2017/10/06

Since the 1100s, people use a ridiculous way to convict murders. People believed when corpse and murder are in the same room, the wound of the dead people would bleed. They use this way, cruentation, to judge a people whether they are guilty. There is no credible evidence showing how cruentation began to start, but there is a 16th century's poem described a story about how cruentation work. Base on modern knowledge, corpses will "bleed" with jostled, but it can not mean anything. During that time, people believed in the God and witchcraft, even their King James. Therefore, they had plenty of ridiculous ways to test people guilty or not. Moreover, women's testimonials have not received the attention, so they usually not accounted into cruentation.
Response:
Due to the lack of knowledge, many innocent people at that ages are persecuted and tutored by those ridiculous laws. I feel very regret to people who born in that periods. Thanks for today's technology, murders can be easy to find out.
Question:
1. What the name of the treatise which is written by King James?
2. Cruentation also called as?
3. In the famous test, people in Europe believe that who will float and who will sink? 
2017/10/11

Original: Predators such as snakes and scorpions, however, use venom, which must enter another animal's body by physical trauma to properly work.

 

Traumatic: (adjective)

Traumatize: (v)

Traumatology: (n)

 

Definition: 

any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

My own sentence: 

It was a trauma to all those involved in the terrorist attack in Las Vegas.

Synonyms:  wound,  injury

Original: But people didn’t practice cruentation because of science; they believed in literal courtroom miracles.

Definition: Cruentation was one of the medieval methods of finding proof against a suspected murderer. The common belief was that the body of the victim would spontaneously bleed in the presence of the murdere

Synonym: bleeding

 

ailment(n)

Original: Despite the testimony of three servants who saw Mertine beat her, Lake had died not from the beating but of an ailment called “fits of the mother,” akin to hysteria.

Definition: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

Synonym: illness

Original: To help you celebrate, we've summoned up that history, as well as a number of fun-size facts.

Summoner(n.)

Definition: call in an official matter, such as to attend court

My own sentence: she summoned medical assistance

Synonyms: stir oneself，nerve oneself

Original: The Celts donned animal skin to hide themselves from spirits, or they wore masks and blackened their faces to impersonate ancestors who had preceded them to the spirit world.
Don(n.)

Definition: put clothing on one's body

My own sentence: She donned a beautiful dress.

Synonyms: wear, put on, get into, assume

Original: The Celts donned animal skin to hide themselves from spirits, or they wore masks and blackened their faces to impersonate ancestors who had preceded them to the spirit world.

Definition: pretend to be someone you are not

Synonym：imitate, act

Original: Revelers disguised as spirits are also believed to have gone from house to house engaging in silly acts in exchange for food and drink.

Definition: people who are enjoying themselves in a lively and noisy way.

Synonym: partygoers

 

Response: This genre of this article is very funny. For instance, the author wrote, "the tigress is quite, and the lioness likes jogging and playing." The comparison is the difference between two people with two distinct personalities. And this topic is creative. I never imagined that the animals could take care of each other. Every animal has its mode of living.

 

Questions:
1. What the difference between the tigress and the lioness?

2. What does the "cross-fostering" mean?

3. When mother animals would infanticide"

Pedigree: (n, adj)

Original: Sergei Asnovin, the Vladivostok Zoo's director, also told CCTV+ that the fluffy white dog has "good pedigree, good blood," and its size and temperament make it a good match for the cubs.

Definition: the descendants of one individual

My Own Sentence: This chart, also known as a pedigree, lists members of each generation of your biological family, with all available health and disease information.

Synonym: blood, stem

 

Original: Cross-fostering, in which baby animals are separated from their birth parents and raised by surrogates, is fairly common.

Definition: a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

My own sentence: I see her as a friend and a surrogate sister.

Synonym: agent

Original: Zookeepers have also set up the trio with a Central Asian shepherd dog.

Definition: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

My own sentence: He met this trio at a concert by accident. 

Synonyms: triplet，triad

Original: Sergei Asnovin, the Vladivostok Zoo's director, also told CCTV+ that the fluffy white dog has "good pedigree, good blood," and its size and temperament make it a good match for the cubs.

Definition: your usual mood

My own sentence: He has an artistic temperament.

Synonyms: character，disposition

1. Are the dogs smarter than cats? How do you know?

2. For comparison, who have by far the highest number of neurons in our cerebral cortexes?

3. Previous and sometimes controversial work to quantify intelligence has measured what?

Original: One of our most contentious debates may now have an answer.

Definition: inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

"a style described as abrasive and contentious"

My own sentence: After a contentious meeting, I made time to walk around the block.

Synonyms: objectionable，litigant

Original: Two brains were used to study dogs because the canines vary so greatly in size.

Definition: one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars

My own sentence: I think there’s a better to motivate yourself with the human equivalent of canine obedience training.

Synonyms: dogtooth，cuspid

 

by Ramon Arratia-December 18, 2012

 

Summary: As we don't have the time to know all the environmental impact of products that we have purchased, many people create labels with quick assurance, but flawed. Most of them don't provide all the information about products or lack reliable certificate, or just duplicate each other. Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) requires companies to label the ingredients and environmental impact, but few of companies do so. From a full product transparency, we can know everything informed about the product, such as raw material, processing, delivery and so on, then judging by comparing those aspects and environmental impact. We will end the greenwash through the transparency and achieve conscious purchase one day.

 

Response: I have more fear when I go shopping now than before, especially when I buy food. Under the appealing package, I have no idea about the products. I worry about if there are some unhealthy chemical materials in them, whether workers wear gloves when they produce chocolate, and how butchers treat cattle to make beef. So transparency not only provides more information about products to consumers but more safety.

 

1. Can you give an example of a label that caters to the EPDs, except the case of cars mentioned in the article?

2. How is the product transparency related to the conscious approach of buying?

3. In your opinion, do you think is it realistic that all products would have detailed labels with full product transparency in the future? Why?

 

Original: That's why there have been so many people- from gurus, to NGOs, to certification sharks, to industry associations-inventing so many lucrative labels that offer quick assurance about product sustainability credentials.

Definition: producing a sizeable profit

My own sentence: I hope I can have a lucrative job after graduation.

Synonym: remunerative, profitable

Original: Conventional marketing is about strong, simple claims like "cheapest," "fastest" and "biggest."

Definition: in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past.

My own sentence: Men still wore their hair short and dressed conventionally.

Synonym: traditional, usual

Original: One of our most contentious debates may now have an answer.

Definition: involving or likely to cause controversy

My own sentence: The death penalty is expected to be among the most contentious issue.

Synonym: objectionable

Original: To make her results-yielding "brain soup," as she calls it, the research team used only a part of the brain called the cerebral cortex, the crinkly outer layer that sits on top of the brain's other pieces.

Definition: of or relating to the cerebrum or brain            

My own Sentence: Doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head.

Synonym: encephalic

Original: Unfortunately, some of the best-marketed labels are the least robust.

Definition: marked by richness and fullness of flavor

My own sentence: So 2008 is more likely to be a robust market.

Synonyms: healthy，crude，gross，fine，rough

 

 

Original: It’s not surprising that people look for shortcuts to help them decide.

Definition: a route shorter than the usual one

My own sentence: There is no shortcut when you study.

Synonyms: highway，cut-short