学个词 – 3297. buttress
今天我们要学的词是 buttress. Buttress 的意思是支持。 Russia has launched a social media-based information campaign to buttress it claims of innocence as well as to press its accusations that Britain is in the…
学个词 – 3296. protégé
今天我们要学的词是 protégé. protégé 来自法语，意思是门徒、门生。 A regional bloc of Latin American countries once called on Maduro, a protégé of the late Hugo Chavez, not to take office following Venezuela’s election that…
学个词 – 3295. impetus
今天我们要学的词是 impetus. Impetus 的意思是原动力。 Turkey’s EU membership bid was initially the impetus for Ankara improving relations with EU member Greece. 土耳其申请加入欧盟的最初动力是安卡拉希望改善与欧盟成员国希腊的关系。 French President Emmanuel Macron published a newspaper column, calling…
学个词 – 3294. liaison
今天我们要学的词是 liaison. Liaison 指的是联络人，联络处。 North and South Korean officials have set up a joint liaison office near the demilitarized zone (DMZ), a key symbol of the rapprochement and ongoing peace…
学个词 – 3293. adulterate
今天我们要学的词是 adulterate. adulterate 的意思是掺杂，掺假。 Many drug dealers in the U.S. have started to adulterate heroin with fentanyl, not recognizing that fentanyl is 50 to 80 times more powerful than heroin.…
学个词 – 3292. skeptical
今天我们要学的词是 skeptical. Skeptical 的意思是怀疑的、存有疑问的。 While Democrats are skeptical about the new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, President Donald Trump is confident that the U.S. lawmakers will vote for it…
学个词 – 3291. exonerate
今天我们要学的词是 exonerate. Exonerate 是开脱、平反的意思。 Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report did not conclude that President Trump committed a crime on the obstruction of justice allegation, it also does not exonerate him.…
学个词 – 3290. clarion
今天我们要学的词是 clarion. Clarion 是指中世纪时期的一种铜号，因在战场上使用而引申为号角的意思。 Clarion常与call连用，意思是号召： Nobel laureates and experts, in a clarion call on Sunday, urged governments to promote active aging to ease the burden on social security systems. 诺贝尔奖得主和专家们星期日发出号召，呼吁政府推动积极老龄化，以减轻社会保障体系的负担。…
学个词 – 3289. creeping
今天我们要学的词是 creeping. Creeping 的动词形式creep，是爬行、蔓延的意思，creeping引申出来就是缓慢、悄然进行的。 Internet-connected “smart” devices are creeping into cars, refrigerators, thermostats, toys and just about everything else in your home. 与互联网相连的“智能”设备正在悄然进入汽车、冰箱、温控器、玩具以及其他几乎所有家居用品。 Health care in America remains a deeply…
学个词 – 3288. xenophobia
今天我们要学的词是 xenophobia. Xenophobia 的意思是排外主义。 The deadly mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques has rekindled dialogue and reflection about confronting hate and xenophobia in communities around the globe. 在新西兰两个清真寺发生的致命持枪滥杀事件重新引发了全球各地社区对仇恨和仇外心理的对话和思考。 Law…
学个词 – 3287. premature
今天我们要学的词是 premature. Premature 的意思是尚未成熟、为时过早的。 South Korean officials think it is premature to tell whether the recent activity at some of the rocket facilities in North Korea involved preparation for a…
学个词 – 3286. exasperate
今天我们要学的词是 exasperate. Exasperate 的意思是激怒，让人气恼。British lawmakers’ rejection of a proposed deal on the terms of the U.K.’s exit from the European Union leaves companies exasperated. 英国议员们拒绝接受就英国退出欧盟的条款提出的协议，这让公司企业感到愤怒。 The mayor of London, facing…
学个词 – 3285. fissure
今天我们要学的词是 fissure. Fissure 的意思是狭长的裂缝、裂痕。 The recent Anti-Semitic tweets by a handful of House Democratic freshman highlight fissures in the Democratic Party’s traditional support of Israel. 美国几名新科民主党议员最近发出的反犹太人推文凸显出民主党传统上对以色列的支持出现裂痕。 Last year, two visitors…
学个词 – 3284. indigenous.
今天我们要学的词是 indigenous. Indigenous 的意思是土著的，土生土长的。 The New Zealand government has set a goal of taking out all non-native predators by 2050 in order to protect the country’s fragile indigenous wildlife. 新西兰政府制定了一个目标，要在2050年之前消除所有外来哺食动物，以保护该国脆弱的本土野生动植物。…
学个词 – 3283. encryption
今天我们要学的词是 encryption. Encryption 的意思是加密。 Amnesty International is calling on internet companies to develop and adopt technologies, such as encryption, to safeguard privacy and free speech online. 国际特赦组织呼吁互联网公司开发和采用像加密一类的技术，以保护隐私和网上言论自由。 Australian law enforcement…