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Essential Reading 2_Unit 5
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By: Teresa Yuh-yi 談玉儀

From: Cobuild Dictionary and Essential Reading 2

 Vocabularies

Unit 5 “The Body Beautiful”

 

 

1.     attractive: fair; good-looking

2.     awful: terrible

3.     booming: growing

4.     A clinic (診所) is a building where people go to receive medical advice or treatment.        

5.     competitive: rival

6.     complain: find fault

7.     confidence: trust

8.     disaster: trouble; ruin

9.     Eyelids (眼皮,眼瞼) are the two pieces of skin which cover your eyes when they are closed.

10.          Influence is to have an effect on the way that person behaves or thinks. The word is also a noun.

11.    per capita: each person

12.    Plastic (整形的) derives from the Greek plastikos meaning to mold or to shape

13.    positive: sure

14.    Proud (adj) means feeling pleased about something that you own or have done, or are connected with. The noun is pride.

15.  Respect means a feeling of admiration for somebody because of his or her good qualities or achievements.

16.  Surgery (手術) is medical treatment in which someone's body is cut open so that a doctor can repair, remove, or replace a diseased or damaged part.

17.  Plastic Surgery 整形外科

l  Plastic surgery is the practice of performing operations to repair or replace skin which has been damaged, or to improve people's appearance.

18.    under the knife 在外科手術中

19.    tricky: sly, problematic

20.    typical: model

21.    warning: advice

 

 

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