암기단어(단어-문장) Flashcards
edge /edʒ/
And we turn now to an ominous turn today as America’s economy edges closer to a cliff and the squabble over the debt.
squabble /ˈskwɑb(ə)l/
And we turn now to an ominous turn today as America’s economy edges closer to a cliff and the squabble over the debt.
thunderous /ˈθʌnd(ə)rəs/
Late today, widely watched Moody’s credit firm sent out a thunderous warning.
top-notch
America’s top-notch credit rating is now on notice about the possibility of downgrade, which could crash markets and kill the creation of jobs.
on notice /ˈnoʊtɪs/
- America’s top-notch credit rating is now on notice about the possibility of downgrade, which could crash markets and kill the creation of jobs.
- What about this, our credit rating now on notice, Jim?
living off
- Paul Rollins and Jan Moran, retired in Asheville, North Carolina, living off their 401(k) fund and now concerned that it could take a massive hit in four years.
- We are living hand to mouth off the meager wages my little hubby brings in everyday.
401(k) /ˌfɔr oʊ wʌn ˈkeɪ/
- Paul Rollins and Jan Moran, retired in Asheville, North Carolina, living off their 401(k) fund and now concerned that it could take a massive hit in four years.
- 60 million Americans have a 401(k)-type plan, $4.7 trillion worth or about $74,000 per account.
take a hit
- Paul Rollins and Jan Moran, retired in Asheville, North Carolina, living off their 401(k) fund and now concerned that it could take a massive hit in four years.
- My national pension fund took a massive hit.
in short order
If we got hit the same way we did before, we would lose our house, and we would be looking for a rental apartment in very short order.
IRA(Indiviual retirement account) /ˌaɪ ɑr ˈeɪ/
Like most families, Paul and Jan’s 401(k) and IRA accounts are their biggest investment after their home.
cruch time /krʌntʃ/
But if there’s no agreement as the August 2nd crunch time approaches, what triggers should you look for as a warning?
figuratively /ˈfɪɡjərətɪvli/
Pulling everything out and figuratively putting it in the mattress would certainly be a protection.
Donald Trump
You’ve got to give Donald Trump credit:
take exception /ɪkˈsepʃ(ə)n/
As a single working mother of two, I take exception to that attitude.
en masse /ɑn ˈmæs/
Four decades after women entered the U.S. workforce en masse, a woman still makes 77￠ for every dollar earned by a man.
lower-paying
Some of this gap is due to women’s choosing lower-paying and more portable careers in order to support a spouse or allow for more time to care for children or elders.
hold back
So when women choose the power track, what is holding them back?
maven /ˈmeɪvən/
(In fact, the book is filled with them, from media maven Arianna Huffington to Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz.)
bifurcated /ˈbaɪfərˌkeɪt/
While Brzezinski makes some valid points, the wage gap is an econoic issue that, like so many others today, is bifurcated.
snowball /ˈsnoʊˌbɔl/
He believes this is the beginning of a generational shift that will snowball as older woman retire and younger women, who started out with equal education and more pay parity, rise through the ranks.
pay parity /ˈperəti/
He believes this is the beginning of a generational shift that will snowball as older woman retire and younger women, who started out with equal education and more pay parity, rise through the ranks.
the game changer
One of the most compelling parts of Brzezinski’s book is a chapter titled “Motherhood: The Game Changer.”
relentless /rɪˈlentləs/
They are the ones keeping the number of useless meetings to a minimum in a relentless effort to be home for dinner.
toil /tɔɪl/
They toil diligently and efficiently from 9 to 6.
laggards /ˈlæɡərd/
Perhaps rather than being the laggards described by the Donald, working moms are actually at the vanguard of a smarter way to work.
at the vanguard of
Perhaps rather than being the laggards described y the Donald, working moms are actually at the vanguard of a smarter way to work.
par /pɑr/
The 2009 World Health Statistics compiled by the WHO says that as of 2007, TFR(total fertility rate) here marked 1.2, among the lowest numbers on a par with those of Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Czech and Poland.
mint /mɪnt/
We took a journey to the heart of the US Mint in Philadelphia.
hot off the press(es)
Hot off the press, literally, these coins are still warm.
manganese brass /ˈmæŋɡəˌniz/ /bræs/
Made of manganese brass, they cose 32 cents a pop to make.
do the math
Do the math.
pulling the plug on
Senator Reed now says Congress should consider pulling the plug on the dollar coin.
prelude (to) /ˈpreljud/
A crackdown on internet poker may be a prelude to legalisation “FOREIGN firms that choose to operate in the United States are not free to flout the laws they don’t like simply because they can’t bear to be parted from their profits.”
flout /flaʊt/
A crackdown on internet poker may be a prelude to legalisation “FOREIGN firms that choose to operate in the United States are not free to flout the laws they don’t like simply because they can’t bear to be parted from their profits.”
mince (your) words /mɪns/
Preet Bharara, the US attorney in Manhattan, did not mince his words on April 15th as he indicated PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, three of the world’s biggest online-gambling companies, on charges of operating illegal gambling businesses, concocting an “elaborate criminal fraud scheme”, involving tricking and bribing banks, and “massive money laundering”.
indict /ɪnˈdaɪt/
Preet Bharara, the US attorney in Manhattan, did not mince his words on April 15th as he indicated PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, three of the world’s biggest online-gambling companies, on charges of operating illegal gambling businesses, concocting an “elaborate criminal fraud scheme”, involving tricking and bribing banks, and “massive money laundering”.
concoct /kənˈkɑkt/
Preet Bharara, the US attorney in Manhattan, did not mince his words on April 15th as he indicated PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, three of the world’s biggest online-gambling companies, on charges of operating illegal gambling businesses, concocting an “elaborate criminal fraud scheme”, involving tricking and bribing banks, and “massive money laundering”.
on the face of it
On the face of it, this is a devastating blow to those who hoped that online gambling would soon be made fully legal in America and to the estimated 10m Americans who have been gambling online even as their government has insisted that it is illegal.
christen /ˈkrɪs(ə)n/
In response to the indictment, outraged poker players swiftly christened April 15th Black Friday.
tack onto
A law, hastily tacked onto the end of unrelated legislation, bans American banks from handling money related to internet gambling.
go to great lengths (to do something)
The indictment against the poker sites accuses them of going to great lengths to hide the flow of payments to them, such as by disguising them as purchases of jewellery or golf balls, implying that they must have known they were on the wrong side of the line.
on the wrong side of the line
The indictment against the poker sites accuses them of going to great lengths to hide the flow of payments to them, such as by disguising them as purchases of jewellery or golf balls, implying that they must have known they were on the wrong side of the line.
confining to /kənˈfaɪn/
By confining access to residents (or at least going through the motions of doing so), it hoped not to fall foul of federal legislation, which only applies to interstate commerce.
go through the motions (of doing something)
By confining access to residents (or at least going through the motions of doing so), it hoped not to fall foul of federal legislation, which only applies to interstate commerce.
fall foul of
By confining access to residents (or at least going through the motions of doing so), it hoped not to fall foul of federal legislation, which only applies to interstate commerce.
with a view to (doing) something
On March 24th Wynn Resorts, a casino operator, had formed a partnership with PokerStars with a view to operating online sites jointly.
predicate /ˈpredɪkeɪt/
Both deals were predicated on online gambling becoming legal.
scrap /skræp/
Both firms scrapped their deals within hours of their partners’ indictment.
chips are down
Although it would appear that the chips are down for internet gambling, the prosecutors’ crackdown may in fact turn out to be the last before Congress reverses itself and scraps prohibition.
press for
There are prominent supporters of legalisation in both parties pressing for such a change.
fold
/foʊld/
An attempt to pass new legislation late last year looked promising at first, but folded when Harry Reid, a senator for Nevada, misplayed a good hand.
a good hand
An attempt to pass new legislation late last year looked promising at first, but folded when Harry Reid, a senator for Nevada, misplayed a good hand.
punter /ˈpʌntə(r)/
With lobbying from 10m disconnected punters and the big casino companies (which have belatedly realised how much money there is to be made online) plus the enticing prospect of much-needed tax revenues, Congress has plenty of reasons to get its act together, despite the inevitable moral objections of a minority of members.
enticing /ɪnˈtaɪsɪŋ/
With lobbying from 10m disconnected punters and the big casino companies (which have belatedly realised how much money there is to be made online) plus the enticing prospect of much-needed tax revenues, Congress has plenty of reasons to get its act together, despite the inevitable moral objections of a minority of members.
liquidity crisis /lɪˈkwɪdəti/
On April 19th, as fears grew of a liquidity crisis at PokerStars, the privately owned market leader, the price of shares in Bwin.party Digital Entertainment (formed in March by merging Bwin, a sports-betting firm, and PartyGaming, a gamble website) jumped by nearly 30%, restoring some of the value lost last month when Germany proposed steep taxes on online gambling
pull out
PartyGaming had pulled out of America after the passage of the 2006 law.
pay off
It has been paying off a penalty of $105m under a non-prosecution settlement with the American authorities, for offences it admits to committing before it withdrew.
keep your nose clean
Because it has kept its nose clean of late, will its successor be one of the main beneficiaries if prohibition is ended in the near future?
no stranger
In fact, we’re no stranger to the dismal ferility figures.
ensue /ɪnˈsu/
When the population grows older a lot of serious social problems ensue.
as in
- When they talk about all this at Wright-Patterson, somebody might say it’s down in the future stuff, as in - who knows, maybe 30 years out.
- But the key phrase is “working on the development of,” as in, those additives don’t exitst yet and may never.
fuselage /ˈfjuzəˌlɑʒ/
If your listeners are free with their hands and not driving, your pinky finger is about the size of the fuselage.
agility /əˈdʒɪləti/
These are, indeed, gentle images of nature but the micro vehicles would be used by what the research lab calls “the war fighter, to improve total weapon agility,” end quote.
bank /bæŋk/
It’s a flat helicopter platform. It has four motors, they work in oppisition so it can rise and dip and bank.
UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)
These little tiny UAVs are great for things like surveillance, or looking around, or collection data that way, but they’re very short on battery power.
short on
These little tiny UAVs are great for things like surveillance, or looking around, or collection data that way, but they’re very short on battery power.
tanker /ˈtæŋkər/
Hang a couple of them on a power line to recharge batteries, send one of them on site, and then you just like, like you’re coming off of a tanker, and you can keep one guy on station all the time and have a continuos presence.
on station
Hang a couple of them on a power line to recharge batteries, send one of them on site, and then you just like, like you’re coming off of a tanker, and you can keep one guy on station all the time and have a continuos presence.
tout /taʊt/
First came the press releases: In March, PepsiCo touted the “World’s First 100 Percent Plant-Based, Renewably Sourced PET Bottle,” prompting CocaCola to stammer, “Odwalla First to Market with up to 100 Percent PlantBottle™ Packaging.”
stammer /ˈstæmə(r)/
First came the press releases: In March, PepsiCo touted the “World’s First 100 Percent Plant-Based, Renewably Sourced PET Bottle,” prompting CocaCola to stammer, “Odwalla First to Market with up to 100 Percent PlantBottle™ Packaging.”
subsequent /ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/
The subsequent headlines bumped the hype up a notch.
up the ante /ˈænti/
“Pepsi ups Ante on Planted-Based Bottles with 100% Non-Plastic Bottle”(GreenBiz),
biodegrade /ˌbaɪəʊdɪˈɡreɪd/
And once the inputs become plastic, they carry all the same environmental impacts as plastic made from fossil fuels: They don’t biodegrade, they pollute the world’s oceans and soils, and still leach potentially harmful chemicals into your food.
mistake /mɪˈsteɪk/
Eriksen’s team and other researchers have also found larger chunks of plastic on the various islands scatterd throughout the gyres, and in the bellies of dead birds, fish, and animals who fill themselves up with plastic bits what they mistake for fish and eventually die because they can’t digest the stuff.
pliability /ˌplaɪəˈbɪləti/
But since the traditional PET and HDPE manufacturers tend to use them to produce the right level of pliability and clarity, there’s a very good chance that plant-based versions of PET and HDPE contain them, too.
kernel /ˈkɜː(r)n(ə)l/
That said, there’s a kernel of real progress amid the plant-plastic hype.
technically /ˈteknɪkli/
While all bioplastics are technically “recyclable,” current recycling systems are not set up to recycle those that don’t mimic existing plastics.
opt /ɒpt/
In this sense, Coke and Pepsi opting to create plant-based HDPE and PET instead of other bioplastics is applaudable.
applaudable /əplɔ́ːdəbl/
In this sense, Coke and Pepsi opting to create plant-based HDPE and PET instead of other bioplastics is applaudable.
fraction /ˈfrækʃ(ə)n/
Unfortunately, people still recycle only a small fraction of the plastic bottles they use, regardless of how those bottles are made.
put at
(Manufacturers typically put the recycling rate for PET at 27 percent while recycling advocates suggest it’s more like 21 percent.)
evolve /ɪˈvɒlv/
Jeffrey Hoffman, a former NASA astronaut, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says the shuttle plans evolved.
versatile /ˈvɜː(r)sətaɪl/
- The shuttle was designed to be an extremely versatile spacecraft, which it has been.
- When you say that they tried to design the shuttle to be versatile, it’s almost as if you’re telling me that the NASA engineers were told to design a car that is a sport car but with the carrying capacity of an SUV and the incredible energy efficiency of a hybrid and can also drive for half a million miles.
decreed /dɪˈkriː/
I mean the fact that the shuttle was decreed from top down to be so safe that we didn’t need a crew escape system, which all previous human spaceflight vehicles had had.
top down
I mean the fact that the shuttle was decreed from top down to be so safe that we didn’t need a crew escape system, which all previous human spaceflight vehicles had had.
expendable /ɪkˈspendəb(ə)l/
- This was a decision that was made after the Challenger disaster when, you know, we could’ve launched those satelites on expendable rockets.
- So the original idea at the beginning of the shuttle was that expendable rockets would go away and the shuttle would do everything.
payload
/ˈpeɪˌləʊd/
And that included launching a lot of the very large military payloads.
stubby /ˈstʌbi/
If you look at the very original sketches that NASA had done for a space shuttle, it was much smaller, it had two little stubby wings on it.
in a heartbeat
If somebody offered me the flight, I’d go in a heartbeat.
sky-high
In an effort to reduce both its sky-high alcoholism rate and its budget gap, Russia recently announced plans to quadruple the tax on the country’s eternal vice, vodka, over the next three years.
quadruple /kwɑˈdrup(ə)l/
In an effort to reduce both its sky-high alcoholism rate and its budget gap, Russia recently announced plans to quadruple the tax on the country’s eternal vice, vodka, over the next three years.
well-intentioned /ˌwel ɪnˈtenʃənd/
But while the move might be well intentioned, the long history of liquor taxation in Russia exposes a critical obstacle in the path of any anti-drinking campaign:
derail /dɪˈreɪl/
: the Kremlin’s own addiction to liquor revenues, which has derailed every previous effort to wean Russians from their tipple.
wean /win/
: the Kremlin’s own addiction to liquor revenues, which has derailed every previous effort to wean Russians from their tipple.
wean off or wean from /win/
: the Kremlin’s own addiction to liquor revenues, which has derailed every previous effort to wean Russians from their tipple.
tipple /ˈtɪp(ə)l/
: the Kremlin’s own addiction to liquor revenues, which has derailed every previous effort to wean Russians from their tipple.
cloak /kloʊk/
In Russia, the demand for vodka persists even when prices go up, so the state has an ever-present temptation to raise taxes and fill the treasury under the political cloak of making vodka more dear.
lament /ləˈment/
In 1590, for example, the English ambassador Giles Fletcher lamented that Ivan the Terrible encouraged his subjects to drink their last kopecks away in state-owned taverns where “none may call them forth whatsover cause there be, because he hindereth the emperor’s revenue.
