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we start first in the Black Sea a highly

coveted body of water in wartime the

 

coveted [ˋkʌvɪtɪd] adj. 渴望得到的；梦寐以求的

 

critically geostrategic body of water

 

geostrategic [ˋdʒiostræˋtidʒɪk] adj. 地缘政治学的

 

links Europe to the Middle East and

Russia the Black Sea region has been key

to Russian President Vladimir Putin's

efforts to restore Russian power and

influence after the fall of the Soviet Union

at its height the Soviet Union was

the largest country in the world and

included countries like Ukraine, Bellarus

Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia among others

as union republics soviet policies

leading to economic stagnation and the

overextension of the military were

factors that contributed to the collapse

of the Union in 1991 leading union

republics to secede or withdraw from the

 

secede [sɪˋsid] v.（从宗教、政党、联盟等中）退出，脱离，分离

 

Union as independent nations ending the

Cold War since then Russia has launched

a series of military aggressions first

against Georgia in 2008 then its illegal

annexation of the Ukrainian region

Crimea in 2014 which was followed by the

full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022

the Black Sea has been a key piece of

geography in each of Russia's

aggressions it's where Russia operates

its Black Sea fleet naval unit which has

disrupted shipping channels and gained

control of the Kerch Strait which

connects the Sea of Azov to the Black

Sea the NATO military alliance has

increased its presence in the Black Sea

in response to what it calls Russia's

quote continued aggression and

destabilizing activities unquote the

alliance has stepped up its maritime

cooperation with Ukraine and Georgia to

halt Russia's incursions from moving

 

incursion [ɪnˋkɝʃən]   n.  侵略；入侵

 

closer to Europe cnn spoke to an expert

who explains the Black Sea's strategic

importance to

Russia because the Black Sea is so

central to Russia's ambition who

controls the Black Sea is going to be

one of the key questions as to who is

the key player in the 21st century

from the point of view of Russia the

Black Sea has been most important

strategically because it brings together

three distinct security regions to the

north you have Russia and the wider

steppes of Eurasia to the south you've had

 

steppes [stɛps]  n. 俄罗斯大草原

 

Turkey and the whole Mediterranean

 

Mediterranean [͵mɛdətəˋrenɪən] n.（M-）地中海

 

region and then to the west you've had

the European and Balkan areas all of

 

Balkan [ˋbɔlkən] adj. 巴尔干半岛（人）的

 

these have been key for Russia to try

and control and extend its power then to

project its strength into the East

Mediterranean and beyond that to the

Middle East and even the Red Sea during

the Soviet Union the Black Sea was often

called the Soviet lake because Moscow

controlled effectively the whole coast

which meant that Turkey was the

outstanding NATO member and this is why

Turkey is so fundamental there's only

one point of access which is controlled

by Turkey

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with the end of the Soviet Union

the region has fragmented and we've seen

 

fragment [ˋfrægmənt] v. 破碎; 分裂

 

different countries belonging to

different alignments joining Turkey now

is Bulgaria and Romania so NATO has been

able to take control of this southern

arc of countries and has been gradually

enlarging to the east under President

Putin one of the key goals has been to

argue that Russia is a great power and

so controlling the Black Sea has been

instrumental for that first of all he

 

instrumental [͵ɪnstrəˋmɛnt!] adj. 可作为手段的；有帮助的

 

sought to take control of the South

Caucuses and we saw the 2008 Russia

Georgia war in which Russia essentially

annexed South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the

Black Sea coast in the second phase

we've seen Russia trying to project its

force into Ukraine starting in 2014

where Russia first of all seized the

Crimean Peninsula but also became

involved in the fighting in East Ukraine

so in 2022 when Russia began its

full-scale invasion of Ukraine I think

President Putin would have been quite

confident he gradually extended Russian

military strength down through the south

Caucasus he built bases in the occupied

 

Caucasus [ˋkɔkəsəs] n. 高加索山脉；高加索

 

areas of Georgia he had military

facilities in Armenia then he'd extended

into Ukraine his military forces and he

built up the Crimea as a result of the

intervention in 2022 NATO has responded

 

intervention [͵ɪntɚˋvɛnʃən] n. 干预；调停，斡旋

 

quite dramatically all along what has

now become the eastern flank of NATO

 

flank [flæŋk] n.【军】翼侧，侧翼

 

we've seen an increase in NATO forces

and the really big change has been with

Sweden and Finland joining the alliance

which means that Russia can now not

really access the Baltic region in an

effective way so the Black Sea region

actually has become more important for

President Putin he can't afford to lose

the Black Sea and that's why I think the

war will be really critical not just for

the Black Sea but actually for the

future of President Putin

himself

 

10-second trivia which ocean

explorer is credited with inventing the

first shark cages which allow humans to

dive with sharks ?

 

Jacques Cousteau

Edmund Hillary

Sylvia Earl

James Cameron

 

did you know it's Jacques Cousteau the

French ocean explorer and engineer

developed and used the cages to film

sharks for his 1956 documentary The Silent World

now to a startup whose

mission is to get people living in the

ocean the idea of people living under

the sea has been around for quite some

time but it's remained a velleity but

 

velleity [vɛˋliətɪ] n. 微弱的慾望

 

that could soon change underwater

villages we've seen them in science

fiction movies maybe read about them in

books but now a company in the UK called

Deep says it's going to make them a

reality our Max Foster took a tour of

the subaqueous habitats which the

 

subaqueous [sʌbˋekwɪəs] adj. 水中的

 

company hopes will be housing people

underwater within the next 2 years

imagine living in a house like this it

looks pretty cool if a bit out of place

 

out of place 不合适; 不在正确的位置

 

and that's because it is.It's actually

designed to be at the bottom of the sea

it's built by a startup based in the

Southwest UK with ambitious plans for

humans to live underwater by 2027

our motto is to make humans aquatic not

 

aquatic [əˋkwætɪk]  adj. 水栖的

 

just certain humans all humans so we

know all this stuff about our solar

system and beyond but we don't know

what's on the bottom of our own oceans i

want to go live there so I can learn

Jacques Cousteau's 1962 continental shelf

 

continental shelf 大陆架

 

system was one of the first experiments

in underwater living environments but

Deep's ambitions are on another scale

their main focus is to facilitate

scientific research aiming for people to

live and work around 200 m down for 28

days at a time the designs for their

larger Sentinel model include bedrooms

 

sentinel [ˋsɛntən!] n. 步哨；哨兵

 

flushing toilets and even hot showers

but there's one big question that came

straight to my mind what if there's a

leak yeah there are four possible ways

of leaving the habitat in various types

of emergency do you imagine one day

towns villages our sentinel habitat is a

module those modules can be bolted

 

bolt [bolt] v. 用螺栓拴紧

 

together so the possibility for subc

villages is absolutely there would

people want to live there do you think i

would absolutely

to make the enormous parts required for

the system the company's developed a

technique using welders on robotic arms

the parts are built one layer of steel

at a

time every other breath we take is

thanks to oxygen produced by the ocean

the ocean is a major carbon sink our

goal is to help understand that and all

of the other myriad ways that the ocean

benefits us all whether we recognize it

or not

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today's stories getting tens out of 10

are twice the fun first a rare wildlife

sighting of one of the most elusive

mountain cats on the planet and

dictionary.com's competition celebrating

32 of the most iconic local slang words

from all places all across the US

y'all, yuns you guys listen up they're going

head to headMarch Madness style to be

named MVP most valuable phrase our

Jeremy Roth has more

 

amazing footage

captured in snowy northern Pakistan

shows a rarelyseen grouping of four snow leopards

the photographer who captured

the stunning video says snow leopards

are nicknamed ghosts of the mountains

because they are hardly ever seen he

says it took him a week of tracking

before finally capturing a precious look

at this amazing leap of leopards yes a

group of leopards is called a leap any

 

leap [lip] n. 一群(豹)

 

other day it would be our word of the

day but that honor is going to the

winner of the slang showdown an online

 

showdown [ˋʃo͵daʊn] n. 最後的一決雌雄

 

competition courtesy of the loquacious lot

 

loquacious [loˋkweʃəs] adj. 健谈的，话多的

lot [lɑt] n. 某一类的人

 

at dictionary.com who got into the

March Madness uh madness by pitting

popular regional slang words

head-to-head in a bracket style

 

head-to-head [ˋhɛdtəˋhɛd] n. 白刃戰

bracket [ˋbrækɪt] n. 等级; 段; 档次

 

competition as the rounds passed online

voters weeded out silly slang like

cattywampus, scadattlele and chuckhole

 

catawampus [ˌkætəˈwɑmpəs] n. 奇怪的；恶意的；方向错误的 (also cattywampus)

chuckhole [ˋtʃʌk͵hol] n. 马路上的坑

 

and in the end the West Coast's stoked

 

stoked [stokt] adj.【俚】熱情洋溢的

 

was bested by the South's y'all for the

colloquial crown oh well there's always

 

colloquial [kəˋlokwɪəl] adj. 口语的；会话的；用于口语的

 

next year's stoked y'all come back now

you here

 

all right our vocabulary word

of the day was submitted by our friends

atMaya Thomas Countywide Middle School

in Napa, California velleity, a noun meaning

a wish or inclination not strong enough

 

inclination [͵ɪnkləˋneʃən] n. 倾向；意向

 

to lead to action outstanding word we

see you Mrs jinx thanks to all of you

for inundating my comments with some

exceedingly awesome words for your word

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