boom
1.N-COUNT 可数名词（经济的）繁荣，景气 If there is a boom in the economy, there is an increase in economic activity, for example in the amount of things that are being bought and sold.
【搭配模式】：usu sing
An economic boom followed, especially in housing and construction...
接着出现了经济繁荣，尤其是在房地产业和建筑业。
2.N-COUNT 可数名词（尤指为找到或杀死某人而悬赏的）赏金，奖金 A bounty is money that is offered as a reward for doing something, especially for finding or killing a particular person.
A bounty of $50,000 was put on Dr. Alvarez's head...
有人悬赏50,000美元买阿尔瓦雷斯博士的人头。
breach
1.VERB 动词违反，破坏（条约、法律或承诺） If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
【语法信息】：V n
The newspaper breached the code of conduct on privacy...
该报违反了保护隐私的行为准则。
carve out 动词开创(事业);赢得(工作) If you carve a career or a niche for yourself, you succeed in getting the career or the position that you want by your own efforts.
clamour
in AM, use 美国英语用 clamor
1.VERB 动词大声要求;愤怒疾呼 If people are clamouring for something, they are demanding it in a noisy or angry way.
compound .VERB 动词使恶化；使复杂化;加重 To compound a problem, difficulty, or mistake means to make it worse by adding to it.
【语法信息】：V n
【语域标签】：FORMAL 正式
Additional bloodshed and loss of life will only compound the tragedy...
额外的流血和牺牲只会加重这场悲剧。
The problem is compounded by the medical system here.
这儿的医疗体制使问题进一步恶化。
.PHRASE 短语自相矛盾的说法 If you say that something is a contradiction in terms, you mean that it is described as having a quality that it cannot have.
