日曜日, 10月 11, 2009

Assignment 3: 10/16 Studio Classroom

avatar
noun. 虛擬化身
English definition:
in computing, an image which represents you in online games,
chat rooms, etc. and which you can move around the screen using the mouse or keys


In this article, it said avatar is simply an online representation of a person.



thought possible
The complete sentence is "Today, thousands of people can do things they never thought possible."

"Thought possible" is a abbreviation of "thought that's possible".
It means that think the things can't be able to be done or achieved, or be able to exist.

For example, People can now live in space longer than anyone ever thought possible thirty years ago.



representation of
representation means the way that someone or something is shown or described
when you want to describe something/someone as something/someone,
then you could use the phrase "representation of."

For example, He gave a talk on the representation of women in 19th-century art.


In this part of assignment, I use the online dictionaries
to advance my vocabulary which I never used before.
With English definitions, even it might spend more time to realize,
I could get more impressions to memorize it easily.

1 コメント:

Sally さんのコメント...

Very nice note, Lin. You're right, reading the English definition from the monolingual dictionary may take some more time, but it's very helpful to English learning.