Tortoise v hare

tortoise: 龜雅采,烏龜氯檐,遲緩的人

hare: 野兔杆煞,易受驚嚇的故硅,膽小的

run quickly, like a hare.

reappraise: to examine something again in order to consider whether you should change it or your opinion of it. (syn: reassess)

feel boxed in: to feel that you cannot do something you want to do because a

person or situation is limiting you.

carapace: ?a hard shell of the outside of some animals such as a crab or tortoise.

Aesop: 伊索

profile: ? a side view of someone’s head.

a short description that gives importan details about a person, a group of people, or a place.

degree of exposure to public notice.

keep a low profile: ?to come quietly and avoid doing things that will make people notice you. (antonym: high profile )

raise somebody’s profiles: a person or organizaiton gets more attention.

throng: a large group of people in one place.

bring somebody in to do something: to ask someone to become involved in a discussion or situation.

dwell on: to think or talk too long about something especially something unpleasant.

strikingly: in a way that is easy to notice.

in your sights: if you have someone or something in your sights, you intend to

achieve it or get it for yourself, or to attack them.

hegemony: a situation in which one state or country controls others.

befall: something unpleasant or dangerous happens to you.

venture: to say or do something in an uncertain way because you are afraid it is

wrong ? or will seem stupid.

supposedly: used when saying what many people say or believe is true, especially

when you disagree with them.

Amplify: explain something that you have said by giving more information about it.

flesh out: to add more details to something in order to make it clear, more

interesting.

realm: a general area of knowledge, activity, or t say that something is possible even

though you think it’s not likely.

with the realms of possibility: ?used, often humurously, to say that something is possible even though you think it is not likely.

distill..(into…): to get the main idea or facts from a much larger amount information.

mnemonic: ?something such as a poem or a sentence that use to help you

remember a rule, a name etc.

as is somebody’s wont: used to say that it is someone’s habit to do something.

Rendering: the way an expression, piece of writing etc is translated or explained, or

The way an event, situation etc is described. olitical r

Mouthpiece: a person newspaper that expresses the opinions of ?a government or a

political organization.

bolster: to improve something

multi-billion-dollar: 數(shù)十億美元的

booster: someone who gives a lot of support to a person, organization, or idea.

cheerleader: someone who encourages other people to do something.

wary: someone who is wary is careful because they think something might be

danerous or harmful.

be wary of (doing) something

broach the subject/question/matter etc: to mention a subject that may beembarrassing or unpleasant or cause an argument.

boss somebody about (BrE)/around (AmE): to tell people to do things, give them

orders etc, especially when you have no authority to do it.

self-assurance: 自信

promptly: at the right time without being late; immediately; without delay

limplicitly: complrte and containing no doubts

disavow: to say that you are not responsible for something that you do not know

about it or that you are not ?involved it.

eschew: to deliberately avoid doing or using something.

overlap: if two or more things overlap, part of one thing covers part of another one.

come within a whisker of (doing) something: to almost succed or fail at doing something.

20-odd/30-odd: a little more than.

rival: to be as good or important as someone or something else.

transatlantic: involving countries on both side of the Atlantic Ocean.

assembled thong: 與會(huì)成員

thucydides trap: 修昔底德陷阱e(cuò)rson

impose its will on others: 把它的意愿強(qiáng)加給別人

incumbent power: 當(dāng)權(quán)者,在位者

accommodate the rising one: 接納不斷發(fā)展的….

tell a conference on security: 再一次安全會(huì)議上表示

guide international society: 引領(lǐng)國(guó)際社會(huì)

a just and rational new world order: 公平合理的國(guó)際新秩序

deputy ?secretary of state: 美國(guó)副國(guó)務(wù)卿

responsible stakeholder: ?有責(zé)任的利益相關(guān)者

one-size-fits-all: “一刀切”

in the realm of foreign policy: 在外交政策方面

go viral: 在網(wǎng)上流傳開

search engine: 搜索引擎

rule of law: 法治

convene a summit: 舉辦峰會(huì)


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