流利说 L5-U3 P2 Vocabulary

——Verbs about information——

Exchange: to swap or change one thing for another.

When we buy something, we exchange money for the product.

In the human body, oxygen is exchanged for CO2 in the lungs.

When they exchanged smiled, I knew we were close to an agreement.

Cooperate: to work together, or collaborate.

Instead of competing with each other we should cooperate.

A good manager can get people to cooperate, even if they are on different teams.

We need him to cooperate instead of refusing to work with us.

Capture: to catch and hold something; the opposite of release.

The prisoners escaped, but they were captured within a few days.

In war, armies try to capture territory and defeat their enemies on the battlefield.

If you are captured by the enemy, you probably won’t survive.

To distribute or share: to pass around or give to others unselfishly.

One reason that company is successful is that it has a profit sharing plan.

After the earthquake, the army came and distributed food and water to the survivors.

Nobody wanted to share their supplies, so people started fighting.

Eliminate: to get rid of or dispose of.

Waste products must be eliminated from our bodies or we will die.

Teams were eliminated from the competition when they lost too many games.

The government is doing its best to eliminate waste and reward conservations.