0901（精制中英字幕）每日一听（NBC Nightly News ）英语学习

heat exhaustion

Heat exhaustion is a condition whose symptoms may include heavy sweating and a rapid pulse, a result of your body overheating. It's one of three heat-related syndromes, with heat cramps being the mildest and heatstroke being the most severe.

 

 

 

turn up

If we're talking about air conditioning, you turn "down" the thermostat because you are lowering the temperature, but you turn "up" the amount of cool air being put out by the unit.

 

 

 

take stock

phrase of stock

review or make an overall assessment of a particular situation, typically as a prelude to making a decision.

"he needed a period of peace and quiet in order to take stock of his life"

 

 

 

dis·par·i·ty

/dəˈsperədē/

noun

plural noun: disparities

a great difference.

"economic disparities between different regions of the country"

 

 

 

slush fund

/ˈsləSH ˌfənd/

noun

noun: slush fund; plural noun: slush funds

a reserve of money used for illicit purposes, especially political bribery.

 

 

 

on the same page

phrase of page

US

(of two or more people) in agreement.

"everybody's on the same page for once"

 

 

 

What is activist athlete?

those who “used sport or their role as athletes to promote social and political change”

 

 

 

dismiss

treat as unworthy of serious consideration.

"it would be easy to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain"

 

 

 

strain

make severe or excessive demands on.

"he strained her tolerance to the limit"

 

 

 

all over the board

all over the map

informal•North American

in a disorganized or confused state.