今天我们要学的词是 null. null 的意思是废止，无效。The British Supreme Court declared Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to ask Queen Elizabeth II to prorogue, or suspend, parliament null and of no effect, saying it prevented p...
今天我们要学的词是 espouse. espouse 是信奉、拥护的意思。 A majority of the Democratic presidential candidates espouse the belief that people who enter the U.S. illegally should not only be allowed to stay, but that they should be g...
今天我们要学的词是 herald. herald 是指传递消息的信使，作为动词有预报、传达的意思。 State-news media heralded the possibility that China's most advanced weapons will make an appearance during the National Day celebrati...
今天我们要学的词是 Distinguish. Distinguish 的意思是区分、辨别。 Vaping-product manufacturers have sought to distinguish their goods from counterfeits blaming them for health problems associated with the smoking alternative. 电子烟...
今天我们要学的词是 culprit. culprit 的意思是罪魁祸首。 Heating consumes more than one third of all energy used today around the world and, some say, is the biggest energy culprit contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and to needl...
今天我们要学的词是 peg. peg 的原意是木钉，木栓。作动词时是指钉住。...
今天我们要学的词是 spate. spate 的意思是泛滥的，常用的表达方式是spate of，指一阵的、一大批的。 UN Special Rapporteur Clment Voule is in Zimbabwe to assess the country's human rights situation, at a time when rights...
今天我们要学的词是 protracted. protracted 的意思是旷日持久的，经久不衰的。 Zimbabwes former ruler Robert Mugabe outlived most of his countrymen, but his protracted and long life was constructed upon inflicting enormous suffer...
今天我们要学的词是 mired. Mired 的意思是陷入泥潭，深陷。 Senate Appropriations Committee has abandoned plans to mark up two spending bills that have become mired in a partisan dispute over abortion policy. 参议院拨款委员会已...
今天我们要学的词是 xenophobic. xenophobic 的意思是排外的、仇外的。 For years, South African politicians who fuel xenophobic sentiments refuse to acknowledge that many of these migrants from conflict-ridden countries are simply se...
今天我们要学的词是 projectile. projectile 的意思是发射体，抛射物。...
今天我们要学的词是 scramble. scramble 的意思是匆忙行动、争夺。 As migrants and asylum-seekers have crossed America's southern border in record numbers this year, the U.S. Border Patrol has scrambled to adapt. 由于今年有创纪录...
今天我们要学的词是 batter. batter 作为动词的意思是连续抽打、袭击。 Hurricane Dorian entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Sunday after battering the Canadian Nova Scotia peninsula, leaving hundreds of thousands without power. 飓...
今天我们要学的词是 allay. allay 的意思是缓解、平息。 The British government is planning to announce liberalization of residency rules for European nationals in Britain to allay concerns about their status should Britain leave the E...
今天我们要学的词是 Wayward. wayward 是任性、固执的意思，也可以指反复无常、意想不到的。 Train service through San Francisco's Sunset Tunnel was interrupted for about an hour when a wayward SUV entered the underground...
