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20180819中

Show me what you've got.

✘汪子的外刊

animal conservation保护动物

make remarkable progress on

spell doom for招致

to meet your doom 死亡

She had a sense of impending doom 她预感到厄运已经逼近。

pledge(to do sth)

Will the government【 honour its election pledge 】not to raise taxes? 政府会履行其竞选诺言，不增加税收吗？

pledge(that…)

Management has 【given a pledge that 】there will be no job losses this year. 资方保证今年不会削减工作职位。

sign/take the ˈpledge

The government【 pledged their support for 】the plan. 政府保证支持这项计划。

spell disaster

spell trouble

✘grind to a hault

Production ground to a halt during the strike. 罢工期间生产渐渐陷入瘫痪。

✘close this loophole填补这个法律漏洞

take  advantage of loopholes in the law

avail oneself of loopholes.利用法律漏洞

✘a'vail yourself of sth (formal)

• to make use of sth, especially an opportunity or offer

• 利用(尤指机会、提议等):

»Guests are encouraged to avail themselves of the full range of hotel facilities.

  旅馆鼓励旅客充分利用各种设施。

proceeds收入收益

permitted sales合法销售

be slain for their tusks

The elephants are poached for their tusks.

为获取象牙而偷猎大象。

The company poached the contract from their main rivals. 这家公司窃取了其主要竞争对手的合同。

Several of our employees have been poached by a rival firm. 我们公司有好几名职员被对手公司给挖走了。

Such action may have dire consequences. 这种行为可能产生严重后果。

have dire consequences for

对什么产生不良后果

engagement with th和什么的关系

despite strong demand for

as of自什么什么时候起

boosted by the support of celebrities

When the buyinv stops, the killing can too.

But now attitudes seem to be changing.

Opinion on ✘ has shifted fast

animal cruelty动物暴力

abjure等于。renounce

but more important is

corruption and excess

Experts attribute the scourge in poaching to Asia's voraciously growing appetite for ivory, particularly in China.

专家认为亚洲地区，尤其是一个国家对象牙日益增长的贪欲需求导致猎杀行为大量增加。

one-off sale清仓

dissuade劝阻

it may dissuade Mr Trump from resorting to full-strength "anti-trade populism". Well, perhaps.

就有可能阻止特朗普诉诸倾尽全力的"反贸易民粹主义"。或许吧。

swear words

f word

four letter word

bloody hell