2020-05-13

1. Special Report on Coronavirus

🧡 Coping with the stress of life after lockdown

Lockdown: n. the confining of prisoners to their cells, typically after an escape or to regain control during a riot; 封锁; ---> 最近常见的还有 quarantine: n.v.  impose isolation on (a person, animal, or place)

2. SmartBrief on Small Business

🧡 Beef business persists despite virus outbreak

Persist: v. continue firmly in an opinion or a course action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure. 

Outbreak: n. the sudden or violent start of something unwelcome, such as war, disease, etc.. 暴发

3. Legal Brief

🧡 Case over tribal lands' status may hinge on Gorsuch vote

Hinge: v. attach or join with or as if with a hinge / n. 合页 （门窗开合的交界处零部件）

hinge on: to be determined or decided by (something) / to depend on (something) 取决于

eg. The outcome of the election hinges on how the candidates perform in the debate.

🧡Scammers race to profit from coronavirus

Scammer: a person who commits fraud or participates in a dishonest scheme. 骗子

Scam: v. swindle = use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions 诈骗 / n. a dishonest scheme, a fraud

🧡 Judge upholds ruling on oil, gas pipelines

uphold: v. confirm or support (something that has been questioned). 支持或坚持 一些有问题的东西

4. Company Watch

🧡 Flowers Foods, BellRing, more roll out new offerings

Roll out: verb phrase, to introduce a product

eg. Apple rolls out its new iPhones at its Worldwide Developers Conference.

Rollout: n. a systematic introduction of something, like a product line or a brand new airplane.

eg. The new company organized a swift, orderly rollout of its products to capture the attention of its consumer base.

🧡How to bolster online, in-person events with Linkedln

bolster: v. support or strengthen; prop up.