Giải thích từ vựng_IELTS Cambridge 11_ Test 2 Raising the mary rose

Reading text 1: IELTS Cambridge 11 – Test 2
Raising the Mary Rose



Highlighted vocabulary:
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Words & Word Form
Seabed (n) / ˈsiːbed /
Fleet (n) / fliːt /

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Engage in sth (v)
/ ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ /
Engage sb in sth
Overladen (a) /əʊvəˈleɪdən/
Mishandle (v) /mɪsˈhændl /

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Meaning and/or Examples + Collocations
= the floor of the sea/ocean (đáy biển)
= a group of military ships commanded by the same person
(đội tàu, đoàn tàu, hạm đội)
= to take part in, to make sb take part in sth (tham gia,
tham dự)

= having too large or too heavy (quá nặng, quá tải)
= to treat sb / sth in a rough and careless way / in a bad
manner (hành hạ, bạc đãi, ngược đãi)
• The equipment could be dangerous if mishandled.

 mishandling (n)
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Undisputed (a)
/ ʌndɪˈspjuːtɪd /

= irrefutable (synonym)
= that cannot be questioned or proved to be false
= that everyone accepts or recognizes
(không thể nghi ngờ, không thể tranh cãi, không thể bác bỏ
được)
• undisputed facts
• The date of the painting is now undisputed.
• the undisputed champion of the world
• an undisputed masterpiece

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Starboard (n) / ˈstɑːbəd /

= the side of a ship or an aircraft that is on the right when
you are facing forward (mạn phải tàu / thuyền, cánh phải
máy bay)

≠ port (n) / pɔːt /

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Degrade (v) / dɪˈɡreɪd /

 degradation (n) / deɡrəˈdeɪʃn /

 port: the side of a ship or aircraft that is on the left when
you are facing forward (mạn trái, cánh trái)

= to spoil or destroy the beauty or quality of sth
= to make sth become worse, especially in quality
(phá hủy, hủy hoại, làm hư hại)
• Every day the environment is further degraded by


toxic wastes.
 degradation (n) = the process of sth being damaged or
made worse
• environmental degradation
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Intact (a) / ɪnˈtækt /

= undamaged (synonym)
= complete and not damaged, in original states (không bị
ảnh hưởng, không bị hư hại, còn nguyên vẹn)
• Most of the house remains intact even after two
hundred years.

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Obstruct (v) / əbˈstrʌkt /

= to block a road, an entrance, a passage, etc. so that
sb/sth cannot get through
= to prevent sb/sth from doing sth or making progress = to
hinder (synonym)
(ngăn cản, cản trở, làm tắc nghẽn)
• You can't park here, you're obstructing my
driveway.
• The pillar obstructed our view of the stage.
• They were charged with obstructing the police in
the course of their duty.
 = sự cản trở, vật cản trở, vật gây trở ngại
= to stick out from a place or a surface (thò ra, nhô ra, lồi
ra)
• protruding teeth
• He hung his coat on a nail protruding from the
wall.

 Obstruction (n)
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Protrude (v) / prəˈtruːd /
 protrude from sth

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Intermittent (a) /ɪntəˈmɪtənt /

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 intermittently (adv)
Obscurity (n) / əbˈskjʊərəti /

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Wreck (n) / rek /

= a ship that has sunk or that has been very badly
damaged (đắm tàu, tàu bị chìm)

 wreck (v)

 (v) = to damage / spoil or destroy sth completely

= stopping and starting often over a period of time, but not
regularly (từng cơn, từng hồi, gián đoạn, lúc có lúc không)
• intermittent bursts of applause (lúc vỗ tay lúc
không)
• intermittent showers (lúc mưa lúc không)
• Protests continued intermittently throughout
November.
= the state in which sb/sth is not well known or has been
forgotten (tình trạng lu mờ, tối tăm, ít người nhớ đến hay
biết đến)
• He was briefly famous in his twenties but then sank
into obscurity.
• He rose from relative obscurity to worldwide

recognition.


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Excavate (v) / ˈekskəveɪt /

 excavation (n) /ekskəˈveɪʃn /
 excavator (n) / ˈekskəveɪtə/

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Salvage (v) / ˈsælvɪdʒ /
 salvage from sth

= to dig in the ground to look for old buildings or objects
that have been buried for a long time; to find sth by digging
in this way (đào, khai quật)
• The site has been excavated by archaeologists.
 excavation (n) = the activity of digging in the ground
 excavator (n) = a person who digs in the ground to look
for old buildings and objects; a large machine that is used
for digging and moving earth (người khai quật, máy đào,
máy xúc)
= to save a badly damaged ship, etc. from being lost
completely; to save parts or property from a damaged ship
or from a fire, etc (cứu đắm, cứu khỏi hỏa hoạn, cứu hộ)
• The wreck was salvaged by a team from the RAF.
• We only managed to salvage two paintings from
the fire.