3/17 hw

 #3 COVID: One year on

here is the link of bbc learning english

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-210225 


1. outbreak

Last year, the village offered no-interest emergency small business loans to help businesses weather closures and other disruptions due to COVID-19 outbreak.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outbreak


2. quarantine

The infected people were put into quarantine.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quarantine


3. pandemic

Nobody guessed that such a rare disease would become a pandemic.

https://tw.englisher.info/2020/03/12/pandemic/


4. lockdown

When the lockdown happened last March, organizations responded by compressing 10 years of digital transformation into 10 months.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lockdown


5. take hold

The change in the law has not yet taken hold.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take%20hold

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