able - disabled - enable - ably - ability - disability

1. able 

/ˈeɪbl/ (≠ unable /ʌnˈeɪbl/) (a) Có năng lực, có khả năng

• Local farmers were able to make a decent living selling their produce.
• Humans are uniquely able to use true language.
• I was just able to make out a dark figure in the distance.
• Once you've had some sleep you'll feel better able to cope.
• She is not physically able to take care of herself.
• Unfortunately they weren't able to come.

2. disabled 

/dɪsˈeɪbld/ (adj)  vô hiệu hóa, mất khả năng

• physically/mentally disabled
• a new home for severely disabled people
• He was born disabled.
• The museum has special facilities for disabled people.
• Does the theatre have disabled access?

3. enable 

/ɪˈneɪbl/ (v) Làm cho có thể

• His desire to enable all students to achieve their musical potential.
• The app enables you to create your own designs and share them with friends.
• The price cut would enable the government to reduce power bills.

4. ably

 /ˈeɪbli/ (adv) Một cách có tài

• We were ably assisted by a team of volunteers.

5. Ability  

(≠ inability) (n) Năng lực, khả năng

• I seem to have lost my ability to attract clients.
• He has this innate ability to see beyond the range of most people.
• The system has the ability to run more than one program at the same time.
• Everyone has the right to good medical care regardless of their ability to pay.

6. disability  

/ˌdɪsəˈbɪləti/ (n)  sự bất lực, sự bất tài, sự không có khả năng

• Many children with mild disabilities are integrated in general education.
• No one knows what causes learning disabilities.
• The programme offers support to people living with disability.
• Up to 20 per cent have a learning disability.
• children who have severe developmental disabilities
• lectures for students with hearing disabilities
• those with a visible or a hidden disability
• He has a permanent disability which prevents him from working as a labourer.
• She works in a school for children with learning disabilities.

17 cụm từ hay để diễn tả cảm xúc trong ielts speaking

Khi tâm trạng của chúng ta đang cảm thấy nhiều cảm xúc vui vẻ,  phấn chấn, và hạnh phúc thì sẽ phải diễn tả bằng các tính từ chỉ cảm  xúc như thế nào? Ngoài từ “happy” hay  thông thường như từ fantastic, absorbing,...... 

Nhưng điều quan trọng là đa phần không biết thể hiện hoặc cảm thấy bối rối  khi nói những cảm xúc ấy thành câu văn tiếng anh hoàn chỉnh thì không được.

Hôm nay, Hãy cùng Thầy Hiếu tìm hiểu 16 cụm từ vựng tiếng Anh hay về cảm xúc. Nó không chỉ để đạt điểm cao trong kỳ thi IELTS speaking, hiểu được phim, truyện tiếng Anh dễ dàng hơn mà còn để biểu đạt cảm xúc của bản thân bạn.

What are you feeling now?

1. I'm very interested in: 

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp: ‘Subject + (To be) + interested in + N/ Verb_ing …’
• Nghĩa: Bày tỏ sự cảm xúc quan tâm, sở thích đến đối tượng nào đó
• Ví dụ: 
• I'm very interested in the book you lent me lastweek.
• I'm very interested in the history
• I'm very interested in this class in Spainish.
• I'm very interested in this subject in Spainish
• I'm very interested in soccer in Spainish
• I'm very interested in this opportunity
• I'm very interested in working in your company

2. ... seems fantastic

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp:  seems fantastic to  .......
• Nghĩa của từ: cảm xúc  tuyệt vời ( seems extraordinary to me, seems sweat to me, seem remarkable to me,  seems unbilievable)
• Ví dụ:
• What to a biologist is perfectly reasonable seems fantastic to the untrained.
• After the favela the debate seemed fantastic to the writer in its preoccupation with tax cuts and prosperity.
• And it would have seemed fantastic to imagine that former Milosevic allies would have put the country on the path to accession.
• The child's experiences of the world differ from yours and what might seem fantastic to you might be scratchy, noisy, overly bright, or painful for the child.
• It seems fantastic today to think that injecting a gene could result in more fast-twitch muscle fibers, enabling a sprinter to run 100 meters in six seconds instead of just under 10.
• If Captain Walton's first glimpse of a "being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature" sledding across distant ice floes seems fantastic, it is barely more than a prelude to the remarkable tale that follows.
• "Sometimes you put a good swing on the ball and find a gap, and everything seems fantastic." Rollins said.

3. I'm fond of ..

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp: I'm fond of + N/V-ing
• Nghĩa từ vựng: cảm xúc mê thích ........ 
• Từ đồng nghĩa: 
• I'm happy of...
• I'm delighted of......
• I'm interested of....
• I'm appreciative of.....
• I'm proud of......
• I'm glad of.....
• I'm like of......
• I'm pleased of.....
• I'm much of....
• Ví dụ:
• I'm fond of Johnny although he behaves terribly.
• I'm fond of you.
• I'm fond of reading
• I'm fond of you meaning in Hindi.
• I'm fond of Autumn in the countryside it's so serene.
• I'm fond of cooking

4. I am keen on ...

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp: I am keen on + N/V-ing
• Nghĩa từ vựng: cảm xúc khá hứng thú ......
• Từ đồng nghĩa: 
• I am happy on
• I am  prone on
• I am ready on
• I am delighted on
• I am inclined on
• I am interested on
• I am intent on
• I am pleased on
• I am concerned on

• Ví dụ:
• I am keen on walking in the rain.
• I am keen on going camping.
• I am keen on learning new things.
• I am keen on applying.
• "I'm not picking one particular candidate," he added, "but I am keen on Dean".
• In the country I am keen on nature".
• I am keen on open access advocacy not to be seen as a "movement" because in conservative rhetoric it is used to disqualify it as some kind of insurgent phenomenon.
• And so to Major League Soccer – once a product only Americans bought, like Twinkies or line-dancing records – but now on such an upward trajectory that some wonder if it will eventually overtake Serie A. Before we go on, I should say that I am keen on MLS.
• I'm not sure the acting is quite at the standard of Broadchurch, either, but I am keen on Jack (played by Nick Nolte), who runs the local marine observation society (no sea scouts in Gracepoint) and is the saltiest sea dog I've seen in a drama for some time.
• "I am keen on it and a new Conservative government would deal with that".
• "But it is something I am keen on so I will have to keep on.

5. That sounds like fun

• Nghĩa từ vựng: cảm xúc vui đấy.
• Ví dụ: 
• Like at concerts. That sounds like fun. / Giống như ở buổi biểu diễn- Nghe vui thật.
• And she said,"That sounds like fun. Can I come, / Rồi cô ấy nói," Nghe vui đấy, em tới được ko?".
• That sounds like a lot of fun. / Nghe có vẻ vui lắm nhỉ.
• That sounds fun, and we should do that sometime, but right now I gotta get back to floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee. / Nghe vui ghê nhỉ, vậy thì lúc nào đó chúng ta sẽ chơi nhé, nhưng giờ tôi phải trở lại sàn đấu để di chuyển tựa bướm lượn và đánh mạnh như cú chích của ong.
• That sound like fun to you? / Nghe có vẻ vui với chúng mày nhỉ?
• Well, that sounds like fun. / Chà, nghe có vẻ thú vị đấy.
• That sounds like fun. / Nghe hay đó.

6. ... would be really rewarding 

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp:  would be really rewarding + to V  /for - V-ing
• Nghĩa từ vựng: cảm xúc được khen thưởng
• Từ đồng nghĩa
• it would be very rewarding
• a lot of fun
• ví dụ:
• This scheme has been very rewarding indeed and we would whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone who has any kind of interest in entrepreneurial science.
• However, it would probably be rewarding to entirely revamp the so-called 'ontologies'
• Tutor's opinion. A It would be very rewarding for the student. 
• it is very rewarding when we meet those Canadians.
• “I think it would be very rewarding. We are now getting to a place where we can actually do some good for people.” Tomas nodded.
• It's been very rewarding and very productive to that level . 
• It would have been more rewarding to have taken it to the area of earthquake generation itself.

7. ... sounds more interesting than ...

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp: ... sounds more interesting than + N/V-ing/ Clause
• Nghĩa của từ: cảm xúc  hứng thú hơn.....
• Từ đồng nghĩa: 
• ....sounds more useful than it is .....
• .....sounds more exciting than it is.....
• Ví dụ: 
• this list sounds more interesting than some of those I've seen posted here.
• High quality example sentences with “sounds more interesting than it is” in context from reliable sources
• More interesting than it sounds! 
• a person making something sound more interesting than it actually is?
• English is interesting for me because my friend speaks it."
• Being an office temp sounds more interesting than being a sub teacher. 
• Being an intern sounds more interesting than landscaping . 
• Stop focusing on the dental rinse; it sounds more interesting than it is.
• That rumor, I think, sounds more interesting than it probably is.
• Put like that, it actually sounded more interesting than it was.
• Liaison Committee sounds more interesting than usual in comparison.
• Children come along, or your life partner's goals sound more interesting than yours did, or you discover what you first wanted was unsatisfying when you got there.

8. ... is so absorbing

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp:  .... (to be) is so absorbing/absorbed + in/ with + N/V-ing
• Nghĩa của từ: cảm xúc rất hấp dẫn
• Từ đồng nghĩa:
• (to be) is so draining
• (to be) is so compassing
• (to be) is so attracting
• (to be) is so commodating
• Ví dụ:
• Not everything in the show is so absorbing.
• The artist's work is so absorbing you feel you are living in her world.
• Either method would work, of course, but Tetris creates a world where action is quicker than thought – and this is part of the key to why it is so absorbing.
• She is "so absorbed in her activity", points out the wall text, that she doesn't notice the satyrs getting their own pleasure by watching her.
• Her husband, Howard, played with good-natured bluster by Scotty Watson, is so absorbed with running his hardware store and organizing projects for the fraternal Leopard Lodge that he totally misses his wife's burgeoning unrest.
• Kate Winslet says she had no idea about the awards buzz surrounding her film, Labor Day, because she is "so absorbed in baby world".
• She is so absorbed in picking out wine for a Jamberry party she'll be hosting later that evening that she ignores him.
• Sometimes he is so absorbed in his compulsions that he finds no time for cooking or eating.
• He was so absorbed in cyberspace, he hadn't noticed.
• Our generation, the baby boomers, did not generate much history, we were so absorbed in ourselves.
• I was so absorbed in myself, my own problems, I never looked around, took account.
• I was so absorbed in analytical discussion that I had left without saying goodbye to her.
• And the reason for that, she pointed out, was that she was so absorbed in working for the common good.
• But Mr. Lueck said he was so absorbed in studies, student activities and work that Ms. Pekoe's interest barely registered.

9. I find it really helpful

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp:  I find it really helpful ...+ N/  to + V  / for + V-ing
• Nghĩa của từ:  cảm xúc thực sự hữu ích
• Từ đồng nghĩa:
• really serviceable
• genuinely helpful 
• very helpful
• actually helpful
• certainly helpful
• really actionable
• really instrumental
• absolutely helpful
• really worthewhile
• definitely helpful
• really beneficial
• really advantageous
• indeed helpful
• exactly helpful
• Ví dụ: 
• I find it really helpful if writers have a signature at the bottom of their e-mail telling me about them, the specialisms and where they live (and it's also often helpful if you can remind me at the beginning of an email who you are too).
• I find it really helpful for working out problems.
• So he treats its ancient narratives as "stories" but still practises meditation: "Buddhism doesn't really care… and so I meditate and I find it really helpful, and centring.
• "I found it really helpful," Ms. Perez said.
• I just said, "Really enjoyed your book and I found it really helpful," and he called me.
• But because Helen was there so quickly, I found it really helpful.
• I found freshers' week really helpful but I didn't go out.
• What I've found is really helpful is to go and tell everybody your idea, over and over and over again.
• I found all sorts of really helpful tips about rekindling the flame and winning back my man.
• Whatever you perceived happen, they find it really helpful, as I would, to have a musician that's done it.
• Some were considered prompt and helpful "I find them really good and easy to get along with.
• As one mother noted: I found it [mindfulness] really helpful after I gave birth.
• I find it really helpful to go back to basics.
• Thus I found it very helpful to begin to start thinking and doing things for myself

10. ... seems pretty difficult

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp:    ... seems pretty difficult + forr + N/V-ing  / + to + V
• Nghĩa của từ:  cảm xúc có vẻ khá khó khăn
• Từ đồng nghĩa: 
• find it very hard
• find that very difficult
• have a great deal of difficulty
• have great difficulty
• i find it very difficult
• i find it very hard
• i find that hard
• it is very difficult
• it is very hard
• must have misunderstood
• seem too difficult
• Ví dụ: 
• It's a pity this problem seems difficult for me
• It seems very difficult to me to have a trip abroad
• It seems difficult to me
• It seems difficult for me to have a trip at present
• It seems very difficult for Lan having a trip abroad. 
• It's pretty hard to explain.

11. ... is rather complicated

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp:   .. is rather complicated + N/ + for + N/V-ing
• Nghĩa của từ: cảm xúc khá phức tạp
• Từ đồng nghĩa: 
• quite complicated
• very complicated
• complicated enough
• pretty complicated
• pretty tricky
• rather complex
• very complex
• hard enough
• rather difficult
• somewhat complicated
• so complicated
• too complicated
• very difficult
• pretty difficult
• really complicated
• bit complicated
• bit tricky
• exceedingly difficult
• extremely challenging
• extremely complex
• extremely complicated
• extremely difficult
• extremely hard
• fairly complicated
• highly complex
• highly complicated
• incredibly complicated
• incredibly difficult
• kind of complicated
• little complicated
• little tricky
• particularly difficult
• rather hard
• really difficult
• really hard
• too hard
• very challenging
• very hard
• amazingly intricate
• been complicated
• bit difficult
• completely obscure
• completely unclear
• difficult enough
• enough challenging
• entirely obscure
• exceedingly complex
• exceptionally difficult
• extraordinarily complicated
• extraordinarily difficult
• Ví dụ:
• Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people
• The instructions were rather complicated.
• The rules are rather complicated to follow. 
• The relationship is a bit complicated.
• In reading a book on political economy, I found a rather complicated sentence as follows: Given the basic features of capitalism as a mode of production and object of régulation-cum-governance, stable capital accumulation is inherently improbable, even within a specific geo-economic space, let alone at a world scale. 

12. ... was rather difficult

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp : ..... was rather difficult +  for 
• Nghĩa của từ: cảm xúc khá khó khăn
• Từ đồng nghĩa: 

• hard enough
• pretty difficult
• pretty tough
• pretty hard
• rather complicated
• tough enough
• difficult enough
• very difficult
• quite complicated
• rather complex
• complicated enough
• pretty complicated
• pretty tricky
• really hard
• very complicated
• bit difficult
• kind of hard
• kinda hard
• little difficult
• little tough
• little tricky
• quite impossible
• so hard
• too difficult
• too hard
• very complex
• very hard
• bad enough
• bit complicated
• bit hard
• bit of a handful
• bit tough
• bit tricky
• completely obscure
• completely unclear
• entirely obscure
• exceedingly complex
• exceedingly difficult
• exceptionally difficult
• extremely challenging
• extremely complex
• extremely complicated
• extremely hard
• extremely tough
• extremely tricky
• fairly complex
• fairly complicated
• fairly difficult
• highly complex
• highly complicated
• Ví dụ:

• it would be rather difficult
• Given Jenny's rather difficult chararcter, I would be very surprised if she were missed very much, even if her stay abroad takes longer than planned.
• How well do you know Harry, Ron and Hermione? But we mean, how well do you *really* know them? This quiz is a difficult one.
• Mr. Parkhill, who teaches English to foreigners, has a difficult time with a student, Mr. Kaplan, who has very little grasp of the English language.
• The exam was rather difficult for me.
• His French is roughly on a par with my Japanese, so communication was rather difficult.

13. .. . was much more difficult in compared with ...

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp:  ....was much more difficult in compared with  + n
• Nghĩa của từ:  cảm thấy khó khăn để so sánh với điều gì đó
• Từ đồng nghĩa:
• much harder
• far more difficult
• more difficult
• most difficult
• even more challenging
• even more difficult
• increasingly difficult
• much more challenging
• much more complex
• far more complex
• much more complicated
• far more complicated
• increasingly sophisticated
• all the more difficult
• considerably more difficult
• far harder
• increasingly complex
• lot harder
• lot more difficult
• lot tougher
• much tougher
• way harder
• way more complicated
• absolutely indistinguishable
• absolutely undetectable
• all the harder
• all the more challenging
• be a lot harder
• be even more difficult
• completely obscure
• completely unclear
• completely undetectable
• completely unknown
• completely unnoticeable
• considerably harder
• considerably more
• enormously complex
• entirely obscure
• even greater challenge
• even harder
• even more complex
• even more daunting
• even tougher
• exceedingly complex
• exceedingly difficult
• exceptionally difficult
• extraordinarily complex
• extremely challenging
• extremely complex
• extremely complicated
• Ví dụ:
• That was much more difficult in compared with  your experiences.
• Lion's skill was much more difficult in compared with  Cat's skill.

14. ... sounds kind of boring

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp : sounds kind of boring + N
• Nghĩa của từ: chỉ cảm xúc nhàm chám về điều gì đó
• Từ đồng nghĩa:
• bit annoying
• bit boring
• bit dull
• bit irritating
• bit tedious
• kind of annoying
• kind of lame
• kinda lame
• little annoyed
• little annoying
• little awkward
• little bit boring
• little boring
• little dull
• little old
• little pissed off
• little upset
• little upsetting
• pretty boring
• pretty dull
• quite boring
• quite dull
• rather annoying
• rather boring
• rather dull
• really boring
• very dull
• kind of corny
• kinda boring
• little bit dull
• little bored
• little cheesy
• little corny
• little irritating
• noisy little
• pretty annoying
• pretty lame
• very bored
• Ví dụ:
• We live in a time where we are witnessing the decline of facts, when emotions rule and analysis, it's kind of boring, right?
• The hardware is kind of boring
• That sounds kind of boring.

15. .... doesn't interest me

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp:  S +  don't/doesn't interest me
• Nghĩa của từ: chỉ cảm xúc không thích thú, không quan tâm
• Từ đồng nghĩa:
• do not care
• i don't mind
• no matter
• couldn't care less
• Ví dụ:
• If I for instance listened to a piece of music and it it didn't interest me
• That doesn't interest me/ That doesn't interest me at all. - I'm not interested. 
• Life doesn't interest me. Does anyone else feel like this?
• This topic doesn't interest me. - How to say in Vietnames?
• Roller-skating doesn't interest me.

16. To be honest, I don't enjoy ...

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp:  To be honest, I don't enjoy  + N/V-ing
• Nghĩa của từ: Chỉ cảm giác không thích tham gia về điều gì
• Từ đồng nghĩa: 

• dislike
• don't like
• don't love

• Ví dụ:
• i don't enjoy to the dentist
• i don't enjoy driving very much
• i don't enjoy going to the dentist

17. I've lost interest in ...

• Cấu trúc ngữ pháp:  I've lost interest in ...  + N / V-ing
• Nghĩa của từ: chỉ cảm giáo mất hứng thú với điều gì đó
• Từ đồng nghĩa:

• tired of
• sick of
• fed up
• bored by
• weary of
• bored with
• Ví dụ:
• They caused him to lose interest in the truth, and he lost his relationship with Jehovah.
• If you have lost interest in many of the things you once enjoyed, this may also be a sign you are depressed. 
• my partner has lost interest in sex. I'm writing to you as someone on their last straw and seriously worried about my relationship.