structure

individual

function

environment

structure /?str?kt??(r)/

?[UC]. the way that something is built, arranged, or organized.

ex. The entire building is made of stone, so it has a really solid structure.

[VN] to arrange or organize in a particular way.

ex. Using my Google Calendar/?k?l?nd?(r)/

helps me structure my week. (structure--arrange)

examples：

1: Here, the physical structure of the brain is actually changing.

[the way that the tissues, nerve cells and so on are arranged to make the brain]

2: I was 27 years old with on job, no partner, no structure.

[no structure to life, no set schedule, no obligations, no structure to live in. Some people like having a lot of structural lives, and others hate structure. I myself like some structure, set working hours, and of course having kids require structure because of their needs and their routines.]

3：And that's had a really big impact on how we structure our teams, how we scope our projects.

[How we set them or how we organize them, how many people around the team, how many leaders around the team. for example.]

4：It helped me structure my outline.

[ An outline is a plan for something like a paper. If you have a major research paper you write an outline first, what you argue here, what you present there, that kind of things, so to structure you outline means to organize it. How many main questions would you have, how many supporting points or main points and so on.]

5: What's so important to humans is our social structure.

[The people of society how do you organize yourselves, how do we feel that we fall in with the community around us.]

individual /??nd??v?d?u?l/

（c. adj.）one member or one particular person.

ex. I need a different individual to sign as a witness.(C.) An egg carton has twelve individual spaces.(adj.)

examples：

1：Now I ask certainly for the individual, but what about for society, for someone who concerns.

[individual that is one person versus society, everybody, or people.]

2: And so a liberal view stresses the possibility of individual freedom.

[individual freedom that is what freedoms rights individual a single person has, again things like the laws and the rules for society that might dictate certain aspects of individual's life]

[dictate v.命令，規(guī)定；影響，支配；口述，使聽寫]

3: The National Museum Krakow is home to thousands of individual art pieces.

[individual art pieces, so this would be one piece of art, a painting, a vase, as opposed to a collection of several or many pieces.]

[as opposed to：與......相對(duì)：用于表示與另一事物相對(duì)或?qū)Ρ取

4: So the fish are coming up onto a boat on individual hooks.

[individual hooks, that is one hook as opposed to a net that might bring in hundreds of fish at once.]

5：the demands of their individual learning can be night and day.

[individual learning, what works for one person's education might not work for another, each individual, each person learns differently.]

[night and day：這里指“天差地別”]

function /?f??k?(?)n/

[CU]something or someone's special purpose

ex. Sometimes our TV's function is to babysit.

[VI] to work or operate

ex. In customer service, I function as a problem solver.

examples：

1：You have to bring all of these components together so that they can function as one.

[they can function as one: work as one, operate as one]

2：but we really concentrate on hand function, hand injuries.

[hand function: how the hand works]

3: We've talk about how this is actually a constitutionally mandated function of government, to gather these data.

[a mandated function of government: the constitution says this is something the government is suppose to do, this is the purpose of the government.]

4: Do you think courts function as change agents or should function as change agents in our society？

你認(rèn)為法院在我們的社會(huì)中起著變革者的作用，或者應(yīng)該起著變革者的作用嗎？

[change agents 變革推動(dòng)者：指在組織或社會(huì)中推動(dòng)變革、創(chuàng)新和改進(jìn)的個(gè)人或團(tuán)體。]

[function as change agents is the purpose of the courts system to change society]

5: So my function was to entertain the other kids.

[my function: what I was supposed to do, my purpose, my job.]

environment /?n?va?r?nm?nt/

[CU] the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

Human activity affects the earth's environment on many levels.

examples:

1: You bring it up at a dinner party or in a workplace environment.

你可以在晚宴或工作環(huán)境中提起這件事。

[bring it up：提出：在談話或討論中提出某個(gè)話題或問(wèn)題。]

[a workplace environment: the surrounding they work, that would be different than your home environment for example]

2: The media environment-particularly the social media environment-drives negativity.

[the social media environment: the conditions around the security by social media like checking our posts, comparing with others, these conditions can drive negativity.]

3: I'm in this environment where all my teammates, they were better than me.

[in the environment with all my teammates, in the surrounding with teammates, in the place with my teammates]

4: Nobody's born with an accent, the accent comes from the environment.

[comes from the environment: comes from surroundings]

5: Controlled environment agriculture is actually just a fancy way of saying weather- or climate-proof farming.

受控環(huán)境農(nóng)業(yè)實(shí)際上只是一種花哨的說(shuō)法，意味著抗天氣或氣候變化的農(nóng)業(yè)

[controlled environment ：try to control the things surround us]