[scode type="blue"]tenure[/scode]
音标:
/'tenjə/
英英释义:
①Tenure is the legal right to live in a particular building or to use a particular piece of land during a fixed period of time.【n.(房屋的)居住权;(土地的)使用权,使用期】
②Tenure is the period of time during which someone holds an important job.【n.(重要职位的)任期,任职期间】
③If you have tenure in your job, you have the right to keep it until you retire.【n.终身职位;终身聘用】
例句:
①Lack of security of tenure was a reason for many families becoming homeless.
居住权得不到保证是许多家庭居无定所的一个原因。
②He was in the middle of his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry and at the height of his fame.
当时,他在牛津担任诗歌教授的聘期刚到一半,声誉正隆。
③Junior staff have only a slim chance of getting tenure .
初级职员得到终身职位的机会十分渺茫。
《新闻周刊》一篇题为 Is science too mean 也出现了这个表达:
[scode type="blue"]jack up[/scode]
英英释义:
①If you jack up a heavy object such as a car, you raise it off the ground using a jack.【用千斤顶托起(汽车等)】
②To jack up the price or amount of something means to increase it to an unreasonable or unacceptable level.【不合理地抬高,哄抬(价格);大幅度增加(数量)】
例句:
①They jacked up the car.
他们用千斤顶托起了汽车。
②The plan would cost so much that the company would have to jack up its prices.
这一计划耗资巨大,公司将不得不大幅度提高价格。
《新闻周刊》一篇题为 Biden's student loan forgiveness will make things worse 也出现了这个表达: