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整理来自公众号 '外刊精读笔记'
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outrage:
- n. 在外刊中经常使用，用来形容公众对一个新闻或者事件反应，一般是anger的反应。它会搭配一些动词使用，经常用这些：be greeted with(做出...的反应）, cause, generate, provoke, spark outrage等，比如，The decision provoked outrage from women and human rights groups.这一决定激起了妇女和人权组织的强烈愤慨。
- vt. outrage这个词在外刊中经常使用，用来形容公众对一个新闻或者事件反应，一般是anger的反应。它会搭配一些动词使用，经常用这些：be greeted with(做出...的反应）, cause, generate, provoke, spark outrage等，比如，The decision provoked outrage from women and human rights groups.这一决定激起了妇女和人权组织的强烈愤慨。
- be outraged at. Scientists and environmentalists are outraged at such belligerence.
- outrageous. very shocking and unacceptable骇人的；无法容忍的，看一个雪人中的例子：But AI is bound to bring privacy violations that are seen as outrageous.但人工智能必然会带来让人们无法容忍的侵犯隐私行为。 -
deflect:
- to succeed in preventing sth from being directed towards you 转移；引开。经常的搭配是deflect attention from, 或者deflect criticism from，比如，All attempts to deflect attention from his private life have failed.本想转移人们对他私生活的注意，但一切努力都失败了。
- syn. divert divert...(away) from...，比如，The crime crackdown is an attempt to divert attention from social problems.此次打击犯罪是为了把人们的注意力从社会问题上转移开。 -
fuel bigtory 助长偏见
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label （熟词僻义）
- to describe sb / sth in a particular way, especially unfairly(尤指不公正地)把…称为。来看经济学人中的这句话，But after a month its chief executive, Ren Zhengfei, admitted that its 2019 revenues would in fact be about $30bn lower as a result of the export ban—a 30% drop since 2018. Huawei has labelled Mr Trump’s announcement a U-turn.但一个月后，该公司首席执行官任正非承认，由于出口禁令，该公司2019年的收入实际上将减少约300亿美元——自2018年以来减少了30%。华为称特朗普的声明是一个180度大转弯。 -
come as 表示结果
- Her death came as a terrible shock to us.她的死使我们极为震惊。&His resignation came as no surprise.他的辞职毫不令人惊讶。 -
double down 加倍做某事
- redouble 增强 syn.intensify, strengthen, beef up
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rebuke
- to speak severely to sb because they have done sth wrong指责；非难；谴责，相当于scold, castigate。这类表示批评、表扬的词，比如很熟悉的praise，criticize等，结构都是rebuke/praise/criticise sb/sth for sth/doing sth。
- cast blame on
- 关于cast的短语：cast a pall over 给...蒙上阴影；cast a shadow over 给...蒙上阴影；cast a judgement on 对...做出判断；cast...as 把...描写成...；cast off the chains 摆脱枷锁 -
trypophobia 密集恐惧症
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scheme与plan。
- scheme比plan更强调计划的通盘筹划和某些细节的精心安排。在现代英语中，常用于指阴谋诡计。 -
be doomed to（注定要失败的）可以归到[失败]一类表达中，然后还有：get nowhere（一般是经过长时间的努力后仍然失败），for nothing（所有的工作、准备等白费了），in vain，go (badly) wrong（开始很好，到后来却失败了），not make it，fruitless，flop/be a flop等等，语义之间会有一些差别，不确定的话一定要查字典。
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struck a new, more urgent tone中strike和tone经常搭配在一起使用。所以比如表示不服，使用了挑衅的口吻，strike a defiant tone；发出了友好的声音，strike a friendly tone等。
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grapple with 很常见，具体意思是to try hard to find a solution to a problem努力设法解决，比如，The new government has yet to grapple with the problem of air pollution. 新政府还需尽力解决空气污染问题。 基本上等于deal with, tackle等表示[解决]的词。再记一个类似的常用表达get to grips with sth，表示to begin to understand and deal with sth difficult，有时候会翻译为“掌握”。
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categorically in such a sure and certain way that there is no doubt确定无疑地，断然地，明确地，比如，He has categorically denied his guilt all along.他始终断然否认自己有罪。&Can you state categorically that her death was caused by lack of food?你敢肯定地说她的死是由于缺乏食物造成的吗 ？
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