儒琴英语词汇选自欧美报刊文章以及英语原文小说。坚持学习英语今日词汇，有助于阅读和理解当今欧美主流媒体的新闻时事报道和英语文学作品。
儒琴英语词汇（English Words and Phrases of the Day）
Ivy League
/ˌaɪ.vi ˈliːɡ/
a group of eight respected colleges and universities in the northeast of the US
常春藤联盟（指美国东北部八所历史悠久的著名大学）
Ivy League grads have a leg up in State Department promotions, stats show. On the one hand, the chart shows how far the Foreign Service has come from the days when it was largely the domain of a handful of elite Northeast private schools. At the same time, the data raise more questions about why Ivy League graduates seem to have a leg up in promotions.
foggy bottom
a humorous name given to the US State Department because of the fog (=thick mist) that often surrounds its offices in Washington, D.C.
雾谷；美国国务院
Morale has hit rock bottom at Foggy Bottom, as American foreign service officers languish and Rex Tillerson builds a mini-empire.(foreignpolicy)
hail from somewhere
— phrasal verb with hail verb
to come from or to have been born in a particular place
来自…；出生于…
Today, U.S. diplomats are drawn from far more diverse backgrounds than those who represented America to the world in 1940. But new, rarely seen statistics from recent years suggest that when it comes to climbing the ladder at the State Department, it still doesn’t hurt to hail from the “Harvard clique.” (Politico）
make the cut
to meet the requirements necessary for an application to be successful or to be selected from a group of candidates.
达标；符合申请成功；从一组候选人中被选中的必要条件
State Department alumni said they rarely witnessed any favoritism in the Foreign Service based on where someone had attended college. For one thing, joining the Foreign Service is such a rigorous process — often involving a written test, oral assessments and more — that it’s presumed that anyone who makes the cut is capable.（Politico）
sequencing
noun [ U ] /ˈsiː.kwən.sɪŋ/ 排序，定序
1. the process of combining things in a particular order, or discovering the order in which they are combined
排序，定序
2. the process of discovering the order in which nucelotides (= chemical substances) are combined within DNA
（给DNA）测序
An epidemiologist with the Beijing government said on Sunday a DNA sequencing of the virus showed the Xinfadi outbreak could have come from Europe. （Reuters）
reinstate
verb [ T ] formal /ˌriː.ɪnˈsteɪt/
to give someone back their previous job or position, or to cause something to exist again
使重返岗位，使恢复原职；把…放回原处；使恢复原状
Coronavirus resurgence forces Beijing to reinstate isolation measures. Several districts in Beijing reinstated security checkpoints, ordered residents be tested and closed schools on Monday in response to an unexpected resurgence of the coronavirus in the Chinese capital.
delinquent
adjective /dɪˈlɪŋ.kwənt/ US formal
late (in paying money owed)
迟付欠款的，未按时还款的，拖欠的
Said Trump: “Germany’s delinquent. They’ve been delinquent for years. They owe NATO billions of dollars and they have to pay it.” （Bloomberg）
