学个词Learn a Word 第1519 - woes

　　今天我们要学的词是woes¹. Woes is spelled w-o-e-s, woes.  Woes是名词woe的复数形式，意思是苦头，灾难。Leaders in the euro zone are still far from resolving their debt woes. 欧元区各国的领导人还远没有解决他们的债务危机。Legal woes hit Facebook as some investors² accused it of withholding³ information from the general public before its stock's debut⁴.  一些投资者指责Facebook在股票上市前对公众隐瞒了一些重要的公司信息，这让Facebook陷入严重的法律纠纷。Moody's Investors Service warned of deteriorating⁵ credit woes among Chinese real-estate developers. 穆迪投资者服务公司警告说，中国房地产开发商的信贷危机有所恶化。好的，今天我们学习的词是woes, woes, woes...

1 woes   

困境( woe的名词复数 )； 悲伤； 我好苦哇； 某人就要倒霉

参考例句：

• Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
• She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。

2 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

3 withholding   

扣缴税款

参考例句：

• She was accused of withholding information from the police. 她被指控对警方知情不报。
• The judge suspected the witness was withholding information. 法官怀疑见证人在隐瞒情况。

4 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

5 deteriorating   

恶化，变坏( deteriorate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The weather conditions are deteriorating. 天气变得越来越糟。
• I was well aware of the bad morale and the deteriorating factories. 我很清楚，大家情绪低落，各个工厂越搞越坏。