Common A2 English Words

(computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is storednoun

In the meantime, I posted some cute wedding photos on IG, and I wanted to address some comments that I've been seeing in regards to me not revealing Blarisalsa hubby's face.在此期间，我在IG上发了一些可爱的婚礼照片，我想回应一下我看到的关于我没有公开Blarisalsa老公长相的评论。

to incline or bend from a vertical positionverb, adjective

We like really leaned in and like had to fully change it.我们后来真的转变了方向，彻底改变了风格。

a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbolnoun

That is why I made the three thousand most common English words textbook with clear definitions, real example sentences, and simple organization by topic and CEFR level.这就是为什么我编写了这本包含三千个最常用英语单词的教科书，它有清晰的定义、真实的例句，并按主题和欧洲共同语言参考标准（CEFR）进行了简单的分类。

a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note namednoun, adjective

A sharp needle breaks skin and pierces the firm dark tumor.一根尖锐的针刺破皮肤，扎进坚硬的深色肿瘤中。

express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappinessverb

You know how how can I complain now that it's raining?你知道吗，既然现在下雨了，我怎么还能抱怨呢？

to a great depth; far downadverb

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。

verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speakernoun

But if they're in playful mood, you know, we have stairs for them to go high and perch up there, which they really like.但如果他们想玩，你知道，我们有楼梯让他们爬高，在那儿栖息，他们很喜欢。

a room used primarily for sleepingnoun

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。

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by landnoun

It would involve things that you enjoy, like hiking, camping, maybe a sauna, maybe like a jump in the lake or the ocean.它会包含你喜欢的事情，比如徒步、露营，可能还有桑拿，或者跳进湖里或海里游泳。

the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut shortnoun, adjective

Now Oakland, California, at the time was a very, you know, a rough area.当时的加利福尼亚州奥克兰，你知道，是个非常粗犷的地方。

someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to 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。

bring into existenceverb

It is really hard to kind of get credible information out there that's also compelling when you're competing in a world where, where there's so much, it's so easy to generate content that is compelling that is not accurate.在这样一个竞争激烈的世界里，想要传播既可信又引人入胜的信息真的很难，因为生成那些引人入胜却不准确的内容实在太容易了。

a short coatnoun

Uka fits perfectly in this weather, but me, I need my jacket and a very good sleeping bag.Uka非常适应这种天气，但我需要我的夹克和一个非常好的睡袋。

a vivid mental imagenoun

" And Brian Johnson says, "Honestly, Brian Liver King has painted a more compelling vision, or a compelling vision.”然后布莱恩·约翰逊说：“老实说，布莱恩（肝脏之王）描绘了一个更引人注目的愿景，或者说一个引人注目的愿景。

(botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the groundnoun

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 vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the topnoun

Just right meaning perfect, the right height, leaning back the right amount.“最合适”意味着完美，高度正好，后仰的角度也正好。

happening without warning or in a short space of timeadjective

This sudden influx of cells is what caused Biata's tumour to swell so explosively.这种细胞的突然涌入正是导致比阿塔肿瘤如此剧烈肿胀的原因。

a circular segment of a curvenoun

Chef John says it's important to keep the pasta in the same direction at this point, not to bend and stir it too much.约翰主厨说，此时保持意大利面方向一致很重要，不要过度弯曲或搅拌。

the rate of moving (especially walking or running)noun, verb

I just I enjoy the sport because it's fast paced and the fans are truly fanatics, and that kind of energy and passion is just um, it's uh, what's the word I'm looking for?我只是喜欢这项运动，因为它节奏很快，而且球迷们真的很狂热，那种能量和激情，就是，嗯，我该用什么词来形容呢？

the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individualnoun

Honey started getting stronger, and soon enough, a whole lot of personalities started to come out, especially when she discovered cuddling.Honey开始变得强壮起来，很快，各种各样的个性开始显现出来，尤其是当她发现拥抱的乐趣时。

the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the bodynoun

No, it's like hard because when I, you know, first really got into it, I put on there's like gloves and there's a neck one and there's a face one,然后我就像

something of valuenoun, adjective

This is such a valuable skill, and it is such an unlock for how to think about content.这是一项非常有价值的技能，对于如何思考内容创作来说，它是一个巨大的突破。

following the third position; number four in a countable seriesnoun, adjective

Fourth, make two new sentences with each chunk.第四，用每个语块造两个新句子。

an episode that is turbulent or highly emotionalnoun

I'm a drama queen, bad, so bad.我是个戏剧女王，坏，很坏。

the third day of the week; the second working daynoun

I'm sorry, my mind started to run away from me, and I imagined cleaning my room all week, like literally cleaning my room every day—Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.抱歉，我的思绪有点跑偏了，我想象着整个星期都在打扫房间，就像字面意思上每天都在打扫——周一、周二、周三、周四。

an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occursnoun

After surgery to remove as much of the cancer as possible, she went through four cycles of pretty harsh chemotherapy.在手术切除尽可能多的癌组织后，她经历了四个疗程相当严酷的化疗。

a car that is powered by electricitynoun, adjective

A little electric car.一辆小电动车。

a movable barrier in a fence or wallnoun

this thing, well, because it's it's this is basically I don't know the actuals, but this is more powerful than Steam Deck, and I've played two hundred hours of Baldur's Gate on Steam Deck.这台机器，嗯，因为它基本上……我不知道具体参数，但这比 Steam Deck 更强大，而我在 Steam Deck 上已经玩了 200 个小时的《博德之门》了。

in an original manneradverb

This video was originally going to be about why you should adopt Mark Anthony, but as I was putting together this video, I just got the sweetest update.这段视频原本是关于为什么要领养马克·安东尼的，但在我制作视频时，我收到了最甜蜜的最新消息。

the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewernoun

It is very close, and I think if they just take some feedback and they like really look at the usability from a desktop perspective instead of the Steam Deck perspective, I think they'll make a lot of changes.它非常接近了，我认为如果他们能采纳一些反馈，并从桌面而非 Steam Deck 的角度去审视易用性，他们会做出很多改变。

ask to represent; of legal counselverb

I want to use it more because it helps me sound warm and engaged when I listen to other people.我想更多地使用它，因为它能帮助我在听别人说话时显得温暖而投入。

a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic worknoun, verb

Again, I'm sensing a theme here. again，我感觉这里有个规律。

someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)noun

Yeah, the producers took me out for lunch and, frankly, offered me the part, the comedy part in Mamma Mia, and I said, well, Miss Brosnan, I didn't say no.是的，制片人带我出去吃午饭，坦白说，给了我《妈妈咪呀》里的那个喜剧角色，我说，好吧，布罗斯南小姐，我没有拒绝。

sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitchingnoun, verb

It falls to Lawrence Goldborn to inform the relatives and gathering media that there's no way of reaching any survivors through the mine.劳伦斯·戈德伯恩不得不去通知家属和聚集的媒体，称无法通过矿井接触到任何幸存者。

a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stagenoun, adverb

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。

a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activitynoun

And so, right, you take like the sliver of like, well, in these situations, this happened, and then and then you kind of have a bunch of people making it more interesting by like making it a hard truth, and then you go way, you know, pendulum swings, right?所以，没错，你拿走了一小部分，比如，在这些情况下，发生了这件事，然后你就会有一群人通过把它变成一个硬道理来让它变得更有趣，然后你就走远了，你知道，钟摆摆动了，对吧？

get or find back; recover the use ofverb

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。

an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditionsnoun

Today alone, we woke up to the news that we're considering dropping the mother of all bombs on Iran.仅在今天，我们一醒来就看到新闻说我们正在考虑向伊朗投下炸弹之母。

marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flawsadjective

Here's the critical thing that I wish they taught us when we were kids: the agitation that you feel from trying to do something, genuine attempts to do something, okay, and the errors you make in trying to do that thing.这是我希望我们在小时候就被教导的关键一点：你因尝试做某事而感到的焦虑，真正尝试去做某事，好吧，以及你在尝试做那件事时犯的错误。

do away with, cause the destruction or undoing ofverb

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。

the qualities that give pleasure to the sensesnoun

Something about my after-party look just felt like an homage to like the Beyond Beauty Star of Mini Claudia.我的派对后造型总有一种向“超越美之星”小克劳迪娅致敬的感觉。

the basis on which something is groundednoun

Another way we're going to protect our house from future storm damage is to make sure we use the right hardware to secure it to the foundation and to hold it all together.我们保护房屋免受未来风暴损害的另一种方法是确保使用正确的硬件将其固定在地基上，并将所有部分连接在一起。

not usual or common or ordinaryadjective

All around Birmingham, the working conditions were terrible, but if you worked for Cadbury's, the working conditions were actually not so bad, and this was very unusual.在伯明翰周边，工作条件都很糟糕，但如果你为吉百利工作，工作条件实际上并不那么差，这在当时非常不寻常。

a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photographynoun, verb

We were for a while thinking of doing both the top and the skirt gray, silver.我们有一段时间考虑过把上衣和裙子都做成灰色或银色。

extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircleverb

That is Tim Gargiulo in all spheres, surrounded by Oscar nominees.那就是蒂姆·加尔久洛在各个领域，被奥斯卡提名者包围着。

exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or categoryadjective

What is a typical day in the life of Penny look like?佩妮典型的一天是什么样的？

assure payment ofverb, adjective

And if we ever do get that storm again, we have this added feature where we flip these clips up that really helps secure the window.如果我们再次遇到那种风暴，我们还有一个额外的功能，就是把这些夹子翻起来，这真的有助于固定窗户。

hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patellanoun

Into the bathroom, all over the bathroom, and I'm cleaning up my own vomit on my knees, and that was my big break.跑到洗手间，吐得整个洗手间都是，我跪在地上清理自己的呕吐物，那就是我的重大突破。

free of extraneous elements of any kindadjective

Anything that goes into our bodies has to be clinical grade, way more pure, to be as safe as possible.任何进入我们体内的东西都必须达到临床级别，纯度要高得多，以确保尽可能安全。

box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdynoun

" Kieran was grabbing onto my chest, looking over and saying, "What?基兰抓着我的胸口，转过头说："什么？"

approval to do somethingnoun

Connect the sentence to permission, not to memorize classroom answer.将这句话与许可联系起来，而不是背诵课堂答案。

the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational fieldnoun

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。

the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)noun

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。

the act of discovering somethingnoun

To be clear, the the taxpayers in the United States pay for the research, the funds, the discoveries that lead to the protocols in this book.明确一点，美国纳税人资助了这项研究、资金和发现，从而促成了这本书中的方案。

a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate actionnoun

What started out as emergency rescue slowly became their entire life, and years later, the work still continues.最初的紧急救援慢慢变成了他们的全部生活，多年过去了，这项工作仍在继续。

a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insectsnoun

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。

something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relativenoun, adjective

And so the way you support diversity is eating more fiber and not just the absolute amount of fiber.所以，支持多样性的方法就是多摄入纤维，而且不仅仅是纤维的总量。

the body of members of an organization or groupnoun

Take your cooking to the next level with our essential membership.通过我们的会员服务，让你的烹饪水平更上一层楼。

a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.noun

But then also meant that you would just slip into your own accents every now and again, um, or say like Northern Irish or something, and they'd have to pull me out of that.但这也意味着你偶尔会不自觉地滑回自己的口音，比如北爱尔兰口音之类的，他们不得不把我从那种状态中拉出来。

accepted or habitual practicenoun

Welcome to our Scandinavian home with the Catio custom built just for them.欢迎来到我们斯堪的纳维亚风格的家，这里有专门为它们定制的猫舍。

in or to a place that is loweradverb

Well, of course, because you're a dignified, classy British woman, then that language is beneath you.当然，因为你是一位高贵、优雅的英国女士，那种语言有失你的身份。

belief about (or mental picture of) the futurenoun

So this was always meant to be a kind of an R-Towes kind of in the film, but it's you know defied all expectations.所以这部电影本来注定是那种小众电影，但你知道，它打破了所有预期。

have confidence or faith inverb

If I could, I would use a cup and a half of lemon juice, but that's too much liquid, so we've got to really rely on the zest here.如果可以的话，我会用一杯半的柠檬汁，但液体太多了，所以我们必须真正依靠这里的柠檬皮屑。

the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publicationnoun

We found a guy who printed it on really thick paper, laminated it, and now Rick has gotten in the car with some random guy.我们找了个人把它打印在很厚的纸上，还过了塑，现在里克正坐上一个陌生人的车。

an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbonnoun

I am a co-founder of Pups Stars Rescue that had over 40 Doxens and had to give them away due to evictions.我是Pups Stars救援组织的联合创始人，当时有40多只腊肠犬因为驱逐令需要被送走。

to a severe or serious degreeadverb

So if I sleep badly and have two coffees, I can say I'm running on coffee today.所以如果我睡得不好，喝了两杯咖啡，我就可以说我今天全靠咖啡撑着。

a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallonnoun, adjective

Fifth, use one or two chunks in a real conversation that day.第五，当天在真实对话中使用一两个语块。

an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treadsnoun, verb

himself with tanking ratings and by spewing disgusting lies to his dwindling audience, he is so devoid自己收视率暴跌，还对着不断缩水的观众喷着恶心的谎言，他是如此的

a lightweight cordnoun

It's basically like a three string guitar that you make out of cigar boxes.它基本上就是一种用雪茄盒做的三弦吉他。

(chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding)noun

It was a long tube that he filled with a mixture of oxygen and hydrocarbon fuel, and then ignited.它是一根长管，里面充满了氧气和碳氢化合物燃料的混合物，然后点燃。

piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the footnoun, adjective

This is obviously a thing in the UK where certain accents are kind of perceived as more lower class, and other accents maybe are more perceived as upper class.这显然是英国的一个现象，某些口音被认为是更低阶层的，而其他口音可能被认为是更上层阶级的。

being effective without wasting time or effort or expenseadjective

Now it's hard for me to tell how much of this is Steam OS or just the laptop not being that efficient.现在我很难判断这到底是Steam OS的问题，还是笔记本电脑本身效率不高。

the act of examining resemblancesnoun

Connect the sentence to comparison, not to a memorized classroom answer.将句子与对比联系起来，而不是与死记硬背的课堂答案联系起来。

At which place; where.adverb, conjunction

I didn't necessarily want to look strong when I was that age, whereas now I love it and I love working out, but it's amazing, like the, I don't know, if you guys have done this, like the focus that it gives you.我在那个年纪并不一定想看起来很强壮，而现在我热爱健身，我喜欢锻炼，但这真的很神奇，我不知道你们有没有过这种经历，就是它带给你的那种专注力。

a vague idea in which some confidence is placednoun

I leave an impression.我给人留下深刻印象。

in a close relation or position in time or spaceadverb

The plan was to get an injection every few days for the next few weeks and monitor closely what would happen to the cancer.计划是在接下来的几周里每隔几天注射一次，并密切监测癌症会发生什么变化。

the acquisition of something for paymentnoun

And I like to purchase them fresh because they have a little bit of chew.我喜欢买新鲜的，因为它们吃起来更有嚼劲。

a narrow strait connecting two bodies of waternoun, verb, adjective

We should say narrow perspective has driven this show for many years.我们应该说，狭隘的视角驱动了这个节目很多年。

responsive to physical stimuliadjective

Cooper is this calm, sensitive Labrador, while Winston is like this feisty little guy who basically decided that Cooper was going to be his best friend.库珀是一只冷静、敏感的拉布拉多，而温斯顿则像这个活泼的小家伙，基本上决定库珀将成为他的最好朋友。

(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the othernoun

And he just and he just wouldn't he wouldn't and I picked him so it's my own fault.它就是……它就是不肯……而且是我选的它，所以这是我自找的。

an occurrence of somethingnoun, verb

So you say, for instance, you might say, "I've been meaning to call you." I've been meaning to call you.所以你可以说，比如，你可以说：“我一直打算给你打电话。”我一直打算给你打电话。

be identical or equivalent toverb, adjective

Nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals, or by the law of the land.我们亦不得对其施加武力，或派遣他人施加武力，除非是根据其同等地位者的合法裁决或根据国法。

at the same time but in another placeadverb

Meanwhile, Trump also said he's not downplaying the risks, but that will be more good than bad by a lot.与此同时，特朗普还表示他并没有淡化风险，但它带来的好处将远大于坏处。

a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experiencenoun

cheated you out of a lot of pleasure in your life, you know.剥夺了你人生中很多乐趣，你知道吗。

extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippmanadjective

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。

not oftenadverb

Once you accept that there's rarely such a thing as the perfect time to study, you can start thinking about how to make the best of the environment you have at that time.一旦你接受很少有完美的学习时间，你就可以开始思考如何充分利用当时所处的环境。

marked by dissimilarityadjective

And what's even more interesting is that unlike our human cells, this bacterial community is constantly changing.更令人感兴趣的是，与我们的人体细胞不同，这个细菌群落是在不断变化的。

a reproach for some lapse or misdeednoun, verb

An investigation into the cause of the collapse could find no one to blame.对坍塌原因的调查未能找到任何责任人。

a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a countrynoun, verb

Each day, I woke up excited to see new places and visit different ports.每天醒来，我都对看到新的地方和访问不同的港口感到兴奋。

the extent downward or backward or inwardnoun

These noodles are so savory and carry so much depth, but they're actually really simple to make.这道面条鲜美无比，风味浓郁，但其实制作起来非常简单。

the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual lifenoun

It was as if our souls returned to bodies.那感觉就像我们的灵魂回到了身体里。

behave in a certain mannerverb

But now your newest product is the iPhone Duo, and the iPhone Duo is quite literally an iPhone when it's closed, and it behaves exactly like an iPad when it's open, and it's very close in size to an iPad Mini, and it's getting full Apple Pencil support later this year.但现在你们最新的产品是 iPhone Duo，它合上时确实就是一部 iPhone，展开后表现得和 iPad 一模一样，尺寸也非常接近 iPad Mini，而且今年晚些时候还将全面支持 Apple Pencil。

happening at a time subsequent to a reference timeadverb

All right, just before we start again, I highly encourage you to go to go natural english com slash anyone to get your free download of all these questions so you can practice along with us and review afterwards.好的，在再次开始之前，我强烈建议你去 gonaturalenglish.com/anyone 免费下载所有这些问题，这样你就可以和我们一起练习，事后复习。

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

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。

an act that has disastrous consequencesnoun

You know, disasters are getting a lot more expensive for the government.你知道，灾难对政府来说变得越来越昂贵了。

to a small degree or extentadverb

And thirdly, why influencers like me are somewhat financially incentivised to make all of this productivity stuff look way more complicated than it actually is.第三，为什么像我这样的网红在某种程度上为了经济利益，会把所有这些效率方法搞得看起来比实际复杂得多。