每日外刊精读笔记3.26

2019/3/26  https://www.ft.com/content/dadbb344-fb1f-11e4-9aed-00144feab7de

By Katherine Tsai CUHK 仅供学习分享,禁止用作其他商业用途,转载需获授权。

词义、搭配、例句来自朗文/ 剑桥词典

主题-经济

Breathe life into / revive Russian industry复苏俄罗斯生产

industry工业/行业,还有生产制造,勤劳(continuously working hard)

本国货币贬值以及对西方产品的禁止使人们转向购买俄罗斯本地生产的商品。

Consumers now prefer Russian products because of the ban on western goods and the weaker Ruble.(低级表达)

Currency slide and ban on western sees consumers and companies opt for Russian-goods

俄罗斯已经担心了太久的经济危机,以至于上个礼拜五宣布的GDP的下跌被认为是好消息。

Russia has been fretting about economic catastrophe for so long that the slide in GDP announced last Friday was actually deemed good news

The slide announced 后置定语非常简洁,不用说that was announced

Fret about/over:担忧焦虑(不必要的)

Julie spent her days fretting about boys and clothes.

Catastrophe:即将到来的大灾难/ 坏局面

Ecological/economic catastrophe

Sth is a catastrophe for the country

Deem good news非常简洁,低级说法可能是be considered (to be) good news

Deem:to think of something in a particular way or as having a particular quality (longman dic)是一个比较正式的动词,没有进行时

✔He deems it his duty to report the incident.

✗He is deeming it his duty to report the incident.

搭配例句

deem that

They deemed that he was no longer capable of managing the business.

deem something necessary/appropriate etc

They were told to take whatever action they deemed necessary.

be deemed to be something

They were deemed to be illegal immigrants.

be deemed to do something

UK plans were deemed to infringe EU law.(infringe: break the law)

news其实蛮多灵活表达

作为消息/情况

Hear no news of them很久没他们的消息了

Best news ever最好的消息

Did you hear about the news about Amy and Sheldon你听说他们的事情了吗

Cant wait to hear about all your news快告诉为你近况如何

Break the news

作为新闻

What’s interesting on the morning news?

被报道一般说in the news

作为有利/不利

He is bad news for the company.

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