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儒琴今日英语单词 Word of the Day
cram school
cram school 解释
A cram school, informally called crammer and colloquially also referred to as test-prep or exam factory, is a specialized school that trains its students to achieve particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools, or universities. （Wikipedia）
补习班；辅导班考；校外培训机构
Cram School 原文举例
The freestyle skier Eileen Gu – or Gu Ailing as she is known in China, now 18, was born in San Francisco to an American father and a Chinese mother. She’s a big fan of Chinese dumplings and, every summer, she flew back to Beijing to attend cram school for mathematics. “When I’m in China, I’m Chinese and when I go to America, I’m American,” she once said. （The Guardian/Feb 18, 2022)
hat-trick
hat-trick 解释
a series of three victories, successes, or related accomplishments; the scoring of three goals in one game (as of hockey or soccer) by a single player
一般指帽子戏法；在体育领域，形容连续3次的成功；连进三球等
hat-trick 原文举例
This time Eileen Gu didn’t leave things late. After her first two events at the Winter Games came down to nail-biting finishes, the emerging American-born superstar representing China lay waste to all-comers in the Olympic freeski halfpipe final, adding to her big air gold and slopestyle silver to complete an unprecedented hat-trick of medals in the mountains north west of Beijing. （The Guardian/Feb 18, 2022)
other
verb
other 解释
other 作为动词：to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one’s group (as because of different racial, sexual, or cultural characteristics)
(由于不同的种族、性别或文化特征)，把(另一个人或另一群人)视为与自己或自己的群体格格不入
other 原文举例
And of course pundits in the U.S. have attacked her （ Gu Ailing）for competing for China, often in terms that further the persistent, racist othering of Asian Americans. （sasktoday.ca）
