今天来看一份英文报刊头版新闻，Tories to cut army by 10,000 troops despite election pledge
是关于英国准备裁减军队数量10000名，这一行动被证实违背了政府当初的竞选承诺，引起了争议
文中单词例句，都采用的是当天英文报纸各版面原文内容。
Tories 这里面是政治方面的专属特指词汇，指英国托利派；王党保守党。又比如报纸中另一则新闻报道这一段
Anderson, 63, denies any wrongdoing. Richard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrats on the council, said: “It’s ironic that the Tories may end up remotely running Liverpool 25 years after the last Tory left the council.”
pledge 保证 许诺，今天报纸中，有这样一段
David Cameron and Theresa May were criticised for failing to meet repeated pledges as prime minister and home secretary to reduce immigration to less than 100,000 people a year.
分享报道第一段
The army will be reduced by up to 10,000 soldiers, the government will announce today, leaving it at its smallest for 200 years and breaking Boris Johnson’s election pledge.
reduce 减少，这个词也常常被用到，比如以下报道的这段话。
Putin, who has sought to cultivate an image of a healthy and virile leader, has spent most of the pandemic at his countryside residence near Moscow. State media had been reduced to hailing the president’s ability at catching
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After weeks of speculation, Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, confirmed that his reforms would involve a reduction in the overall number of armed forces personnel.
speculation 推测 猜测，比如他的动词用法
Bane called police in the US Virgin Islands shortly before 2.30am on March 8 to report that he had woken up to find her missing. He speculated that she might have fallen overboard.
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in a withering attack on the plans yesterday Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, former chief of the defence staff, said that “mass still matters”.
withering 极具毁灭性的，具有讽刺性的 狂轰滥炸
mass still matters 表示质量很重要
又如这句
Of course the renaissance the government promises may easily stall and wither, especially in the rural areas time forgets.
stall and wither 停滞萎缩
分享第四句
In an interview with Times Radio, the general said that slashing the forces for the second time in a decade would “almost certainly” mean that the country would not be able to retake the Falkland Islands and would prove “an asymmetric attraction to one’s opponents . . . I’m thinking Russia and China”.
slashing 消减，这个词也经常在报刊中出现，如今天一则新闻这段
After expecting eight million AstraZeneca doses in the first quarter, Italy had received only 2.5 million by March 18, reflecting the EU-wide slashing of promised deliveries by the company
from 90 million to 30 million between January and March.
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Johnson, speaking on the day he launched the Tories’ general election manifesto in November 2019, said: “We will not be cutting our armed services in any form. We will be maintaining the size of our armed services, because we believe in our armed services.”
manifesto 宣言 声明，又比如
The Conservative election manifesto in 2019 pledged £9.2 billion of investment to improve the energy efficiency of homes, schools and hospitals.
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