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This illustration provided by the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory depicts a target pellet inside a hohlraum capsule with laser beams entering through openings on either…
Acrylic screens used as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are installed at the Jazz Lounge Encounter, a night club in Tokyo, Japan. Many countries hard-hit by…
Medical official tests child, 5, for COVID in California on Jan 6, 2022 (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) In an unusual move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urged…
FILE – People wait in line at a COVID testing site in NYC on Dec. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) The highly infectious Omicron variant of coronavirus is known…
School children learning to ski take to the hills at the Vanke Shijinglong Ski Resort in Yanqing outside of Beijing, China on December. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) With…
今天我们要学的词是 in line with. In line with something 意思是符合，一致。联合国禁毒署负责人表示，Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drug conventions. 美国一些州让大麻合法化的做法，不符合国际上有关毒品的公约。The British government has urged gas…
今天我们要学的词是 tariff. Tariff 关税。China and the United States reached an agreement to phase out tariffs on a wide range of technology products. 中国和美国达成协议，逐步减免一系列科技产品的关税。The White House says more than 200 tariffs…
今天我们要学的词是 relaxation. Relaxation 缓和，放松。The relaxation of China’s one-child policy since last November hasn’t produced the predicted baby boom. 中国自去年11月放松一胎化政策以来，尚未出现预料中婴儿出生率猛增的现象。劳逸结合有利身心，然而最新研究发现，美国人每天只有不到百分之5的时间用于休闲，更有趣的是，Relaxation causes 62 percent of parents to feel guilty. 休闲让百分之62当父母的人感到内疚。好的，今天我们学习的词是 relaxation, relaxation,…
今天我们要学的词是 unacceptable. Unacceptable 不能接受的。美国联邦调查局探员为追踪一名嫌疑人，2007年时曾伪装成美联社记者。The Associated Press slammed the tactic as unacceptable. 美联社称这种做法是不能接受的。British Prime Minister David Cameron called the demand for the U.K to pay an extra $2.6bn to the EU…
今天我们要学的词是 defect. Defect 做为动词，有叛变，倒戈的意思。In the past four months, 10 percent of New York City’s taxi drivers have defected to Uber, the app-based car service. 过去四个月来，纽约市已有百分之十的出租车司机倒戈，加入了经由手机应用提供出行服务的Uber打车司机的阵营。上星期天是柏林墙倒塌25周年。More than 3.5 million East Germans…
今天我们要学的词是 galvanize. Galvanize 动词，有刺激的意思。美国总统奥巴马不久前说，The United States is the only country that can galvanize the world community to take action against a major crisis. 面对大规模危机，美国是世界上唯一能够推动国际社会采取行动的国家。美国中期选举民主党受挫。President Obama is widely seen as having…
今天我们要学的词是 unilateral. Unilateral 形容词，意思是单方面的。House Speaker John Boehner warned President Obama against unilateral action on immigration reform. 美国国会众议院议长博纳警告奥巴马总统，不要在移民改革的问题上单独采取行动。UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged Palestinian and Israeli leaders to halt “unilateral initiatives” that…
今天我们要学的词是 harbinger. Harbinger 名词，有先驱，前兆的意思。很多业内人士认为，Cloud computing is the harbinger of the next stage in the Internet revolution. 云计算是因特网革命下一个阶段的先驱。一项最新研究认为，丧失嗅觉可能意味着健康亮红灯。这项研究的负责人说，Inability to sense odors doesn’t directly lead to death, but is a harbinger that…
今天我们要学的词是 cluster. Cluster 名词，是一群，一簇的意思。有报道说，A new technology cluster will be created to spread over five cities in the North of England. 英国北部将建立一个跨五大城市的科技密集区。美联社对美国医院系统的应急能力进行考查后认为，美国医疗系统无力应付埃博拉病毒的大规模爆发。报道说，Even small clusters of Ebola cases could overwhelm parts of…
今天我们要学的词是 exposure. Exposure 名词，意思是暴露。The Pentagon will offer examinations and long-term health monitoring to troops and veterans for exposure to chemical agents in Iraq. 五角大楼将让现行和退役军人体检并对他们的健康进行长期监控，看他们是否曾在伊拉克暴露于化学武器试剂的影响之下。The State of California issued its own…