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VOA慢速英语:What World Leaders Said at the UN

2012-09-29来源:VOA

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词汇讲解：

1. determine vt. 决定
例句：This examination will determine your final grade. Don't blow it.
考试决定你最后的成绩,不要搞砸了。

2. insult vt. 侮辱
例句：Explain yourself! Why did you insult him?
说说道理！为什么要侮辱他。

3. defend vt. 保卫
例句：We must defend our country.
我们必须保卫我们的国家。

4. enrich vt. 充实
例句：Good books can enrich man's inner life.
好书可以丰富人的精神生活。

5. settle vt. 安顿
例句：After years of travel, we decided to settle here.
我们旅行多年后, 决定在此定居.

6. propose vt. 建议
例句：I propose to draw a veil over the appalling events that followed.
我建议不要谈及后来发生的那些骇人听闻的事.

7. conflict n. 争端
例句：This is an irreconcilable conflict.
这是一个不可调和的矛盾。

8. democratic adj. 民主的
例句：They are politicians of the Democratic stripe.
他们是民主党一派的政客。