Vocabulary about natural disasters

Vocabulary

No.

Word

1 abrupt

Transcript

/əˈbrʌpt/

2 baby carriage /ˈbeɪbi ˈkærɪdʒ/

Audio

Class

adj.

n.

3 battery

/ˈbæt(ə)ri/

n.

4 behave

/bɪˈheɪv/

v.

5 border

/ˈbɔːrdər/

v.

6 bureau

/ˈbjʊrəʊ/

n.

7 can

/kæn/

v.

8 carriage

/ˈkærɪdʒ/

n.

Meaning

Example

I was surprised
bất ngờ, by the abrupt
đột ngột change of
subject.
The baby was
xe nôi
put into the baby
carriage.
Please charge
ắc quy,
the battery; it is
pin
very low now.
cư xử,
ứng xử, He always
có cử
behaved like a
chỉ, hành gentleman.
động
tiếp giáp The states
với, giáp border the Black
với
Sea.
văn
The Washington
phòng,
post has a
cơ
bureau in

quan,
London.
cục
The food is
đóng hộp
carefully canned.
xe ngựa The king sat on a


9 Celsius

/ˈselsɪəs/

n.

10 coast

/kəʊst/

n.

11 collapse

/kəˈlæps/

v.

12 damage

/ˈdæmɪdʒ/

n.

13 destroy

/dɪˈstrɔɪ/

v.

14 disaster

/dɪˈzæstər/

n.

15 earthquake

/ˈɜːrθkweɪk/

n.

16 erupt

/ɪˈrʌpt/

v.

17 expect

/ɪkˈspekt/

v.

18 extensive

/ɪkˈstensɪv/

adj.

19 fixture

/ˈfɪkstʃə/

n.

20 flashlight

/ˈflæʃlaɪt/

n.

horse-drawn
carriage.
Water boils at
độ C
100 degrees
Celsius.
They sailed
bờ biển further up the
coast.

đổ, sụp, The roof
sập, đổ collapsed on top
sập
of me.
hư hỏng,
hỏng
The damage to
hóc, thiệt his car was
hại vật considerable.
chất
The room had
phá hủy,
been destroyed
phá hỏng
by fire.
tai họa, 159 people died
thảm họa in the disaster.
It is the most
terrible
động đất
earthquake I've
ever seen.
phun,
Hot lava erupted
phun trào from the crust.
We expect
employers to pay
mong đợi
a reasonable
salary.

It is an extensive
lớn, rộng
collection of
lớn
silver.
đồ vật cố
The price of the
định
house included
(dùng
many fixtures
trong gia
and fittings.
đình)
đèn pin The children
used the
flashlight to find a


21 forecast

/ˈfɔːrkæst/

n.

22 funnel

/ˈfʌn(ə)l/

n.

23 furniture

/ˈfɜːnɪtʃə/

n.

24 highland

/ˈhaɪlənd/

n.

25 ladder

/ˈlædə/

n.

26 latch

/lætʃ/

n.

27 lift

/lɪft/

v.

28 rim

/rɪm/

n.

29 shift

/ʃɪft/

n.
v.

30 snowstorm

/ˈsnəʊstɔːrm/

n.

31 thunderstorm /ˈθʌndəstɔːrm/

n.

pen under their
bed.
bản tin My mother
dự báo, always listens to
chương the weather
trình dự forecast in the

báo
evening.
He poured wine
cái phễu into a bottle
through a funnel.
He decorated his
đồ đạc, house with
đồ gỗ
expensive
furniture.
She lives in a
vùng núi,
highland region
vùng cao
of Vietnam.
My father asked
cái thang me to hold a
ladder for him.
The latch on this
chốt cửa,
door was
then cửa
broken.
He lifted his
nâng lên,
trophy over his
nhấc lên
head.
vành,
The kid ate an

miệng, egg cupcake with
gọng
the gold rim.
sự
chuyển He shifted a
dịch (n), little
in
his
chuyển chair.
dịch (v)
The snowstorm
last month
bão tuyết caused a lot of
damage for the
residents here.
bão có We are used to
sấm sét suffering from the
và mưa annual


to

32 tidal

/ˈtaɪd(ə)l/

adj.

33 tide

/taɪd/

n.

34 tornado

/tɔːˈneɪdəʊ/

n.

35 typhoon

/taɪˈfuːn/

n.

36 volcano

/vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/

n.

37 active volcano /ˈæktɪv vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/

38

extinct
volcano

39 volume

n.

/ɪkˈstɪŋkt vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/

n.

/ˈvɒljuːm/

n.

thuộc
thủy
triều, do
thủy triều

thunderstorms.

The two people
were watching
the strong tidal
waves.
The rising tide
thủy triều covered the
wharf.
A lot of people
lốc xoáy, died in the
bão lớn tornado
yesterday.
Such a terrible

bão nhiệt typhoon is
đới
spreading over
the country.
This volcano
núi lửa hasn't erupted for
years.
núi lửa
There are many
đang
active volcanoes
hoạt
in Japan.
động
That extinct
núi lửa volcano suddenly
đã tắt
erupted
yesterday.
âm
lượng,
Please turn up the
lượng,
volume.
khối
lượng