主题：09考高翻,读economist总结词汇(不要跟帖)

12. draw a line: 划界线，区分
Obama seems to many, by reason of his race, his calm intelligence, his youthful good looks and his powerful oratorical skills, to be well suited to draw a line beneath the bitter Bush years and to repair America’s torn relationship with the outside world.

13. pundit: 权威
One prominent pundit was much derided earlier this year for describing the tingle he got from listening to the candidate—but everyone knew exactly what he meant.

14. deride: 取笑

15. tingle: an exciting or uncomfortable feeling of emotion 震颤

16. an army of....:大批
But Mr Obama ran a brilliant campaign, using the internet to harness the energy and the donations of an army of volunteers, and deploying them with tactical skill in almost every state.

17. touch off: 引起,触发
He managed the firestorm touched off by his intemperate pastor, Jeremiah Wright, with dignity and, eventually, ruthlessness.

18. gain ground:占据优势
In the battleground states which will determine the result, Mr McCain has steadily been gaining ground.

19. bear sb./sth. out: 证实
If the polls are borne out, the result, as in 2000 and 2004, will be nerve-janglingly close.

20. nerve-janglingly: 神经焦躁不安地
She was suddenly wide awake, her nerves jangling.

21. aloof:冷漠，冷淡
Others find him unattractively self-regarding and aloof.

22. flip-flopping: 出尔反尔，改变观点
Many resent his apparent flip-flopping on important issues, like gun-control and whether or not to talk to Iran and Syria, as well as less important ones, like whether to wear a flag pin.

23. allay:减轻（情绪）
From the moment of his coronation in Denver, Mr Obama will have 68 days to allay these doubts.

24. mitigate:减轻，缓和/alleviate
There is not much he can do about his thin r閟um?or his lack of foreign-policy and security expertise, though he can mitigate the latter somewhat with an astute choice of running mate.

25. tone down:（讲话，意见）缓和，温和
Mr Obama could certainly tone down the triumphalism: opting to make his acceptance speech not in the convention hall but in a 75,000-seater sports stadium seems like another mistake, akin to his hubristic rock-star’s tour of Europe.

26. waffle:拿不定主意，三心二意
He needs to be a lot clearer and firmer about how he will deal with America’s foes and rivals: his first instinct when Russia invaded Georgia was to waffle.

27. bogus:假的，伪造的
A bad deal may well be worse than no deal, if it lets Mr Mugabe stay in power, with Mr Tsvangirai’s lot as supplicant（恳求者） partners in a government of bogus unity.

28. blandishments: 因有所求而说的好话
Mr Tsvangirai should resist the blandishments of Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, who has been trying to mediate an agreement that would in effect leave Mr Mugabe and his thugs in charge.

29. ceremonial president: 礼节性的总统
Mr Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change have suggested that Mr Mugabe should become a ceremonial president and Mr Tsvangirai an executive prime minister in a transitional period before fresh elections are held.

30. destitution:贫穷，赤贫　(destitute of sth.: lacking sth.)
He will become an unwitting agent for perpetuating the cruel and venal（贪赃枉法的） order that has turned Zimbabwe from an African bread basket into a husk of destitution.

31. bow out: 退出，告别
But Mr Mugabe and his security men, who could end up in the International Criminal Court at The Hague if he bowed out, do not see it that way at all.

32. doggedly:顽强地，坚持不懈地
But why should Mr Mugabe co-operate in his own demise? Other dictators, such as North Korea’s Kim Jong-il, remain doggedly（顽强地） in power, sealed off from their pauperised people.

33. pauperised:穷人，贫民

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34. flagging: 变弱，热情衰减
He must revitalize a flagging economy.

35. turn the corner:脱离困境，度过难关
He must reduce energy dependence and turn the corner on the truly existential issue of climate change.

36. unwieldy: 难控制的，尾大不掉的
To make progress on this daunting agenda, the president must master and control a sprawling, unwieldy federal bureaucracy that is always resistant to change and sometimes dysfunctional.

37. lay out: 清晰谨慎地提出，策划（计划、论点等）
A successful president must identify meaningful yet achievable goals, lay them out clearly before the nation and the world, and then achieve them through leadership skills that will be tested by pressures unimaginable to anyone who has not held the job.

38. overarching:非常重要的，概莫能外的
Still, there is a need to define a broad overarching concept of the United States' national interests.

39. strengthen his hand: 加强他的作用
The president should address both issues as early as possible in order to strengthen his hand as he tackles pressing strategic issues, including the five neighboring countries at the center of the arc of crisis that directly threatens the United States' national security -- Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

40. condone:宽容,纵容
Presidential directives making clear that the U.S. government does not tolerate or condone torture are necessary in order to separate the new administration from that costly legacy.

41. albatross:信天翁，惹麻烦的事
Guant醤amo must not become the next president's albatross, too; closing it, no matter how difficult, is not just desirable but imperative.

42. immutable: 永恒不变，一尘不变 (unchangeable)
History is not immutable.

43. inexorably: 不可阻挡的，无法改变的
Rome, imperial China, Venice, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom -- all had their day, and their international decline followed inexorably from their economic decline.

44. wean sb. off/from sth. 使逐渐戒除恶习（或避免依赖）
Suppose high oil prices continue for, say, another decade -- a gloomy but not unreasonable scenario given the long lead-time required to wean the consuming nations off their expensive habit.

45. ostensibly: 表面上的
There is a well-known example of this, although the West seems not to have learned any lessons from it: Saudi Arabia, which, although it has long worked with Washington to bolster world oil output and keep prices within an acceptable range, has simultaneously allowed billions of (ostensibly nongovernmental) dollars to go toward building extremist madrasahs and funding terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda.

46. arrears:欠款，未付清的款项
Obama would improve and reform the organization in ways that would serve the United States' interests, starting by asking Congress to pay the arrears that have grown once again, under Bush, to over $1 billion.

47. the jaws of victory: 胜利的果实 (usually "the jaws of death, defeat etc." meaning "鬼门关，失败的险境")
McCain charges that his opponent's position (which he and his supporters often misrepresent as "precipitous withdrawal") would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, encourage the United States' enemies, and weaken the nation.

48. armistice agreement: 停战协议
Using as his model South Korea, where 28,500 American forces remain 55 years after the armistice agreement, McCain said that he was ready to station U.S. troops in Iraq for at least that long, if not longer, even a hundred years.

49. xenophobic: 仇外的
Such a multidecade commitment, even under peaceful conditions, is inconceivable in the xenophobic and violent atmosphere of the Middle East.

50. stand/turn sth. on its head: 使人完全改变思路,使人从反面思考
Obama stands McCain's core argument on its head.

51. a phased withdrawal: 分阶段撤军
And the only effective way to apply this pressure is to begin a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces.

52. rebuff:粗暴拒绝
If Tehran rebuffs an opportunity to have meaningful talks with Washington, it will increase its own isolation and put itself under greater international pressure, while the United States will improve its own standing.

53. take the helm:掌管,担任领导人
It can still take the helm in addressing the world's most pressing problems.

54. take precedence over: 优先于
National interest must take precedence over statements made in the heat of a campaign.

55. China's twin priorities: 中国的两个重点
China's twin priorities: territorial integrity and economic growth.

56. inextricable: 密不可分的
But the inextricable interdependence of China's growth and that of the global economy requires a policy of engagement.

57. through an economic lens: 从经济的角度
Washington understands, for example, that robust and sustained economic growth is a social imperative for China and that Beijing views its international interactions primarily through an economic lens.

58. an umbrella of support: 保护伞
Reform progresses best when an umbrella of support at the top facilitates change at lower levels.

59. thin social safety net: 薄弱的社会保障网
On the other hand, household savings are high, as individual Chinese try to compensate for the country's thin social safety net, limited options to finance major expenditures such as education, and few investment options other than bank deposits.

60. grapple with...: 争执不休
Meanwhile, even as the United States and other countries grapple with multilateral treaty negotiations on climate change, the SED has focused its bilateral discussions on the costs of climate change to the United States and China.

61. ramification: 后果
The ramifications of China's energy policies have been a consistent topic of discussion at the SED, and I have encouraged the Chinese government to move toward a market-determined price for energy.

62. tenet: 原则
The China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC, has been paying more and more attention to social responsibility and is making it one of the tenets of the company's oil-exploration activities around the world.

63. forestall: 预先阻止
It has alleviated a complex set of concerns in the U.S. Congress in a way that has led to a significant appreciation of the renminbi and forestalled dangerous protectionist legislation.

64. square: 与...一致
The right approach, in other words, can partly square Obama's goal of redeploying large numbers of U.S. forces sooner rather than later with McCain's goal of ensuring stability in Iraq.

65. prognosis: 未来预测
If the prognosis in Iraq were hopelessly grim, it might make sense for the United States to threaten withdrawal, hold its breath, and hope for the best.

66. pin the blame on...: 使承担过失
The police in Xinjiang have not pinned the blame for the recent violence on any terrorist group, nor has any claimed responsibility. But the official press has been less restrained.

67. heavy-handed: 高压的，冷酷的
China’s heavy-handed repression angers many Uighurs.

68. far-flung:遥远的
...along with Russia’s assertions of its “privileged interests” in its far-flung neighbourhood...

69. smirking: 洋洋得意，自鸣得意
Yet a smirking Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev do not seem to be quaking in their boots—indeed they think they have triumphed diplomatically as well.

70. bite the dust: 失败，被打败
Another grey（缺乏个性的） man bites the dust

71. throw in the towel: 认输，承认失败
BRUISED, bothered and bewildered, a Japanese prime minister for the second time in a year has thrown in the towel after a few ineffectual months in the ring.

72. fizzle out: 终成泡影，虎头蛇尾
Yasuo Fukuda, like his predecessor, Shinzo Abe, had seen his popularity ratings slump, as his party rivals sharpened their knives and his policies fizzled.

73. hand-wringing: （由于焦虑或烦恼）扭双手
However, for those, like this newspaper, hoping for change in Japan, this is a moment not for hand-wringing gloom, but for hand-rubbing glee: Japanese politics may have entered its most exciting period in more than 50 years

74. hand-rubbing: 摩拳擦掌

75. vested interests: 既得利益
Indeed, in the end, it was a belated attempt to pursue reform and take on some of the LDP’s vested interests that did for Mr Fukuda.

76. stopgap: 权宜之计，临时替代的东西
Despite his recent efforts to revive reform, Mr Fukuda, a stopgap, marked a return to the old, grey, back-room style.

77. back-room boys: 默默无闻地从事重要工作的人，无名功臣

78. entrench: 牢固确立
Without upheaval, deadlock would be entrenched.

79. vest sth. in sb.:授予，赋予
Similarly, young Turks in the ranks of the DPJ vest few hopes in their party leader, Ichiro Ozawa, a political bruiser.

80. upshot: 结局，结果
That is the upshot of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s talks in Moscow on Monday September 8th, where he tried to get the Kremlin to implement in full a French-brokered ceasefire that ended Russia’s war with Georgia.

81. quibble: 为小事争论，斤斤计较
Yet the coming weeks offer plenty of scope for quibbling and foot-dragging.

82. foot-dragging: 故意拖拉，故意延迟（做出决定）

83. nosedive: 急转直下，暴跌
None of that is much comfort for the Georgian leadership, which is coping with tens of thousands of refugees and a nose-diving economy.

84. cosmetic: 装门面的，表面文章
The prime minister’s plan was never going to be more than cosmetic.

85. thick and fast: 铺天盖地，快又多，频频
So the bad news is clustering thick and fast.

86. teeter on the brink/edge of sth.: 处在（危险或灾难）的边缘，濒临
while Britain is teetering on the brink of recession, the euro zone is already shrinking

87. take sth. on the chin: （无怨无悔地承受困境）
The truth is that Britain is simply going to have to take it on the chin for a while.

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88. accent:着重点，强调
This accent on targeted research is understandable.

89. swear in: 宣誓就职
THREE clouds hovered over Asif Zardari as he was sworn in on September 9th as Pakistan’s president.

90. self-aggrandisement: 自我权力膨胀
In return, he needs to show that he really does have at heart the national interest rather than self-aggrandisement or self-enrichment.

91. self-enrichment: 大肆敛财

92. at one's behest: 受某人的吩咐（或要求）
Yet in at least two ways, apparently at Mr Zardari’s behest, the government has sacrificed fiscal responsibility for political advantage.

93. antipathy: 厌恶，反感
His predecessor, Pervez Musharraf, and Mr Karzai scarcely bothered to conceal their mutual antipathy.

94. on the line: 冒风险
Mr Zardari may find it hard to persuade Pakistan’s people that the fight is worthwhile, especially since the army itself, whose soldiers’ lives are on the line, is not wholly committed to it.

95. esasperated: 激怒，触怒
Exasperated at the continuing infiltration of armed militants from Pakistan’s tribal areas, America has launched air-strikes—and even sent soldiers—on its soil.

96. wayward: 难以控制的，任性的，倔强的，反复无常的
This seems intended in part to focus Mr Zardari’s wayward mind on the task in hand.

97. enclave: 飞地（某国或某市境内隶属于外国或外市，具有不同宗教、文化或民族的领土）
RUSSIA’S August war with Georgia was about many things besides the two enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

98. flashpoint: 一触即发
The potential flashpoints for a clash with a resurgent Russia are all too obvious.

99. not least: 尤其是
Yet in truth NATO membership is a long way off, not least because neither country is anywhere near ready.

100. preen oneself on sth. 沾沾自喜，得意洋洋
Such caution is a big mistake. France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, as holder of the EU presidency, may be preening himself over the new ceasefire deal he struck with Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev on September 8th, but in truth the war with Georgia has shown up the EU’s vacillation.

101. vacillation: 摇摆不定，动摇

102. bail sb. out: 帮助脱离困境
The bail-out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was inevitable.

103. tail your hair (out): （因发怒、焦急而）撕扯自己的头发
IF HANK PAULSON had not already lost all his hair, he would surely be tearing it out right now.

104. antagonise: 使对立，使生气
the government had promised as much and a debtor nation could not afford to antagonise its lenders.

105. put out feelers: 试探
Yet even Belarus, previously a reliable Russian ally, has reacted to the August war by nervously putting out feelers to Brussels.

106. send/throw good money after bad: 继续花钱打水漂
Once begun, purchases will be hard to stop; the government will be tempted to send good money after bad.

107. hard-pressed: 处于强大压力的（尤指工作重、时间紧迫、资金少）
By lowering the funding costs of the two agencies, the rescue should also bring down mortgage rates for hard-pressed householders.

108. Armageddon: 《圣经》中世界末日的善恶大决战
Although the plan has forestalled Armageddon in the American housing market, it is no cure-all.

109. cure-all:万灵药，灵丹妙药

110. symbiosis: 共生关系
But the banking industry and the economy are now locked in a kind of negative symbiosis, where bad news in one induces pain in the other.

111. boon: 有用的东西，益处
And the recent fall in commodity prices, although partly sparked by economic fears, should be a boon.

112. ramshackle: 摇摇欲坠的，行将瓦解的
The Lebanese have a ramshackle government with no one really in charge.

113. hanker after/for: 渴求，渴望
Syria has lost control of Lebanon but still hankers after its old dominance there; indirect talks with Israel are sputtering nowhere.

114. weigh down: 使负重
Egypt, once a force in regional diplomacy, is weighed down by its own worries.

115. knock sth. together: 草草做成，匆匆拼凑成
The United States, essential for knocking heads together, has a lame-duck president whose quacks for peace have probably come too late.

116. iron out sth.: 解决问题（或困难）
Nothing good is likely to happen until some of these political uncertainties have been ironed out, a process that will take months.

117. drag on: 拖的太久
After he—or she—is chosen, the wearisome business of refashioning a ruling coalition may drag on for weeks.

118. glum: 忧郁的，死气沉沉的
This is a glum prospect, though it is conceivable that Mr Netanyahu would feel obliged, as have other hard men before him, to change his mind about how to make peace with the Palestinians.

119. contiguous state: 邻国
But she is tough and now seems to believe firmly that a proper two-state solution, with the Palestinians entrenched in a separate, viable, sovereign, contiguous state, is the sole path to Israel’s survival as a predominantly Jewish country.

120. fiendishly: 极其，很
If she became prime minister, Ms Livni would also need to undertake several other fiendishly hard tasks.

121. egg sb. on: 鼓动，怂恿
And she would need to understand that encouraging divisions among the Palestinians—egging on Fatah to bash Hamas—is unlikely to secure long-term peace for Israel.

122. flounder: 困难重重，艰苦挣扎
In case the Palestinians’ floundering president, Mahmoud Abbas, finally runs out of steam, Mr Barghouti may be the Fatah man to woo Hamas supporters and do a deal.

123. run out of steam: 精疲力尽，丧失热情

124. legwork: 跑腿活，外勤
More than two-thirds were willing to pay more for higher-value legal services if they could pay less for lower-value legal legwork.

125. the Pearly Gates: 天堂之门
A successful lawyer dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates, and is very angry. “Why me, I am only 57 years old?” he asks.

126. smite: 攻击
Relief carvings depicted giant pharaohs smiting dwarf-like enemies, and showed the Nile teeming with fish and waterfowl.

127. blinkered: 目光狭窄的，心胸狭隘的/narrow-minded
Today, a blinkered visitor might choose to see nothing of Egypt but posh beach resorts and gleaming factories, and hear of little but strong economic growth and a stable, secular government committed to reform.

128. lucrative: 利润丰厚的
Lush fields now line the entire crowded, six-lane route, many planted with drip-irrigated garden crops for lucrative European markets.

129. get by: 设法过活，勉强应付
The fact is that most of Egypt’s 75m people struggle to get by, their ambitions thwarted by rising prices, appalling state schools, capricious judges, a plodding and corrupt bureaucracy and a cronyist regime that pretends democracy but in fact crushes all challengers and excludes all participation.

130. capricious: 无定见的，变幻莫测的

131. ploddding: 缓慢行进的，艰涩滞重

132. cronyist: 任人唯亲的

133. dam sth. up: 筑坝
The visitor might well conclude that by damming up the normal flow of politics, Egypt’s rulers risk bringing on a deluge.

134. deluge: 大雨，暴雨，洪水

135. the have-nots/the haves: 穷人/富人
Then, as now, the gap between a very rich few and the teeming mass of have-nots seemed to yawn ever wider.

136. sharecropper: 佃农
Then, 2,000 vast estates occupied half of Egypt’s fertile land, while millions of illiterate peasants toiled as sharecroppers.

137. resurface: 再次浮出水面
Instead they were hounded and imprisoned, and allowed to resurface in Egyptian politics only 30 years later.

138. charade: 装模作样，做戏
Voter turnout was reckoned at less than 5%, reflecting widespread disgust with the charade.

139. fall under/within/outside the purview of sth.: 在权限之内
The army, police, secret police, justice, the lucrative petroleum industry and foreign relations fall under the purview of the presidency, which tends to view all of them through a prism of state security and regime survival.

140. relegate sb./sth. to: 使降级，降低地位
This relegates to the hard-working prime minister, Ahmed Nazif, a diminished portfolio restricted to economic and social policy.

141. jittery: 紧张不安，心神不宁
Prices for other goods are still surging, but the government, made jittery by the ugly public mood, does try to help.

142. whittle sth. away: 削减，降低
But despite some advances, for instance in allowing a more critical, privately owned press to flourish, his regime has systematically whittled away civic freedoms.

143. vendetta: 家族世仇，家族仇杀
Citizens therefore resort to private vendettas and the state resorts to security measures, such as sending in riot police, rather than social policies to make things better.

144. raise sb's hackles: 激怒某人
In May the American president, George Bush, raised hackles by declaring, in the resort boomtown of Sharm el-Sheikh, that Egypt had disappointed hopes that it might lead the region in democratic reform.

145. bristle: 恼怒，激怒
His host disdained to listen to the speech, and even many of Mr Mubarak’s Egyptian critics bristled at being lectured by a singularly unpopular Western leader.

146. flimsy charges of forgery: 站不住脚、捏造的指控，子虚乌有的罪名
Yet many admitted, too, that Mr Bush was on target, especially considering that Ayman Nour, a young, secular politician who was the distant runner-up to Mr Mubarak in the 2005 presidential election, has languished in jail ever since, on flimsy charges of forgery.

147. window dressing: 装饰门面，弄虚作假
The only party that can easily fulfil all these criteria is Mr Mubarak’s National Democratic Party, which might then choose, for the sake of window-dressing, to endorse a few rival candidates from the handful of weak secular parties.

148. ungloved control: 幕后控制
Some assert that this “deep state” would not countenance an inherited presidency, preferring instead to promote a more trusted figure from within, in a Putin-like shift to ungloved control.

149. sideline: 排除在核心之外
Indeed, one of the reasons for the elder Mr Mubarak’s endurance, aside from his aversion to risk, has been his skill at sidelining potential rivals and playing the various security branches against each other.

150. clamber aboard/climb on/ jump on the bandwagon: 随大流，赶时髦，追赶潮流
MOST countries cannot wait to clamber aboard the bandwagon of Chinese growth.

151. vie with sb. for sth.: 争夺，竞争
With a presidential election due on March 22nd, its two main parties are vying with one another to open up to the mainland.

152. backtrack: 返回，折回，退回，改变声明（或主张）
The KMT has started to backtrack on its more far-reaching proposals, including the common market.

153. write off: 认定...失败（或没有价值，不可救药等）
The Democrats have at last realised that it is foolish to write off a group that makes up an astonishing 23% of the population.

154. cuddle up (to/against sb/sth): 紧靠...而坐，依偎
This year all the major Democratic candidates have cuddled up to them.

155. chip away at sth.: 不停地削凿
The aim, of course, is not to win the evangelical vote: merely chipping away at such a monolith could be hugely useful.

156. monolith: 单块巨石，单一庞大的组织（此处指美国新教选民）

157. make inroads into/on sth.: 消耗，削弱，影响
The Democrats have had good reasons for thinking that they may be able to make inroads.

158. rev sth. up: 发动起来，使快速运转
But over the past month or so Mr McCain has dramatically revved up the evangelical base.

159. lead sb. astray: 引入歧途
But voters are still led astray.

160. fare well/badly/better: 成功/不成功/更好
America’s libraries are faring surprisingly well in the internet era.

161. check out: （从图书馆）借书
The average Wyoming resident checked out nine books in 2005-06, compared with an average of five in California and two in Washington, DC.

162. foot the bill: 负担费用，掏腰包
The federal government usually foots most of the bill; unfortunately, it has little cash.

163. weigh in: 发表有分量的意见，发挥作用
The world’s food celebrities weighed in on everything from the global food crisis to the role of food in the presidential election.

164. mecca: 麦加，热门地方
But the Bay Area considers itself a mecca of farmers’ markets, organic growers and discriminating eaters.

165. pitch in: 投入，参与，支援
Carlo Petrini, the Italian gourmet who is the doyen of the global Slow Food movement, also pitched in.

166. plump for sb./sth.: 慎重挑选，投票赞成
It voted for George Bush in 2004, but it also plumped for Bill Clinton in 1996 and sent a Democrat to Congress in 2006.

167. 70-somethings： 70几岁的人
Convinced that they will see a woman in the White House during their lifetimes, they did not feel the same “fierce urgency of now” (to borrow a phrase from Mr Obama) as 70-somethings like Ms Steinem.

168. take a dim view of sb./sth.: 对...持不赞成（或怀疑）态度；对...没有好感
The authorities take a dim view of protests at the best of times.

169. at the best of times: 即使在最好的情况下

170. gridlocked: 市区交通大堵塞
The city has become gridlocked市区交通大堵塞, with rush-hours replaced by semi-permanent congestion.

171. drag on sb./sth.: 拖累，累赘，绊脚石
Congestion is a drag on the economy.

172. polarized politics: 集权政治
And Venezuela’s polarised politics has made co-ordinated action impossible.

173. moot: 提出...供讨论/propose/put forward
According to the Venezuelan Society of Transport and Road Engineers, the metropolitan area urgently needs at least 100km of new roads, including the completion of a ring-road—first mooted in the 1970s.

174. be on the lookout (for sb./sth.)|keep a lookout: 警戒，留心，注意
With Russia on the lookout for opportunities to poke Uncle Sam in the eye, and Venezuela eager to acquire powerful friends, this is a “perfect alliance”, says one Venezuelan foreign-affairs specialist.

175. predate: 早于，先于
The planning for these exercises clearly predates the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Georgia.

176. renege on: 食言，背信弃义
But Mr Zardari soon reneged on pledges to restore the deposed chief justice, and to amend the constitution to divest the presidency of the extraordinary powers accrued to it by Mr Musharraf.

177. lord it over sb.: 对某人举止霸道（或逞威风）
With a puppet prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, from his Pakistan People’s Party, Mr Zardari is poised to lord it over Pakistan.

178. drive sth. home to sb.: 阐明，使充分理解
To drive the point home, American forces in Afghanistan have recently launched air strikes against suspected terrorist hide-outs in the tribal areas of Pakistan that border Afghanistan, provoking outrage.

179. dish sth. out: 大量提供，分发
Since 2001 America has deferred billions of dollars of Pakistani debt repayments and dished out more than $12 billion in aid, mostly for the army.

180. make no bones about (doing) sth.: 开诚布公，坦率直言
The generals make no bones about it: they neither like nor trust the president.

181. trip sb. up: 故意使人犯错误，绊倒
Unless, of course, he trips up himself, or someone trips him.

182. ride sth. out: 经受住，安然度过难关
Nothing should be done to help India build up sufficient reactor-fuel stocks to ride out post-test sanctions.

183. not see hide nor hair of sb./sth.: （一段时间）不见某人的踪影
Neither hide nor tousled hair of Mr Kim has been seen since August 14th.

因为他说不要跟帖的

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