Common A2 English Words

the sixth day of the week; the fifth working daynoun

And you can also say, I'm not sure, but I think it's on Friday.你也可以说，我不确定，但我觉得是在周五。

any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a messagenoun, adjective

Other people believe that Stonehenge was built by aliens and that aliens came down from another planet and that this is some kind of signal area for for their alien spacecraft, so they could land their spacecraft here.其他人则认为巨石阵是外星人建造的，他们从另一个星球降临，这里是某种外星飞船的信号区，以便他们能在这里降落飞船。

a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pagesnoun

But then people started holding up scores, and it scarred you.但后来人们开始举分，这给你留下了阴影。

the actors in a playnoun

I had a big break where I got to go and have an audition with the head of Paramount Casting, so the whole Paramount Studio, the head of casting.我有一个重大突破，有机会去和派拉蒙选角主管试镜，整个派拉蒙工作室的选角主管。

showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happyadjective

I just thank you for coming, and I'm so glad you got to meet Cheddar and Junior.谢谢你过来，我很高兴你能见到切达和朱尼尔。

the 24th letter of the Roman alphabetnoun

It's supposed to be, but you could say D A L X.本该是那样的，但你可以读作D A L X。

wanting in physical strengthadjective

If every answer starts with, um, well, you know, hmm, it sounds weak.如果每个回答都以“嗯”、“那个”、“你知道”、“呃”开头，听起来会很无力。

something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lotterynoun, verb

I was like, I haven't won the prize, but at least I got this.我当时想，虽然我还没赢到大奖，但至少我得到了这个。

an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)noun, verb

With time, I put my finger in front of her, and she would just climb on it.随着时间的推移，我把手指放在她面前，她就会爬上来。

a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earthnoun, verb

You can stream complete seasons of America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Country, and more.您可以观看《美国测试厨房》、《厨师之乡》等节目的完整季。

an energetic attempt to achieve somethingnoun, verb

So good luck to you, but also good luck to the person reading out the nominations because Americans do struggle with your name.祝你好运，也祝宣读提名的人好运，因为美国人确实很难念对你的名字。

determined or actuated by emotion rather than reasonadjective

If it's, you know, cognitive information, you're like learning a language, or music, or an emotional skill, like trying not trying not to speak during an argument or something.如果它是，你知道，认知信息，比如你在学习一门语言，或音乐，或一种情绪技能，比如在争吵时尽量不说话之类的。

sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)noun

They sort of really extend those last, like noises, and it just sounds like they're constantly tired or bored.他们会真的拉长那些最后的，像声音一样的东西，听起来就像他们总是很累或很无聊。

Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.noun

A pedestrian is anybody who is not driving, right?行人就是任何不开车的人，对吧？

process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of spacenoun

Despite everyone's best efforts to save his leg, the infection unfortunately had spread to his bones, and his legs could not heal.尽管大家尽了最大努力去挽救他的腿，但感染不幸扩散到了骨头，他的腿无法愈合。

someone who shows the way by leading or advisingnoun, verb

You know, it really was a parrot that guided me into this journey of exploring Africa's rivers.你知道，确实是一只鹦鹉引导我踏上了探索非洲河流的旅程。

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shapenoun

This red bus says "Airport Bus." Here is their plane.这辆红色公交车上写着“机场巴士”。他们的飞机到了。

cause to runverb

Just pour that right in, and I'm just looking for things to come to a rapid simmer and to dissolve my sugar.直接倒进去，我只需要让它快速煮沸并溶解糖。

a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for supportnoun, adjective

They would breed viruses that they were deeply familiar with from her lab and inject them directly into her cancer.他们将培育她在实验室里非常熟悉的病毒，并直接注射到她的癌症中。

(usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps)noun, adjective

I think they're overall just like more stimulated and happier.我觉得它们总体上受到了更多刺激，也更快乐了。

the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammalsnoun

And a runny nose.还流鼻涕。

a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive featuresnoun

Successful cancers actually build a protective zone around them that hides them from immune cells or even kills them.成功的癌症实际上会在周围建立一个保护区，将自己隐藏起来，避开免疫细胞，甚至将其杀死。

in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified meansadverb

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。

a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)noun, verb

So I got tickets to like a four o'clock screening or something like that, and I was like, keep your head down.所以我买了四点左右的票之类的，我就说，低调点。

a large and unbroken expanse or distancenoun

They do a magnificent job of covering the rallies, including the interviews of people in lines that stretch for miles.他们报道集会做得非常出色，包括采访排了好几英里长队的人。

one of the contractile organs of the bodynoun, verb

A hard dark mass that had begun invading Biarter's muscles and skin, getting ready to spread all over her body.那是一个坚硬的深色肿块，已经开始侵蚀比亚特的肌肉和皮肤，准备扩散到全身。

any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwantednoun, verb

Boy from Hammer Smith, sort of pick him up, and he was he filled the waste paper basket.来自哈默史密斯的男孩，有点被他吓到了，他吐满了废纸篓。

of surpassing excellenceadjective

And to Julie Walters, too brilliant, funny, and can sing.对朱莉·沃尔特斯也是，太聪明、风趣，而且会唱歌。

suitable to or characteristic of dramaadjective

Daily English should sound natural, not dramatic all the time.日常英语应该听起来自然，而不是总是那么夸张。

a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and colornoun

And he had then a powder blue suit.他当时穿着一套粉蓝色的西装。

temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiersnoun

After watching the sunset together, we got to set up our camp.一起看完日落后，我们得搭起营地。

harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the fieldnoun, verb

And now, in a medium bowl, we're gonna combine one cup of sugar—that's 200 grams—with some delicious lemon zest.现在，在一个中等大小的碗里，我们要混合一杯糖——也就是200克——再加上一些美味的柠檬皮屑。

(followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or localityadjective

This is where Biarter decided to take care of this cancer herself, with the support of her colleagues, because they actually had a unique mix of expertise and resources.就在这时，比亚特决定在同事的支持下亲自处理这种癌症，因为他们确实拥有独特的专业知识和资源组合。

a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartmentsnoun

On Sunday, I try to practice English, but I mostly organize my desk.周日，我想练习英语，但大部分时间都在整理书桌。

the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking)noun, verb

We also silenced genes that allow the fruit to keep creating sugars and polyphenols once once it's been picked off the vine.我们还关闭了一些基因，这些基因本可以让果实在从藤上摘下后继续产生糖分和多酚。

a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualitiesnoun

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。

in distinction from othersadverb

The main thing she was looking for was a virus that specifically attacked the cell types the cancer emerged from.她主要寻找的是一种能专门攻击癌症起源细胞类型的病毒。

the process of taking in and expelling air during breathingnoun

I'm trying to give you breath from both and see the floppiness of this is so much more.我试着给你展示两者的区别，看看这个的柔软度要大得多。

something intended to communicate a particular impressionnoun

It is very long, so that would be a limiting factor in terms of where you could display this as a retailer because this would not fit on a typical shelf.它非常长，所以作为零售商，这会限制它的陈列位置，因为它放不进普通的货架。

a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coralnoun

And when it did, it brought all the sand from the ocean side through the breach and dumped it here.当它冲开缺口时，它把大洋一侧所有的沙子都带过了缺口，并倾倒在这里。

a component of production; something that goes into the production of outputnoun, verb

Well, in this video, you're going to learn English with the comprehensible input method.好的，在这个视频中，你将通过可理解输入法来学习英语。

in a serious manneradverb

In this case, if you make medical trials easy, fast, and cheap, then there'll be experiments that will seriously harm a few people, but on average you'll make more progress faster, which will potentially save more lives in the end.在这种情况下，如果你让医学试验变得简单、快速且廉价，那么就会有一些实验严重伤害到少数人，但平均而言，你会更快地取得更多进展，最终可能会挽救更多的生命。

a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glandsnoun, verb

" And he said, "Yeah," and I burst into tears and I said, "I think I could really suck at this." And he said, "Have you sucked before?他说：“是的，”我突然哭了起来，我说：“我觉得我可能会演得很糟。”他说：“你以前演过糟吗？”

matter that is solid at room temperature and pressurenoun, adjective

Come on, that's solid, right?来吧，这很绝，对吧？

an event in which something is displaced without rotationnoun

You wake up, it's an amazing thing, but you can shift that by getting bright light in your eyes in the first hour of your day.你醒了，这是一件神奇的事情，但你可以通过在一天中的第一个小时让明亮的光线进入眼睛来改变这一点。

with or in a close or intimate relationshipadjective

La llegada del capsule, the arrival of the capsule that day was a great happiness for all of us who were there because it brought us hope that we'd have our dear ones with us again.胶囊的到来，那天胶囊的到来对我们所有在场的人来说都是巨大的幸福，因为它带给了我们希望，让我们能再次与亲人团聚。

the second day of the week; the first working daynoun

You know, if you work in normal nine to five Monday through Friday, it's like a lot of people do.你知道，如果你像很多人一样，周一到周五朝九晚五地工作。

a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authoritynoun, verb

So a very easy way to request something, really anywhere, but specifically at a hotel, is, could I please, could I get something please, could I get an extra towel please, could I get food brought to my room please?所以，在任何地方，特别是在酒店，索要物品的一个非常简单的方法是：我可以请……吗，我可以要……吗，我可以要一条额外的毛巾吗，我可以请人把食物送到我房间吗？

a large number of things or people considered togethernoun, verb

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。

a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)noun, verb

From our periodic table poster to our world map poster, or dive into complex topics like evolution and human history, packed with fascinating details you'll keep discovering over time.从我们的元素周期表海报到世界地图海报，或者深入探索进化论和人类历史等复杂主题，其中充满了您会不断发现的迷人细节。

a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articlesnoun

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。

any strong feelingnoun

Connect the sentence to emotion first, not to memorized classroom answer.将这个句子与情感先行联系起来，而不是与背诵的课堂答案联系起来。

the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combatnoun

And with that much death and virus parts leaking into healthy tissue, Biata's immune system suddenly jolted awake in shock.随着如此多的死亡和病毒碎片渗入健康组织，比阿塔的免疫系统突然在震惊中惊醒。

polished surface that forms images by reflecting lightnoun, verb

It was so, and so I went and he taught us all these things about how how you walk through the streets, you kind of using windows and wing mirrors, and and and then and he showed me all these I love, which the Jackal retains, is this kind of old school gadgets like you know cameras in a button.所以，我去了，他教了我们所有关于如何在街上行走的方法，比如利用窗户和后视镜，然后他向我展示了我喜欢的所有东西，这些东西“豺狼”都保留了下来，比如那种老派的小玩意，你知道，像纽扣里的摄像头。

extend in one or more directionsverb

It's called the Snap Performance Summit, which is all about Snap ads, and I think this is going to be such a good one for me to be at as we're expanding top three, as we have some other things in the works because the way that these ads are on Snapchat, I think my mind is actually going to be kind of blown once we get inside.这次活动叫Snap性能峰会，主要围绕Snap广告展开，我觉得我能来参加真是太好了，因为我们正在扩展前三名，而且我们还有其他项目正在筹备中，因为Snapchat上这些广告的形式，我想等我们进去之后，我的思维一定会受到冲击。

an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide rangenoun, verb

You could do it in a well-seasoned cast iron pan or a stainless steel pan, but I want a good crust.你也可以用保养良好的铸铁锅或不锈钢锅，但我想要一层漂亮的脆皮。

in an essential manneradverb

That stress in the first part of your day, yeah, not necessarily a bad thing.一天开始时的那种压力，其实未必是坏事。

a human being; `wight' is an archaic termnoun

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。

an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulfnoun

The Jersey Shore is a long barrier island with the bay on this side and the ocean on this side.泽西海岸是一个狭长的屏障岛，这一侧是海湾，另一侧是大洋。

in the right manneradverb

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 particular functioning condition or arrangementnoun

This is by default what it boots into, and you actually have to go out of your way to move it into the desktop mode.这是它默认的启动界面，你实际上必须特意操作才能进入桌面模式。

a period of 10 yearsnoun

A decade on, the harrowing ordeal continues to haunt the survivors.十年过去了，那段痛苦的经历依然困扰着幸存者们。

any place of pain and turmoil;noun

So to have to drag him away from this amazing time that he's having with everyone to go and do schooling is I used to find it to be like hell on earth.所以要把他从和大家一起度过的这段美好时光中拉走去上学，我以前觉得简直是人间地狱。

a system of projects or services intended to meet a public neednoun

And you were on this program, believe moaning about not being in Harry Potter.而你当时在这个节目上，相信我，抱怨没参演《哈利·波特》。

the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experiencenoun

There was a was the ex-military intelligence who was training me.是一位前军事情报人员在训练我。

At the side of; on one side of.noun, adverb

Yes, the pool is beside the gym.是的，游泳池就在健身房旁边。

be fully aware or cognizant ofverb

He killed him because he didn't he didn't recognize he didn't recognize his people, and the whole point of of doing Bleet was to remind people that it's okay to assimilate, but you can never forget who you are.他杀了他们，因为他没有认出他们，而创作《Bleet》的全部意义是提醒人们，融入是可以的，但永远不能忘记自己是谁。

the contestant who wins the contestnoun

Five competitors, one winner, or is there?五名选手，一名赢家，或者真的是这样吗？

a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strengthnoun

These books full of pictures often tell the stories of heroes fighting evil criminals.这些充满图画的书经常讲述英雄对抗邪恶罪犯的故事。

a statistic describing the location of a distributionnoun, verb

In this case, if you make medical trials easy, fast, and cheap, then there'll be experiments that will seriously harm a few people, but on average you'll make more progress faster, which will potentially save more lives in the end.在这种情况下，如果你让医学试验变得简单、快速且廉价，那么就会有一些实验严重伤害到少数人，但平均而言，你会更快地取得更多进展，最终可能会挽救更多的生命。

a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a buildingnoun, verb

Those go straight from your eyes to a little cluster of neurons in your brain above the roof of your mouth, and they tell your whole brain and body it's daytime.它们直接从你的眼睛传到你口腔顶部上方大脑中的一簇神经元，告诉你的整个大脑和身体现在是白天。

a full supplynoun

Now you might ask yourself, Austin, why SteamOS when there are plenty of other editions and versions and distributions of Linux out there that you can go for?你可能会问自己，Austin，既然市面上有那么多其他版本的Linux发行版，为什么还要选SteamOS呢？

cause to be attachedverb

Um, no, we just we just you know you follow these two characters the whole way through the film and hopefully grow to just sort of love them or at least care about them and you're quite attached to their story and it just felt dramatically like it was the right thing for them to finally meet.嗯，不，我们只是……你知道，你跟随这两个角色贯穿整部电影，希望你会逐渐爱上她们，或者至少关心她们，你会对她们的故事产生深厚的感情，从戏剧角度来看，让她们最终见面是正确的选择。

in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very natureadverb

So you're essentially shallow frying here, and you can see that the egg is becoming puffy from all the hot oil, immediately making the steam rise.你本质上是在浅炸，你可以看到鸡蛋因为热油而变得蓬松，蒸汽立刻升起。

in a gradual manneradverb

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。

a raised horizontal surfacenoun

Regardless of whether you're surfing with a computer, tablet, or smartphone, NordVPN is compatible with all major platforms and can be used on ten devices simultaneously.无论你是使用电脑、平板电脑还是智能手机上网，NordVPN 都兼容所有主流平台，并可同时在十台设备上使用。

a point or extent in spacenoun

You can choose from a thousand of servers in two hundred and twenty-four locations around the world to access your home content from abroad.你可以从全球 224 个地点的上千台服务器中进行选择，以便在国外访问你的家庭内容。

the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)noun

We're gonna be saved, kisses, baby girl.我们要得救了，亲亲，小宝贝。

a scientist who devotes himself to doing researchnoun

Back in the 1940s, years before a plane had ever even broken the sound barrier, a German researcher built the first engine ever powered by detonations.早在 1940 年代，在飞机突破音障的许多年前，一位德国研究员建造了有史以来第一台由爆燃驱动的发动机。

(sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a teamnoun, verb

I even remember one of my coaches in college being frustrated with me for not trying to win at all costs in a PE flag football game.我甚至记得大学时的一位教练曾因为我在体育课的腰旗橄榄球比赛中没有不惜一切代价去赢而对我感到沮丧。

the act of escaping physicallynoun

This was the reaction above ground Saturday when the drill finally punched an escape shaft all the way down.这就是周六当钻机最终打通逃生井时，地面上的反应。

not either; not one or the otheradjective

Neither of them is right or wrong, but at least for me, as I've gotten older, just the optimization of every rate, every dollar, every spread stops becoming enjoyable and starts becoming just another thing to think about and stress about.这两者都没有对错之分，但至少对我来说，随着年龄的增长，那种对每一个利率、每一美元、每一个利差的极致优化，已经不再是一种乐趣，而变成了另一件需要思考和焦虑的事情。

any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells; consist of polymers of amino acids; essential in the diet of animals for growth and for repair of tissues; can be obtained from meat and eggs and milk and legumesnoun

That one has whey protein concentrate, xanthan gum, and sodium phosphate.那个含有乳清蛋白浓缩物、黄原胶和磷酸钠。

involving the mind or an intellectual processadjective

I feel like I'm doing a really bad job at describing what it was like, but it was as though something was taking up mental space in my head that I didn't even know existed until it was gone.我觉得我没能很好地描述那种感觉，但就好像有什么东西占据了我脑海中的心理空间，而在它消失之前，我甚至没意识到它的存在。

the act of conducting a controlled test or investigationnoun, verb

Millions of viruses invade deep into the deadly cancer, kickstarting an experiment that had never been attempted before, bypassing some of the most sacred safety nets in medicine.数以百万计的病毒深入致命的癌细胞，启动了一项前所未有的实验，绕过了医学界一些最神圣的安全防线。

the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radiansnoun, verb

And to do that, we will flip them over and find the bone, since we're gonna make two cuts through the skin, in the center, about an inch apart, all the way down to the bone, at a 90 degree angle.为了处理鸡腿，我们要把它翻过来找到骨头，然后在鸡皮中心位置，间隔约一英寸，垂直于骨头切两刀，一直切到骨头处。

a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figuresnoun, verb

But what we call neural plasticity, learning, is the it's closing the gap between what you can do now and what you want to do.但我们所说的神经可塑性，即学习，就是缩小你现在能做的和你想要做的之间的差距。

the season of growthnoun

And then they said that I can they said that I can put I can write whatever I want on a plaque and they will put it on the tree that grows in the spring.然后他们说我可以，他们说我可以在牌匾上写任何我想写的东西，他们会把它挂在春天生长的树上。

a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fasteningnoun

" I had to keep a mic on through every dress change, so it was like taped on my sternum, taped under my boob, down the side, and then I had the pack was like under my knee with a strap.” 我每次换衣服都得戴着麦克风，所以它就像被胶带粘在我的胸骨上，粘在胸部下方，沿着侧面，然后那个接收器就像用带子绑在我的膝盖下面。

a series of things depending on each other as if linked togethernoun

It's like really getting that that all the different types of branches and chains of fibers from all different foods.而是要真正从各种不同的食物中获取所有不同类型和结构的纤维。

footwear that covers the whole foot and lower legnoun

This is by default what it boots into, and you actually have to go out of your way to move it into the desktop mode.这是它默认的启动界面，你实际上必须特意操作才能进入桌面模式。

not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonnessadjective

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。

notify of danger, potential harm, or riskverb

NordVPN's next-generation antivirus scans files during downloads, removes malware, and blocks ads automatically, and they warn you of scam calls before you answer.NordVPN 的下一代杀毒软件会在下载时扫描文件、清除恶意软件并自动拦截广告，还能在接听诈骗电话前向你发出警告。

with little or no soundadverb

Use that sentence once today, even quietly, because real progress comes from bringing practice into a normal moment.今天用一次那个句子，即使很轻声，因为真正的进步来自于将练习带入正常时刻。

characteristic or habitual practicenoun, verb

It may to some people sound a little clunky or a little old fashioned, and I kind of agree with that actually.对一些人来说，它可能听起来有点笨拙或有点过时，实际上我有点同意这一点。

intrude or enter uninvitedverb

" I said, "If you can stop laughing." I did it a second time, and I said, "I don't think I'm bothered doing the British." So you did the the the stand up.我说：“如果你能别笑了。”我又试了一次，然后说：“我觉得我不介意用英国口音。”所以你做了那个单口喜剧。

the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniquesnoun

Millions of viruses invade deep into the deadly cancer, kickstarting an experiment that had never been attempted before, bypassing some of the most sacred safety nets in medicine.数以百万计的病毒深入致命的癌细胞，启动了一项前所未有的实验，绕过了医学界一些最神圣的安全防线。

large and impressive in physical size or extentadjective

Uka and I to hike Le Grand Airea in the French Alps and to paraglide off the peak together.我和Uka去徒步法国阿尔卑斯山的Le Grand Airea，并一起从山顶滑翔伞降。

narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as haynoun, verb

The best example I have is, as a southerner, I would say grass for the green thing on the floor.我最好的例子是，作为一个南方人，我会把地上的绿色植物说成“grass”。

a person who keeps watch over something or someonenoun

We just had the border guard come back to the bus and he told us to give them a little more time because.边境警卫刚回到巴士上，告诉我们要再给他们一点时间，因为。