2019-05-28 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 plague.
Plague原意是瘟疫。作为动词，则是指是不断困扰。Hong Kong's markets are plagued by stock manipulation, share pledging, cross-ownership and margin lending.

2019-05-27 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 arsenal.
arsenal 的原意是军火库，多用来形容军事力量，军事装备。 The United States military is increasing its arsenal in the Middle East to counter Iranian threa

2019-05-24 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 clamor.
clamor 的意思是吵闹、叫嚷。 A large sale of U.S. Treasuries would drive down the price of U.S. government bonds and the value of the dollar, both of whi

2019-05-23 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 stoke.
stoke 是指把火拨旺，添柴加火，引申出来有挑动、激励的意思。 Critics say Putin's government uses the celebrations of Annual Victory Day to stoke patriotism

2019-05-22 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 decry.
decry 的意思是谴责、抨击。 Seventy countries urged North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles and related programs, decrying the “undi

2019-05-21 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 tug-of-war.
tug-of-war 指的是拔河游戏，常用来指双方的争夺战。 The tug-of-war between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration for further informatio

2019-05-20 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 poach.
poach 的原意是偷猎。 South Africa, which has the largest population of rhinos in the world, has been the country hit hardest by poaching. 世界上犀牛最多的

2019-05-17 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 austerity.
austerity 在新闻用语中常指开支紧缩。 Thousands of Puerto Ricans marched at a May Day event to protest austerity measures and demand the ouster of a fe

2019-05-16 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 plight.
plight 的意思是困境。 White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said the White House's new immigration plan could touch on the plight of thousands who were

2019-05-15 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 contempt.
contempt 的意思是藐视，不尊敬，常见用法是in contempt of。 House Democrats are threatening to hold key Trump administration officials in contempt of Con

2019-05-14 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 sidestep.
sidestep 的意思是偏离，回避。 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched a program for federal-local collaboration that would sidestep san

2019-05-13 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 scathing.
Scathing 用来形容言语尖刻、甚至带有伤害性。 U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch directed scathing criticism at the Ukrainian government, urgi

2019-05-10 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 fizzle.
fizzle 的原意是渐弱的嘶嘶声，引申出来就是逐渐消失，悄悄失败。Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido called for the military to join him and oust dict

2019-05-09 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 poised.
poised 的一个意思是准备好了，常常与 to 或者 for 联用。 Astronomers are poised to release new images that they say show glowing hot gas and plasma being

2019-05-08 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 tyranny.
tyranny 的意思是专制统治，暴政。In the heated gun-ownership debate, some people don't realize that the 2nd Amendment isn't about sport shooting or ev

2019-05-07 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 pretense.
pretense 的意思是伪装，借口。Those parents who handed large sum of money to college athletics officials to get their kids into prestigious colleges on

2019-05-06 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 galore.
galore 常用在名词后面，形容量大，丰富。 Among more than a dozen Democratic candidates, there will be outsiders galore participating in the presidential

2019-05-04 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 spearhead.
spearhead 直译过来就是矛头，引申出来指的是带头行动，做先锋。 France is spearheading a new higher education plan aimed at making it a more attractive d

2019-05-04 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 endemic.
endemic 的意思是地方性的，当地流行的（疾病等）。 Supporters say Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy's landslide victory in the presidential runoff

2019-05-04 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 rebuff.
rebuff 可以用作名词或动词，意思是断然拒绝，回绝。 Russia has rebuffed calls from U.S. President Donald Trump to remove all military personnel from Venez

2019-05-04 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 exert.
exert 的意思是发挥（作用），施加（力量）。 Beijing is taking a range of steps to exert more control over the One Belt One Road program after allegations

2019-04-30 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 thwart.
thwart 的意思是阻碍，阻挠。U.S. Federal investigators have thwarted what they say could've been a massive terrorist attack after they discovered a stock

2019-04-26 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 contender.
contender 的意思是竞争者、争夺者。President Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign reported raising more than $30 million in the first quarter of

2019-04-25 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 redact.
Redact 是指在报告公开之前编篡、编辑，特指隐去某些不该公开的信息。The Justice Department said that it plans to release a redacted version of special coun

2019-04-24 所属栏目:学个词 Learn A Word

今天我们要学的词是 billow.
Billow作为动词的意思是波浪一般的涌动、翻腾。A major fire irrupted in the famed Medieval Notre-Dame cathedral in central Paris, with smoke billowing over