流利阅读DAY 2

Day2

1.Britain’s Trades Union Congress英国工会大会

2.gauntlet中世纪骑士戴的金属手套（扔到脚下，代表挑战）

throw down gauntlet下战书

eg.The company has threw down gauntlet to his competitor.

pick/take up gauntlet接受应战

3.work week（美）

working week（英）工作周

4.unprecedented前所未有的，空前的

unprecedented ecnomic growth

5.be lengthened延长

区别：

extend事件、空间延长，适用范围扩大

lengthen长度、期限延长

leap at朝某个方向跳过去（欣然接受）

eg.He leap at it

6.toiling（长时间地）努力工作,与labor差不多

搭配：toil for /at

7.reduce a to b 把a减少到b

8.threshold界限

eg.My earnings are  just above tax threshold.

9.pocket 把洞穴钢筋口袋

eg.Last year，he pocketed over 100million dolors.

10.higher productivity

=more productive

11.someone advocate that 某人倡导

=Advocates of shv/ei/.n读音不同

12.boost（n&v）提高

eg.Lower interests rates will give  tremendous boost to economy.

13.wrote of把xx当作写作题材

wrote of adventures历险记

14.to live abundance生活富裕

abundance of food/an abundance of food充足食物

富裕的（不可数n）

大量，充足（可数/不可数）

15.jump the gun.（赛跑时抢跑）抢先行动，过早下定论

16.angling for谋求，博取

angle for promotion谋求升职

angle for sympathy谋求同情

17.be pessimistic in=

take pessimistic view of sth对某事感到悲观

18.timescale for a  project计划所需时间

what’s timescale for this？

需要花多长时间