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儒琴英语词汇（English Words and Phrases of the Day）
phishing
[ˈfɪʃɪŋ]
网络诱骗(通过互联网或电邮骗取他人身份证件、银行账号等以盗取金钱)
（柯林斯词典）
The Monetary Authority of Singapore also reminded financial firms to be careful of cyber security threats. “There have been cases of cyber threat actors taking advantage of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) situation to conduct email scams, phishing and ransomware attacks,” MAS said in a statement on Sunday, referring to the interim name of the new virus. — CNBC Feb 08, 2020
pitch in
— phrasal verb with pitch verb
to start to do something as part of a group, especially something helpful
投入；参与；（尤指）支援
Volunteers in the small town of Trenton, Ont., are pitching in to make a group of Canadian evacuees from Wuhan, China, feel welcome as they begin two weeks of quarantine at a military base. On Friday, two planes carrying 215 people evacuated from the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak arrived at the Canadian Forces Base Trenton in southern Ontario. None of those evacuees are currently showing any symptoms of the illness, officials confirmed Saturday. — CTV Feb 07, 2020
spillover
noun
the effects of an activity that have spread further than was originally intended
（非预期的）影响 (Cambridge)
We are now witnessing a spillover of the war into neighbouring regions. 我们现在亲眼看到战争影响到周边地区。
Indeed, despite anger after “the tragic death of the doctor who first alerted the system to the disease, Dr. Li Wen(liang), the brunt of negative sentiment has been focused on officials in Hubei (province) and Wuhan (city,) with little spillover to leaders in Beiji(ng),” the Eurasia Group analysts wrote in their report on Sunday.
Stare down the barrel
look down the barrel at
something other than a gun similarly means that a potentially dangerous or unpleasant situation is likely to happen.
意味着潜在的危险或不愉快的情况很可能发生
The coronavirus is a “true black swan” for the oil and energy market, and as crude prices continue to move lower the worst may not be over yet, Ned David Research said in a note to clients. Analyst Warren Pies noted that the outbreak has reduced Chinese demand for oil by 2 million to 3 million barrels per day, which means “the oil market is looking down the barrel at no demand growth for the calendar year, and outright demand contraction is now on the table.”
in limbo
in a situation where you do not know what will happen or when something will happen:
在你不知道会发生什么或什么时候会发生的情况下(Cambridge)
iPhone manufacturing in China is in limbo. More than a week after shutting down all stores and offices in China, the status of Apple’s manufacturing workforce in the country remains murky. Apple supplier Foxconn was approved to resume production in Zhengzhou, a key manufacturing plant in China, Reuters reported Sunday citing an unnamed source with direct knowledge, but so far only 10% of the workforce has returned, or about 16,000 people. Reuters later reported that a Foxconn plant in Shenzhen was approved to resume partial production Tuesday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. — Feiner
