#EnglishEverywhere🌋 #PhrasalVerb🌋 #每日生字🌋 👉🏼News extract (link has been posted on bio.)👈🏼 🔹Title: Five reasons why the US cannot attack North Korea like it did Syria Date: 15/04/2017 The reasons: 1️⃣ Syria is pursuing nuclear weapons but North Korea has already had mature development. 2️⃣ China is North Korea’s ally. They have signed the Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty and the treaty is valid until 2021. 3️⃣ China treats North Korea as a buffer zone from the alliances that aligned with the US, including Japan and South Korea. 4️⃣ Both South Korea and Japan prefer non-military strike against North Korea as the capital of South Korea, Seoul is only about 40 km from the border. 5️⃣ Technically, the Korean Peninsula remains in war as fighting only halted on July 27, 1953 and US will break the treaty, which is supported by the United Nations, if she starts the war. VOCABULARY 📍‘double down’ 🔹English meaning: to do something in an even more determined way than before 中文解釋: 更落力和肯定地去做一件事 ⭐️Example: US President Donald Trump’s sudden strike on Syria and Washington’s doubling down on aggressive military posturing has led to wide speculation that Pyongyang could be the next target. 美國總統特朗普對敘利亞的特襲和華盛頓近來加倍緊張的軍事姿態引起了平壤將成為美國下一目標的推測。 📍‘inundate’ 🔹English meaning: to give someone so much work or so many things that they cannot deal with it all 中文解釋: 使應接不暇 ⭐️Example: China is concerned that its border provinces would be inundated with North Korean refugees if the Kim regime collapsed. 中國擔心它的邊界省份會在金正恩政權倒下時，因接濟北韓難民而應接不暇。 #Vocabno #English #DSE #17DSE #2017DSE #18DSE #2018DSE #Reading #Writing #Speaking #Wordoftheday #Vocabulary #Expression #Phrase