学个词 – 2514. avert
今天我们要学的词是 avert. Avert 动词，有避免的意思。The New Jersey transit authority reached a tentative deal with the rail unions, averting what would have…
学个词 – 2513. recruit
今天我们要学的词是 recruit. RecrRecruit 作为名词，有新兵，被招募的新成员的意思。据英国媒体报道，Leaked Islamic State documents have reportedly revealed the identities of 22,000 recruits. 被泄漏的伊斯兰国激进组织的文件据称暴露了两万两千名被招募人员的身份。A Pentagon report shows that…
学个词 – 2512. suspend
今天我们要学的词是 suspend. Suspend 动词，有暂停的意思。The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement suspended drilling operations at a rig in the Gulf…
学个词 – 2511. detention
今天我们要学的词是 detention. Detention名词，扣押。The Australian government has contacted Malaysia over the detention of two Australian journalists. 澳大利亚政府已经跟马来西亚联系，询问两名澳大利亚记者被扣押的问题。Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio…
学个词 – 2510. Olympian
今天我们要学的词是 Olympian. Olympian 作为名词，有奥林匹克选手的意思。Organizers of a Texas art festival apologized to U.S. Olympian Ibitihaj Muhammad after a volunteer at the…
学个词 – 2509. prominent
今天我们要学的词是 prominent. Prominent形容词，著名的。U.S. President Barack Obama promised one of Cuba’s prominent dissident groups that he would raise the issue of…
学个词 – 2508. flood
今天我们要学的词是 flood. Flood 作为名词，是洪水的意思，作为动词，则有似洪水般汹涌而至的意思。Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Brazil last Sunday, calling for President Dilma Rouseff’s…
学个词 – 2507. shortlist
今天我们要学的词是 shortlist. Shortlist 名词，最终候选人名单。President Obama has reportedly cut his shortlist for Supreme Court nominees down to three federal appeals judges.…
学个词 – 2506. thumbs down
今天我们要学的词是 thumbs-down. Thumbs-down 名词，有反对的意思。German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives lost in two out of three regional state elections as German voters…
学个词 – 2505. bolster
今天我们要学的词是 bolster. Bolster 动词，有支持，支撑的意思。Two new studies bolstered evidence that feeding peanuts to babies is more likely to protect them than…
学个词 – 2504. blacklist
今天我们要学的词是 blacklist. Blacklist作为动词，有列入黑名单的意思。Four North Korean officials in charge of their country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs have been blacklisted by…
学个词 – 2503. indispensable
今天我们要学的词是 indispensable. Indispensable 形容词，不可缺少的。欧盟和土耳其围绕难民危机召开紧急峰会。土耳其总理表示，The summit showed that Turkey was indispensable to Europe and Europe was indispensable to Turkey. 这次峰会显示，土耳其对欧洲来说是不可缺少的，土耳其同样的也离不开欧洲。美国前第一夫人南希·里根去世，享年94岁。Nancy Reagan…
学个词 – 2502. successor
今天我们要学的词是 successor. Successor 名词，继任者。U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s term expires at the end of this year, and a search for…
学个词 – 2501. preemptive strike
今天我们要学的词是 preemptive strike. Preemptive strike 先发制人，主动出击。North Korea threatened to launch a preemptive strike in response to the joint U.S-South Korea…
学个词 – 2500. push forward
今天我们要学的词是 push forward. To push forward 意思是推进。Iran will push forward with plans to pump an additional one million barrels of…