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Words

amendment

antiquity

boycott

crusade

emancipate

Pronunciation

English meanings

mndmnt

1. The act of changing

for the improvement
2. An alteration or
addition, as to a bill
3. A change made by
correction, or addition

ntkwt

1. The quality of being

ancient or very old
2. The far distant past
3. The people of ancient
times, the ancients

bkt

krused

mnspet

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impeach

mpit

07

laissez-faire

lsfr

To refuse to have
dealings with a person
or refuse to buy a
product as a protest or
means of coercion
1. Any of the military
expeditions undertaken
in the 11th-13th century
by the Christian powers
to recapture the Holy
Land from the Muslims
2. A vigorous and
dedicated action or
movement in favor of a
specific cause
1. To free from
bondage, oppression, or
restraint; liberate.
2. To release (a child)
from the control of
parents or a guardian.
1. To make an
accusation againsts.o
2. To raise doubts;
discredit or disparage

Vietnamese
meanings

Examples

1. Society may show

1. S sa i, s
signs of amendment.
ci thin tt hn
2.An amendment to
2,3. S sa i, s the defence bill
b sung (ch thiu 3. We made some
st, sai lm...)
amendments to the
document.
1. A China town of
1. Tnh trng, cht great antiquity
c xa, c k
2. Famous items of
2. i xa xa
classical antiquity
3. Ngi i xa, 3. Inventions which
c nhn xa
are unknown to the
antiquity.

Ty chay

The main opposition

parties are
boycotting the
elections.

1. Cuc vin
chinh ch thp
2. Chin dch hay
cuc vn ng ln

2. He was leading a
religious crusade
that did not respect
national boundaries.

Gii phng (ph

n, ngi n l...)

The war which

preserved the Union
and emancipated the
slaves.

1. Buc ti,t co
2. Gim pha, ni
xu, bi nh hay
bt li, ch trch

A doctrine that opposes c t do kinh

governmental regulation doanh (b hn ch
in commerce beyond the mc ti thiu)

1. His veracity can

be impeached.
2. An opposition
move to impeach the
President.
The doctrine of
laissez-faire and
unbridled

minimum necessary for

a free-enterprise system
to operate according to
its own economic laws

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liberate

lbret

09

renaissance

rnesns

10

sovereign

svrn

individualism.

1. How committed is
1. To set something free,
the leadership to
1. Phng thch, tr
as from oppressionor
liberating its people
t do cho ai
foreign control.
from poverty?
2. Th ga, gii
2. To release (a gas)
2. The CO2 is
phng kh
from combination.
liberated freely.
3. Trm cp, ly
3. To obtain by illegal or
3. He tried to sell
ca ai ci g
stealthy action
appliances liberated
during the riot.
1. A rebirth or revival
1. Popular art is
2. A revival of
experiencing a
intellectual or artistic
1. S phc hng
renaissance.
achievement and vigor
2. Thi phc hng 2. The Renaissance
3. Of, relating to, or
3. (thuc) Thi k at its best.
characteristic of the
phc hng
3. Renaissance
Renaissance or its
writers are often
artistic and intellectual
praised in the 13th.
works and styles.
1. The Russian
Federation declared
itself to be a
1. Self-governing or
sovereign republic.
independent
1. C ch quyn
2. Wild garlic, a
2. Having supreme rank 2. Ti quyn
sovereign remedy in
or power over sth
3. Ti cao
any healer's chest.
3. Paramount, supreme
3. No contract can
absolutely restrain a
sovereign power.

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Orthodox

/dks/

Following
Chnh thng
or conforming to
the traditionalor
generally accepted rules
or beliefs of
areligion, philosophy, or
practice.

Burkes views were

orthodox in his time.

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Inquisition

/kw
z()n/

1. She relented in
her determined i
nquisition
and offered help.
2.

13

Peasant

/pz()nt/

14

Mosque

/msk/

1. A period
1. S iu tra,
of prolonged and int
s thm tra
ensivequestioning.
chnh thc
2. (the
(ca to n)
Inquisition) An eccl 2. (s hc) To
esiastical tribunalesta
n d gio
blished by Pope
Gregory
IX circa 1232 for
the suppression of he
resy.
A poor smallholder or a Nng dn
gricultural labourerof
low
social status (chiefly in
historical useor with
reference
to subsistence farming i
npoorer countries).
A Muslim place of
Nh th Hi gio
worship

15

Synagogue

/sn/

1. A building in
1. Gio ng
which Jews meet for
Do thi
2.
Hi o Do
religiousworship or i
thi
nstruction.
2. An occasion on
which Jews meet in a
synagogue for
religious worship an
dinstruction.

As a result, poor
peasants might find
themselves paying
their does to a
wealthy peasant,
and never see the
lord at all.
From the top, we
can see mosques,
churches and
synagogues and
graveyard after
graveyard.
1. During the past
few years I have
been giving
workshops on the
psychology of
prayer at
temples,
synagogues, and
Jewish book fairs
nationwide.
2. Not longer after
that my mother

began to attend a
liberal
synagogue, and I
joined her.
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Conservativ
e

/knsvtv/

A person who
is averse to change and
holds traditional values.

Ngi bo th

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Feudalism

/
fjudlz()m
/

The dominant social

system
in medievalEurope, in
which the nobility held
lands from the Crown in
exchange for militaryser
vice, and vassals were
in turn tenantsof
the nobles, while
the peasants (villeinsor s
erfs)
were obliged to live on
their lordsland and give
him homage, labour,
and a share of
the produce, notionally i
n
exchange for military pr
otection.
/mdiv()l/ 1. Relating to the
Middle ages
2. informal Resembling
or likened to
theMiddle Ages,
especially in
being cruel,unciviliz
ed, or primitive.

Ch phong
kin

18

Medieval
(also
Mediaeval)

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Aristocracy

/arstkrsi/

1. The highest class in

certain societies,

1. Thuc thi
Trung c
2. Kiu Trung c

1. Tng lp qu
tc.
1.1. Chnh ph

He remains a
conservative in
constitutional
matters.
Of course, if we
were to ask a
medieval king to
describe feudalism,
he would not really
know what is was we
were asking of him.

1. The authority of
the early
medieval Church
in England was
no different to
that of any other
landowner.
2. Without
other people aro
und I wouldlet
my
flat degenerate in
to medieval
levels of squalor.
1. Classes are
obvious - there

typically comprising
ca tng lp
were the
people of noble birth
qu tc thng
aristocracy, the
holding hereditary tit
tr.
middle class or
1.2.
Ch

les and offices.

bourgeois, and of
1.1.
A form of
qu tc.
course the
1.3.
Nhng
government in which
peasantry or
ngi
tiu
biu
power is held by
rustic class.
nht
the nobility.
1.1. Aristotle
1.2.
A state in
produced a
which governing po
complex
wer is held by
taxonomy of
the nobility.
constitutions, the
1.3. A group regarded
three main types
as privileged or
of which are
superior in
monarchy,
a particular sphere.
aristocracy, and
democracy.
1.2.
1.3. In more
recent years the
new aristocracies
of the pop world
have changed the
city's landscape
in their own
glamorous ways.
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Bourgeois

/bw/

1. Belonging to or
1. (thuc) giai
characteristic of
cp t sn.
2. T sn
the middle class,
3. Ngi t sn
typically with
reference to
itsperceived material
istic values orconven
tional attitudes.
2. (In Marxist contexts)
upholding the
interests of capitalis
m; not communist.
3. A bourgeois person

1. In fact,
throughout the
19th century, the
French state was
a bourgeois state
which echoed
middle-class
needs and values.
2. At one point,
Communists said
that bourgeois
democracy was a
step forward
from feudalism.
3. At the end of
1968, a group of
student rebels
accused Li of

being a newly
born bourgeois

01

rake over
the ashes

When people rake over

the ashes, they discuss
an unpleasant event
which took place in the
past.

02

history in
the making

Something very
important that is
happening now

Thi khc lch s

03

turn back
the hands of
time

To turn back the hands

of time means to go
back to the past.

Quay ngc thi

gian, tr v qu
kh

04

in times
past

Long ago, in previous

times

Trong qu kh,
trc y

knight in
shining
armour

A knight in shining
armour is a heroic,
idealised male who
typically comes to the
rescue of a female.

05

Khui tn d, bi
mc tro tn

Anh hung o gip

My grandfather's
business went
bankrupt years go,
but he still rakes
over the ashes from
time to time
The broadcast gave a
vivid account of
medical history in
the making.
If I could turn back
the hands of time, I
wouldn't have done
what I did.
In times past, you
would not have been
able to wear casual
clothing to work. In
times past, the air
always seemed
fresher and cleaner.
He saved me from
humiliation hes
my knight in shining
armour.