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map
معنی و توضیح
The word “map,” in this podcast, means a piece of paper with drawings and text showing the location of places: “Where can I find a map of the city’s subway system?” Or, “Their wedding invitation included a small map showing how to get to the hotel from the freeway.” A “road map” shows the location of roads and streets and is used while driving. A “political map” shows the borders between countries: “This political map won’t help us drive across the country. We need a road map.” The phrase “to put (something) on the map” means to make a place famous or well known: “Making an important discovery would help to put our university on the map.” The phrase “to wipe (something) off the map” means to destroy something completely, so that nothing is left “In the 1980s, people worried that a nuclear war could wipe the country off the map.” to scale In this podcast, the phrase “to scale” means with a constant (unchanging) ratio between the actual distance between points A and B and the distance between points A and B on a map: “It’s difficult to illustrate the solar system to scale, because the distances between the planets are so large compared to the size of the planets themselves.” When talking about animals, a “scale” is one of the flat, small pieces covering the skin of a snake or fish: “Look how colorful those fish scales are!” A “bathroom scale” is a device that one steps on to find out how much one weighs: “After eating so much food over the holidays, I’m scared to 3 these materials on another website or distributing them in any way is prohibited. English as a Second Language Podcast www.eslpod.com ESL Podcast 581 – Reading a World Map step on the bathroom scale!” Finally, the word “scale” refers to the amount or level of something: “The earthquake caused large-scale damage.”
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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 581: Reading a World Map.
This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 581. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
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This episode is called “Reading a World Map.” We’re going to talk about vocabulary related to maps. This is a dialogue between Greg and Julianna. Let’s get started.
Greg: What are you doing with that map and that globe?
Julianna: I’m trying to keep track of Carmen as she travels from country to country. I just got another postcard from her today.
Greg: I’m not sure I like the idea of my daughter traveling around the world with a group of people for three months. It’s not
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