Which adjective is NOT a synonym of 'congested'?

Which word means 'khu nhà ổ chuột'?

Which phrase means 'xe ngựa kéo'?

Which words are missing?

"Numerous _______ (bản kế hoạch, chương trình) were ________ (đề xuất) to ________ (giải quyết) these problems, but few succeeded."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"Amongst the most vocal advocates for a solution to London’s traffic problems was Charles Pearson, who worked as a solicitor for the City of London."

Which word is missing?

"His idea was to _______ (di dời) the poor workers who lived in the inner-city slums to newly constructed suburbs, and to provide cheap rail travel for them to get to work."

What does ' coincided with' mean?

What does 'submit a plan to the Parliament' mean?

What does the underlined word mean?

"The two groups merged and established the Metropolitan Railway Company in August 1854."

What does 'radical' mean?

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"The organisation had difficulty in raising the funding for such a radical and expensive scheme, not least because of the critical articles printed by the press."

Which word is a synonym of 'Objector'?

What do the sentences simply mean?

"Objectors argued that the tunnels would collapse under the weight of traffic overhead, buildings would be shaken and passengers would be poisoned by the emissions from the train engines. However, Pearson and his partners persisted."

What does 'minimise the expense of demolishing buildings' mean?

What does 'be scheduled to Verb' mean?

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"Even as the Metropolitan began operation, the first extensions to the line were being authorised; these were built over the next five years, reaching Moorgate in the east to London and Hammersmith in the west."

What are the missing words?

"The original plan was to pull the trains with ___________ (đầu máy hơi nước), using ______ (gạch chịu lửa) in the boilers to provide steam, but these engines were never introduced."

Which word is missing?

"Instead, the line used specially designed locomotives that were fitted with water tanks in which steam could be _________ (ngưng tụ)."

Which phrase means 'trục thông gió'?

"The London streets' congestion was partly that the existing underground lines formed a _______ (hệ thống vòng tròn) around the centre of London and extended to the suburbs, but did not cross the capital’s centre."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"Although the technology to create these tunnels existed, steam locomotives could not be used in such a confined space."

What does 'a reliable electric motor' mean?

Which noun is a synonym of 'a London tube'?

What does 'Medieval' mean?

What does 'Dominate' mean?

What does 'grand' mean?

What does the underlined word mean?

"Today, however, stadiums are regarded with growing scepticism."

What does 'mono-functional sports arenas' mean?

What is a synonym of the underlined adjective?

"Even today, architects and planners are finding new ways to adapt the mono-functional sports arenas which became emblematic of modernisation during the 20th century."

Which is a synonym of the underlined adjective?

"The amphitheatre* of Arles in southwest France, with a capacity of 25,000 spectators, is perhaps the best example of just how versatile stadiums can be."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"With the growing interest in conservation during the 19th century, it was converted back into an arena for the staging of bullfights, thereby returning the structure to its original use as a venue for public spectacles."

Which word can be synonymous with 'imposing'?

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"It has endured the centuries and is currently considered one of the world’s prime sites for opera, thanks to its outstanding acoustics."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"The area in the centre of the Italian town of Lucca, known as the Piazza dell’ Anfiteatro, is yet another impressive example of an amphitheatre becoming absorbed into the fabric of the city."

What does 'a salt depot' mean?

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"Today, the ruins of the amphitheatre remain embedded in the various shops and residences surrounding the public square."

What does 'reinforced concrete' mean?

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"Many of today’s most innovative architects see scope for the stadium to help improve the city."

What is a synonym of 'An urban hub'?

What does 'scope for' mean?

What does this sentence simply mean?

"There’s a growing trend for stadiums to be equipped with public spaces and services that serve a function beyond sport, such as hotels, retail outlets, conference centres, restaurants and bars, children’s playgrounds and green space."

What does the underlined word mean?

"Creating mixed-use developments such as this reinforces compactness and multi-functionality, making more efficient use of land and helping to regenerate urban spaces."

What does the underlined word mean?

"Creating mixed-use developments such as this reinforces compactness and multi-functionality, making more efficient use of land and helping to regenerate urban spaces."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"This opens the space up to families and a wider cross-section of society, instead of catering only to sportspeople and supporters."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"This opens the space up to families and a wider cross-section of society, instead of catering only to sportspeople and supporters."

What does "blueprint" mean?

What does this sentence simply mean?

"The phenomenon of stadium as power stations has arisen from the idea that energy problems can be overcome by integrating interconnected buildings by means of a smart grid, which is an electricity supply network that uses digital communications technology to detect and react to local changes in usage, without significant energy losses."

What does 'integrate' mean?

Which words are missing?

"Stadiums are ideal for these purposes, because their ________ (maí che) have a large surface area for fitting ___________ (tấm pin quang điện) and rise high enough (more than 40 metres) to make use of _____________ (tua bin gió siêu nhỏ)."

What does 'inaugurate' mean?

What does 'output of carbon dioxide' mean?

What does the underlined adjective mean?

"Sporting arenas have always been central to the life and culture of cities."

What is a synonym of the underlined adjective?

"Sporting arenas have always been central to the life and culture of cities."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"Charles Spencer’s latest book, To Catch a King, tells us the story of the hunt for King Charles II in the six weeks after his resounding defeat at the Battle of Worcester in September 1651."

What does the underlined verb mean?

"His father was executed by the Parliamentarians in 1649."

What does this sentence simply mean?

"After his father was executed by the Parliamentarians in 1649, the young Charles II sacrificed one of the very principles his father had died for and did a deal with Scots, thereby accepting Presbyterianism* as the national religion in return for being crowned King of Scots."

What does 'a pre-emptive strike' mean in Vietnamese?

What does this sentence simply mean?

"After being comprehensively defeated on the meadows outside the city by the Parliamentarian army, the 21-year-old king found himself the subject of a national manhunt, with a huge sum offered for his capture, through a series of heart-poundingly close escapes, to evade the Parliamentarians before seeking refuge in France."

What does 'Sacrifice something' mean?

What does 'prompt somebody to do something'?

What does 'Refuge' mean?

Which adjective means 'không xu dính túi'?

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"His intention when asking Pepys to commit his story to paper was to ensure that this most extraordinary episode was never forgotten."

Which words are missing?

"Over two three-hour sittings, the king _______ (kể lại) to him in great detail his personal _________ (hồi ức) of the six weeks he had spent as a _______ (kẻ chạy trốn)."

What does the underlined verb mean?

"Charles commenced his story: ‘After the battle was so absolutely lost as to be beyond hope of recovery, I began to think of the best way of saving myself.’"

What does this sentence simply mean?

"Charles commenced his story: ‘After the battle was so absolutely lost as to be beyond hope of recovery, I began to think of the best way of saving myself.’"

What does 'narrative' mean?

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"One of the joys of Spencer’s book, a result (not least) of its use of Charles II’s own narrative as well as those of his supporters, is just how close the reader gets to the action."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"Spencer draws out both the humour – such as the preposterous refusal of Charles’s friend Henry Wilmot to adopt disguise on the grounds that it was beneath his dignity – and the emotional tension when the secret of the king’s presence was cautiously revealed to his supporters."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"Spencer draws out both the humour – such as the preposterous refusal of Charles’s friend Henry Wilmot to adopt disguise on the grounds that it was beneath his dignity – and the emotional tension when the secret of the king’s presence was cautiously revealed to his supporters."

What does the underlined adjective mean?

"Almost everyone in England had been appalled by the execution of Charles' father."

What does this sentence mean?

"After almost a decade of civil war, people were desperate to avoid it beginning again."

What does this sentence simply mean?

"As well as retelling it to anyone who would listen, causing eye-rolling among courtiers, he set in train a series of initiatives to memorialise it."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"It is hard to imagine many other kings marking the lowest point in their life so enthusiastically, or indeed pulling off such an escape in the first place."

What does the sentence simply mean?

"His pacey, readable prose steers deftly clear of modern idioms and elegantly brings to life the details of the great tale."

What does this sentence simply mean?

"He has even-handed sympathy for both the fugitive king and the fierce republican regime that hunted him, and he succeeds in his desire to explore far more of the background of the story than previous books on the subject have done."

What is NOT a synony of 'even-handed'?

What does this sentence simply mean?

"The tantalizing question left, in the end, is that of what it all meant."

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"Did the need to assume disguises, to survive on wit and charm alone, to use trickery and subterfuge to escape from tight corners help form him?"

What does the sentence simply mean?

"Did the need to assume disguises, to survive on wit and charm alone, to use trickery and subterfuge to escape from tight corners help form him?"

What does the underlined phrase mean?

" This is the one area where the book doesn’t quite hit the mark."

What does the underlined word mean?

Instead its depiction of Charles II in his final years as an ineffective, pleasure-loving monarch doesn’t do justice to the man (neither is it accurate), or to the complexity of his character

What does the underlined phrase mean?

"Instead its depiction of Charles II in his final years as an ineffective, pleasure-loving monarch doesn’t do justice to the man (neither is it accurate), or to the complexity of his character."

What does this sentence simply mean?

"But this one niggle aside, To Catch a King is an excellent read, and those who come to it knowing little of the famous tale will find they have a treat in store."

What does 'Flee for one’s life' mean?

What does 'Conspiracy' mean in Vietnamese?

What does 'a religious conviction' mean?

Which word is a synonym of 'victory'?

What does 'Give an account of the circumstances' mean?

Which word can be a synonym of 'Unbiased'?

What is NOT a synonym of the verb 'Overlook'?

What does 'Omit' mean?

Which word is NOT synonymous with 'Deceit'?

What does the underlined phrase NOT mean?

"Charles II then formed a strategic alliance with the Scots, and in order to become King of Scots, he abandoned an important religious conviction that was held by his father and had contributed to his father’s death."