20120904 <第四期7-2科技> What Sleep Crime Tells Us About Consciousness
wake to vt. 发觉；认识到，注意到 loom [lu?m] vi. 可怕地出现 babble ['bæbl] v. 含糊不清地说 unintelligibly [,?nin'telid??bli] adv. 难以理解地 Adoyo had gotten married in February, and his wife would wake to him shaking her while looming over their bed and babbling unintelligibly.
suburb ['s?b?:b] n. 郊区；边缘 strain [strein] v. 拉紧 They lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Plymouth, a suburb of Minneapolis, and the sleepwalking was straining their young marriage.
startled ['sta:tld] adj. 受惊吓的 per se [,p?:'sei, -'si:] 本身，自身 The referral form from Adoyo's primary care doctor noted that the patient's wife was “sometimes startled by his behavior, but no injury, per se.”
thrash about 烦躁不安地动来动去 yank [jæ?k] vt. 猛拉 electrode [i'lektr?ud] n. 电极 In the middle of the night, Adoyo began thrashing about and yanking at the wires connected to the electrodes, pulling out tufts of hair as he ripped them off.
diagnosis [,dai?ɡ'n?usis] n. 诊断 parasomnia [,pær?'s?mni:?] n. 深眠状态 The next morning Michel Cramer Bornemann, director of the center, told Adoyo that the study supported a diagnosis of a sleep disorder known as a non-REM parasomnia.
20120906 <第四期7-5经管> The Twilight of the Public Corporation
contend [k?n'tend] vt. 主张；为...斗争 Public corporations have also become less public. Professor Davis contends that share ownership has become heavily concentrated through mutual funds, such as Fidelity, which he says now holds significant blocks of 10 percent to 15 percent in many large companies.
overshadow [,?uv?'?æd?u] vt. 使失色；夺去…的光彩 proprietor [pr?'prai?t?] n. 业主；、经营者 Even Fidelity’s role is overshadowed by BlackRock, proprietor of iShares Exchange Traded Funds, which, Professor Davis estimates, was the single largest shareholder in one out of five corporations in the United States in 2011.
incentive [in'sentiv] n. 动机；刺激 The incentives to “go public” are smaller than they once were, because the rise of private equity firms and hedge funds has made it easier to raise money outside the stock market.
viability [,vai?'biliti] n. 生存能力 The California Public Employees Retirement System, a major pension fund investor, is now campaigning strongly against dual-class shares, threatening the viability of that strategy for maintaining minority control.
dislodge [dis'l?d?] vt. 逐出，驱逐 They were unable to dislodge the company’s chief executive, because the Walton family stood behind him with their substantial voting shares.
disillusionment [d?s?'lu??(?)nm(?)nt] n. 幻灭；醒悟 Shareholder activism itself reflects a growing disillusionment on the part of individual investors, many of whom have quietly fled the stock market.
burgeon ['b?:d??n] v. 萌芽 Net investments in mutual funds, variable annuities, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds burgeoned between 2001 and 2007 only to sag in the wake of the Great Recession.
20120909 <第四期7-6经管> The mystery of the stopped clock illusion
bemusement [bi'mju:zm?nt] n. 困惑 Maybe you've noticed this to your bemusement or horror as well.
analogue clock 指针式电子钟 You'll be in the middle of something, and flick your eyes up to an analogue clock on the wall to see what the time is.
unhinged [?n'hind?d] adj. 精神错乱的 Secretly I thought it was either evidence of my special insight to reality, or final proof that I was a little unhinged (or both).
illusion [i'lju:??n] n. 幻觉 Psychologists even have a name for it - they call it the “stopped clock illusion”.
ingenious [in'd?i:nj?s] adj. 有独创性的 An ingenious experiment from a team at University College London recreated the experience in the lab and managed to connect the experience of the stopped clock to the action of the person experiencing it.
imperceptibly [,imp?'sept?bli] adv. 极微地 As you flick your eyes from left to right you should be able to detect an almost imperceptibly brief “flash” of darkness as input from your eyes is cut off.
subterfuge ['s?bt?fju?d?] n. 托词；借口 Normally this subterfuge is undetectable, but if you happen to move your eyes to something that is moving with precise regularity – like a clock – you will spot this pause in the form of an extra long “second”.
20120922 <第四期7-20经管> US Elections Heat Up, China Trade Tensions Rise
escalate ['esk?leit] vi. 逐步增强 BEIJING — Trade tensions between China and the United States escalated this week, with both countries filing international trade complaints against each other.
subsidy ['s?bsidi] n. 补贴；津贴；补助金 Earlier this week, Obama announced a new World Trade Organization case over Chinese automobile subsidies.
accusation [,ækju:'zei??n] n. [律]控告，指控；谴责 He also brushed off accusations from his opponent that he is not doing enough to pressure China on unfair trade practices.
devastation [,dev?'stei??n] n. 毁坏，荒废 Luanda is busy leaving the past behind - burying 27 years of civil war and devastation under mountains of petrodollars.
renowned [ri'naund] adj. 著名的；有声望的、 Not even for the renowned architects, so you can imagine how it is for young architects who have just graduated from university," she said.
replica ['replik?] n. 复制品，复制物 inaugurate [i'n?:ɡjureit] v. 开始 waterfront ['w?:t?fr?nt, 'w?-] n. 滩，海滨；水边 A few of the changes include the new parliament that is a replica of the American congress and the newly inaugurated waterfront.
sprawl [spr?:l] n. 蔓生 "There is a whole rescaling of the city actually," Buire said. "And it's not only that there is a special sprawl, like, expansion, but also a whole social reshaping of the central city being emptied of its poorest communities [which] were evicted in the peripheries.
eviction [?'v?k??n] n. 逐出；赶出 The evictions started in 2010.
maize [meiz] n. 玉米 Demand remains high for food commodities like maize and wheat.
susceptible to adj. 易受...影响的；对…敏感的 CONCEPCION CALPE: "And therefore we are very much susceptible to very quick changes because there is very little buffer on which to rely to protect ourselves should there be another bad news on the production front."
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