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The arrest is expected to have a chilling effect on research partnerships between America and China

He is suspected of illegal dealings with China

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An American chemist is alleged to have worked illegally with China

張華先生說的紐約廣告

In a chilly economy, one degree can make a huge difference.
其中degree既指溫度一度，也指學歷。


A Chilling Self-Portrait Emerges in Drownings
The Montgomery County man accused of drowning his three children one by one in a Baltimore hotel bathtub this year has told investigators that he used a stopwatch to time their 10-minute submersions and that the two older children, ages 4 and 6, struggled as he held them underwater, according to...
(By Dan Morse, The Washington Post)

Teacher who told Yale students to chill over Halloween outfits quits her job

Yale teacher resigns after she told students not to overreact to offensive Halloween

A Yale University teacher who sparked protests when she said students…

DAILYM.AI

For Google, the shift poses a huge challenge because of its own relentless drive to innovate and produce new products in real time. “I want to have checks and balances. But it would be terrible to put a chilling effect on creativity. We have to find a way to continue to be creative with some more oversight.”

对于谷歌而言，这种转变带来了巨大挑战，因为该公司一直不遗余力地创新，不断创造新的 产品。“我想获得制衡。但给创造性泼冷水将非常可怕。我们必须找到一种方式，一方面继续创新，另一方面施加更多的监督。”

chill 
verb [I or T]
to (cause to) become cold but not freeze:
I've put the beer in the fridge to chill.
Chill the wine before serving.

v. chilled, chill·ing, chills

v.tr.

1. To affect with or as if with cold.

2. To lower in temperature; cool.

3. To make discouraged; dispirit.

4. Metallurgy To harden (a metallic surface) by rapid cooling.

v.intr.

1. To be seized with cold.

2. To become cold or set: jelly that chills quickly.

3. Metallurgy To become hard by rapid cooling.

4. Slang

a. To calm down or relax. Often used with out.

b. To pass time idly; loiter. Often used with out.

c. To keep company; see socially. Often used with out.

chill Show phonetics
noun
1 [S] a feeling of cold:
There was a chill in the air this morning.

2 [C] a slight fever:
Don't go out with wet hair, you might catch a chill.

3 [S] a sudden unpleasant feeling, especially of fear:
I suddenly realized, with a chill of apprehension, the danger of the task ahead.

chilly Show phonetics
adjective (LITERARY chill)
(of weather, conditions in a room, or parts of the body) cold:
The bathroom gets chilly in the winter.
I felt a bit chilly so I put on a jacket.
a chilly October day

chilling Show phonetics
adjective
frightening:
a chilling tale
The monument stands as a chilling reminder of man's inhumanity to man.
 degree

n.

1. One of a series of steps in a process, course, or progression; a stage: proceeded to the next degree of difficulty.
2. A step in a direct hereditary line of descent or ascent: First cousins are two degrees from their common ancestor.
3. Relative social or official rank, dignity, or position.
4. Relative intensity or amount, as of a quality or attribute: a high degree of accuracy.
5. The extent or measure of a state of being, an action, or a relation: modernized their facilities to a large degree.
6. A unit division of a temperature scale.
7. Mathematics. A planar unit of angular measure equal in magnitude to ¹/₃₆₀ of a complete revolution.
8. A unit of latitude or longitude, equal to ¹/₃₆₀ of a great circle.
9. Mathematics.
   1. The greatest sum of the exponents of the variables in a term of a polynomial or polynomial equation.
   2. The exponent of the derivative of highest order in a differential equation in standard form.
10. 1. An academic title given by a college or university to a student who has completed a course of study: received the Bachelor of Arts degree at commencement.
    2. A similar title conferred as an honorary distinction.
11. Law. A division or classification of a specific crime according to its seriousness: murder in the second degree.
12. A classification of the severity of an injury, especially a burn: a third-degree burn.
13. Grammar. One of the forms used in the comparison of adjectives and adverbs. For example, tall is the positive degree, taller the comparative degree, and tallest the superlative degree of the adjective tall.
14. Music.
    1. One of the seven notes of a diatonic scale.
    2. A space or line of the staff.

idioms:
by degrees

1. Little by little; gradually.

to a degree

1. To a small extent; in a limited way: doesn't like spicy food, but can eat a little pepper to a degree.

[Middle English degre, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *dēgradus : Latin dē-, de- + Latin gradus, step.]