(单词翻译:单击)
重点词汇词组
1.blow n.打击
例：Losing his job was a severe blow to his confidence.
失业对他的信心是一个严重的打击。
常见搭配：be a blow to sth 对……来说是个打击
例：The loss of 1000 jobs is another blow to the country's manufacturing sector.
1000个工作岗位的流失是对该国制造业的又一次打击。
相关俚语：come to blows 动手打起来；激烈争吵起来
例：Demonstrators nearly came to blows with the police during the march.
在游行期间，示威者几乎要与警察动起手来。
2.chamber n.议院
例：There are two chambers in the British parliament -- the House of Commons is the lower chamber, and the House of Lords is the upper chamber.
英国议会有两个议院——平民院是下议院，贵族院是上议院。
除了“议院”外，chamber还有以下几个常见含义：
①腔，膛
例：The human heart has four chambers.
人的心脏有四个腔室。
②（作特殊用途的）房间
例：For many, the dentist's office remains a torture chamber.
对许多人来说，牙科诊室仍旧像是一间行刑室。
3.end up doing 以……结束
例：Most slimmers end up putting weight back on.
大多数减肥的人最终体重都反弹了。
常见搭配：
①end up as 最终成为
例：Much of this meat will probably end up as dog food.
这些肉中的大部分可能最终会成为狗粮。
②end up in 在……结束；最后到了……
例：After two weeks of traveling around Europe, we ended up in Paris.
我们在欧洲旅行了两周后，最后到了巴黎。
4.at odds with 与……不一致
例：His behavior is clearly at odds with what the college expects from its students.
他的行为显然与学校对学生的期望不一致。
常见搭配：at odds over 在……上意见不一致
例：They're at odds over the funding of the project.
他们在项目资金的问题上意见相左。
5.utterance n.言论
例：The senator's recent utterances were promptly rebutted by three of his colleagues.
这位参议员最近的言论迅速遭到他三位同僚的反驳。
常见搭配：give utterance to sth. 说出自己对某事的观点/感受
例：She has one great fear to which she will never give utterance.
她感到一种无法言说的恐惧。
长难句解析
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki1 has deeply criticized2 Senator Joe Manchin3, who dealt what seemed to be a fatal blow on Sunday to U.S. President Joe Biden's massive social spending bill.4
白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基对参议员乔·曼钦进行了严厉批评。曼钦星期天似乎对美国总统拜登的大规模社会支出法案予以了致命的打击。
解：1主语+2谓语+3宾语+4定语从句（含宾语从句）
析：“who dealt ... spending bill”是who引导的非限定性定语从句，对前面对的Senator Joe Manchin进行补充说明，who在从句中充当主语成分，不可省略；“what seemed to ...”是定语从句中包含的宾语从句，其中包含一固定搭配deal a blow to sb/sth，意为“给予某人/某事打击”。
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