I have chosen two articles related to death. First of them concerns the largest study on the possibility of life and conscience after death. The second one (you may laugh but it's actually a serious matter) is about deadly selfies.
1. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/life-after-death-largest-ever-study-provides-evidence-that-out-of-body-and-near-death-experiences-9780195.html
VOCABULARY:
clinically dead –
when somebody is declared to have stopped living on the basis of medical
observation of cessation of heartbeat and respiration, even though his or her
brain continues its activity
When the doctors
declared her clinically dead, her husband was the one to decide when she would
be disconnected from life support.
Clinical death remains
a discutable issue, as medical scientists disagree whether the cessation of
respiration and heartbeat or the stop of the brain functions constitute the
determinative moment.
hallucinatory - being, resembling or causing a
hallucination; illusory, phantasmagoric.
He was stranded in the
desert for so long, that the heat and the lack of water started to give him
hallucinatory visions.
We should stop
quarelling about hallucinatory problems and start seeing the issues that are
truly burdensome.
to give an account of
sth – to give testimony of, to relate sth.
When they met after
many years, Sandy gave Tom an account of her exotic voyages.
Many individuals gave
account of their seeing a tall, lean figure in a black suit, so afterall,
perhaps Slenderman exists beyond the urban legend.
to bleep – to
give a short, high-pitched electronic sound in order to attract attention.
Suddenly, my computer
bleeped, I saw an error warning, the screen flickered and went off.
Gathered by our
father’s hospital bed, we greeted every bleep of the life-support machine with
relief.
compatibile with
sth/sb – working well with, being well suited with sth/sb
Me and my husband are
perfectly compatibile – we share the household duties, we have the similar
interests and we never quarrell.
This printer is
compatibile with any kind of operating system.
Nowadays, professional
career and personal life are rarely compatibile.
to gore – when an
animal with horns or tusks pierces with it through flesh and there is a lot of
blood everywhere (note also: ‘gore’ (n)
– blod that has been shed, especially as a result of violence [Oxford
Dictionary]).
Things went badly for
the toreador when he was gored by the fierce bull.
A proper medieval
combat included severed limbs and gore soaking in the soil of the battlefield.
to go viral – to
become very successful or widely discussed on the Internet, to spread quickly
from one Internet user to another. (Think of a virus that spreads rapidly all
over the world).
The image of the
Grumpy Cat went viral after the first meme featuring the poor animal appeared
on one of the websites.
The newest trend in
marketing is putting ads on the blogs that have recently gone viral – this is a
good way to attract a large number of potential buyers.
a let-up – a
decrease in intensity of something dangerous, difficult or tiring.
The snow is going to
stop next week, so everybody is expecting a let-up to the cold snap.
I have been as busy as
a bee recently and there are still a lot of things to do, so I don’t think I
can hope for any let-up until the summer holidays.
death-defying –
willing to face a deadly danger / perceived as extremely risky or dangerous.
Beowulf took up a
death-defying challenge of defeating Grendel the monster completely unarmed.
Are you joking? The
exam is tomorrow and you’re telling me you haven’t studied yet? And you know
that professor Jones is very strict. That’s basically a death-defying approach
to the task!
to draw the line at
sth – to refuse to do something because it’s wrong or too extreme, to
refuse to go any further than sth
He usually spoke his
mind very openly and used strong vocabulary but he drew the line at swear
words.
I know
that everybody has the right to decide of his own body, but I think we should
draw the line at unregulated abortion and euthasia.
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