又一冷藏货柜车中发现8名非法移民
bound
bound表示“前往,开往”,英文解释为“If a vehicle or person is bound for a particular place, they are travelling toward it.”,通常用法:be bound for,举个🌰:
The train was bound for Hangzhou.
这火车是开往杭州的。
如果你留意的话,坐地铁时会有这个用法。例如上海地铁2号线上,经常会听到的:
hypothermia
hypothermia /ˌhaɪpəʊˈθɜːmɪə/ 表示“(因持续寒冷而)体温过低”,英文解释为“a serious medical condition in which a person's body temperature falls below the usual level as a result of being in severe cold for a long time”举个🌰:
In this current cold spell, many old people are dying needlessly of hypothermia.
在现在这段寒流期间,很多老人都因为体温过低而无端丧生。
the fire brigade
表示“消防队;消防队员”,英文解释为“an organization of people who are trained and employed to put out fires and to rescue people from fires; the people who belong to this organization”,类似的于fire service/ fire department.
brigade本身有“(主张相同或其他某方面相似的)伙,帮,派”(sed, always with a word or phrase in front of it, to describe a group of people who share the same opinions or are similar in some other way)以及“旅(陆军编制单位)”(a large group of soldiers that forms a unit of an army)的含义,如:the anti-smoking brigade 反吸烟派。
speculate
表示“推测;猜测;推断”,英文解释为“to form an opinion about sth without knowing all the details or facts”举个🌰:
We all speculated about the reasons for her resignation.
我们大家都推测过她辞职的原因。
bail
表示“保释,保释金”,英文解释为“Bail is a sum of money that an arrested person or someone else puts forward as a guarantee that the arrested person will attend their trial in a law court. If the arrested person does not attend it, the money will be lost.”举个🌰:
He was freed on bail pending an appeal.
他被保释,等候上诉。
conspiracy
表示“合谋;密谋策划;阴谋”,英文解释为“Conspiracy is secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.”举个🌰:
Seven men, all from France, admitted conspiracy to commit arson.
全都来自于法国的七名男子承认了合谋纵火。
traffic
traffic/traffic in作动词,表示“从事 (毒品或赃物等的) 非法买卖”,英文解释为“Someone who traffics in something such as drugs or stolen goods buys and sells them even though it is illegal to do so.”举个🌰:
He said illegal drugs are hurting the entire world and anyone who traffics in them should be brought to justice.
他说毒品正在危害全世界,毒品非法交易者都应该绳之以法。
划重点表达:
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