熱詞手帳(No. 1406)
我們從英國《金融時報》近期熱點報道中挑選值得記憶的高頻單詞和短語,配合釋義與新聞原文例句,幫助你輕鬆掌握地道實用的英文表達,在不斷積累中感受英語能力的進步與提高。
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combustion
/kəmˈbʌstʃən/
n. 燃燒;
(快速)氧化
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All new automobiles sold within the EU will have to limit the particle pollution from brake pads, under proposals to be introduced ahead of a ban on combustion engine vehicles in the bloc from 2035.
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incoherency
/ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪərəns/
n. (常因強烈情感而)言語不清的,語無倫次的;
邏輯不清的;不連貫的
「Honestly, it feels like chaos,」 said one staffer, who added of the all-hands: 「It was just rambling incoherency.」
「說實話,感覺非常混亂,」一名員工說,他在談到全體員工時補充道,「就是一團亂麻。」
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full-blooded
/ˌfʊl ˈblʌdɪd/
adj. 感情強烈的;猛烈的;精力旺盛的;熱情的;
全血緣的;純血統的
These are the Japanese, he suspects, who are reading his books and perhaps wondering whether the kind of full-blooded systemic shift he sets out might not actually be so far out of the question. The streets of Japan are not, of course, aflame. But some may have already quietly embraced the degrowth philosophy.