热词手帐（No. 1461）
我们从英国《金融时报》近期热点报道中挑选值得记忆的高频单词和短语，配合释义与新闻原文例句，帮助你轻松掌握地道实用的英文表达，在不断积累中感受英语能力的进步与提高。
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fend off
/fend/
抵挡，挡开，避开（攻击）；
避开，回避（难题、批评等）
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The emergence of AI systems capable of generating direct textual answers to questions — most notably the ChatGPT chatbot created by San Francisco-based OpenAI — has opened the first new front in the battle for search dominance since Google fended off a concerted challenge from Microsoft’s Bing more than a decade ago.
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enclave
/ˈenkleɪv/
n. 飞地（某国或某市境内隶属外国或外市，具有不同宗教、文化或民族的领土）
Ministers tend not to talk of city financial centres as white male enclaves, especially those from parties such as Stokes’s centre-right Liberal Party.
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wreak
/riːk/
v. 造成（巨大的破坏或伤害）
The official figures are the latest sign of the damage the Ukraine war continues to wreak on the economy.