今天我们要学的词是 high-stakes. High-stakes 原意是赌注高，风险大，引申下来是指事关重大。Harvard University is fighting accusations that its admissions office racially discriminated against Asian-American students in a h...
今天我们要学的词是 falter. falter 是减弱，动摇，畏缩不前的意思。Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, whose well-funded bid is to unseat GOP Sen. Ted Cruz has faltered in the polls in recent weeks. 得克萨斯州众议员奥罗克竞选资...
今天我们要学的词是 coy。 Coy的意思是害羞，腼腆，闭口不谈。US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley stayed coy on her reasons for quitting, saying only that it was important to understand when it's time to stand aside. 美...
今天我们要学的词是 cusp。 Cusp 是尖端、浪尖，常用的表达方式 on the cusp of 是指正处于转变时刻。Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said he believed the U.S. economy was on the cusp of a historically rare era of ultra-low unem...
今天我们要学的词是 christen. Christen是指婴儿受洗时给他起名，作为进入基督教会的标志。Christened 就是命名。The revised free trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico, christened USMCA, has big i...
今天我们要学的词是 dire. dire is spelled d-i-r-e, dire. Dire 是非常严峻的、极为令人担忧的意思，Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and one of China's richest men, gave a dire warning that the escalating tra...
今天我们要学的词是 vanity. vanity的意思是虚荣，浮华，自大。Harrison Schmitt, the man who walked on the moon in the last Apollo mission, says returning to the moon is more than a national vanity project. 哈里森-施密特是在最...
今天我们要学的词是 fraught. Fraught的意思是充满紧张、压力，The United States recently flew bombers over the South China Sea again, the move is likely to intensify the already fraught tension between Beijing and Washington. 美军轰...
今天我们要学的词是 trajectory。 Trajectory的意思是轨迹、轨道，President Trump told reporters after his speech at the UN general assembly that he hopes there would be the same trajectory for Iran as the U.S. has had with North Kore...
今天我们要学的词是 castigate。 Castigate 的意思是痛斥、鞭笞、严惩，U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley regularly castigates Tehran for its destabilizing role in Syria and Yemen and its support for the militant groups Hamas and Hezbolla...
