✨Dilly-dally = Lollygag = to waste/pass time doing unimportant things

🔻Stop lollygagging! Get back to your work, lazy slob.


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🔻 YOU SOLD ME = you convinced me because you were persuasive 🤔
لقد اقنعتني!

➖Ok, you’ve sold me. I'll go to the match with you.

🔻YOU SOLD ME OUT = you snitched on me/ you let my secret out 😠
لقد وشيت بي/ كشفت سري/ فضحتني

➖I asked you to keep it to yourself! I can't believe you sold me out, I trusted you!


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✨Schwa UK [ʃwɑː] US [ʃwɑ]

noun [countable]
[singular schwa; plural schwas] #linguistics
 
= a vowel sound used in unstressed syllables , for example the sound of ‘a’ in ‘above’. Its symbol is ə.


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Statistics 🆚 Statistic


🔻1-Statistics

(also #informal stats) [plural] 

= a collection of information shown in numbers

🔹Analysis of crime statistics showed high levels of violent crime within the area.
🔹Statistics show that far more people are able to ride a bicycle than can drive a car.
🔹These statistics are misleading. 

🔘according to statistics 

🔹According to official statistics, the disease killed over 500 people. 

🔘statistics on something 

🔹He should read some of the statistics on economic growth.


🔻2-Statistics

(also #informal stats) [uncountable] 

= the science of collecting and analysing statistics

🔹There is a compulsory course in statistics.
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🔻3-Statistic
 
(also #informal stat) [countable] 

= a piece of information shown in numbers

🔹An important statistic is that 94 per cent of crime relates to property.
🔹As with every statistic, there are trends behind the numbers.
🔹I felt I was no longer being treated as a person but as a statistic.


✨By Prof. Omar Alamri

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🔻Be all go
✨مشغول جداً / مزدحم

= be (a situation where people are) very active or busy: #informal


➖It was all go in the office today.


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🔻Average Joe
✨شخص عادي مثل أي شخص آخر

= a person who is like everyone else; a normal guy.


➖I’m just an average Joe. I’m married, I have two kids and I work a nine-to-five job. I’m normal!

🔻”Average Jane” is used for females!


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🔻Learner Errors with “LAY”


  ✨Lay means 👉🏻 to put something in a particular place or position:

➖I always lay my clothes carefully on the chair when I undress.
➖He laid the book on the desk.

  ✨Lie means 👉🏻 to be in a particular place or position:

➖I found the cat lying in front of the fire.
➖He loves to lie on the beach all day.
➖Papers were lying all over the desk.

  ✨Lay is also 👉🏻 the past form of the verb lie:
➖The book lay on the floor where I’d left it.


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🔘Quarantine
🔻حجر / محجر صحي
🔻يحجر صحياً
#noun, #verb

UK /ˈkwɒr.ən.tiːn/
US /ˈkwɔːr.ən.tiːn/

= a period of time during which an animal or person that might have a disease is kept away from other people or animals so that the disease cannot spread:

✨The patient had to spend several days in quarantine because of coronavirus.🦠


🔘Home quarantine
🔻الحجر المنزلي/المؤسسي

🔘Voluntary/Self-quarantine
🔻الحجر الذاتي/ الطوعي


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🦠Coronavirus: The Words You Need To Understand the News


🔻Asymptomatic
🔻عديم الأعراض
= showing no evidence of disease.

🔻CDC
🔻مركز مكافحة الأمراض ( الاسم المختصر )
= stands for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a US federal agency based in Atlanta, Georgia.

🔻Community spread
🔻انتشار مرض مجهول المصدر
= is spread of a disease where the infection source is unknown.

🔻Communicable
🔻معدي
= capable of being easily communicated (spread) or transmitted.

🔻Coronavirus
🔻فيروس كورونا المستجد
= refers to any of various RNA-containing spherical viruses of the family Coronaviridae, including several that cause acute respiratory illnesses.
Notable types of coronavirus are SARS, MERS, and COVID-19.

🔻COVID-19
🔻المصطلح العلمي لفيروس كورونا
= COVID is short for coronavirus disease. The number 19 refers to the fact that the disease was first detected in 2019.

🔻Epidemic
🔻وباء متفشي في منطقة محددة (غير عالمي)
= a disease spreading from person to person in a locality where that disease is not permanently prevalent.

🔻Epidemiology
🔻علم الأوبئة
= is the branch of medicine dealing with the incidence and prevalence of disease in large populations and with detection of the source and cause of epidemics of infectious disease.
🔘An epidemiologist is a person who studies or is an expert in epidemiology.

🔻Flatten the curve
🔻تخفيض مؤشر إرتفاع المنحنى (= منع انتشار الوباء و تقليل عدد الإصابات خلال فترة زمنية قصيرة)
= slowing the spread of an epidemic disease so that the capacity of the healthcare system doesn’t become overwhelmed.

🔻Herd immunity
🔻مناعة جماعية
= is the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.

🔻Immunity
🔻مناعة
= is the state of being immune from (“protected from a disease”) or insusceptible to a particular disease; the condition that permits either natural or acquired resistance to disease.

🔻Immunocompromised
🔻منقوص المناعة
= having an impaired or compromised immune response; also referred to as immune-compromised or immunodeficient.

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🔻Incubation period
🔻فترة حضانة المرض : و هي الفترة بين الإصابة بالمرض وظهور أعراضه
= the period between infection and the appearance of signs of a disease.

🔻Isolation
🔻العزل الصحي
= is the complete separation from others of a person suffering from contagious or infectious disease.

🔘Self-isolation is voluntary isolation.
🔘العزل الذاتي

🔻Mitigation
🔻سُبُل تخفيف / تقليل
= measures taken to slow the spread of infection.

🔻Pandemic
🔻وباء متفشي ( في جميع أنحاء العالم )
= is a disease prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world. A pandemic is an epidemic that has spread over a large area.
Pandemic can be both a #noun and an #adjective (e.g., a pandemic disease).

🔻Quarantine
🔻الحجر الصحي
= is a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
🔘Self-quarantine is when someone isn’t ordered to go into quarantine but chooses to do so out of caution; also called voluntary quarantine.
🔘الحجر الصحي الذاتي / الطوعي

🔻Screening
🔻فحص / تنظير
= examining a person to see if they have a disease. This frequently involves taking their temperature, asking about symptoms, and asking about potential exposures to infected people.

🔻Social distancing
🔻التباعد الاجتماعي (المسافات التي تقلل الاتصال بين مجموعات كبيرة من الناس)
Social distancing refers to measures that reduce contact between large groups of people.
The CDC specifically recommends maintaining a distance of 6 feet (2 meters) between people.

🔻Symptom
🔻عَرَض / علامة / دلالة
= is a phenomenon that arises from and accompanies a particular disease or disorder and serves as an indication of it.

🔻Virus
🔻فيروس
= an infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals.

🔻WHO
🔻منظمة الصحة العالمية (الاسم المختصر)
WHO stands for the World Health Organization, a United Nations agency based in Geneva, Switzerland.

🔻Zoonotic
🔻حيواني المنشأ/ المصدر
= relating to any disease of animals communicable to humans. The #noun form is zoonosis.

#Vocabulary_Coronavirus
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✨Keep updated with WHO website!

https://www.who.int/

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✨All the rage
✨آخر موضة/ الموضة الشائعة

= If something is all the rage, it's very popular or it's in fashion at the moment.


🔻Long hair for men was all the rage in the 70s.

🔻When Hans was a kid, skate boards were all the rage.

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📌Remember!


The verbs discuss, enter, marry, lack, resemble and approach are normally followed by objects WITHOUT prepositions.

🔹She married with an old man.✘
◽️She married an old man.✅

🔹We must discuss about the plans.✘
◽️We must discuss the plans.✅

🔹The baby resembles to its dad.✘
◽️The baby resembles its dad.✅


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🔻If you are down in the dumps or in the dumps, you feel depressed.
🔻مكتئب

✨Try to be sources of support for each other when one of you is feeling down in the dumps.


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