Controlling the weather

Vocabularies / Phrases

Vocabulary / Phrase	Part of speech	Chinese	English Explain
exploitation	noun	剥削	treating someone unfairly in order to gain an advantage for yourself
exorbitant	adjective	过高的	much bigger or more expensive than it should be
debt	noun	欠款	an amount of money that you owe to someone else
behemoth	adjective	巨大的	something which is extreme large and powerful
sandwiched between	phrase	夹在中间	in a tight, narrow space between two large things
soft power	phrase	软实力	a country using its economic and cultural influence to persuade other countries to do something, instead of using military(hard) power
controversial	adjective	有争议的	causing a lot of angry public discussion and disagreement
recruitment	noun	招聘	the act of getting recruits
criticize	verb	批判	to say that you disapprove of sb/sth; to say what you do not like or think is wrong about sb/sth
treatment	noun	待遇	a way of behaving towards or dealing with a person or thing
migrant	noun	（为工作）移居者	a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work
recoup	transitive verb	收回（成本）	to get back an amount of money that you have spent or lost