English Language Center
- attending (verb): going to
- I'm thinking about attending a language school in England next fall.
- content-based classes (noun): classes that focus on a particular subject
- This program is well-known for its emphasis in content-based classes such as engineering.
- literacy (noun): the ability to read and write
- Literacy is one key to educating the public.
- deadlines (noun): dates by which something must be done or completed
- What is the deadline for submitting my application?
- apply (verb): to turn in or submit an application
- I've decided to apply for an academic scholarship.
Movie Show Times
- senior (noun): an older person
- Senior citizens receive discounts on movie tickets.
- buck (noun): informal for dollar
- Some popcorn and a drink only cost a few bucks at that movie theater.
- purchase (verb): buy
- Let's purchase the movie tickets online so we don't have to wait in line at the theater.
- kitty-corner (adjective): slanted diagonally across two corners of a street intersection
- The movie theater is kitty-corner the post office on First Street.
- up-to-date (adjective): current or latest
- I always check movie listings online for the most up-to-date information about show times and ticket prices.
粽子相關英文用法
1. dumplings
For example:What are more than ten women doing in the temple, not sleeping but deftly tying the dumplings?
2.tzung-tzu
For example:According to the custom of Taiwan and southern Fukien, families in mourning are not supposed to make nien-kao or tzung-tzu for the holidays, but they can be given some as a present by their neighbors.
3.zongzi
For example:As housewives and older men, shopping basket on arm, chatted with whoever they met at the market or at roadside stalls, they would ask: "How do they cook this back where you come from?" Thus they swapped all kinds of recipes.
Chou Chao-ching says that in this way her mother learned to make all kinds of tasty foods, such as candied ginger, candied garlic, chilli sauce, zongzi (steamed glutinous-rice dumplings), sausage, cured pork and fermented bean curd.
