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儒琴英语词汇（English Words and Phrases of the Day）
be under sb’s spell
to be strongly attracted to someone and influenced by them
被（某人）迷住，为（某人）着迷 (Cambridge)
Fascinated or influenced by someone, as in I think he has our daughter under his spell. This idiom derives from the literal meaning of spell, “a word or formula that has magical power.” (.dictionary.com)
beef noun (COMPLAINT)
[ C ] informal a complaint
抱怨；怨言
My main beef about the job is that I have to work on Saturdays. 我对这份工作最大的不满是周六还得干活儿。(Cambridge)
Trump’s main beef with the United Nations health group is that leadership there said it wasn’t necessary to ban travelers coming in from China as the coronavirus started spreading beyond Wuhan, where it originated.
highfalutin
adjective informal (US also hifalutin) /ˌhaɪ.fəˈluː.t̬ɪn/
trying to seem very important or serious, but without having a good reason for doing so and looking silly as a result
浮夸的；装模作样的
It confirmed Ronald Blumer’s view that “people have deep emotional connections to what goes into and comes out of our bodies. It sounds highfalutin, but it’s part of your being.” （washingtonpost.com）
unspool
/ˌənˈspo͞ol/verb
unwind from or as if from a spool. 从线轴上展开；线轴上展开；把…绕到线轴上(或从线轴上绕下来)
Nothing seems to be unspooling in the right direction for a commodity that rarely gets much attention: In Hutchins, Tex., a tractor-trailer hauling a full load of toilet paper crashed and burned last week on Interstate 20. Rolls, most charred or reduced to cinders, splayed all over, shutting down the roadway.
ragtag
adjective /ˈræɡ.tæɡ/
untidy and not similar or organized
混杂的；杂乱的；组织散乱的
The village was guarded by a ragtag group of soldiers. 这个村庄由一群杂牌军士兵把守着。
He arrived with a ragtag collection of friends. 他带着一些三教九流的朋友来了。(Cambridge)
Not surprisingly, Trump’s legal team feels similarly; in a filing responding to the charges released over the weekend, Trump’s ragtag crew of attorneys—Clinton hysteric Kenneth Starr and Epstein pal Alan Dershowitz among them—argued that the House’s actions constitute a political witch hunt, that the president was deeply concerned about rooting out corruption in Ukraine, and that it was totally within his rights to abuse the power of the presidency, which no president can ever be removed for doing. (vanityfair)
jackpot
noun [ C ]/ˈdʒæk.pɑːt/
the largest prize in a competition or game
（比赛中的）头奖
The jackpot was over $1 million. 头奖超过一百万美元。