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cool his heels：苦等,久候

在过去,人们一般骑马外出,如果马走的时间太长,马蹄就会发热,骑马人必须停下来让马休息,等马蹄凉了再走.人也是一样.走的时间长了脚后跟(heels)也会发热,需要cool one's heels,停下来休息片刻.

后来这个俚语被引申为"苦等,空等,久候"的意思.

   

 

given the pandemic’s toll on lives and livelihoods

: a grievous or ruinous price  inflation has taken its toll especially:

 cost in life or health the death toll from the hurricane    

a rebuke

transitive verb

1  a: to criticize sharply : reprimand

    b: to serve as a rebuke to

2  archaic : to turn back or keep down : check

非难，指责; 斥责，训斥

harried: beset by problems : harassed

a harried waiter who forgets your order

entourage

1: one's attendants or associates

2: surroundings

halted clinical trials

intransitive verb

1: to cease marching or journeying

2: discontinue, terminatethe project halted for lack of funds

transitive verb

1: to bring to a stop the strike halted subways and buses

2: to cause the discontinuance of : end halt hostilities

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• Earlier this year it seemed possible that one or two  pharmaceutical firms

  might be able to obtain some sort of limited approval by the time

  Americans cast their ballots.
  

• But on September 8th, in an unprecedented move, nine global drug makers, including AstraZeneca, GSK , Pfifizer and Sanofi, announced  a pledge to uphold scientifific and ethical standards in the search for a coronavirus vaccine.

• Not so much deep  state as deep science.

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     2-Creative destruction

implored

: to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg

：to say (something) as a request in a sincere or urgent manner                       

reprieve：

transitive verb

1: to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner)

2: to give relief or deliverance to for a time

noun

: an order or warrant for a temporary suspension of the execution of a

sentence

 

 

Department of Commerce (DOC) 

debilitated

transitive verb

: to impair the strength of : enfeeble sailors debilitated by scurvyan economy

debilitated by years of civil war

• America’s latest rules, finalised on August 17th, prohibit companies world wide from selling chips to Huawei if they have been made with American

  chipmaking kit.

• To keep Huawei’s edge blunt, suppliers keen to produce chips designed by its

  in house semiconductor unit, HiSilicon, are unlikely to be issued such

  dispensation.

• The DOC's default setting is to deny permits.
  

• This leaves the third eventuality.
  

But if push comes to shove, it may offload HiSilicon.

这倒让我想起一个今天要学的习惯用词，叫：when push comes to shove. Push是推；shove是猛推。When push comes to shove, 一般的推变成了猛烈的推，意思就是情况变得紧急时，迫不得已的时候。就象刚才所说的，我妹妹突然身体不舒服，只好由我来招待叔叔一家吃饭。

• Huawei’s chip-design arm is one of the most advanced such outfits in the
  world.

If instead Huawei were forced to  shut HiSilicon, its laid-off engineers would
be snapped up by chip-design teams at other Chinese technology giants

like Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance. Or they could start new design firms of

their own; many are said to be slipping out pre-emptively.

be snapped up by
: to grasp at something eagerly : make a pounce or snatch

slipping out

: to leave a place without being noticed                                                                We'll slip out (through) the back door.   

pre-emptive

adj. 优先购买的；先发制人的；有先买权的                                                           

• A HiSilicon liberated from Hua wei would threaten those sales.
  

Huawei is putting on a brave face.

1. : to try to appear brave or calm                                                                
   

• It hopes to gain new revenue streams less vulnerable to American attacks.

But as Uncle Sam tightens the grip, it risks squeezing Chinese technology
into a form which it no longer controls. Huawei hopes to hang on until then.

: a strong or tenacious grasp                                                                

: strength in gripping