Category: 学个词 (Learn a Word)

今天我们要学的词是 pinpoint. pinpoint 的意思是准确地查明、确定。 An Australian-led study has claimed to have pinpointed the birthplace of modern humans to a region south of the Zambesi River in southern Africa. 一项由澳大利亚主导的研究声称，已经确定现代人类的发源地在非洲南部赞比西河以南的地区。 Two…

今天我们要学的词是 complicit. complicit 的意思是参与、同谋。 The illegal immigrants are not the only ones to blame for the broken U.S. immigration system and border security, employers who knowingly hire these workers are…

今天我们要学的词是 pinch. pinch 作为动词的意思是捏，掐掉。作为名词是指受压，受困。India’s rural areas are feeling the pinch as the country’s once booming automobile sector struggles with its worst downturn in two decades as an estimated 350,000 workers…

今天我们要学的词是 gripe. gripe 是抱怨的意思。 Officials of California’s biggest utility have faced gripes and second-guessing for shutting off electricity to millions of people to prevent its equipment from causing wildfires. 加州最大公用事业公司为了避免其设备引起山火而切断数百万人的电力供应，公司官员因此受到抱怨和质疑。

今天我们要学的词是 leaps and bounds. leaps and bounds 的意思是大踏步的、跨越式的发展。 While clean energy from the sun and wind is growing by leaps and bounds, fossil fuels still provide the vast majority of…

今天我们要学的词是 inure. inure 的意思是让人被迫习惯。 Experts say Japan’s high technology level can instill a false sense of security in a country inured to danger by the constant threat of earthquakes, tsunami…

今天我们要学的词是 incursion. incursion 的意思是侵袭，入侵，尤其是突然或短暂的行动。 EU governments have been fiercely divided over how to react to Turkey’s military incursion into northern Syria amid a US draw down from the region. 在美国从叙利亚撤军之际，欧盟各国一直在如何对土耳其短暂军事入侵叙利亚北部的问题上发生激烈争执。…

今天我们要学的词是 appease. appease 的意思是安抚，讨好。 Germany hopes to reduce its carbon footprint and appease the young climate activists by rolling out new and innovative trains. 德国希望通过推出有创新性的新火车来减少碳排放，并安抚年轻的气候问题活动人士。 Critics point out that American…

今天我们要学的词是 paralyze. paralyze 的意思是瘫痪。Japan began recovery efforts Sunday after a powerful typhoon hit the central island killing more than 30 people and briefly paralyzing Tokyo. 一场强台风袭击日本中部岛屿，造成30多人丧生，并导致东京短暂瘫痪之后，日本周日开始了重建工作。 V iolent attacks and…

今天我们要学的词是 bizarre. bizarre 的意思是怪异的，异乎寻常的。 North and South Korea played to a Zero-zero draw at a virtually empty Stadium in Pyongyang in what was surely one of the most bizarre qualifying…

今天我们要学的词是 burgeoning. burgeoning 的意思是新兴的，迅速发展的。 Rabbit meat is a slowly growing part of Africa’s diet, with a burgeoning industry in South Africa and Nigeria that promotes the meat as cheap, healthy…

今天我们要学的词是 unravel. Unravel 的原意是拆解（线团等），引申出来是指揭开谜团，弄清事实。 也有计划、成就被破坏的意思。The whistleblower’s complaint on the Trump-Ukraine phone call that has all but unraveled, sparked the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. 举报人对特朗普总统与乌克兰总统电话通话的指控几乎还没有搞清楚，就引发了众议院民主党人的弹劾问询。 The office-sharing startup WeWork had been…

今天我们要学的词是 Congenial. congenial 的意思是友善的，情投意合的。 President Trump described the telephone call with the Ukrainian president, which lawmakers in the House of Representatives are investigating, “congenial” and said there was no pressure…

今天我们要学的词是 Rebuke.rebuke 的意思是斥责、谴责。 President Donald Trump’s decision to remove U.S. forces from northern Syria received a rare bipartisan rebuke from top lawmakers. 特朗普总统决定从叙利亚北部撤出美军部队，这一决定遭到了罕见的来自两党重量级议员们的谴责。

今天我们要学的词是 infringe. infringe 的意思是违反，侵权。 The European Union is helping countries in Africa create biometric ID cards that could make it easier for people in the region to access government services,…