时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

  Tania: Did you see the news today? Canada has been doing military exercises near the Canada-U.S. border. I think they’re trying to send us a message.

Emilio: They’re just saber-rattling. They think we’re amassing 1 weapons near the border and they’re posturing 2.

Tania: I don’t think they’re just posturing.

Emilio: Canada is no real threat. No one in the government wants to bear the responsibility of violating Canada’s treaty with us.

Tania: How can you say that? All of this military aggression 3 makes me nervous. If Canada decides to attack, we would have no choice but to retaliate 4. Things could escalate 5 very quickly.

Emilio: That’s why I’m well prepared.

Tania: Well prepared? How?

Emilio: Haven’t you seen me building my underground bunker? I’ll be safe there if Canada, or anyone else, strikes.

Tania: An underground bunker?

Emilio: Yes, and if you ask nicely, I’ll save a place for you.

Script by Dr. Lucy Tse



v.积累,积聚( amass的现在分词 )
  • The study of taxonomy must necessarily involve the amassing of an encyclopaedic knowledge of plants. 分类学研究一定要积累广博的植物知识。 来自辞典例句
  • Build your trophy room while amassing awards and accolades. 建立您的奖杯积累奖项和荣誉。 来自互联网
做出某种姿势( posture的现在分词 )
  • She was posturing a model. 她正在摆模特儿的姿势。
  • She says the President may just be posturing. 她说总统也许只是在做样子而已。
n.进攻,侵略,侵犯,侵害
  • So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结,就不必惧怕外来侵略。
  • Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。
v.报复,反击
  • He sought every opportunity to retaliate against his enemy.他找机会向他的敌人反击。
  • It is strictly forbidden to retaliate against the quality inspectors.严禁对质量检验人员进行打击报复。
v.(使)逐步增长(或发展),(使)逐步升级
  • It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级。
  • Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。
学英语单词
advocacy
aeriferous
all-originals scene
allusion
almightier
anIliad of woes
apertion
apocarpous androecium
apparent velocity
aspish
bacterial cell wall
Ban Dong Yang
beam condenser
bear down
belza
binary dental alloy
bispoes
bottomfish
Bowie formula
bubble storage
buquoys
caesium frequency standard
caveat
center tree
Cephalotaxus latifolia
chance dance
clearing heat from throat
climacosphenia elongata
composite float
conditionals
conteben
cross of Calvary
dead reckon
demicontinuous mapping
divine polity
docking winch
Doppler velocimetry
dysoxylum hongkongense (tutch.) merr.
engaging in
equatorial pressure trough
Explicit tax
farrash
flat roof mirror
flunkout
forward-looking
forwardmost
genus Mantis
GS4104
Hatiora
hidden out
high suction value
hornyhead
hydrostatic fluid
inspection of five apertures
Khon Kaen
lalapalooza, lallapalooza
local money
making tick
maximal secretory capacity
mechanized magazine
media literacy education
mineral-corticoids
misassemblies
mothers-of-pearl cloud
naphthalenyl
near-poverty
newspaper printing
on application
Paucarbamba
pecan nut cracker
Pedro Toledo
peripheral data bus
potassium stearate
princelet
QCIF
quick traverse
quick-release gear
report page
respectant
restricted access
second electrician
sinistropedal
sloat
spectrophysics
supernormalities
supervisor communication macro
suture of lacerated lid margin
sweep expander
sweet violets
tienne
topographic point
type of array
ultra-nationalists
undertheorizes
urinates
Vansil
vessel shell
VHF radio installation
vibrating plate extractor
wireless local loops
yenice dere
zipcar