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世界热点 Top Stories

Islamic Jihad leader killed in Israeli air strike (CNN)
A senior commander of Gaza Strip militant group Islamic Jihad has been killed in an Israeli air strike, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Prime Minister's Office said in a statement Tuesday.

Winds fan ferocious fires in Australia's most populous state (CTV)
CANBERRA, Australia -- Ferocious wildfires were burning at emergency-level intensity across Australia's most populous state and into Sydney's suburbs on Tuesday as authorities warned most people in their paths that there was no longer time to flee.

Hillary Clinton scolds Boris Johnson for delaying release of Russian meddling report (ABC)
Hillary Clinton this week sharply rebuked Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom for his “incredibly surprising and unacceptable” decision to delay the release of a report detailing potential Russian influence in British politics until after the country’s general election on Dec. 12.

美国时政 US Politics

Trump touts wage gains and factory jobs in Economic Club of New York speech (CBS)
President Donald Trump told business leaders in New York on Tuesday that he plans to continue to enact policies that will allow U.S. companies to "compete and win." U.S. manufacturers have brought back 600,000 jobs under his presidency, he said, and 7 million Americans have come off of food stamps.

Michael Bloomberg files paperwork in Arkansas to get on the primary ballot (CBS)
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg took another step towards officially announcing a presidential bid on Tuesday, filing paperwork in Little Rock, Arkansas, to get on the Democratic primary ballot for that state.

Divided Supreme Court leans toward allowing Trump to end DACA (The Hill)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday was sharply divided over President Trump's move to end Obama-era protections for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, as the justices heard oral arguments in one of the most closely watched cases of the term.

Republicans release strategy memo outlining response to the impeachment inquiry (CBS)
House Republicans released a memorandum on Tuesday outlining the strategy for responding to the impeachment inquiry.

商业 Business

Google’s hospital data-sharing deal raises privacy fears — here’s what’s really going on (CNBC)
Google has waded into a privacy flap over a partnership with Ascension, a major U.S. hospital network, to collaborate on tools make sense of information about patients and help doctors search the medical record.

军事 Military

The Marines Want an Academic Study on the Cost, Impacts of Co-Ed Boot Camp (Military)
As more men and women train together at Marine Corps boot camp, the service is looking for a university that can complete an in-depth study of co-ed recruit training.

旅行 Travel

We bought a $1 house in Italy. Here's what happened next (CNN)
The deals have made headlines on CNN and beyond, captivating millions of people hooked on the romantic notion of abandoning the metropolitan rat race for a simpler life.

健康 Health

The Truth About Carbs And Calories (NPR)
We are not here to vilify carbs — they're fuel for our bodies — but not all carbs are created equal. We look at the science behind why eating too much starch isn't good for you and share four tips to help you integrate grains into your diet.

Sure, houseplants are great. But they're not actually cleaning the air (CNN)
There are two primary myths about keeping plants in indoor spaces: one is that you get more oxygen with a houseplant around, and the other is that the plant helps clean the air. Turns out, neither one is true.

英汉对照呆牛世界：

Eastern Europe is headed toward a demographic crisis

东欧正走向人口危机

Emmanuel Macron is right: NATO is over

埃马纽埃尔·马克龙是对的：北约已经结束

英语咬文嚼字 The Crazy Logophile

peter out
— phrasal verb with peter verb
to gradually stop or disappear
逐渐停止；慢慢消失

So when you look at the state of the economy right now, what do you see? Do you see strength? Do you see petering out?

And while business slowed down, my current view is that, no, it just was a slowdown, not a petering out.

buttoned-down
Or button-down
by-the-book
formal, old-fashioned, boring or conventional
保守的，传统的，缺乏创造力的

Jamie Dimon was there when banking went from button-down and by-the-book to flashy and too-big-to-fail, through the 2008 financial crisis – and into today's era of even bigger banks. And now presidents, prime ministers, princes and sheiks seek his counsel.

go through the roof
to rise to a very high level
飞涨；激增

Lesley Stahl: The stock market is going through the roof, and yet manufacturing production is down over the past year. Wage growth is slowing.

be (a) party to sth
to be involved in something, especially something bad
参与（尤指坏事)

From the moment the administration released the rough transcript, Barr made clear that whatever the president was up to, he was not a party to it.
— The Washington Post Nov 07, 2019

due process
a citizen's fair treatment within the rules of a government's legal system
合法（诉讼）程序（Cambridge）

President Trump early this morning ripped the start of public impeachment hearings as a “No Due Process Scam!”
-- Nov. 12, 2019 Political

exculpatory
clear from alleged fault or guilt
开脱罪责的；申明无罪的；昭雪的；辩解的

“Confronted with a mountain of damaging facts heading into tomorrow’s opening of the public phase of impeachment, House Republicans plan to argue that ‘the President’s state of mind’ was exculpatory,” Axios reports.