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Why thinking about death helps you live a better life – Alua Arthur
- Day dies into night : khi ngày tàn vào đêm
- The wind fluttering through the leaves /ˈflʌt.ər/ : Scream yourself + adj
tiếng gió lướt qua kẽ lá
- To smell very faintly /ˈfeɪnt.li/ :mùi thoang
thoảng
- Dying body : xác chết
=> dying tradition/dying industry (n)
- Socks (n): đôi tất => socks on my feet
- Bra (formal: brassiere /ˈbræz.i.eər/) /brɑː/ B2
(n): áo ngực
- To be coming to haunt everybody: đang trở
nên ám ảnh với ..
Haunt sb/sth B2 /hɔːnt/ (v): (gây ra đau khổ or lo
lắng repeatedly)
Haunt (n) = a place often visited
- Terrorize (v): khủng bố ( by threatening to kill
or hurt them)
- To talk amongst themselves and comfort each
other (v): nch và an ủi lẫn nhau
To be talking sth (dùng để nhấn mạnh lượng
tiền, mức độ nghiêm trọng của sth)
To talk to/with sb (about sth)
To be (not) about to V: sắp làm gì, sth sắp sửa
xra (100%)
- Affair B2 (n): công việc, vấn đề
An extramarital affair B2 = a sexual relationship
(secret one)
- In order (adv): hợp lệ (giấy tờ)
- To be/have nothing to do with someone B2
(phrase): không liên quan (to be a matter/subject
someone has no good reason to know about)
- Grief C1 /ɡriːf/ (n): nỗi đau (especially at the
dealth of someone); problems and worry
Grief for sb/sth; grief over/at sth
To come to grief = to end in total failure
Good grief! : express surprise or shock
- To be devoid of something /dɪˈvɔɪd/ (formal)
(a) = to lack or be without sth that is
necessary or usual
- To be satiated /ˈseɪ.ʃi.eɪt/ (thường dùng bị
động) (formal): hài lòng
- Notice B1 (v): nhận thấy
To be noticed by.. = to bring someone to the
attetion of the public cuz an unsual skill, etc..
To notice sb/sth + V/Ving
To come/bring to my notice B1: Nhận đc tb
- Somebody has released/drawn one’s last
breath : ai đó trút hơi thở cuối cùng
With your last/dying breath (idiom-literary)
= just before you die
- Realistically speaking C2 (adv): thực tế mà nói
- To be probably going to V: sẽ (thông qua nghe,
nhìn..)
- Go kicking (v): đấm đá
- Scream B2 (v): la hét (cuz you’re hurt,
frightened, excited..)
Scream in/with sth
Scream out (in/with sth) => scream out in terror
- To be/remain a mystery B1 (v): vẫn là 1 bí ẩn
- To lead up something C2 (v): đãn đến thời
điểm đó
- To have no recollection of something
- Period (n): tiết học
Period pains (n): đau bụng kinh; to miss a period
- Aging (a/n): lão hoá
Immortal (a): bất tử
- Immoral B2 (a): vô đạo đức
To live off immoral earnings (v): kiêm sống nhờ
prostitution) = having sex in exchange for money
To beg for something B2
= to make a very strong/urgent request
= to ask for food or money cuz you’re poor
- To burn (something) down; to burn down
something B2 (v): to destroy sth, especially a
building, by fire, or to be destroyed by fire
- To be (so) / to get + over it (phrase): to feel
physically or mentally better after an illness or
an upsetting experience
- Finite C2 /ˈfaɪ.naɪt/ (a): hữu hạn
- the passage of time (phrase-literary)
= the process of time going past
To mark the passage of time (v)
- To embrace Ving/N C1 /ɪmˈbreɪs/ (v): chấp
nhận enthusiastically
Embrace C2 (v/n): ôm
Embrace C1 (formal) = include; often as one of
a number of things
- Death doulas (n): nh ng hỗ trợ và giảm nhẹ nỗi
đau cho ng sắp chết, giúp họ ra đi trong yên
bình
- Holistic care (n): dịch vụ chăm sóc toàn diện
- Acknowledge C1 (v): thừa nhận
To acknowledge someone as something
To acknowledge Ving/that..
- Privilege C1 /ˈprɪv.əl.ɪdʒ/ (n): đặc ân, đặc
quyền (usually because of their position or rich)
To have the privilege of something
= it is/was a (real/..) privilege to V
- By serendipity (formal) (adv): tình cờ (fiding
interesting or valuable things)
- Necessity (n): bắt buộc
- A little over ten years ago
To grow tired/depressed/old/calm, etc.. B2
= to gradually become tired,..
- To take a (medical/an unpaid) leave of
absence (v): xin nghỉ để chữa bệnh, xin nghỉ
việc không lương
- Uterine cancer /ˈjuː.tər.aɪn/ (n): ung thư cổ tử
cung
- illuminating (formal): sáng tỏ (giving you new
inf about a subject or making it easier to
understand)
A highly illuminating conversation (n)

- Firsthand (adv): trực tiếp
- Beforehand (adv): ealier (than a particular
time)
- How hard it was for someone : ai đó đã khó
khăn ntn
- To make space/room/way for sb C2 (phrase)
- To take the invitation (v): nhận lời mời
- Grim C2 (a): nghiệt ngã (worrying, without
hope)
- To live life on my own terms
- To contend with something B2 /kənˈtent/
- Brother-in-law B2 (n): anh rể
- Niece (n): cháu gái
- To usher sb to the end of one’s life /ˈʌʃ.ər/  (v)
- To love so dearly = very much
- To grow my capacity for compassion (v): giúp
tôi tăng cường lòng trắc ẩn, từ bi
- To walk through the same thing at the same
time
- Hint B1 (v): ám chỉ
- To walk alongside us (v): sánh bước cùng cta
- To sort through information B2 (v): sắp xếp ttin
(and) that sort of thing B1 (informal): đại loại thế
(cuối câu)
- Vantage point  /ˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/ (n): điểm thuận lợi
(a high place) (1 cách suy nghĩ or tập hợp các ý
kiến dựa trên tình huống cụ thể của bạn)
- To consciously curate my life /kjʊəˈreɪt/ (v):
quản lí, chịu trách nhiệm cs của tôi 1 cách có ý
thức
- Anyway (adv): dù sao đi nữa
- To make sense (v): có ý nghĩa
- Flagrant /ˈfleɪ.ɡrənt/ (a): trắng trợn ( of a bad
action, situation, person,..) shocking because of
being so obvious
- Unconscionable (a): vô lương tâm
- To be way too + adj (to V) (từ way để nhấn
mạnh cho cấu trúc too + adj)
- juicy C2 (informal-often before noun): hấp dẫn
(describe inf that is especially interesting cuz
shock or personal)
Because as juicy as their stories are: vì câu
chuyện của họ hấp dẫn ntn
- To shove together (v): xô đẩy nhau
- Applicable (a): affecting or relating to a person
or thing
To universally applicable (to V) (a): có thể áp
dụng phổ biến
- To keep the lights on (idiom): duy trì hoạt động
(business, system, ..)
- Adversity (n): nghịch cảnh ( a difficlut or
unlucky situation or event)
Courage in the face of adversity
- A real trailblazer (n): ng tiên phong thực sự
A trailblazer in the field of genetic engineering/..
- An aggressive B2 bone cancer (n)
- To be likely going to V
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- To come a sense of pointlessness to one’s life
(v): cs ai trở nên vô nghĩa
- 60-odd years : 60 năm qua
- To be so busy Ving (v): bận làm gì đó
- Career milestone (n)
- To be present with what was going on (v): đối
mặt vs nh gì đang xra
- To turn out (v): hoá ra là
- To build a fire (v): đốt lửa
- Diet (v): ăn kiêng
- The french fries (n): khoai tây chiên
- Brownies (n): nh cái bánh hạnh nhân
- Chemotherapy /ˌkiː.məʊˈθer.ə.pi/ (n): hoá trị
(the treatment of diseases using chemicals
- To ravage sth (v-often passive): tàn phá (to
cause great damage to something)
- Taste buds (n): vị giác
- To get pleasure out of eating (v): tìm thấy niềm
vui khi ăn uống
- She did it as much as she could : nh nhất có
thể
- S no longer V
S should/may/might + no longer V
SVO no longer
S + Verb (to be) no longer verb/adjective/noun
- Passion fruit souffle (n): súp chanh leo
- Lick B2 (v): liếm
- Hospice (n): nhà tế bần (a hospital for people
who are dying, especially from cancer)
- Delighting (a): thích thú
Delight (v): to give someone great pleasure or
satisfaction.
- The richness of the sensory experience
- Every single day
To be gone (v): ra đi
- Career accomplishments /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ.mənt/ (n):
nhiều thành tựu sự nghiệp
- To care about sth
- Worthy C1 (a-formal): xứng đáng (desearving
respect, admiration, or support)
To be (especially) worthy of notice/attention…
C2 (formal)
- Birthright (n): quyền bẩm sinh
- Applause C1 /əˈplɔːz/ (n): tràng pháo tay
To meet with loud applause (v): nhận được …
- Messily (adv): lộn xộn
- Meaning-making machine (n) cỗ máy tạo ra ý
nghĩa
- To make a story out of anything (v): tạo ra câu
chuyện từ bất cứ thứ gì
- Mundane C1 /mʌnˈdeɪn/ (a): tầm thường (very
ordinary and therefore not interesting)
The magic of the mundane (n): sự kì diệu của
tạo hoá
- Absolve /əbˈzɑːlv/ (v-formal): tha thứ
To absolve sb from/of something (v)
- grand C1 (a): impressive and large or
important
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Grand life purpose (n)

- To give oneselves permission to V
- Fallible (a): dễ sai lầm
- To trip out on + loại thuốc (v): trải nghiệm
những ảnh hưởng or dùng thuốc cấm mà gây ra
cho người dùng nghe, nhìn, or cảm nhận những
thứ k tồn tại
- To be getting bent out of shape (v): dần trở
nên mất cân đối (khó chịu, tức giận)
- Merge /mɜːdʒ/ C2 (v): hợp nhất, xác nhập
To merge something into something
- To hold life lightly (v): coi nhẹ cuộc đời
- Icky (a): unpleasant, especially to look at
- The very fragile human ego (n): cái tôi rất
mỏng manh của con người
- Disquieting /dɪˈskwaɪə.tɪŋ/ (a-formal): gây khó
chịu, causing worry
- Utter powerlessness (n): sự bất lực hoàn toàn
- Absurd B2 (a): vô lí
- To recoil in fear /rɪˈkɔɪl/ (v): lùi bước vì sợ hãi
- Barefoot (a/adv): chân trần
To bite into sth (v): cắn
- Despair B2 (n): sự tuyệt vọng
To be in the depths of despair about/over sth:
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School is just the start. Here’s how to help girls succeed for life – Angeline Murimirwa
- crisis B2 (n): a time of great disagreement,
confusion, or suffering
Public health/economic/financial/political +
crisis /ˈkraɪ.sɪs/ (n)
To be in crisis (n)
To pass the crisis/reach crisis point B2 : a time
when a problem, illness, bad situation is at its
worst point
- radically C1 /ˈræd.ɪ.kəl.i/  (adv)
= completely = extremely
= in a way that removes all diseased tissue (mô)
- overwhelm + sb/sth C1 /ˌəʊ.vəˈwelm/ (v): áp đảo
Overwhelming C1 (a): choáng ngợp
(difficult to fight against)
- tear B2 /teər/ (v): rách, xé (tear,tore,torn); rơi
nước mắt
To tear something + adv/prep/adj
- to be attached to sb/sth  /əˈtætʃt/
= to like sb/sth very much: gắn bó,..
To attach + sth to something
sth: (great) importance/signigicance/value/(too)
much weight : coi trọng
To attach to sb/sth = to be connected with sth
= to connect sth to sth
To be attached to sth
- stigma /ˈstɪɡ.mə/ (n): sự kì thị
- alcoholism (n): chứng nghiện rượu
- mental illness (n): bệnh tâm thần
- to be wracked by something /ræk/: bị dằn vặt
- guilt B2 /ɡɪlt/ (n): tội lỗi
Feelings of guilt = a pang of guilt
To go tearing along something = to move very
quickly
To bring tears to one’s eyes = to cause sb to cry
To burst into tears = to suddenly start to cry
To be in crying
- child marriage (n): tảo hôn
- crucially /ˈkruː.ʃəl.i/ (adv): điều quan trọng là,
cực kỳ
- to accompany someone to sth (a social event,
an entertainment,B2 travel, or show sb how to
get to somewhere )
To be accompanied by something/sb: đi kèm
To accompany sb (at/on + musical instrument)
C1 (phrase): đệm nhạc cho ai
- weight C2 (n): respect, influence, trust, or importance.
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To admit/establish one’s guilt B2
- to reap the benefits/rewards/sth (good) C2 /riːp/
- to place on the shoulders of somebody
To be in place (phrase) = organized = correct
position
In place of someone/something B2 (adv) = instead
of someone or something
To take the place of someone/something B2 (phrae)
= replace
- odd B2 (a) = strange = unexpected
C2 (a before n) = not happening often
Number(10,20,30,40,..)-odd : to show that the
exact number is not known
To beat the odds on somebody (v): vượt qua khó khăn
- sisterhood (n): tình chị em
- to lean on sb/sth (v): nương tựa (giúp bạn trong thế bí)
To lean on someone C2 (informal): dựa vào
(cố gắng khiến ai lm điều bạn muốn = đe doạ or
tp )
A lean company/organization: does not use too
many people or spend too much money, so that
there is no waste (efficient)
- agency (n): quyền tự quyết, C1 a government
organization
Through the agency of someone (formal)
= because of the actions of someone
- to hold (something) back (phrase): kìm hãm lại
(cuz of fear or you don’t wanna make a bad situation)
- decent clothes (n): quần áo tươm tất
- safeguard sth/sb against/from sth /ˈseɪf.ɡɑːd/ (v): bảo vệ
- to lift women’s voices up (v): nâng cao tiếng nói
của người phụ nữ
to carry the weight of something (v): mang theo gánh nặng
- jargon (n): biệt ngữ
- loan sb sth (v): cho ai vay tiền
- to show up (v): xuất hiện
- to hide from something
- inspector (n): thanh tra
- to pay back one’s mom’s sacrifice (v): đền đáp
sự hi sinh của mẹ mình
- sane (a): tỉnh táo
- energized (a)
- during the toughest of times
- to sit at the heart of something
- co-find (v)
- as you are
- silver bullet (n): viên đạn bạc
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How life on Earth adapts to you and me – Shane Campbell-Station

- It’s this sense of connectivity with the rest of the living world
- trim (v)
- reshuffle (v)
- breakneck speed (n): tốc độ chóng mặt
- manipulate (v): điều khiển
- domesticated (a)
- ecological interaction (n)
- industrialized agriculture (n)
- to delicate my life to Ving
- paradox (n): nghịch lý
- To be simultaneously incredibly fragile (a): đồng thời cục kì mong manh
- relentlessly (adv): không ngừng
- resilient (a): kiên cường
- the thing that impresses me most
- devastating impact
- to be constantly in awe of something (a): không ngừng kinh ngạc trước
- literally (adv): nghĩa đen
- to exploit the novel resources (v):
- to avoid the potential dangers
- to chase after something
- sticky toe pads (n): những miếng đệm ngón chân dính
- heat tolerance (n): khả năng chịu nhiệt
- to come up with something (v): lặp đi lặp lại
- long(est)-lasting impact (n)
- in response to something: trước
- ivory poaching (n): nạn săn trộm ngà voi
- trademark
- under most circumstances
- trait (n): đặc điểm
- to put somebody at a decided avantage
- capture (n)
- collar (v): quấn cổ
- sedate (v)
- groggy
- something really struck me
- nine out of ten of the members of her species
- slaughter (v)
- matriarch (n): trưởng mẫu
- to make trinkets (v): lm đồ trang sức
- to say out loud
- ridiculous (a): lố bịch
- diagnose (v)
- mutation (n): đột biến
- to be resposible for something
- to be more predisposed to Ving (a): dễ mắc
- resistant (a)
- explosion (n): vụ nổ
- to be (immediately) evacuated from where (v): được so tán khỏi
- exclusion zone (n)
- proleferate (v): sinh sôi nảy nở
- elevated radiation level (n)
- wolf pup (n): sói con
- accumulate (v): tích tụ
- mammalian anti-tumor immune response (n): phản ứng miễn dịch chống khối u của đv có vú
- physiological impact (n): tác động sinh lý
- as a matter of fact,..: trên thực tế
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- there is a distinct possibility

- a major mass extinction event (n)
- redemption (n): sự cứu chuộc
- inherit (v): thừa hưởng
- revel (v): say mê
- etch (v): khắc sâu
- endless (a): vô tận
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Is remore work better than being in the office? It’s complicated

- remote work (n)
- to spell destruction for business (v): gây ra sự huỷ hoại cho doanh nghiệp
- hybrid work
- seniority (n): thâm niên công tác
- personal situation (n): hoàn cảnh cá nhân
- to go on and on (v): đi và về
- stakeholder commitment (n): cam kết với các bên liên quan
- staffing discussion (n)
- cultivate
- social fabric (n): kết cấu xã hội
- to highlight challenges inherent
- universally (adv): toàn cầu
- to be wary of something (a): cảnh giác với
- necessarily (adv)
- short-term efficiency (n)
- to delineate work-life boudaries (v): phân định danh rới giữa cv và cs
- school-aged children (n)
- collaboratively (adv)
- contextual answer (n)
- recruiter (n) = employer
- flexible-work (a)
- in effect (adv): trên thực tế
- tech company
- on-site daycare (n): nhà trẻ tại chỗ
- crux (n): mấu chốt
- decompress (v)
- to shake off a particularly rough day
- to be immersed in something (v): để đắm chìm trong..
- sense-making (n)
- narrative (n)
- given approach (n): phương pháp tiếp cận cố định
- on top of that, SV
- evolving (a): đang phát triển
- repercussion (n): hậu quả
- distinct (a): riêng biệt
- subordinate (n): cấp dưới
- Leadership (n): lãnh đạo