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families and companies will be given incentives to buy electric cars and energy-efficient appliances.
clean-energy generation will be expanded.
it is anything but ~ . ~이 결코 아니다.
Democrats were torn between applauding the investigation and fretting that it might make Mr Trump look, to his fans, like a martyr.
be torn btw A and B: A와 B 사이에서 갈피를 못잡다. 어쩔 줄 모르다.
fret: 조마조마하다
martyr: 순교자
making it the first state to do so since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade,
strike down: 폐지하다
it was acting pre-emptively to forestall planned attacks.
act pre-emptively: 선제적으로 대응하다
forestall: 미연에 방지하다
Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, kept out of the fray.
frey: 싸움, 경쟁
William Ruto, the deputy president, squared off against Raila Odinga
square off against sb: ~와 싸울 준비를 하다
Mr Ruto made extravagant promises to Kenya’s have-nots.
have-nots: 가진 것 없는 사람들
the haves: 부자들
demonstrations in Freetown, the capital, against high food and fuel prices turned violent and morphed into wider anti-government protests.
morph into: ~로 바뀌다
Firefighters took five days to control a blaze at Cuba’s largest oil-storage terminal in Matanzas.
control a blaze: 불길을 잡다
The fallout from the assassination of Abe Shinzo, a former prime minister, continued to rock Japanese politics.
fallout: 좋지 못한 결과
Kishida Fumio, the current prime minister, drew flak for his party’s dealings with the Unification Church, a religious group that raises money energetically from its adherents.
flak: 대공포
adherent: 지지자
after an election marred by violence and widespread fraud
mar: 손상시키다, 망치다(blight, ruin)
ostensibly because of a row over payment
a row over: ~를 둘러싼 다툼, 논쟁
More ships laden with grain and sunflower oil set sail from Ukraine
laden with: ~을 실은
Ms Sturgeon hopes to get round this by claiming that the vote will be advisory.
get round sth: (문제를 성공적으로) 해결하다, 처리하다(overcome)
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Business
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The rout in tech shares was not all to blame.
rout: 완패, 궤멸
be not to blame: ~탓만은 아니다.
operating income, which excludes the effects of market vicissitudes on Berkshire’s share portfolio, surged to $9.3bn.
vicissitude: 우여곡절
Inflation hasn’t put people off visiting Disney’s theme parks, which notched up their best-ever quarter in sales.
put sb off sth: ~가 ~에 대한 흥미를 잃게 만들다.
notch up: to achieve, to gain by successful effort
Customers are also signing up to Disney+ in droves.
in droves: 떼지어
Moderna recently wrote off $500m-worth of vaccines that have gone unused.
write off: 대손상각하다
The man, reported to hold American and Lebanese citizenship, struck up a friendship with an aide to Muhammad bin Salman.
strike up a friendship with: ~와 우정을 쌓다
and repeatedly divulged the personal information of anonymous Saudi dissidents who use Twitter.
divulge: (비밀을) 알려주다, 누설하다(reveal)
dissident: 반체제인사
Cathay is in much better shape than in recent years, when it became entangled in rows over democracy protests
become entangled in: ~에 연루되다
customers can opt out of the mapping system.
opt out of:~에 참여하지 않다