笔记

    - lament=complain

    - turnout

- Michael R.Bloomberg dropped out of the presidential race and backed Joseph R.Biden Jr. on Wednesday, throwing the financial might of the Democratic Party’s biggest benefactor behind the former vice president’s campaign as Senato Bernie Sanders of Vermont vowed to wage a long battle for the nomination.

    - drop out

    - benefactor

    - a long battle

- His exit and immediate move to back Mr.Biden had the potential to anger supporters of Mr.Sanders and stoke resentment among progressives that party power brokers were again taking exceptionally aggressive steps to thwart Mr.Sanders’s candidacy.

    - progressive

    - exceptionally

- But Mr.Bloomberg’s decision to leave the race came primarily from an unsparing assessment of his own feeble prospects.

    - unsparing

    - feeble

    - assessment

- Mr.Bloomberg’s candidacy was unprecedented in its financial firepower, amounting to a no-expenses-spared effort to take control of a presidential race.

    - no-expenses-spared

- But he never escaped a set of serious political vulnerabilities that his advisers identified from the outset, including his long record of supporting stop-and-frisk policing and numerous accusations made by women about harassment and gender-based discrimination.

    - from the outset = from the beginning

    - stop-and-frisk

    - numerous accusation

    - harassment