外刊精读25/ 经济学人/ 卡塔尔举办世界杯亏了吗?/ 双语精读 外刊表达 雅思
2022-12-06 22:40 作者:爱睡懒觉的Nick船长 | 我要投稿

Is the World Cup a giant waste of money?-Host countries are growing wary?
Related words:
- host n 主人,主办方 v主办 E.g. Thank for this incredible event and to our wonderful hosts.
- tight-fisted =stingy adj 吝啬,小气的 E.g. The company is pretty tightfisted when it comes to bounses.
- buoy v 维持,提振 E.g. A post-pandemic cushion of savings(应急储蓄) buoyed consumption, and the risk of unemployment remains low.
- return on investment 回报率
- take home = win some kind of award or achievement E.g. The star took the gold medal home in the last Winter of Olympics.
- Venue n 举办地点,举办场所,会所 E.g. sports/ conference/ venue
- spark = stimulate = promote = boost 激发,刺激
- go unused = sit unused/ idle 闲置 相同的造词法还有go unanswered, go unpublished
- bid v&n 投标,出价 bidder 出价者,投标者
- bank the prestige 积累声望
Vocabulary:
- spree 作乐,狂欢 e.g.Elon Musk Twitter take over Begins with Firing spree. 疯狂裁员
- whizzy 采用最新技术的 E.g. That primitive method has since been replaced by whizzy programmes.
- dud = a thing that fails to work properly or is otherwise unsatifactory or worthless. E.g. In fact, it seems that he was fed some dud information.
- rack up 获得 E.g. The movie racked up a head-spinning $253m in US and Cannadian ticket sales over the weekend.
- Chunky adj 厚实的,沉甸甸的
- from scratch 从头开始 E.g. Ben built the shed from scratch.
- lead up to = the run-up to 重大时间的“前期,准备阶段” E.g. In the lead-up to Singles Day, business have begun to stock up in large quantities.
- not it is cracked up to be 名不副实 I am simply not the genius I'm cracked up to be.