Common English Words from Real Videos

a way especially designed for a particular usenoun

But I'd rather live a life where I'm me than live a life where I just follow the path that other people have paved for me.但我宁愿过我自己的生活，也不愿走别人为我铺好的路。

a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computednoun

But if you're diagnosed with cancer, or your parent has advanced heart failure, or dementia, and there's a lot of uncertainty and a lot of integration that's needed of a person's values and preferences with the science and the evidence, that's where I think humans will still play a really central role.但如果你被诊断出患有癌症，或者你的父母患有晚期心力衰竭或痴呆症，且存在很多不确定性，需要将个人的价值观和偏好与科学和证据进行大量整合，我认为在这些方面，人类仍将发挥非常核心的作用。

the occurrence of a change for the worsenoun, verb

Force the water and the paint underneath the ferrule that causes the bristles to get damaged.把水和油漆逼进箍套下面，会导致刷毛受损。

a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)noun, verb

" And so and so I remember this thing I think unconsciously, which is that like I was kind of in control in this room, and yet somebody came in and like stole the room, and also was brilliant.所以，我记得这件事，我想是无意识的，那就是我在这个房间里似乎掌控着一切，但有人进来抢走了风头，而且非常出色。

repeat a passage fromverb

Quote: The only control or guardrails that AI needs is a strong and smart, high IQ president.引用：人工智能唯一需要的控制或护栏，就是一位强大、聪明、高智商的总统。

not easy to believeadverb

Every time we see you in a movie, you've grown up, so you look incredibly different every time we see you.每次我们在电影里看到你，你都长大了，所以每次我们看到你时，你看起来都非常不同。

the particular portion of space occupied by somethingnoun

But she was also in a pretty unique position to try this experiment.但她也处于一个非常独特的地位来尝试这个实验。

marked by peace and prosperityadjective

Where there's never been the golden age of America, and the Iran War will end very soon.美国从未有过的黄金时代就要到来，伊朗战争很快就会结束。

headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brimnoun, verb

But if you can't, you know, there's an ideal situation where you go outside, you look east, you take off a brim hat and sunglasses for a few minutes, and look.但如果做不到，你知道，理想的情况是你去户外，朝东看，摘掉遮阳帽和太阳镜几分钟，然后观察。

a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)noun

Like when you tap a new focal length, it does this ramping thing, which I don't love.比如当你点击新的焦距时，它会做这种渐变效果，我不太喜欢。

a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)noun

Since I adopted Uka, he wants to follow me in all my adventure, even if it's paragliding.自从我领养了Uka，他想跟随我参与我所有的冒险，即使是滑翔伞。

liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid foodnoun, verb

I usually eat something simple too: soup, rice, salad, noodles, or leftovers from dinner.我通常也吃得比较简单：汤、米饭、沙拉、面条，或者晚餐剩下的菜。

a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressurenoun

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 district of a city having some distinguishing characternoun

I'm also adding in three quarters of a cup, or 170 grams, of melted unsalted butter.我还要加入四分之三杯，也就是170克融化的无盐黄油。

to an extreme degreeadverb

So it's extremely difficult to find viral therapies that work in many different patients.因此，寻找适用于许多不同患者的病毒疗法极其困难。

a fact about some part (as opposed to general)noun, adjective

Because when the eyes move in a particular way, when the body moves, it shuts down a circuit in the back of the brain.因为当眼睛以特定方式移动，当身体移动时，它会关闭大脑后部的一个回路。

a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional servicesnoun

She had to get up and feed these puppies every two hours every night.她不得不每天晚上每隔两小时起床喂这些小狗。

round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus treesnoun

I've got my cat, cute orange cat.我有我的猫，可爱的橘猫。

a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in waternoun

Almost looks like a herbal tea, light yellow.几乎看起来像凉茶，浅黄色的。

workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unitnoun, verb

And now they are back exploring the farm, lounging around, and doing absolutely everything side by side.现在他们又回来了，探索农场，闲逛，并肩做着所有事情。

any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tailsnoun, verb

If I went back in time, I would join the Mickey Mouse Club.如果我能穿越回过去，我会加入米老鼠俱乐部。

an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actionsnoun, verb

Using purpose, I mean the thing you used to charge your phone.使用用途，我指的是你用来给手机充电的东西。

a person who works at a specific occupationnoun

You see, during the Industrial Revolution, the conditions for workers in Birmingham were very, very bad.你看，在工业革命期间，伯明翰工人的条件非常非常糟糕。

a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other servicesnoun

NordVPN also protects you during travel season by encrypting your connection when you connect to unknown Wi-Fi stations in hotels, airports, or cafes.NordVPN 还能在旅游旺季保护你，当你连接酒店、机场或咖啡馆的未知 Wi-Fi 时，它会加密你的连接。

an earlier section of a written textnoun, adjective, adverb

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。

like better; value more highlyverb

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。

the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)noun

Do you think about like how am I going to talk with new people today, or does it just kind of flow naturally?你会考虑今天该怎么和新认识的人交谈吗，还是说这只是自然而然发生的？

a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)noun

'Cause when it starts to fall, we'll stop spinning for a while.因为当开始坠落时，我们会停止旋转一会儿。

the act of gamblingnoun, verb

She bought a dog, and I bet it's Tom's money, of course.她买了一只狗，我敢打赌这当然是汤姆的钱。

fail to do something; leave something undoneverb

That failed, so we put the kittens behind the trap.那失败了，所以我们把小猫放在捕猫器后面。

a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic studynoun

I'm going to carefully skim the bottom and let any excess oil just drain off, and just slide it right over.我会小心地撇开底部，让多余的油沥干，然后直接滑入盘中。

financial assistance in time of neednoun, verb

No, was there a Galway girl that actually benefited from this?不，真的有“戈尔韦女孩”因为这个受益吗？

a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogramnoun

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。

occurring by chanceadjective

Oh gosh, well I don't know if I have it all, but I do feel very lucky to be able to give my cats an enjoyable life, and that they just bring me so much joy that truly, like anything I can do to return the favor, yeah, I I want to do.天哪，我不知道我是否拥有一切，但我确实感到非常幸运，能够给我的猫提供舒适的生活，它们带给我如此多的快乐，所以真的，任何我能做来回报它们的事，我都愿意去做。

a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)noun

We say catch a bus, take a break, have a seat.我们说 catch a bus（赶公交），take a break（休息一下），have a seat（请坐）。

the organization that is the governing authority of a political unitnoun

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。

a piece of material ready to be made into somethingnoun, verb, adjective

I want to use the chunk blank because blank.我想使用___这个语块，因为___。

under normal conditionsadverb

What do you normally eat for breakfast?你们早餐通常吃什么？

a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solutionnoun

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。

add up in number or quantityverb

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。

any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles togethernoun

I like to shadow podcast clips because they sound natural.我喜欢跟读播客片段，因为它们听起来很自然。

the 18th letter of the Roman alphabetnoun

It's Sorsy with an R, not Sorsy with an O, because Sorsy with an O goes R, not R.是Sorsy带个R，不是Sorsy带个O，因为Sorsy带个O念R，而不是R。

any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowersnoun

Now we got store bought syrups, strawberry and vanilla, and then we got homemade syrup, strawberry and vanilla.现在我们有商店买的糖浆，草莓和香草，然后我们有自制糖浆，草莓和香草。

negation of a word or group of wordsadverb

I mean, that was like the simplest form of cooking, non-cooking, that there is.我的意思是，那就像最简单的烹饪形式，非烹饪，就是那样。

a deep prolonged loud noisenoun

Later, he just turned around, just went boom, straight in the face, kicked my tooth out.后来，他转过身，直接砰的一声，踢中了我的脸，把我的牙踢掉了。

a small vessel for travel on waternoun, verb

And the people fill up these beaches and this bay gets full of boats.人们挤满了这些海滩，海湾里也停满了船只。

require as useful, just, or properverb

We've followed a lot of Audrey's rescues here at the Dodo, and one thing that she reminds us time and time again is that sometimes the hardest rescues require the most patience.我们在这里的Dodo网站上关注了奥黛丽的许多救援行动，她一次又一次地提醒我们，有时候最艰难的救援需要最大的耐心。

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100noun

Get instant access to thousands of recipes, tips, techniques, product reviews, and step-by-step videos.立即获取数千种食谱、技巧、技术、产品评论和分步视频。

imposing in size or bulk or solidityadjective

You know, they have to do like three hours of two during a day, and then they've also got to lead these massive films with like world famous directors, and you know, I think on most films that you do, especially at the beginning, it really feels like this is never going to happen again, and it's sort of like a summer camp.你知道，他们每天得花三个小时左右的时间学习，而且还得在世界级大导演执导的大制作电影中担任主角。你知道，我觉得在大多数电影拍摄中，尤其是在刚开始的时候，真的会感觉这种经历再也不会有了，就像夏令营一样。

a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.noun, verb

If your problem, excuse me, your Steam OS isn't really the best option.如果你的问题是……抱歉，你的 Steam OS 确实不是最好的选择。

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than anothernoun

After the first injection, the viruses couldn't believe their luck.在第一次注射后，病毒简直不敢相信自己的运气。

the act of giving temporary assistancenoun

So I took the lift up to the ninth floor, right up there, and now I have taken escalators all the way down, back down to the ground floor.所以我乘电梯上到九层，就在那里，现在我乘扶梯一路下来，回到地面层。

group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descentnoun

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。

the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon linenoun

But I grew up in South Portland, and then I traveled around a lot.但我是在南波特兰长大的，之后我四处旅行了很多地方。

a long narrow openingnoun

You have a side of you where you're fun and open, and side of you where you crack the whip a little bit.你有一面是风趣开朗的，另一面则是会稍微严厉管教人的。

(biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreednoun

Anywhere I've gone in Africa, you find the most extraordinary things: hundreds of new species to science.无论我在非洲去到哪里，都能发现最非凡的事物：数百种科学界尚不为人知的新物种。

regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general publicadjective

I'm sure there's some people out there who like it, but it is not a very popular design of library.我确定有人会喜欢它，但这不是一个很受欢迎的图书馆设计。

possessing lifeadjective

The author of this video is only alive because of chemo, so we're not talking it down at all.本视频的作者之所以能活着，全靠化疗，所以我们绝不是在贬低它。

a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Webnoun

We bought this retired school bus off a government auction website in Colorado.我们从科罗拉多州的一个政府拍卖网站上买下了这辆退役校车。

draw air into, and expel out of, the lungsverb

The things we're breathing in, the things we're eating, those are all causing changes in our DNA.我们呼吸的东西、吃的东西，都在引起我们DNA的变化。

an idea evoked by some experiencenoun

And she sort of looked at me and then and then and I was thinking, that wasn't the reaction I was hoping for.她看了看我，然后然后我在想，这不是我期望的反应。

the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earthnoun

It's going to be cold, and we're going to sleep under the stars, not just us and the sky.天气会很冷，我们要在星空下露营，只有我们和天空。

[医] 毫微米

You see that they're mmm, mmm.你看到他们在嗯，嗯。

take exception toverb

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。

the state of being actual or realnoun

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。

the 16th letter of the Roman alphabetnoun

So I put in my two p, pulled out the little drawer, and it snapped back with my finger in it.所以我投了两个便士，拉开小抽屉，结果它猛地弹回，夹住了我的手指。

the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christiansnoun

So on the Saturday each week, all of the workers would get a half day on Saturday.所以每周六，所有工人都会在周六休息半天。

a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadownoun

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。

a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)noun, verb

Don't just be watching stuff with guns.不要只看有枪的电影。

any art that invokes supernatural powersnoun

See, fluency is not magic; it's method.看，流利不是魔法；它是方法。

the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravitynoun

But here's what we know also for certain: exercise, cardiovascular exercise, resistance training, weight training, yoga, all those things we know greatly improve brain health.但我们也确定一件事：运动，心血管运动、阻力训练、举重、瑜伽，所有这些我们都知道能极大地改善大脑健康。

not openadjective

I've shut off the heat, and I'm just going to transfer these to a bowl with a slotted spoon.我已经关火了，现在用漏勺把它们盛到碗里。

an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injurynoun

Like many medical advances, this one was discovered by accident.像许多医学进步一样，这是偶然发现的。

a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a listnoun, adverb

That headline can definitely be improved because if you only looked at the photo, the headline could have been Graham's entering minute, now and slowly sounding out every item on the cracker barrel menu.这个标题绝对可以改进，因为如果你只看照片，标题本可以是“格雷厄姆进入了关键时刻，现在正慢慢读出饼干桶菜单上的每一项”。

being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)adjective

I often start a sentence like I'm writing a formal essay.我经常像写正式作文一样开头说话。

the quality of a person's voicenoun

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。

remote and separate physically or sociallyadjective, adverb

We're looking for the noodles to be slightly puffy, so they're starting to get tender, but they're not blown out or falling apart.我们要找的是那种稍微膨胀、开始变软，但又没有煮烂或散掉的面条。

not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensionsadjective

So it's thicker, a little bit more viscous, and it has this really strong soy aroma that's really going to come out in the dish and be a distinct characteristic.它更浓稠，粘度更高，有一种非常浓郁的酱香，这会在这道菜中充分体现出来，成为其独特的标志。

a small group of indispensable persons or thingsnoun

Connect the sentence to core lesson, not to memorize classroom answer.将句子与核心教训联系起来，而不是为了记住课堂答案。

continue to live through hardship or adversityverb

You've got three very complex players trying to kill each other, fighting inside a living human being that somehow has to survive.你有三个非常复杂的参与者试图互相残杀，而且是在一个必须存活下来的活生生的人体内进行战斗。

equality of score in a contestnoun

You give them a benefit that they couldn't get any other way, and you tie that to the technology.你要为他们提供一种无法通过其他方式获得的益处，并将这种益处与技术挂钩。

an event that accomplishes its intended purposenoun

The thickness of these noodles is really important to the success of this dish.面条的粗细对于这道菜的成功非常重要。

the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishmentnoun

But I think we're also losing the ability to feel our bodies, to understand subjectively what it means to be in good health and do I have energy today?但我认为我们也正在失去感知身体的能力，失去主观理解什么是健康的能力，比如我今天有精力吗？

an informal conversationnoun

So after that came out, I did send them a text message in our group chat, and I was like, I'm so sorry.所以那之后，我在我们的群聊里给她们发了条短信，我说，对不起。

any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goalnoun

If you scoop the flour up with a measuring cup, you're adding in like thirty, forty percent more flour than the recipe calls for.如果用量杯舀面粉，你加入的面粉会比食谱要求的多百分之三十到四十。

tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian timesnoun

I don't like these gummies because they taste like corn.我不喜欢这些软糖，因为它们尝起来像玉米。

involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harmadjective

After two years, it came back again and was removed again, and again, it came back stronger, bigger, and now even more dangerous than before.两年后，癌症复发了，再次被切除，但它又一次卷土重来，比以前更强、更大，也更危险。

put forward a claim and assert right or possession ofverb

And it was all sort of half an hour of sort of trying to pretend that I knew what she was talking about.然后大约半小时都在试图假装我知道她在说什么。

substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)verb

It's gotten to the point where they had a lot of people sort of questioning: Should we try to replace our Macs with iPads?现在已经到了很多人开始质疑的地步：我们应该尝试用 iPad 取代我们的 Mac 吗？

an optical device for viewing photographic transparenciesnoun

And if our viewers practice those chunks every day, even for 10 minutes, they will feel a real difference over time.如果我们的观众每天练习这些语块，哪怕只有10分钟，久而久之就会感受到真正的变化。

a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principalnoun

Claudia had always loved tiny things, but finding a pet she could truly bond with wasn't exactly easy.克劳迪娅一直很喜欢微小的东西，但要找到一只真正能建立情感联系的宠物并不容易。

travel to or penetrate intoverb

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。

something that cannot be donenoun, 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。

take in marriageverb

So, if you wanted to marry somebody and you were an employee at the Cadbury's chocolate factory, you would need permission from the company to decide sort of who you married.所以，如果你想结婚，而且你是吉百利巧克力工厂的员工，你需要获得公司的许可来决定你和谁结婚。

ten 10snoun

Cancer is hundreds of different diseases, and the best therapy depends on the type, location, and how far it has spread.癌症是数百种不同的疾病，最好的疗法取决于癌症的类型、位置以及扩散程度。

the site of an archeological explorationnoun, verb

We dig it up, pick it up out of the bay, put it in these haul barges like that, and that went down there.我们把它从海湾里挖出来，装进像那样的运输驳船里，然后运到那边。

(usually preceded by `in') a detail or pointnoun, verb

And I was going to see a really well known, well respected theatre casting director, and I was so excited.我要去见一位非常有名、备受尊敬的戏剧选角导演，我非常兴奋。

an excavation that is (usually) filled with waternoun

Everything was green, just like the old reflecting pool.到处都是绿色的，就像旧的倒影池一样。

marked by absence of soundadjective

This kind of English helps you stay connected instead of going silent.这种英语帮助你保持联系，而不是陷入沉默。

the bulb of an onion plantnoun

And then I finished up with some sliced red onion and some sweet red pepper.最后，我加入了一些切好的红洋葱和甜红椒。