加入了阅读小分队，记录自己的点滴成长

missluo

T2：2'01
anathema / imminent

T3: 3'05
fiat / harshness / dismissive / stagnant / impasse / scenario
Pursuing a more confrontational stance towards Beijing by local politicians creates the kind of uncertainty that risks weakening the principle assets the city has: a strong, global finance and services-based economy.

T4: 3'01
extrajudicial / scrutiny / rift

T5: 4'55
dismal / feud genocide

T6: 3'00
vulnerable

missluo

T2: 1‘58
T3: 2'37
T4: 2'55
T5: 2'28
T6: 3'03
T7: 10'15

nesting dolls / turducken / trophic

missluo

76-17

T2：2’16
EU ordered Ireland to recoup $13 billion euros from Apple. Ireland and Apple have said they will release the dices ion in court.
T3:  1’47
T4：1‘30
T5：2‘01
T6：2’08
broadside / egregious/ obliging / succumb / ominously / retaliation / coffer / barmy / statutory / repatriate / deferral / shenanigan / lob / grenade

T7
Ms Vestager informed Irish to recover $14.5, which is more than expected, in unpaid taxes from Apple.
Different people and organization reacted differently to this case.
EU commission explained how Apple avoided taxes through arrangement with Irish.
EU has looked up several firms about tax avoidance in the last years.
European countries tried to create international consensus on how to close loopholes in cross-border taxation, resulting in BEPS project. But this time EU’s judgement on Apple cause faith doubt in these countries.
America criticized EU’s ruling unfair.
America will be spured to find out a reduced tax rate for profits that firms like Apple repatriate.
Apple has come out fighting and pointed EU’s calculation mistake.
Apple also claimed its head office was stateless and it pay taxes globally.
Ireland was also chafe because it worried its economy would be affected by this case and the money.
Other countries like Ireland and other firms like Apple are also affected. Need a long time to get things resolved

missluo

前一个星期的练习，感觉既读得慢、又读不懂（回忆不起文章大意）、又写不出来（不知道怎么用自己语言复述文章大意）。
所以决定暂时放弃计时，先不追求速度、先求看懂和回忆。

T2
To woo voters from African-American, Trump have some serious work to do, but it seems that he has done nothing meaningful.
T3:
Lasting way to earn black voters is building trusting, respectful relationships and addressing their needs.
T4:
Minorities will make up more than a third of the workforce, so the next president must address these colored people. Trump has a lot to do.
T5:
doldrum / stratosphere
T6:
Banks are in a unique role to enable business and have to be responsible to the public as well as shareholders.
T7:
empirical / holistic / introspect
Recursiveness gives the self its peculiar paradoxical quality.
Some suggest that self consciousness may have evolved primarily in a social context. Our ability to introspect may have evolved to construct meaningful models of other people’s minds in order to predict there behavior.
The author develop the mechanism of how the self-awareness works.
There are many aspects of self and each aspect may be mediated by different centers in different parts of the brain.
There is one aspect of self that seems stranger than all the others—the fact that it is aware of itself and mirror neurons are involved in this ability.
Mirror neurons was discovered from the brains of monkeys preformed certain goal-directed voluntary actions.
The mirror neurons was an extraordinary observation.
The mirror neurons in question does’t know the difference between self and others.
Primates including humans are doing well in mirror neurons.
How does “introspect” happen?
The self awareness is using mirror neurons for “looking at myself as if someone else is looking at me”.

missluo

T2：
7 things must be done daily to build a billion-dollar companyRead. Obsess.
T3: 3’18
Meet someone new.Be humble.Question.
T4: 1’52
Connect.Start now.
T5: 2’25
T6: 2’05
T7: 9’50

missluo

T2: 1‘53
T3: 2'06
T4: 2'26
T5: 1'46
T6: 1'49

missluo

T2: 3‘07
T3: 2’45
T4: 2'11
T5: 2'08
T6: 2'01

missluo

T2: 2'59
T3: 2'35
T4: 2'31
T5: 2'18
T6: 2'08

missluo

T2:
tantalizing
T3: 2'16
flashlight / amplitude
T4: 4'03
algorithms / masking / disservice / anthropomorphize / astray T5: 3'39
steppe / inflatable / vantage poin / proxy
T6: 2'40

missluo

qualm
manipulation
setback
peril
detriment
monetize
equity compensation
incentivize

T2: 2'20
T3: 2'29
T4: 2'52
T5: 4'20
T6: 4'00