词:weather
英英释义:to deal successfully with a difficult situation or a problem
例句:Over the past 20 years, Alibaba has weathered storms and scandals.
常用作动词,表示“渡过(难关)” “从困难中挺过来”。在一些语境中,使用 weather 比 deal with 或者 experience 更准确。
weather 后常接有负向含义的名词,例如 crisis/recession/criticism/scandal。
... + noun. eg. some difficult time/lawsuit
1)翻译下面的句子:
这家公司从经济危机中挺了过来,最终得以蓬勃发展。
This company had weathered the economic crisis, and finally came to be thriving.
(参考翻译: The company weathered the financial crisis and ultimately thrived.)
造句:
在四年的研究失败,丧失申请博士学位资格之后,John挺过了一段充满了深深的自我质疑、苦涩的悔恨和黯然神伤的艰难日子。他竭尽所能地去找回曾经激励他成为学者的初心,并且最终重新开始努力去寻找重启他学术生命的新机会。
After the failure of his four-year research, which also led to the loss of the qualification to apply his PhD degree, John weathered some difficult time, full of deep self-doubt, bitter regret and black gloom. He struggled to recapture his initial sense of purpose that used to motivate him to become a scholar since he was a little boy. Finally, he began to work hard again in order to find a new opportunity to restart his academic career.