今天我们要学的词是 tyranny. tyranny 的意思是专制统治，暴政。In the heated gun-ownership debate, some people don't realize that the 2nd Amendment isn't about sport shooting or even self-defense, it was designed to prevent governme...
今天我们要学的词是 pretense. pretense 的意思是伪装，借口。Those parents who handed large sum of money to college athletics officials to get their kids into prestigious colleges on the pretense of joining the sports team may face br...
今天我们要学的词是 galore. galore 常用在名词后面，形容量大，丰富。 Among more than a dozen Democratic candidates, there will be outsiders galore participating in the presidential debates this year. 在十几位民主党参选人...
今天我们要学的词是 spearhead. spearhead 直译过来就是矛头，引申出来指的是带头行动，做先锋。 France is spearheading a new higher education plan aimed at making it a more attractive destination for foreign students - bu...
今天我们要学的词是 exert. exert 的意思是发挥（作用），施加（力量）。 Beijing is taking a range of steps to exert more control over the One Belt One Road program after allegations of corruption and a lack of sustainability d...
今天我们要学的词是 endemic. endemic 的意思是地方性的，当地流行的（疾病等）。 Supporters say Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy's landslide victory in the presidential runoff reflects public dismay with the country's e...
今天我们要学的词是 rebuff. rebuff 可以用作名词或动词，意思是断然拒绝，回绝。 Russia has rebuffed calls from U.S. President Donald Trump to remove all military personnel from Venezuela, saying that they had sent their spe...
今天我们要学的词是 thwart. thwart 的意思是阻碍，阻挠。U.S. Federal investigators have thwarted what they say could've been a massive terrorist attack after they discovered a stockpile of weapons in a Maryland home. 美国联邦调查...
今天我们要学的词是 contender. contender 的意思是竞争者、争夺者。President Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign reported raising more than $30 million in the first quarter of 2019, far outpacing the haul of every Democratic c...
今天我们要学的词是 redact. Redact 是指在报告公开之前编篡、编辑，特指隐去某些不该公开的信息。The Justice Department said that it plans to release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on al...
