学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 1994 dire

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今天我们要学的是dire¹.  Dire, 形容词，意思是可怕的，悲惨的。彭博商业周刊报道说，The Dean of UC Berkeley's Business School made a dire forecast that half of the business schools in the U.S. could be gone by 2020. 加州大学伯克利分校商学院院长作出可怕预测，说到2020年可能美国一半的商学院都会关门。Displaced people in Somalia are facing a dire situation after the government launched another military operation against local militias². 索马里政府对当地民兵组织发起新一轮军事行动后，流离失所的索马里人处境悲惨。好的，今天我们学习的词是 dire, dire, dire...