【2023考研】每日词汇挑战，第80天

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每日词汇挑战

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Part 1：单词

block /blɒk/

v.阻碍，阻挠

【原文】Not everyone buys the win-win rhetoric. Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.

coalition /ˌkəʊəˈlɪʃn/

n.联合；结合；联盟

【原文】And it gives the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), a coalition of state agencies, the job of monitoring progress.

compensate /ˈkɒmpenseɪt/

v.补偿，赔偿

【原文】The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat.

confrontational /ˌkɒnfrʌnˈteɪʃənl/

a.对抗的

【原文】But Ashe and others argued that the “threatened” tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservation approaches.

crash /kræʃ/

n.暴跌

【原文】The crash was a major reason the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided to formally list the bird as threatened.

desperate /ˈdespərət/

a.令人绝望的

【原文】“The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation,” said USFWS Director Daniel Ashe.

flexibility /ˌfleksəˈbɪləti/

n.灵活性；弹性

【原文】But Ashe and others argued that the “threatened” tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservation approaches.

habitat /ˈhæbɪtæt/

n. [生态] 栖息地，产地

【原文】The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat.

interim /ˈɪntərɪm/

a.临时的，暂时的

【原文】USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67,000 birds over the next 10 years.

occupy /ˈɒkjupaɪ/

v.占用（时间、空间等）；占有

【原文】But just some 22,000 birds remain today, occupying about 16% of the species’ historic range.

prairie /ˈpreəri/

n.草原；牧场

【原文】Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens – a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands – once lent red to the often grey landscape of the midwestern and southwestern United States.

prosecute /ˈprɒsɪkjuːt/

v.对...起诉；告发；检举

【原文】Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowners or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.

regulatory /ˈreɡjələtɔːri/

a.管理的

【原文】They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as “endangered,” a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.

stretching /ˈstretʃɪŋ/

a.展开的，铺开的

Part 2：短语

set aside

留出；把…存储起来

be uneasy with

感到不安，感到不舒服

crack down

对…采取严厉措施