学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 3408 binge

 今天我们要学的词是 binge.

 

binge 的意思是狂欢，暴饮暴食。 Fifty-seven percent of full-time¹ American college students had a drink in the last month, and about 38% of them were binge drinking, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. 根据美国国家酒精滥用与酒精中毒研究所的数据，全日制美国大学生中有57％的人上个月喝过一次酒，其中约38％的学生是豪饮。

 

News outlets² reported that Netflix was abandoning its binge model, in which a series' entire season is released at once for users to watch at their own pace, in favor of releasing episodes on a weekly basis. 据新闻媒体报道，Netflix打算放弃其“狂看”模式，就是一部剧整季上线，让用户按照各自的节奏观看，而是倾向于每周发布剧集。

1 full-time   

adj.满工作日的或工作周的，全时间的

参考例句：

• A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
• I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何对付的。

2 outlets   

n.出口( outlet的名词复数 )；经销店；插座；廉价经销店

参考例句：

• The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》