今天我们要学的词是 bevy. bevy 是个量词，指一群，一堆，特别是相似的人或事。Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson pushed back against a bevy of criticism from Democratic lawmakers over a proposal that w...
今天我们要学的词是 plague. Plague原意是瘟疫。作为动词，则是指是不断困扰。Hong Kong's markets are plagued by stock manipulation, share pledging, cross-ownership and margin lending. Regulators say they're going to take acti...
今天我们要学的词是 stoke. stoke 是指把火拨旺，添柴加火，引申出来有挑动、激励的意思。 Drastic drug price hikes in the U.S. by a handful of drugmakers have stoked outrage from patients, physicians and politicians nati...
今天我们要学的词是 plight. plight 的意思是困境。 White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said the White House's new immigration plan could touch on the plight of thousands who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. 白宫顾问白...
今天我们要学的词是 scathing. Scathing 用来形容言语尖刻、甚至带有伤害性。 U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch directed scathing criticism at the Ukrainian government, urging authorities to replace a senior anti-corru...
今天我们要学的词是 fizzle. fizzle 的原意是渐弱的嘶嘶声，引申出来就是逐渐消失，悄悄失败。Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido called for the military to join him and oust dictator Nicolas Maduro, but the coup a...
今天我们要学的词是 poised. poised 的一个意思是准备好了，常常与 to 或者 for 联用。 Astronomers are poised to release new images that they say show glowing hot gas and plasma being drawn into a black hole. 天文学家们准备...
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...
