热词手帐(No. 449)
我们从英国《金融时报》近期热点报道中挑选值得记忆的高频单词和短语,配合释义与新闻原文例句,帮助你轻松掌握地道实用的英文表达,在不断积累中感受英语能力的进步与提高。
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corollary
[kə’rɒlərɪ]
n. 推论;必然的结果
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Control over immigration is thus an unavoidable corollary of the democratic welfare state.
因此,控制移民是民主福利国家的必然选择。
来源:《民族主义的两面/The Faustian bargain of nationalism》
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stagnation
[stæɡ’neɪʃən]
n. 停滞,滞止
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Worse, in 2017 emissions increased once again, after three years of stagnation. We are still to turn this corner.
更糟糕的是,排放量在经历三年停止增长之后,于2017年再次上升。我们尚未使情况开始好转。
来源:《FT社评:阻止气候变化之难在于能做到却不做/Leader_How to rescue the global climate change agenda》
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handicap
[‘hændɪkæp]
n. 障碍;不利条件,不利的因素
v. 妨碍,阻碍;使不利
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“It was never explicit whether ethnicity was going to be a handicap,” the 30 year-old says. “But I never saw it as an asset because the [industry’s] mindset has been of having a culture where people come from similar backgrounds.”
“族裔是否会成为障碍从来都不会被明说,”30岁的Lillian说,“但我从未把自己的族裔背景视为一种资产,因为(该行业)的思维模式导致形成了一种员工来自相似背景的文化。”
来源:《风投行业需要怎样的族裔多样性?/What it is like to be ethnically diverse in venture capital》
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