今天我们要学的词是 delivery. Delivery 做为名词，有送货上门的意思。MillerCoors LLC has started a beer delivery service in New York, Boston, Seattle and Washington. 米勒康胜公司在纽约，波士顿，西雅图和华盛顿四...
今天我们要学的词是 shorten. Shorten 动词，是缩短的意思。A new study has found that obesity can shorten your life by as many as 8 years. 一项最新研究发现，肥胖能让人的寿命最多减少八年。Macao shortened the sta...
今天我们要学的词是 mammoth. Mammoth 做为形容词，意思是庞大的，巨大的。A mammoth effort is underway to digitally publish tens of thousands of Albert Einstein's letters, papers, postcards, and diaries. 把爱因斯坦成千上万...
今天我们要学的词是 renewed. Renewed 形容词，意思是重新开始的。今年先后有三个美国公民被伊斯兰国杀死，After the killings there has been a renewed debate in the United States about the logic of not paying ransoms...
今天我们要学的词是 entitle. Entitle 动词，是使某人拥有某种权利的意思。A New York appeals court decided that chimpanzees do not have legal personhood, and are not entitled to human rights. 纽约一家上诉法庭裁定，黑猩...
今天我们要学的词是 spree. Spree 名词，意思是毫无节制的狂热行为。Redskins players took dozens of kids on a shopping spree in an event sponsored by a local children's charity. 华盛顿红人队球员带着几十个孩子去疯狂...
今天我们要学的词是 disrupt. Disrupt 动词，意思是破坏，扰乱。Protesters decrying police brutality and racial bias disrupted the holiday lighting of Baltimore's Washington Monument. 抗议警察施暴和种族歧视的抗议人群扰...
今天我们要学的词是 treatment. Treatment 做为名词，有治疗的意思。2009年到2012年的统计数字显示，美国大约8%的人患有中度或严重抑郁症，然而，Only slightly more than one third of those suffering from seve...
今天我们要学的词是 excuse. Excuse 借口。俄罗斯总统普京最近表示，If the recent events in Crimea had not happened, the west would have simply found another excuse to contain Russia. 即便克里米亚问题没有发生，西方国...
今天我们要学的词是 malware. Malware 恶意软件, 是 malicious software 两个单词合并在一起组成的。The FBI warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malware to launch a destructive cyberattack in the United States. 美国联邦...
今天我们要学的词是 effective. Effective 有效的。The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention says this year's flu shot is less effective because the current flu virus has mutated. 美国疾病预防和控制中心说，由于流感病...
今天我们要学的词是 unarmed. Unarmed 没带武器的，赤手空拳的。A white New York City police officer was cleared of blame over the chokehold death of an unarmed black man. 纽约一名警察在锁喉致死一名赤手空拳的黑人男...
今天我们要学的词是 double-digit. Double-digit 两个单词中间用横杠相连，意思是两位数字的。市场调查显示，Thanksgiving and Black Friday on-line sales enjoyed double-digit growth over the same period last year. 感恩节...
今天我们要学的词是 threat. Threat 名词，意思是威胁。An airplane was taken to a remote area of JFK International Airport to be searched after authorities received a bomb threat. 有关当局收到炸弹威胁的消息后，让一架飞...
今天我们要学的词是 brutality. Brutality 名词，意思是残忍，暴行。The U.N. Committee Against Torture has condemned the reported police brutality and excessive use of force in the United States. 联合国反酷刑委员会对媒体报...
