[font color="#7FFFD4"]1.bite[/font]
[font color="#7FFFD4"]v.产生严重（或不良）影响[/font]
英英释义：
When an action or policy begins to bite, it begins to have a serious or harmful effect.
例句：
As the sanctions begin to bite there will be more political difficulties ahead.
随着制裁开始产生严重的负面影响，政治上将面临更多的困难。
The recession started biting deeply into British industry.
经济萧条开始对英国的工业产生严重影响。
《经济学人》一篇关于地缘政治与芯片之争的文章《Betting all the chips》也出现了“bite”这个表达：
拓展：
关于“产生不利影响”其实有很多种表达：
比如：
①take a toll on 造成恶果(或不利影响、痛苦等)
例如：
Winter takes its toll on your health.
冬天对健康不利。
②inimical adj.有害的;不利的
例如：
The policy was inimical to Britain's real interests.
这项政策有损英国的真正利益。
③deleterious adj.有害的;造成损害的
例如：
Petty crime is having a deleterious effect on community life.
轻微罪行正对社区生活产生有害影响。
比如《经济学人》一篇关于堕胎的文章《Roe-ing back》也出现了这个表达：
[font color="#7FFFD4"]2.take[/font]
[font color="#7FFFD4"]n.态度;理解;看法[/font]
英英释义：
Someone's take on a particular situation or fact is their attitude to it or their interpretation of it.
例句：
①What's your take on the new government? Do you think it can work?
你对新政府怎么看?你认为它能行吗?
②That sort of thing gives you a different take on who you are.
那种事情会让你对自己产生新的认识。
拓展：
“take”在这里作为名词的意思也是比较常见的，大家要注意它一般后面跟的介词是“on ”
电影《真心半解》也出现了这个表达：
Six different takes on Plato. Impressive.
这里再补充“take”的另外一个意思，作为动词时，后面接学科可以表示“学习 ”
If you take a subject or course at school or university, you choose to study it.
如:take English, take French
电影《爱在黎明破晓前》也出现了这个表达：
I took French for four years in high school.
[font color="#7FFFD4"]3.intelligence[/font]
[font color="#7FFFD4"]n.情报;谍报[/font]
英英释义：
Intelligence is information that is gathered by the government or the army about their country's enemies and their activities.
例句：
①Why was military intelligence so lacking?
为什么军事情报如此匮乏？
②The purpose of intelligence is to provide information on how the enemy can be beaten.
谍报的目的是提供如何打败敌人的信息。
[font color="#7FFFD4"]4.flat[/font]
[font color="#7FFFD4"]adj.(贸易或商业)停滞的，不景气的[/font]
英英释义：
If trade or business is flat, it is slow and inactive, rather than busy and improving or increasing.
例句：
For the country overall, house prices have remained flat .
从全国来说，房屋价格没有多大变化。
《经济学人》一篇关于夜店文化的文章也出现了这个表达：
[font color="#7FFFD4"]5.shrink[/font]
[font color="#7FFFD4"]n.精神病学家;心理学家[/font]
n.精神病学家;心理学家
英英释义：
A shrink is a psychiatrist.
例句：
I've seen a shrink already.
我已经看过心理专家了。
“shrink”是美剧中的一个高频表达：
电影：《爱在日落黄昏时》
This friend of mine, she is a shrink.
美剧：《无所作为》
Well, you are a shrink, right?
扩展：
shrinking violet 羞怯的人;腼腆的人【If you say that someone is no shrinking violet, you mean that they are not at all shy.】
例如:
None of the women he paints, however, could be described as shrinking violets .
然而，他画过的所有女人中没有一个是羞涩腼腆的。
