day 70trends
unit 10 · society & the newstrends
Describe trends in society: what’s in, what’s out, who moves where and how people fit in.
today’s words
- 当代 dāngdài · contemporary
- 当今 dāngjīn · nowadays, today
- 潮流 cháoliú · trend, tide
- 过时 guòshí · out of date
- 酷 kù · cool
- 圈 quān · circle; to circle
- 主流 zhǔliú · mainstream
- 多元 duōyuán · diverse, pluralistic
- 新兴 xīnxīng · emerging, newly rising
- 兴起 xīngqǐ · to rise, spring up
- 涌现 yǒngxiàn · to emerge in large numbers
- 落后 luòhòu · backward; to fall behind
- 流动 liúdòng · to flow; mobile
- 移民 yímín · to emigrate; immigrant
- 外来 wàilái · from outside, foreign
- 本土 běntǔ · local, home-grown
- 融入 róngrù · to blend into, fit in
- 地方 dìfāng · local (vs central)
- 州 zhōu · state, prefecture
- 密集 mìjí · dense, crowded
- 聚集 jùjí · to gather, assemble
- 群众 qúnzhòng · the public, the people
- 民众 mínzhòng · the public, citizens
- 公众 gōngzhòng · the public
- 外界 wàijiè · the outside world
sentences
- 当代年轻人的生活方式越来越多元。 · Young people today live in more and more different ways.
- 这几年，小城市也出现了太阳能等新兴行业。 · In recent years, new industries such as solar power have sprung up in small cities too.
- 以前比较落后的地方，现在交通也方便了。 · Places that used to be less developed are now easy to get to.
- 他移民国外十年，还是没能完全融入当地的生活。 · Ten years after emigrating, he still hasn’t fully fitted in.
- 他放着好好的地铁不坐，一定要自己开车。 · He has a perfectly good metro, but insists on driving.