【詞匯】

to strike or beat hard（用于自然災(zāi)害）

slam/hammer/batter

affected in an especially negative way

hard-hit

泥石流

mudslide

nonstop=

relentless

not stopping or getting less strong

relentless

her relentless pursuit of perfection

她對(duì)完美的不懈追求

The sun was relentless.

太陽(yáng)還是那么熱。

大氣的；大氣層的related to the earth's atmosphere

atmospheric

US [??tm??sfer?k]

atmospheric pollution/conditions/pressure

大氣污染╱狀況╱壓力

adj.causing severe damage or problems

crippling

And then the embarrassment is going to be crippling, to me, to the luckless company and to the Financial Times.

而后，這種困窘必然給我本人、那家不幸的公司、以及英國(guó)《金融時(shí)報(bào)》造成極大的傷害。

After two years of crippling drought, things were starting to look up in the Middle East.

經(jīng)歷了兩年的嚴(yán)重旱災(zāi)后，中東地區(qū)開始出現(xiàn)轉(zhuǎn)機(jī)。

A broad strip or area of something.

a swathe of

In the fall of 2003, U.S. officials watched anxiously as a potent guerrilla resistance rose across broad swaths of northern and central Iraq.’

As we made our way to Minj, emerald green tea plantations and broad swaths of coffee trees revealed evidence of foreign development.

惡劣天氣

punishing weather

the act of watching sb/sth carefully in case of possible danger or problems注意；注視；監(jiān)視；觀察

under watch

The police have mounted a watch outside the hotel.

警方已在旅館外面布置人監(jiān)視。

I'll keep watch while you go through his papers(= watch and warn you if somebody is coming) .

你查閱他的文件，我來(lái)放哨。

The government is keeping a close watch on how the situation develops.

政府正在密切注視著形勢(shì)的發(fā)展。

if people or things flood somewhere,

they go there or arrive there in large numbers大量涌入；蜂擁而出

~ in/into/out of sth

Refugees continue to flood into neighbouring countries.

難民不斷涌入鄰國(guó)。

Telephone calls came flooding in from all over the country.

全國(guó)各地的電話像潮水般打來(lái)。

reel

But?many,?reeling?from?the?impact?of?work?stoppages?and?still-tepid?consumer?demand,?have?cut?hiring.

但還有很多公司受到停工和消費(fèi)需求持續(xù)低迷的打擊，減小了招聘規(guī)模。

搭配短語(yǔ)：to?reel?with?sth.

例句：I?was?reeling?with?shock.（因?yàn)檎痼@收到?jīng)_擊）

搭配短語(yǔ)：to?reel?from?sth.

例句：I?was?still?reeling?from?the?shock.（還在沖擊里難以平復(fù)）

瀝青；柏油a thick black sticky substance used especially for making the surface of roads

asphalt

US [??s?f?lt]

峽谷

gorge

US [ɡ?rd?]

UK [ɡ??(r)d?]

impossible to travel on or through, especially because it is in bad condition or it has been blocked by sth不能通行的（尤指因路況惡劣或被阻斷）

impassable

US [?m?p?s?b(?)l]

UK [?m?pɑ?s?b(?)l]

enemy=

foe

fortress=

fastness

Surrounded by mountains that were impassable for most of the year, it was "a fastness hard for a foreign foe to make his way into. "

由于被在一年的大多數(shù)時(shí)間里都不能通行的山脈所圍繞，事實(shí)上這是“很難為外部敵人侵入的堡壘?！?/p>

【知識(shí)點(diǎn)】

adj前再加一個(gè)adj

如：already hard-hit California

adv修飾adj

potentially dangerous