新闻例句:There is a cloud of speculation in Washington that Mr Trump is considering unilateral action against North Korea. 华盛顿弥漫着一种猜测,认为特朗普正考虑对朝鲜发起单边行动。——来源:《Populist swing alarms financial titans/达沃斯论坛与会者最担心什么?》
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本周我们学习了两个意思相同的词:deadlock、impasse,他们是什么意思?
正确!
新闻例句:
The three-day impasse kept 750,000 federal workers at home. 这场为期三天的僵局导致75万联邦政府员工留在家里。——来源:《Republican pledge to debate law on ‘Dreamers’ ends US shutdown/美国参议院两党达成结束政府停摆的协议》
破裂
期限
僵局
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stamp it out是什么意思?
正确!
新闻例句:Schools are unhappy about ghostwriting,and many have been trying to stamp it out for years. 商学院对代笔感到不满,多年来,很多学校试图杜绝这种做法。——来源:《Business schools clamp down on ghostwritten applications/商学院打击代笔申请》
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杜绝
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“Modi struck a bullish note with his opening address at the World Economic Forum in Davos.” 这句话中的bullish是什么意思?
正确!
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论坛发表开幕辞时表达乐观基调。——来源:《Narendra Modi aims to double size of Indian economy by 2025/莫迪:到2025年印度manbetx20客户端下载
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自大的
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哪个词表达“首要的”的意思?
正确!
新闻例句: The overarching message of the German election was that voters want to hold on to the status quo. 德国大选透出的主要信息是,选民期望保持现状。——来源:《Now Angela Merkel steps into Emmanuel Macron’s shadow/马克龙的光环盖过了默克尔》
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challenge and impetus的中文是什么呢?
正确!
新闻例句:At a conference last week, Doug McMillon, chief executive of Walmart, boiled down the challenge and the impetus, for retailers’ race to cut the queues. 沃尔玛首席执行官董明伦在上周的一次会议上总结了零售商竞相减少排队的挑战和动力。——来源:《Amazon debuts the store without a checkout/Amazon Go开张将推动零售业“科技大战”》
挑战和展望
挑战和困难
挑战和成就
挑战和动力
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assuage是什么意思?
正确!
新闻例句:
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复苏,人们可能重新恢复乐观情绪。这至少会缓和部分不满情绪。——来源:《Davos 2018: The liberal international order is sick/“生病的”自由主义国际秩序》
缓和
帮助
劝说
假定
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modest是“谦虚的”意思,那么它的反义词“不谦虚的”怎么说?
正确!
新闻例句:As Mr Trump pointed out, when making his own immodest claim to “genius”, he achieved something unprecedented in modern American history. 正如特朗普在大言不惭地宣称自己是“天才”的时候所指出的,他取得了美国现代史上前所未有的成就。——来源:《Donald Trump and the many meanings of genius/特朗普是个什么样的“天才”?》
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pristine是什么意思?
正确!
新闻例句:St Helena offers a pristine, seldom dived underwater environment. 圣赫勒拿有原始天然、罕有人至的水下环境。——来源:《Where to go in 2018: an insiders’ guide/2018,欧美旅行家去哪儿?》
遥远的
确信的
宗教的
原始的
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I don't give a hoot. 这句话是什么意思?
正确!
新闻例句:Maybe because adoption has always been such an obvious fact of life for them, they professed not to give a hoot about it. 或许因为领养一直是她们生活中一个如此显而易见的事实,她们明确表示不会对此大惊小怪。——来源:《America, China and my children’s identities — an adoption story/跨国领养与身份认同》