone agrees, they may say, "That makes sense." If someone does not know, they may say, "I'm not sure."如果有人迟到了，他们可能会说：“Sorry, I'm running late.”如果有人同意，他们可能会说：“That makes sense.”如果有人不知道，他们可能会说：“I'm not sure.”

a small elite groupnoun, adjective

It had been a few years since Biarter had been diagnosed with breast cancer, a pretty bad one.比亚特被诊断出患有乳腺癌已经几年了，而且情况相当严重。

something that is readnoun, verb

Speak as if the sentence belongs to you, not as if you are reading from a list.说的时候要像这个句子属于你自己，而不是像在读清单。

be seatedverb

I am sitting on this chair and I am about to eat my breakfast.我正坐在椅子上，准备吃早餐。

an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceilingnoun

Even when Claudia gave her an entire room to explore, Violet walked straight back to her.即使克劳迪娅给了她整个房间去探索，维奥莱特还是会径直回到她身边。

a period of time equal to 1/24th of a daynoun

So it's really a lot of good 19 hours of everybody just laying there.所以真的基本上19个小时大家都只是躺在那儿。

the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brainsnoun

I have four heads of Shanghaiese baby bok choy.我有四棵上海小油菜。

(usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do somethingadjective

Not only was there an enormous virus infection that somehow had been able to fester.不仅存在着一种不知何故得以滋生的巨大病毒感染。

a social unit living togethernoun

So a family had originally gotten her as a baby, but then they realized that they weren't equipped properly and had no knowledge of how to take care of a pig.一家人当初把她当小猪宝宝接回去，但后来他们意识到自己根本没准备好，也完全不知道怎么照顾一头猪。

a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)noun

You can also book hotels or rental cars more cheaply thanks to the price difference in different countries.由于不同国家的价格差异，你还可以更便宜地预订酒店或租车。

power by which something or someone is affected or dominatednoun, verb

The jumping spider Claudia was once nervous to hold eventually became her tiny pocket companion.克劳迪娅曾经不敢触碰的跳蛛，最终成了她口袋里的小伙伴。

an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous mannernoun

Just select the audio track in the menu down here, and watch the video again as a music video.只需在下方的菜单中选择音轨，即可将视频作为音乐视频再次观看。

a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so usednoun

And then for each of these heads, I just like to cut it lengthwise, give it a nice slice, and here I'll just set these aside, and we'll blanch them a little later.对于每一棵，我喜欢纵向切开，切得漂亮些，然后把它们放在一边，稍后再焯水。

obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transactionverb

I bought gummies and I ate most of them except for these ones.我买了软糖，除了这些剩下的，其他的我都吃完了。

become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gainverb

And then as she grew bigger, I had to find bigger objects, such big fork, big rake, just a stick, whatever, whatever was laying there.然后随着她越长越大，我就得找更大的东西，大叉子、大耙子、就一根棍子，随便什么，随手拿到什么就用什么。

an approximate definition or examplenoun

And for the bok choy, if it has sort of a woody end, I like to just give that a little trim, but you want to keep the pieces mostly intact.对于油菜，如果根部有点木质化，我喜欢稍微修剪一下，但要尽量保持整体完整。

accept as true; take to be trueverb

He's just a cat who's misunderstood, and needs someone to believe in him.他只是一只被误解的猫，需要有人相信他。

the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it downnoun

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a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion enginenoun

It was houses, docks, cars, just about everything.有房子、码头、汽车，几乎什么都有。

the means of connection between things linked in seriesnoun

If you want to continue practicing real conversations, use Salu English through the link in the description.如果你想继续练习真实的对话，请通过描述中的链接使用Salu English。

a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breedsnoun

Her allergies made cats and dogs difficult to keep around, so she decided the only way to have a pet was to confront one of her fears: spiders.她的过敏体质让她很难养猫狗，所以她决定，拥有宠物的唯一方法就是直面恐惧：蜘蛛。

being of use or serviceadjective

It is especially useful when your brain may search for a complete perfect sentence instead of starting with one clear idea.当你的大脑可能在寻找一个完整完美的句子，而不是从一个清晰的想法开始时，这尤其有用。

a time unit of approximately 30 daysnoun

After he recovered, Mark Anthony spent months in the kennel waiting for someone to give him a chance.康复后，马克·安东尼在笼子里待了几个月，等待着有人能给他一个机会。

(postpositive) howeveradverb

Around that time, all of these amazing working conditions did come with a catch, though.大约在那个时期，所有这些令人惊叹的工作条件也伴随着一些限制。

the time period between dawn and noonnoun

Then one morning, Violet passed away while resting in Claudia's hands.后来的一天早上，维奥莱特在克劳迪娅的手心中静静地离世了。

a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplishednoun, verb

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Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)noun, verb

I began by talking about the past, which was being a kid and eating chocolate cake.我开始谈论过去，即小时候吃巧克力蛋糕的经历。

a share of the profitsnoun

So, to prep the whites, I like to first trim off the roots, and then because the whites are a little bit more bulbous, I like to have them lengthwise first, and then I'm just going to cut them into one and a half inch segments, and that will go into my bowl of already prepped whites.所以，处理葱白时，我喜欢先切掉根部，因为葱白部分比较粗，我喜欢先纵向切开，然后再切成一英寸半长的段，放入我准备好的葱白碗里。

the season when the leaves fall from the treesnoun

Start gently, stress the words that carry the meaning, and let the final word fall naturally.轻柔地开始，强调承载意义的词，让最后一个词自然落下。

(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some languagenoun

Plan B failed also, so we put my phone inside the cat trap playing crying kittens.B计划也失败了，所以我们把我的手机放在捕猫器里播放小猫的哭声。

a specific instance of feeling hopefulnoun

I hope people watching Violet's story start looking at small creatures a little differently.我希望观看维奥莱特故事的人们，能开始以不同的眼光看待这些小生物。

located at a great distance in time or space or degreeadjective

Viruses might actually be part of the solution here, but online we prefer they stay far, far, far, far away from us.病毒实际上可能是这里的解决方案的一部分，但在网上，我们更希望它们离我们越远越好。

beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickeningverb, adjective

If you wait for a full sentence, thinking in English feels impossible.如果你等待一个完整的句子，用英语思考会感觉不可能。

proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignmentnoun, verb, adjective

And they were, you know, they were the true, the true groundbreakers.她们是，你知道，她们是真正的，真正的开拓者。

applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)noun

In 2026, six years after the artist's treatment, over a dozen studies are underway to test viruses as early stage cancer therapies.2026年，在艺术家接受治疗六年之后，已有十几项研究正在进行，旨在测试病毒作为早期癌症疗法的效果。

to travel behind, go after, come afterverb

Every few days, fresh injections followed, saturating Biata's cancer with at least 80 million viruses in total, keeping the massacre going.每隔几天就会进行新的注射，总共向比阿塔的癌症中注入了至少8000万个病毒，使这场大屠杀持续进行。

an educational institutionnoun

Learn chunks you can use at work, at school, at home, with friends, and online.学你在工作、学校、家里、和朋友在一起以及上网时能用的语块。

a formation of people or things one beside anothernoun

Now I'm just going to transfer them to a paper towel-lined sheet to soak up any water.现在我把它们转移到铺了纸巾的烤盘上，吸干水分。

used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burningadjective

Just like with any fried food, I want to season them when they're hot so that the salt sticks.就像炸其他食物一样，我想趁热调味，这样盐才能粘住。

give money, usually in exchange for goods or servicesverb

But the only thing that FEMA will pay for is what was placed in here by the storm.但联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）只会为风暴带来的淤积物买单。

bring into existenceverb

In labs, viruses are usually produced by injecting them into cell cultures, letting them multiply, and then purifying the mix, creating a liquid with mostly viruses but also some cell debris and garbage.在实验室中，病毒通常是通过将其注入细胞培养物中，让其繁殖，然后纯化混合物来生产的，这样产生的液体中大部分是病毒，但也含有一些细胞碎片和杂质。

a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbolsnoun

I mean, for a spider, that's a pretty convincing love language.我的意思是，对于一只蜘蛛来说，这是一种非常有说服力的示爱方式。

Other; one or something beside; as, Who else is coming? What else shall I give? Do you expect anything else?adjective, pronoun, adverb, conjunction

No, there was something else, a hidden army suddenly ripped from the shadows and without protection, Biata's immune system chose violence, like angry angels of death.不，还有别的东西，一支隐藏的军队突然从阴影中被撕扯出来，失去了保护，比阿塔的免疫系统选择了暴力，就像愤怒的死亡天使。

a quantity of no importancenoun, adverb

Biarter was sure that if this harsh treatment would not destroy the cancer completely, then nothing would.比亚特确信，如果这种严酷的治疗都不能彻底摧毁癌症，那就没有别的办法了。

a rational motive for a belief or actionnoun

Reason second, I can add the reason after the feeling.理由其次，我可以在感受之后加上理由。

under normal conditionsadverb

Then they scream the immune system to send antivirus killers, which usually means that they'll be killed themselves.然后，它们会向免疫系统发出求救信号，请求派遣抗病毒杀手，这通常意味着它们自己也会被杀死。

the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationednoun, adjective

Violet's life was so small and so short, but somehow she reminded me that my time is limited too.维奥莱特的生命是如此渺小而短暂，但不知何故，她提醒了我，我的时间也同样有限。

in the intervaladverb

That these eye movements confuse the circuit between the eyes, the brainstem, and this thing called the cerebellum, and that circuit is responsible for knowing where your limbs are in space.这些眼球运动扰乱了眼睛、脑干和小脑之间的回路，而该回路负责感知四肢在空间中的位置。

any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etcnoun

Say them slowly after this video, but do not turn them into a test.在这个视频之后，慢慢地重复它们，但不要把它们变成测试。

pass time in a specific wayverb

The Twin Puppy Kid in New York City rushed him to the vet, and they spent weeks doing everything they could to help him.纽约市的“双胞胎小狗”救援组织迅速将他送往兽医处，并花费数周时间竭尽全力救治他。

people who are freenoun, verb

The cub was amazingly injury-free and full of life.这只幼崽奇迹般地没有受伤，而且充满活力。

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districtsnoun

Mark Anthony is a stray cat who was found crying all alone in the snow in New York City.马克·安东尼是一只流浪猫，被发现时独自在纽约市的雪地里哭泣。

to a degree (not used with a negative)adverb

Oh, big, really exciting ones, and ones with Quentin Tarantino, and I think I was quite close to Anchorman.哦，大型的，非常令人兴奋的，还有和昆汀·塔伦蒂诺的，我觉得我差点就拿到《王牌播音员》的角色了。

a victory (as in a race or other competition)noun, verb

But you you don't go straight into Oscar-winning films.但你并没有直接进入奥斯卡获奖电影。

dismiss from the mind; stop rememberingverb

Alex, don't forget the articles!亚历克斯，别忘了冠词！

in place of, or as an alternative toadverb

It is especially useful when your brain may search for a complete perfect sentence instead of starting with one clear idea.当你的大脑可能在寻找一个完整完美的句子，而不是从一个清晰的想法开始时，这尤其有用。

at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected timeadjective

In the early twentieth century, baffled doctors observed that the tumors of some cancer patients shrank when they got virus infections like influenza or measles, which makes perfect sense if we understand how both work.在二十世纪初，困惑的医生们观察到，一些癌症患者在感染了流感或麻疹等病毒后，肿瘤竟然缩小了。如果我们了解这两者的运作机制，这其实完全说得通。

fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract senseverb

Now the real challenge is figuring out how to rescue them without them losing their mom.现在真正的挑战是如何在不让它们失去妈妈的情况下营救它们。

having strength or power greater than average or expectedadjective

A simple sentence becomes strong when the tone matches the moment.当语气与时刻相匹配时，一个简单的句子会变得有力。

appear to existverb

It really seems like they think they own every single piece of furniture in the house.它们真的觉得家里的每一件家具都是它们的。

a separate part of a wholenoun

There will never be another Violet, but before long, more jumping spiders began joining the little world that she inspired, and every tiny room that Claudia builds now carries a little piece of the spider who started it all.维奥莱特是独一无二的，但不久之后，更多的跳蛛开始加入她所启发的小世界，而克劳迪娅现在建造的每一个微型房间，都承载着那只开启这一切的蜘蛛的一点点痕迹。

the state of being free of suspicionnoun, verb

It is especially useful when your brain may search for a complete perfect sentence instead of starting with one clear idea.当你的大脑可能在寻找一个完整完美的句子，而不是从一个清晰的想法开始时，这尤其有用。

the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with younoun

A five recipe test is kind of where all the recipes started at America's Test Kitchen, and for this I've pulled five different recipes that exist in the world, and I'm going to see what I can learn from them to develop my own recipe.五种食谱测试是美国测试厨房所有食谱的起源，为此我挑选了世界上现有的五种不同食谱，我打算看看能从中学习到什么，从而开发出我自己的食谱。

derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure inverb

And while they do tend to need a bit more love, cats who have FELV can still enjoy many years of a high-quality life full of love, comfort, and play.虽然他们确实需要更多的关爱，但患有猫白血病的猫咪依然可以享受多年充满爱、舒适和玩耍的高质量生活。

assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or groupnoun, verb

We've shared so many of their rescues here at the Dodo, and one thing always stands out to us: getting these animals back into the wild is the ultimate goal.我们在Dodo分享过很多他们的救援故事，有一件事总是让我们印象深刻：让这些动物重返自然是最终目标。

someone regarded as certain to succeednoun, adjective

Let the rhythm be clear enough for shadowing and natural enough for real speech.让节奏足够清晰以便跟读，同时足够自然以适合真实对话。

the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or somethingnoun

See, Mark Anthony doesn't even know he has FELV, and he probably doesn't even care that he's missing a leg.你看，马克·安东尼甚至不知道自己患有猫白血病，他可能根本不在乎自己少了一条腿。

one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an intervalnoun, adjective

So, to prep the whites, I like to first trim off the roots, and then because the whites are a little bit more bulbous, I like to have them lengthwise first, and then I'm just going to cut them into one and a half inch segments, and that will go into my bowl of already prepped whites.所以，处理葱白时，我喜欢先切掉根部，因为葱白部分比较粗，我喜欢先纵向切开，然后再切成一英寸半长的段，放入我准备好的葱白碗里。

that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reasonnoun

Choose one sentence from the first group and say it again in your mind.从第一组中选择一个句子，在心里再说一遍。

a vaguely specified concernnoun

For starting from observation, that matters because we are learning to build English thoughts from quick observations, feelings, and simple first words before translating takes over.对于从观察开始，这很重要，因为我们正在学习在翻译接管之前，从快速观察、感受和简单的初始词汇中构建英语思维。

the organ of sightnoun

So getting bright light in your eyes from sunlight or even you know really bright artificial lights in the first hour of your day is amazing for increasing energy, mood, focus, alertness all day long.所以在你一天中的第一个小时里，让阳光或非常明亮的人造光进入你的眼睛，对于提高全天的精力、情绪、专注力和警觉性非常有效。

the region that is outside of somethingnoun, adjective

It helps you respond more naturally and speak with more confidence outside the video.它能帮助你在视频之外更自然地回应，并更自信地开口说。

the act of applying force to propel somethingnoun

Literally from like nineteen hundred, skirted, big, collared, long sleeved, crazy, weird hair, strange, and you drove to the audition in full costume.简直就像十九世纪，裙子很大，有领子，长袖，疯狂，奇怪的头发，奇怪的，你穿着全套服装开车去试镜。

that which is contrary to the principles of justice or lawnoun, verb, adjective

Well, the reality is that many things in life are not really right or wrong, but exist on a trade-off slider.现实情况是，生活中的许多事情并非非黑即白，而是存在于一个权衡的滑动条上。

(comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degreeadjective, adverb

But in the best case, virus therapy could be much less toxic and effective, or better than chemo, especially in combination with other therapies.但在最好的情况下，病毒疗法可能毒性更小且更有效，或者比化疗更好，特别是在与其他疗法结合使用时。

the position where a thing or person standsnoun

We've shared so many of their rescues here at the Dodo, and one thing always stands out to us: getting these animals back into the wild is the ultimate goal.我们在Dodo分享过很多他们的救援故事，有一件事总是让我们印象深刻：让这些动物重返自然是最终目标。

the unlimited expanse in which everything is locatednoun

And I love that like the space that you created is perfect for him to just relax and kind of.我很喜欢你创造的这个空间，对他来说非常适合放松和……

a friendly informal reference to a grown mannoun

Leo, big boy.里奥，乖孩子。

an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talknoun

Dad, this looks really strange to me.爸爸，这对我来说看起来很奇怪。

a medium that disseminates moving picturesnoun

I don't have it here, but they had the premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, and my role was so small they didn't invite me.我这儿没有，但他们在多伦多电影节举行了首映，我的角色太小了，他们没邀请我。

the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to earnoun

Her goal was to save her own life in the face of a terminal threat.她的目标是在面对绝症威胁时挽救自己的生命。

of so extreme a degree or extentadjective, adverb

And then as she grew bigger, I had to find bigger objects, such big fork, big rake, just a stick, whatever, whatever was laying there.然后随着她越长越大，我就得找更大的东西，大叉子、大耙子、就一根棍子，随便什么，随手拿到什么就用什么。

after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delayadverb

He's finally getting the chance to feel safety and comfort of a home, and he's made a lot of progress already.他终于有机会感受到家的安全与舒适，而且他已经取得了很大的进步。

(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)noun

The crowd favorite was the pizza babka, and what's really funny is that I kind of hit an Easter egg.最受欢迎的是披萨芭布卡，有趣的是，我好像发现了一个彩蛋。

the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)noun

We're almost at the finish line, but I have one last topping that I want to make.我们快大功告成了，但我还要做最后一种配料。

a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)noun, verb

See, Mark Anthony doesn't even know he has FELV, and he probably doesn't even care that he's missing a leg.你看，马克·安东尼甚至不知道自己患有猫白血病，他可能根本不在乎自己少了一条腿。

an event that repeatsnoun, verb

After the pause, repeat it once and make the idea feel personal for starting from observation.停顿后，重复一次，并让这个想法对从观察开始感觉个人化。

red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of bloodnoun, adjective

And there's a saying in Shanghai cuisine, "Nong Yao Chu Yang," and that just means red with oil and red with sauce, and that's what you're looking for in a dish.上海菜里有句俗话叫“浓油赤酱”，意思就是油亮酱红，这就是这道菜所追求的效果。

a pair who associate with one anothernoun

He's got a couple spots, but most likely he ran upstairs and went directly to my bedroom.他有几个常去的地方，但很可能他跑上楼直接去我卧室了。

the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activitiesnoun, verb

As an expert virologist with extensive experience, Dr.作为一名经验丰富的病毒学专家，哈莱克博士（Dr.

a single serving of a beveragenoun, verb

This is my meal for my breakfast, and this is my drink.这是我的早餐，这是我的饮料。

an occurrence of somethingnoun

So after a few weeks, Biata started injecting a second virus, VSV, a pretty harmless relative of rabies that causes mild flu symptoms in extremely rare cases if humans catch it.几周后，比阿塔开始注射第二种病毒——VSV，这是一种相当无害的狂犬病毒近亲，人类感染后极罕见地会出现轻微流感症状。

a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehiclenoun

Someone slam the door Friday in my face.周五有人当着我的面摔门。

pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternativesverb

Choose one sentence from the first group and say it again in your mind.从第一组中选择一个句子，在心里再说一遍。

the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given timenoun

This sentence is useful because it gives you clear action inside a real situation.这句话很有用，因为它在真实情境中给出了明确的行动。

the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)noun

I learned to watch her body language to figure out whether she was comfortable, curious, scared, or simply interested.我学会了观察她的肢体语言，来判断她是感到舒适、好奇、害怕，还是仅仅感兴趣。

an announcement containing information about an eventnoun

For example, I notice the pattern I'm used to in many conversations.例如，我在很多对话中都注意到 I'm used to 这个句型。

belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; publicadjective

If you guys want to get the five thousand most common English words to understand up to ninety-eight percent of spoken English, get it at the link in my bio.如果你们想获取五千个最常用的英语单词，以理解高达百分之九十八的口语英语，请点击我个人简介中的链接获取。

a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beansnoun

I'm used to drinking coffee at 8 a.m. every morning.我习惯每天早上8点喝咖啡。