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铁板神猴

看来那篇debrief还真是没什么生词啊~呵呵

铁板神猴

Achilles' heel 是希腊神话中著名的“阿喀琉斯的脚踝”

^^我有段时间很喜欢读Greek mythology，也许以后应该去读英文版~？

SarahOrange

哈哈~那插播一条吧~
In Greek mythology, when Achilles was a baby, it was foretold that he would die in battle . To prevent his death, his mother Thetis took Achilles to the River Styx which was supposed to offer powers of invincibility and dipped his body into the water. But as Thetis held Achilles by the heel, his heel was not washed over by the water of the magical river. Achilles grew up to be a man of war who survived many great battles. But one day, a poisonous arrow shot at him was lodged in his heel, killing him shortly after. Still, Achilles is remembered as one of the greatest fighters who ever lived.——from Wikipedia

SarahOrange

不错哦  顶

-- by 会员 babiya2049 (2012/7/28 13:08:26)

Thx, cheers~

eliane小小爱

有毅力，加坚持，肯定会大大地收获！！

SarahOrange

有毅力，加坚持，肯定会大大地收获！！

-- by 会员 eliane小小爱 (2012/7/29 13:04:49)

惭愧了呀这两天都在补作业...不过~一定会赶上进度的！~

SarahOrange

补：20120727 <第四期5-06经管> China’s Economic Slowdown: Why Stimulus Is a Bad Idea

impervious [?m'p??v??s] adj. 不受影响的
perilous ['per?l?s] adj. 危险的
Anyone who thought China was impervious to either the perilous state of the global recovery or the laws of basic economics should take a look at the data streaming out of the country in recent months.

stall [st??l] v. 停止
Manufacturing output and exports have been weak and the property sector has stalled.

sag [sæg] v. 下垂；下降
And with the sagging data have come louder and louder cries for greater government stimulus to pump up growth, as Beijing’s policymakers did successfully after the 2008 financial crisis.

ratchet ['ræt??t] vt. 松脱
"There’s lots more the government can do to ratchet things up,” HSBC said in a recent report.

exacerbate [?g'zæs?be?t; ek'sæs-] vt. 使加剧；使恶化；激怒
percolating ['p?:k?leiti?] adj. 渗透的
That’s exactly what China doesn’t need, however. Government policies to greatly boost growth will only exacerbate the percolating dangers within the Chinese economy — dangers that could even result in an economic crisis.

embroil [?m'br??l; em-] vt. 使卷入
As the global recovery stumbles and Europe remains embroiled in a debt crisis, Chinese exports have taken a hit.

subsidize ['s?bs?'da?z] vt. 资助
Its own consumers can’t fill in the gap. Private consumption in China relative to GDP is among the lowest of any major economy and remains constrained by government policies that punish consumers to subsidize investment.

curtail [k??'te?l] vt. 缩减
Rebalancing will also require major reforms within the economy — such as liberalizing regulated interest rates and curtailing the influence of the state sector — which would pinch powerful interest groups.

prolong [pr?'l??] vt. 延长
Renewed reliance on investment to support activity threatens to prolong the Chinese economy’s structural imbalances …

inherently [in'hi?r?ntli] adv. 内在地
deteriorate [d?'t??r??re?t] v. 恶化
Moreover, the rise in investment as a share of GDP since 2008, which is inherently unsustainable, has coincided with deteriorating efficiency as measured by the ratio of incremental output per unit of investment.

SarahOrange

补：20120729 <第四期5-07经管> A home from home: Five planets that could host life

marble ['mɑ?b(?)l] n. 大理石
cosmos ['k?zm?s] n. 宇宙
shed light on 阐明；使…清楚地显出
It's one of the big questions: Are we alone on this blue marble or is there life elsewhere in the cosmos? To shed light on this, astronomers are searching for habitable worlds circling far-off stars.

observatory [?b'z??v?t(?)r?] n. 天文台
The team at the Geneva observatory which had discovered all four other planets around the star Gliese 581 failed to detect it in their own data.

controversial [k?ntr?'v???(?)l] adj. 有争议的；有争论的
Nevertheless, the planet's existence remains controversial.

Jupiter ['d?u?p?t?] n. [天] 木星
Saturn ['sæt(?)n] n. [天] 土星
Announced in February 2012 by a team from the US Carnegie Insitution and Germany's Goettingen University, Gliese 667Cc belongs to a class of planets known as Super Earths - a class of planet with a size in between that of rocky worlds like Earth and Mars and the gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn.

radius ['re?d??s] n. 半径
With a radius 2.4 times that of Earth, Kepler 22b is the most massive of the five habitable planets.

predominantly [pr?'dɑm?n?ntli] adv. 主要地；显著地
gaseous ['gæs??s; 'ge?s??s] adj. 气态的
Neptune ['neptju:n] n. 海王星
Astronomers do not yet know for sure whether it has a predominantly gaseous, rocky or liquid composition. But to some, its size suggests a composition closer to the gaseous Neptune than to Earth.

Venus ['vi?n?s] n. [天] 金星
preclude [pr?'klu?d] vt. 排除
This means it is closer to Venus than Earth in the amount of energy it absorbs from its star. However, that would not necessarily preclude the possibility of life.

solar radiation [天] 太阳辐射；日光照射
offset ['?fset] vt. 抵消
proximity [pr?k's?m?t?] n. 亲近，接近
How hospitable the planet is may depend on how much cloud cover it has, since clouds reflect solar radiation. Its discoverers calculate that if HD85512b were to have more than 50% cloud cover (on the same order as Earth), it could offset the planet's proximity to its star enough for water to stay liquid at the surface.

balmy ['bɑ?m?] adj. 温和的
muggy ['m?g?] adj. 闷热的；潮湿的
However, any life forms on HD85512b will have to be suited to very balmy conditions, "It's going to be really muggy, just think about the muggiest day you can think of," co-discoverer Lisa Kaltenegger, from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, said at the time of its discovery.

spectroscopic [,spektr?'sk?pik] adj. 光谱学的
Since it is located only 20.3 light-years away - in the Constellation Libra - astronomers should be able to resolve some of these questions in the future, with direct spectroscopic observations of the planet's atmosphere.

SarahOrange

补：20120730 <第四期5-08经管> Egypt’s Islamists Tread Lightly, but Skeptics Squirm

swear in 使宣誓就职
unabashed [?n?'bæ?t] adj. 不畏惧的
When he was sworn in last month, the Arab world’s biggest country gained an unabashed Islamist as its leader for the first time, arousing alarm here and abroad.

definitive [d?'f?n?t?v] adj. 决定性的；最后的
pronouncement [pr?'na?nsm(?)nt] n. 声明；宣告；公告
premature ['prem?tj??]adj. 不成熟的
Such a definitive pronouncement could be premature.

circumscribed adj. 局限的；受限制的
rash [ræ?] adj. 轻率的；鲁莽的；不顾后果的
pretext ['pri?tekst] n. 借口；托辞
crack down 镇压
fledgling ['fled?l??] n. 无经验的人
And Mr. Morsi’s power has been severely circumscribed by the military, which still holds most of the cards; a rash move by Mr. Morsi could provide a pretext for the military to crack down further on the fledgling government.

refrain [r?'fre?n] vi. 避免
hot-button (问题等)非常敏感的，热门的；(尤指政治上)具有轰动效应的；引起公愤的
Significantly, he has refrained from taking any action on hot-button social or foreign policy issues, or even discussing them.

ruling circles 统治集团(或阶层)
obligatory [?'bl?g?t(?)r?] adj. 义务的；必须的
No one in ruling circles is calling for the government to make wearing head scarves obligatory, ban pop music or review the peace treaty with Israel.

placate [pl?'ke?t; 'plæke?t; 'ple?-] vt. 抚慰
secular ['sekj?l?] n.[宗]俗僧，俗人
Despite such efforts, Mr. Morsi and his Brotherhood allies have had little luck placating secular and other opponents.

oust [a?st] vt. 驱逐
vow [va?] v. 发誓；郑重宣告
veiled [ve?ld] adj. 隐藏的；不清楚的
Just two weeks ago, the leader of the ruling military council, which has controlled Egypt since Mr. Mubarak was ousted, vowed that the army would not let Egypt “fall” to “a certain group,” a not-so-veiled reference to the Brotherhood.

conciliatory [k?n's?l??t?r?] adj. 安抚的
deep-seated ['di:p'si:tid] adj. 根深蒂固的
"Since Morsi won, the Muslim Brotherhood adopted more of a conciliatory tone and made an effort to reach out to non-Islamists,” Mr. Hamid said. “The question is if it has worked, and I would say it hasn’t. It’s deep-seated. Neither side trusts the other.”

tyranny ['t?r(?)n?] n. 暴政；专横；严酷；残暴的行为
“Being a secular liberal, I was very critical of my fellow liberals when they spoke of the tyranny of the majority and so on,” he added. “I said, ‘Let’s work with the Brotherhood.’ ”

nuance ['nju?ɑ?ns] n. 细微差别
But the nuances are pretty scary.

constitutional [k?nst?'tju??(?)n(?)l] adj. 宪法的
postelection 后期选举
Those nuances include the way a Brotherhood spokesman, Mahmoud Ghuzlan, answers questions with Koranic verses, and the group’s tendency to fill the spectator galleries at hearings on constitutional and postelection issues with emotional, chanting activists.

anonymity [æn?'n?m?t?] n. 匿名
authorized ['??θ?ra?zd] adj. 经授权的；经认可的
Mr. Morsi was quoted as saying by a former campaign worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

suspicion [s?'sp??(?)n] n. 怀疑
erupt into 爆发成
jeer [d???] v. 嘲笑
pelt with 用(某物)扔某人
The depth of suspicions about the Brotherhood erupted into public view this month when Hillary Rodham Clinton, the American secretary of state, met with Mr. Morsi in Egypt and then was jeered and her motorcade pelted with tomatoes by protesters, mainly Coptic Christians and secularists, angry that the Americans were, in their view, supporting the Islamists by meeting with Mr. Morsi.

lavish ['læv??] adj. 丰富的
He’s in demand with media and sponsors alike, but he won’t admit that all this lavish attention is primarily a result of this one fact: he’s the closest thing to a rival that Michael Phelps will have in London.

SarahOrange

最近刚入职，学习时间上有些要调整，但还是希望自己尽力保证每天阅读的数量和质量！