今天我们要学的词是 drubbing. Drubbing is spelled D-R-U-B-B-I-N-G, drubbing. drubbing 的意思是敲打，重创。 Frenchance President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party received a drubbing Sunday in municipal elections, as the Greens celebr...
今天我们要学的词是 condone. Condone is spelled C-O-N-D-O-N-E, condone. condone 的意思是宽容，宽恕。 IBM is no longer offering general purpose facial recognition or analysis software. The company says it will not condone uses of any...
今天我们要学的词是 disengage. Disengage is spelled D-I-S-E-N-G-A-G-E, disengage. disengage 的意思是脱离，解除。 After marathon talks, Indian and Chinese military officials agreed to disengage their forces in a disputed area where a...
今天我们要学的词是 spawn. Spawn is spelled S-P -A-W-N, spawn. spawn 的原意是产卵。 A team at Tokyo University has successfully used stem cells to spawn some 1,700 rainbow trout from a single fish, a technique that could pave the way f...
今天我们要学的词是 moniker. Moniker is spelled M-O-N-I-K-E-R, moniker. moniker 的意思是绰号。 France has weathered multiple crises in recent years. While successive governments champion the country's revolution-era moniker as the land...
今天我们要学的词是 burnish. Burnish is spelled B-U-R-N-I-S-H, burnish. burnish 的意思是擦亮，增色。 Twitter has been important in burnishing the image of President Donald Trump, but the social media company has recently begun to fl...
今天我们要学的词是 preliminary. Preliminary is spelled P-R-E-L-I-M-I-N-A-R-Y, preliminary. preliminary 的意思是初步的，预备的。 Afghanistans warring sides have agreed to open a preliminary round of peace negotiations later this m...
今天我们要学的词是 provocative. Provocative is spelled P-R-O-V-O-C-A-T-I-V-E, provocative. provocative 的意思是刺激的，挑衅性的。Although the inter-Korean liaison office building in Kaesong was not being used, destroying it was...
今天我们要学的词是 chafe. chafe is spelled C-H-A-F-E, chafe. chafe 的意思是摩擦。 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's agreement to give a U.S. military pact its second chance despite distaste for Washington shows his relations with...
今天我们要学的词是 de facto. De facto is spelled D-E, de, and facto, F-A-C-T-O, facto, de facto. de facto 是一个拉丁语的法学词汇，意思是法律并未承认，但事实上存在的。 North Korea has followed through on its thre...
今天我们要学的词是 asymptomatic. Asymptomatic is spelled A-S-Y-M-P-T-O-M-A-T-I-C, asymptomatic. asymptomatic 的意思是无症状的。 A new study found that 86% of coronavirus cases are asymptomatic. The carriers have no idea they are inf...
今天我们要学的词是 dystopian. Dystopian is spelled D-Y-S-T-O-P-I-A-N, dystopian. dystopian 的意思是反乌托邦，一个不受欢迎甚至令人恐惧的社会形态。71 years ago, George Orwell published 1984, a novel about a dystopian...
今天我们要学的词是 ransack. Ransack is spelled R-A-N-S-A-C-K, ransack. ransack 的意思是劫掠、洗劫一空。 As looters were ransacking businesses throughout the city of Chicago more than a week ago, aldermen pleaded with Mayor Lori L...
今天我们要学的词是 lexicon. Lexicon is spelled L-E-X-I-C-O-N, lexicon. lexicon 的意思是词典，词汇库。 Universals Republic Records has decided to drop the use of the word urban from its lexicon in describing departments, employee t...
今天我们要学的词是 annex. Annex is spelled A-N-N-E-X, annex. annex 作为动词的意思是合并，吞并。 The future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is in question as Israel prepares to annex parts of the West Bank in the coming...
