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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

1、  trailblazer，开拓者，先驱者，=trailbreaker

2、  bootstrap，原意：用来提鞋子的鞋子后面的小环，引申义：自己帮助自己help oneself，自举，bootstrapping，从草创开始，the building of a business from nothing，例：Judge Sotomayor’s up-from-the-bootstraps personal history is one reason for her election for the court.

3、  Summa cum laude, with highest academic honor, 例：graduates summa cum laude.

4、  Phi beta kappa，美国大学优等生的一个荣誉组织

5、  Moot，模拟法庭

6、  Trove，贵重的被发现物，收藏品

7、  Machination，阴谋，诡计

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

1、  indigenous，土生土长的，固有的，Indigenous groups have been displaced by armed men seeking control of regions coveted in the drug trade.

2、  Roller coaster，过山车，大起大落，突变，Will Obama ride Reagan’s rating roller coaster?

3、  Tussle，扭打、争辩、争执，The Chinese and American governments also tussled last month over a naval skirmish off China’s southern coast.

4、  Heaven-sent，天赐良机，To the residents of a former mill town, the opening of a Kia plant later this year is heaven-sent.

5、  Push back，使回到原处，使撤退，The company’s largest lenders pushed back on demands from the Obama administration to reconstruct the company’s debt.

6、  Fuel-sipping，省油的，sip，小口喝，与gas guzzler相对

7、  Class action，共同起诉

8、  Quagmire，沼泽地、泥潭，New York’s $122 billion quagmire.

9、  Comptroller，审计官，会计主任

Sunday, April 19, 2009

1、  paragon，模范，十全十美的人

2、  informercial，专题广告片

3、  aura，特殊的氛围，光环，The aura of arugulance.

4、  Chime，插嘴、打断谈话

Saturday, April 18, 2009

1.       thaw，动词+名词，（冰、雪、冻肉）融化，Obama calls for thaw in U.S. relationship with Cuba.

2.       Columbine，鸽的，A columbine victim’s spirit of hope grows.

3.       Hefty，健壮的，有力的，What’s the skinny on the heftier star.

4.       Hostel，青年旅舍，招待所

5.       Hurtle，猛冲，

6.       Plywood，胶合板，夹板

7.       Secede，退出，脱离，Let’s consider Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, and his feeling about seceding from the union. Then ask, how can you stand at a rally waving the American flag while yelling “Secede”.

Friday, April 17, 2009

1、  infantryman，步兵

2、  collateral，抵押品，旁系的、次要的、平行的，Some small-business owners are in peril of foreclosure after their loans, once held by banks that have since failed, were brought by junk-loan buyers intent on collecting either the cash or the collateral.

3、  Tote，手提，携带，Great works of art often tote heavy baggage.

4、  In a nutshell，总而言之，Learner and nicer: that in a nutshell describes the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

5、  Squander，浪费、乱花，失去（机会），The chance to explore the swiftly changing culture of Web-age journalisms is one of several intriguing possibilities that “State of Play” squanders.

6、  Pawn，（象棋）卒，被人利用的人，动词：典当，以…担保，Iran’s government needs to release a journalist, Roxana Saberi, who was unjustly imprisoned and put an end to using innocent people as political pawns.

7、   Diarist，日记记者

Thursday, April 16, 2009

1、  whipsaw，粗木锯，遭受双重损失，同时面临双重不利的情况，As the financial crisis began to whipsaw international markets last year.

2、  Iron out，烫平，解决，Details of the Chinese deal with Argentina are still being ironed out.

3、  Swindle，诈骗，The fund is a swindle to the nation.

4、  Vent，名词：口、孔，动词：发泄、表达、排放，The government deadline for filing income tax returns offered some American a timely excuse to vent their frustration over the sagging economy.

5、  Prank，动词：打扮，炫耀自己，名词：玩笑、恶作剧

6、  Gorge，峡谷、咽喉，动词：用食物填饱，gorge the beast.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

1、  stymy，动词+名词：阻碍、妨碍，使处于困境，U.S. stymied as guns flow to Mexican cartels.

2、  Bloodshed，杀戮，Violent crime groups in Mexico are seen as capitalizing on the ease of acquiring American weapons, fueling bloodshed south of border.

3、  Trafficker，做非法买卖的人，gun trafficker，drug trafficker

4、  Serenade，小夜曲

5、  Jet lag，飞机时差反应

6、  Tightrope，动词+名词：走钢丝，引申义：身处险境，As election near, tightrope awaits in India.

7、  Rowdy，喧闹的、吵闹的

8、  Vanguard，先锋、前锋，Yoshihiro Tatsumi was at the rowdy vanguard of Japan’s postwar comics revolution, and his outsize graphic autobiography is one of the genre’s signal achievements.

9、  Gallop，（马）飞奔，奔驰，A gallop toward hope.

10、              Showdown，摊牌，最后的较量，Showdown at the coffee shop.

11、              Vegan，素食主义者

Monday, April 13, 2009

1、  sniper，狙击手，snipe，动词：狙击、诽谤，香港有部电影叫做《狙击手》

2、  steepest odds，机会渺茫，Unemployed baby boomers, many of whom believed they were still in the prime of their careers, face some of the steepest odds of any job seekers in this hard market.

3、  Reel，动词：蹒跚的走，Thefts of luxury furnishings in unoccupied homes on the market in Piedmont, Calif., are testing the forced cheerfulness of real estate agents who are already reeling.

4、  Peg，动词+名词：挂钩，The Hong Kong government pegs its currency to the American dollar.

5、  Sputter，唾沫飞溅（地讲），动词+名词，Just as some cities’ newspaper sputter, a handful of Web sites emerge to cull local content from government data, blogs and news media.

6、  Cull，精选、删除

7、  Scofflaw，常违规者，scoff（蔑视）+law，Should online scofflaws be denied web access?

8、  Bankroll，出资，资助，It was conceived of and bankrolled by Tim Armstrong.

9、  Valor，英勇，勇猛，Centuries of American Indian valor, celebrated and recreated.

10、              Hepatitis，肝炎，hepatitis C，丙肝

11、              Cripple，使跛，使瘫痪，On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst.(The astronauts managed to return safely.)

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

1、  cleave，劈开、剁开，The government hopes to avoid court chaos by persuading at least some creditors to agree a plan that would cleave General Motors into two pieces.

2、  Hazy，模糊的，有薄雾的，It often presents a hazy picture.

3、  Bounty，（政府提供的）赏金，The men ended up in American hands in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2001 and 2002, in some cases after the payment of bounty.

4、  Litter，名词：垃圾，动词：乱丢垃圾，Boat too costly to keep are littering coastlines.

5、  Jalopy，破旧车，等于clunker

6、  Pit，名词：坑，动词：使凹陷，使对抗，Ordinary consumers are being pitted against professional scalpers who scoop up large numbers of tickets in a flash.

7、  Scalper，黄牛党，投机抽利的人，刮头皮的人

8、  Scoop up，铲起

9、  Cinephile，电影爱好者

10、              Gelatin，明胶，胶

11、              Tuck，名词：衣服的褶，动词：塞入，掖入，藏进，The only hope in New York’s oversized budget is that the few reforms tucked into the document will actually take root and save money, as promised, in the years ahead.

12、              Ersatz，名词+动词，代用品，仿造物，Obama’s ersatz capitalism.

13、              这句话写的多牛啊，The ancient philosopher Diogenes the Cynic’s definition of cynicism as a moral protest against excess and thoughtless self-indulgence in the conduct of life has modern implications.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

1、  rampage，乱跑乱跳，横冲直撞，狂暴行动，Rampage in Pakistan shows reach of militants.

2、  Furlough，名词：休假，动词：批准休假

3、  Cachet，（显示优越的）标志，威望，威信，Some say it’s time to consider the cachet that accompanies a boast of being need-blind.

4、  Holdover，延期，留人官员，两朝元老，As the lone holdover from the Bush cabinet, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is working to secure a role in the Obama inner circle.

5、  Clunker，年久失修的旧机器，破车

6、  Tinker，修修补补，小修理，The depth of the recession and the use of taxpayer dollars to bail out companies have made it politically accepted for oversees to tinker with employment agreements.

7、  Funk，惊慌、惊恐，沮丧、消沉，Despite top-grade production values and a polished cast, the anxious smiley face of a musical slumps into a funk soon after it begins.

8、  Tweak，拧、扭，改进，A product relatively unchanged for two centuries is being tweaked to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.

9、  Morbidity，病态，不健全，Treating multimorbidity - when people suffer from multiple health conditions- is a growing challenge for doctors.

10、              Delve，深入研究，钻研，Two books that delve into the realm of awful headaches, sometime with no escape.

11、              Menace，威胁、危险

12、              Wobble，晃动、摇摆

13、              Wiggle，摇动、摆动，扭动，By enmeshing the White House so deeply into G.M., President Obama has increased the odds that March’s menacing threat will lead to June’s wobbly wiggle-out.