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儒琴英语词汇（English Words and Phrases of the Day）
park
to not deal with something or answer a question immediately but leave it for a later time
（暂不处理或给予答复）搁置
Can we park that question until the end of the session? 我们可以把那个问题留到会议的最后吗？(Cambridge)
Stock markets tumbled across Asia and Europe. Germany’s blue-chip stock index, the DAX, suffered its worst one-day decline — a drop of 8 percent — since the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Investors parked untold billions in German, French, British and, above all, American bonds, seeking the relative safety of government notes.
roil
verb [ I or T ]
1. to (cause to) move quickly in a twisting circular movement
搅动；翻滚，翻腾
Fierce winds roiled the sea. 强风搅动着大海。
A massive tower of smoke roiled skyward. 一个巨大的烟柱翻腾上升着。
2) to cause something to stop working in the usual or expected way
使…停止正常运作
Fears about Japan roiled world financial markets last week. 上个星期对日本的担忧让世界金融市场停止了正常运作。
The immigration debate has roiled the country for more than a year. 有关移民的辩论让国家一年多都没能正常运转。(Cambridge)
Financial markets have been roiled for weeks as investors tried to gauge the impact that coronavirus will have on the global economy. Those worries morphed into outright panic early Monday. The dual blow of a collapse in the price of oil — triggered by a dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia over production cuts — and Italy’s decision to seal off swathes of its north due to coronavirus triggered a broader sell-off, the magnitude of which the world hasn’t seen since the global financial crisis. –Politico Europe March 9, 2020
bumpiness
[ˈbəmpēnəs] DEFINITION noun form of bumpy: uneven, with many patches raised above the rest.
颠簸, 崎岖不平
“Today was an unprecedented move in the oil markets. So we saw an overnight reaction of over down 20% and that’s obviously what had a major component today on the stock market,” Mnuchin said Monday at a White House press briefing. Mnuchin also said the US is moving into the economic bumpiness from a good place.
on the rocks
informal
likely to fail soon
濒临崩溃
I think their marriage is on the rocks. 我觉得他们的婚姻濒临解体。(Cambridge)
Markets were already on the rocks due to coronavirus. Then oil prices crashed. Stocks worldwide are collapsing Monday, as oil prices crashed amid continued uncertainty part due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, triggering selloffs worldwide. — CNN
gird
verb /ɡɝːd/ girded or girt | girded or girt
If you gird yourself for a battle or contest, you prepare yourself for it.
做准备
With audiences in the U.S. falling for the first time in a generation, Hollywood is girding itself for recession. [V pron-refl + for] (Cambridge)
Trump’s travel restrictions imposed on people who had recently been in China may well have bought the administration time to gird for the disease’s inevitable transfer to US soil. But the President’s constant evoking of the decision ignores the fact that the challenge to public health has moved on. And the fact that there are serious questions over whether his team used the time to properly prepare. CNN March 08, 2020
starkly at odds with 与…大相径庭
Trump’s efforts to construct an alternative reality in which the situation is under control were further undermined today after the total number of cases in the US soared past 550. His upbeat public rhetoric was also starkly at odds with increasingly dire warnings from inside his own administration about draconian steps that may need to be taken to combat the virus as it continues to spread. — CNN
