热词手帐(No. 1849)
我们从英国《金融时报》近期热点报道中挑选值得记忆的高频单词和短语,配合释义与新闻原文例句,帮助你轻松掌握地道实用的英文表达,在不断积累中感受英语能力的进步与提高。
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silhouette
/ˌsɪluˈet/
n.剪影;v.使呈现轮廓;
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As billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman emerged from SpaceX’s Dragon capsule, silhouetted against the glowing globe of Earth more 700km below him, he said: “This sure looks like a perfect world.”
亿万富豪商人贾里德•艾萨克曼(Jared Isaacman)打开SpaceX“龙”飞船的舱门出舱,背景是700多公里外地球的发亮球体。他说:“这看起来真像是一个完美的世界。”
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throttle
/ˈθrɒtl/
n.节流阀;v.掐死,压制;节流调节;
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It attributed the poor state of the country’s health service in large part to austerity policies adopted through the 2010s which he argued had throttled much-needed investment in infrastructure and staff, and made the service much more vulnerable to the shock presented by Covid.
它将该国卫生服务的糟糕状况在很大程度上归因于2010年代采取的紧缩政策,他认为这些政策抑制了对基础设施和人员的急需投资,使NHS面对新冠疫情带来的冲击更加脆弱。
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rehash
/ ˌriːˈhæʃ/
v.炒冷饭
At one point, after the vice-president cast doubt on the size of the crowds at Trump’s campaign rallies, the former president railed about the number of illegal migrants, rehashing an internet conspiracy theory that some were stealing people’s pets to eat them.
有一回,在副总统对特朗普竞选集会上的人群规模提出质疑后,这位前总统对非法移民的数量大加抨击,并重提了一个网络阴谋论,声称一些非法移民偷走人们的宠物食用。
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