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【Native Speaker每日综合训练—42系列】【42-16】科技 Food
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U.S. distributors saw specialty coffee rise 75 percent in economic value from 2000 to 2008, and in 2012, it represented 37 percent of U.S. coffee sales by volume and a whopping 50 percent of the total economic value, bringing in roughly $32 billion.
whopping : extremely large:

Traditionally, coffee is grown in the shade of dense canopy, intermixed with anywhere from a few to a hundred species of trees and other crops like fruits and nitrogen-fixing legumes, but decades of global coffee price drops drove many producers to chop down overhead trees and clear the understory for denser planting.
legume :a plant that has its seeds in a pod, such as the bean or pea
understory: 林下叶层

"Walking through a forest filled with the sounds of birds and insects, looking up and seeing trees hundreds of meters overhead while these little coffee berries were looking you dead-on," she said, "coming from the monoculture systems of the United States, it really blew my mind."
dead-on: 完全正确的
berry: 干种子，浆果

Sampling regional farms, Jha not only found that animal populations were more diverse on these farms, but also, using DNA analysis, found that native trees encroaching on the farms showed higher genetic diversity than their counterparts in surrounding larger forests.
Encroach： to gradually cover more and more of an area of land

Rice said government regulation has also brought on some of the stark changes in coffee growing.
stark :empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary:

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【Native Speaker每日综合训练—42系列】【42-08】文史哲 Rich People
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The US or UK fuerdai -actually more like 20th-generation-rich, in the case of some families - simply don't draw the same ire.
Ire: anger

For those who haven't had the great misfortune of reading Atlas Shrugged, the book is premised on the idea that if the world's "creative leaders," businessmen, innovators, artists (i.e., the "makers") went on strike, our entire society would collapse. These strikers hide out in a utopian compound in the mountains of Colorado while the rest of us despondently wail and gnash our teeth and beg for them to once again bestow their creativity upon us.
utopian /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ən/ : relating to or aiming for a perfect society in which everyone works well with each other and is happy:
despondently :unhappy and with no hope or enthusiasm:
wail : to make a long, high cry, usually because of pain or sadness:
gnash our teeth [næʃ] :to bring your teeth forcefully together when you are angry:

The book mirrors in many ways the more lefty Elysium, where to escape the environmental degradation they have wrought, the wealthiest go off to form their own society in the sky.
wrought (wreak): to cause something to happen:

The rest of the human population remains mired in slum-like conditions, because the only thing standing between humanity and savagery is Bill Gates.
Mired: be/become mired (down) in sth sth 深陷
Slum: a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city:
savagery /ˈsæv.ɪdʒ.ri/ : (acts of) cruel and violent behaviour

But have no fear! Rather than collectively solving our problems, humanity needs a salvific "Jesus" in the form of (who else?) Matt Damon to make us citizens of Elysium and thereby save humanity. These two, very disparate tales of woe both have common elements (what I will call the "Randian vision"): society relies on the wealthy; collective action through government is either meaningless or detrimental; and a few individuals ("great men") should be the center of social change and innovation.
disparate : different in every way:
woes : great problems or troubles:

Social Darwinism, the idea that the economy is a "survival of the fittest" competition where the superior end up on top, exults the businessman as superior and deserving.
exult : to express great pleasure or happiness, especially at someone else's defeat or failure:

But as Henry George noted of Herbert Spencer (the founder of Social Darwinism): "Mr. Spencer is like one who might insist that each should swim for himself in crossing a river, ignoring the fact that some had been artificially provided with corks and other artificially loaded with lead."
Cork: the light soft bark (= outer covering) of a Mediterranean tree

If you could make a profit by pressing puppies into coffee, you deserve more moral praise than someone who dedicates their life to the poor. As E.F. Schumacher observed about capitalism, "Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be 'uneconomic' [unprofitable] you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper."
peril : great danger, or something that is very dangerous:

To justify their wealth, the titans of industry must make themselves the center of economic progress and society, but the dirty little secret is that they aren't; they're just along for the ride.
titan /ˈtaɪ.tən/：a person who is very important, powerful, strong, big, clever, etc.:

It seems almost axiomatic that no good person has ever done something great merely for a profit. They seek something more important than material possession.
Axiomatic: If something is axiomatic, it seems to be obviously true

So why should we fear if the wealthiest left us? I would fear for the world if the empathetic, the intelligent, the compassionate, the fearless and the creative left us.
empathetic : to be able to understand how someone else feels:

We don't celebrate these virtues unless they somehow lead to monetary gain, but often they don't. Norman Borlaug, father of the "Green Revolution" that by some estimates saved 1 billion people from starvation and who was hailed as "... a towering scientist whose work rivals that of the 20th century's other great scientific benefactors of humankind," didn't work for money; he worked to help people.
virtue : a good moral quality in a person, or the general quality of being morally good:
benefactor:someone who gives money to help an organization, society, or person
" When a reporter saw Mother Teresa helping a disfigured leper, he said to her, "I wouldn't do that for a million dollars." Mother Theresa said, "Neither would I."
leper ：a person who is strongly disliked and avoided by other people because of something bad that he or she has done:

And many businesses are less self-sufficient than they imagine, requiring bailouts and competition between states to support them.
Bailout：when someone helps a person or organization that is in difficulty, usually by giving or lending them money

neverland1021

【Native Speaker每日综合训练—43系列】【43-08】文史哲 feminism
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On the evening of Sunday, September 14, young women voters were popping corks across Sweden after general election exit polls projected that the Feminist Initiative (FI) party had passed the four percent threshold required to win a parliamentary seat.
Cork：the light, soft bark (= outer covering) of a Mediterranean tree

But the surprisingly strong performance of their party -- headed by Gudrun Schyman, a former contestant of the Swedish version of Dancing with the Stars, who’d campaigned alongside ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Pharrell Williams (of “Blurred Lines” notoriety) -- was enough to win the FI headlines the world over the next day.
contestant ：someone who competes in a contest

Schyman’s message has apparently resonated across Sweden: since January, its membership has shot from 1,500 to 18,000, giving it the fourth-largest roster among Swedish political parties.
Resonate：to produce, increase or fill with sound, by vibrating (= shaking) objects which are near
roster ：a list of people's names, often with the jobs they have been given to do

In May, it became the first-ever feminist party to send a representative to the European Parliament, garnering over five percent of the vote nationwide and more than 30 percent in some of the country’s most left-wing districts in cities such as Malmö.
Garner：to collect something, usually after much work or with difficulty

Prior to this month’s general election, Schyman had predicted that the FI’s momentum would be politically contagious worldwide: “When people see that this is possible, a lot of other countries will follow for the simple reason that a lot of other cultures have the same problems.”
contagious ：describes a disease that can be caught by touching someone who has the disease or a piece of infected clothing

But in the United States, at least, FI¬-style calls for more politically institutionalized approaches to gender issues are more apt to provoke derision than serious debate -- this despite the New Republic’s recent headline that feminism had “conquered the culture,” after pop superstar Beyoncé danced at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony in front of a huge backlit banner proclaiming her to be FEMINIST.
derision ：the situation in which someone or something is laughed at and considered stupid or of no value:
backlit ：lit up from behind, especially in order to create a special effect:

But American culture is one thing and its politics quite another. From the Supreme Court’s recent reining in of reproductive rights with its Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision in June, in which it exempted family-owned corporations from paying for insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act, to last week’s failure in the Senate, for the third time since 2012, to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which was meant to close the gap in pay between women and men, the United States’ political institutions have shown themselves uniquely resistant to tackling gender issues on a national scale.
rein in ：to control an emotion, activity, or situation to prevent it from becoming too powerful:
contraception：(the use of) any of various methods intended to prevent a woman becoming pregnant:

Turning the personal-is-political mantra of second-wave feminism on its head, U.S. feminism has taken a marked turn toward lifestyle issues, with a new focus on empowering women within the political and economic frameworks that already exist.
mantra ：a word or phrase that is often repeated and expresses a particular strong belief:

A glance at one of the United States’ many feminist blogs will reveal endless tips on how to develop an empowered body image or “lean in” to one’s career; endless introspection on how to cope with the travails of motherhood and the “second shift”; endless microexaminations of the power dynamics at play, for example, in how men and women behave on public transport or online dating sites.
introspection ：examination of and attention to your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings:

Parents who do not enroll their children in day care between ages one and three also receive a monthly stipend.
stipend ：a fixed regular income:

Finally, to adapt to changing family structures, the country has recently set up the Committee on Financial Cooperation Between Separated Parents to tweak these welfare provisions as needed to support the sharing of child care between divorced parents.
tweak ：to pull and twist something with a small sudden movement:

That reticence certainly reflects activists’ awareness of the many impediments to importing FI-style politics to the United States.
reticence ：unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings:
impediment ：something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult or impossible:

The United States’ terminally gridlocked two-party system, on the other hand, requires far more consensus to bring political proposals into mainstream debate.
Gridlocked：a situation in which no progress can be made

The consequences of political disenchantment have proved enduring.
disenchantment ：no longer believing in the value of something, especially having learned of the problems with it:

Huge gaps yawn between women at opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum: in 2012, the poverty rate among families headed by single mothers was around 33 percent for white women, 47 percent for black women, and 49 percent for Hispanic women.
yawn ：to open the mouth wide and take a lot of air into the lungs and slowly send it out, usually when tired or bored:

neverland1021

【Native Speaker每日综合训练—43系列】【43-06】经管 women talent
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On the evening of Sunday, September 14, young women voters were popping corks across Sweden after general election exit polls projected that the Feminist Initiative (FI) party had passed the four percent threshold required to win a parliamentary seat.
Cork：the light, soft bark (= outer covering) of a Mediterranean tree

But the surprisingly strong performance of their party -- headed by Gudrun Schyman, a former contestant of the Swedish version of Dancing with the Stars, who’d campaigned alongside ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Pharrell Williams (of “Blurred Lines” notoriety) -- was enough to win the FI headlines the world over the next day.
contestant ：someone who competes in a contest

Schyman’s message has apparently resonated across Sweden: since January, its membership has shot from 1,500 to 18,000, giving it the fourth-largest roster among Swedish political parties.
Resonate：to produce, increase or fill with sound, by vibrating (= shaking) objects which are near
roster ：a list of people's names, often with the jobs they have been given to do

In May, it became the first-ever feminist party to send a representative to the European Parliament, garnering over five percent of the vote nationwide and more than 30 percent in some of the country’s most left-wing districts in cities such as Malmö.
Garner：to collect something, usually after much work or with difficulty

Prior to this month’s general election, Schyman had predicted that the FI’s momentum would be politically contagious worldwide: “When people see that this is possible, a lot of other countries will follow for the simple reason that a lot of other cultures have the same problems.”
contagious ：describes a disease that can be caught by touching someone who has the disease or a piece of infected clothing

But in the United States, at least, FI¬-style calls for more politically institutionalized approaches to gender issues are more apt to provoke derision than serious debate -- this despite the New Republic’s recent headline that feminism had “conquered the culture,” after pop superstar Beyoncé danced at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony in front of a huge backlit banner proclaiming her to be FEMINIST.
derision ：the situation in which someone or something is laughed at and considered stupid or of no value:
backlit ：lit up from behind, especially in order to create a special effect:

But American culture is one thing and its politics quite another. From the Supreme Court’s recent reining in of reproductive rights with its Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision in June, in which it exempted family-owned corporations from paying for insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act, to last week’s failure in the Senate, for the third time since 2012, to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which was meant to close the gap in pay between women and men, the United States’ political institutions have shown themselves uniquely resistant to tackling gender issues on a national scale.
rein in ：to control an emotion, activity, or situation to prevent it from becoming too powerful:
contraception：(the use of) any of various methods intended to prevent a woman becoming pregnant:

Turning the personal-is-political mantra of second-wave feminism on its head, U.S. feminism has taken a marked turn toward lifestyle issues, with a new focus on empowering women within the political and economic frameworks that already exist.
mantra ：a word or phrase that is often repeated and expresses a particular strong belief:

A glance at one of the United States’ many feminist blogs will reveal endless tips on how to develop an empowered body image or “lean in” to one’s career; endless introspection on how to cope with the travails of motherhood and the “second shift”; endless microexaminations of the power dynamics at play, for example, in how men and women behave on public transport or online dating sites.
introspection ：examination of and attention to your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings:

Parents who do not enroll their children in day care between ages one and three also receive a monthly stipend.
stipend ：a fixed regular income:

Finally, to adapt to changing family structures, the country has recently set up the Committee on Financial Cooperation Between Separated Parents to tweak these welfare provisions as needed to support the sharing of child care between divorced parents.
tweak ：to pull and twist something with a small sudden movement:

That reticence certainly reflects activists’ awareness of the many impediments to importing FI-style politics to the United States.
reticence ：unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings:
impediment ：something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult or impossible:

The United States’ terminally gridlocked two-party system, on the other hand, requires far more consensus to bring political proposals into mainstream debate.
Gridlocked：a situation in which no progress can be made

The consequences of political disenchantment have proved enduring.
disenchantment ：no longer believing in the value of something, especially having learned of the problems with it:

Huge gaps yawn between women at opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum: in 2012, the poverty rate among families headed by single mothers was around 33 percent for white women, 47 percent for black women, and 49 percent for Hispanic women.
yawn ：to open the mouth wide and take a lot of air into the lungs and slowly send it out, usually when tired or bored:

Many others are talking about feminine archetypes of leadership—and, specifically, the role of meaning in companies: building on strengths, leading with purpose, achieving fulfillment.
Archetype：a typical example of something; the original model of something from which others are copied

Moreover, women propel economic growth.
propel ：to push or move something somewhere, often with a lot of force

Only 24 women lead Fortune 500 companies, and the share of female senior executives at these companies hasn’t significantly budged in the past three years.
Budge：If something will not budge or you cannot budge it, it will not move

The barriers—among them cultural factors and entrenched mind-sets—are well known. Often, the women who make it to the top win by playing the game better than men.
entrenched ：Entrenched ideas are so fixed or have existed for so long that they cannot be changed

The detractors of quotas, however, argue that they aren’t meritocratic, impair competitiveness, and are unfair to senior women who fought hard to make it.
Detractor：someone who criticizes something or someone, often unfairly
meritocratic：精英管理，贤能统治的

Agree or disagree, this sentiment is a reality, and it’s one reason progress for women at many companies is slow and incremental.
sentiment ：a thought, opinion or idea based on a feeling about asituation, or a way of thinking about something

Some express distaste for company politics at higher levels. But don’t jump to conclusions yet.
distaste ：a dislike of something which you find unpleasant orunacceptable

neverland1021

【Native Speaker每日综合训练—43系列】【43-01】文史哲 Marriage Equality
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Let us pause to savor this moment and the transformation of the American legal and social landscape.
savor ：to enjoy food or an experience slowly, in order to enjoy it as much as possible:

Recall, it was less than 30 years ago that the court upheld laws making homosexual sex a crime.
upheld ：to defend or keep a principle or law, or to state that a decision which has already been made, especially a legal one, is correct

Citing the “ancient roots” of prohibitions against homosexuality, John F. Kennedy appointee Byron White asserted, for five justices, that the Constitution does not grant “a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy.”
sodomy.: the sexual act of putting the penis into a man's or woman's anus

When the court reversed itself in 2003, Justice Antonin Scalia was apoplectic.
Apoplectic：extremely and obviously angry, or in a state of violent excitement, usually caused by great anger

Today’s opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as formal recognition in marriage is concerned.”
Dismantle：to take a machine apart or to come apart into separate pieces
heterosexual ：a person who is sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex
insofar ：to the degree that

At the time, Scalia’s warning seemed fanciful. Now, it appears prophetic.
prophetic ：saying correctly what will happen in the future:

Recall, too, that as recently as 2008, the Democratic contenders for the presidential nomination could not risk coming out in favor of marriage equality.
Contender：someone who competes with other people to try to win something:

On the issue of same-sex marriage, evolution has occurred at warp speed.
warp ：If wood warps, or if water or heat warps it, it becomes damaged by bending or twisting:

Now, the fallback Republican position against marriage equality is not to clamor for a constitutional amendment to protect the country against the scourge of same-sex marriage, a move George W. Bush supported.
clamor : to make a loud complaint or demand:
scourge : something or someone that causes great suffering or a lot of trouble:

Tony Perkins of the conservative Family Research Council argued that, “by refusing to get involved in a mess it helped create, the justices are leaving our laws vulnerable to rogue judges on the lower courts.”
rogue : behaving in ways that are not expected or not normal, often in a way that causes damage:

They are, as Scalia predicted, judges dutifully applying the inexorable logic of binding precedent.
inexorable : continuing without any possibility of being stopped:

neverland1021

【Native Speaker每日综合训练—43系列】【43-03】科技
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PROSTHETIC body parts are nothing new. In 2000 researchers published in the Lancet an account of a 3,000 year old Egyptian mummy with a wooden big toe grafted to her right foot.
grafted ：to join or add something new

Daniel Tan and his colleagues at the Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Centre, in Cleveland, Ohio, created signals that appeared to come from the prosthetic arms of two volunteers by implanting electrodes around nerves in the amputees’ stumps (see picture).
prosthetic ：an artificial body part, such as an arm, foot or tooth, which replaces a missing part
amputee： a person who has had an arm or leg cut off

For example, when Dr Tan blindfolded his volunteers and asked them to pluck the stalks from cherries without crushing the fruit, they succeeded only 43% of the time. But when he connected pressure sensors attached to the protheses’s fingers to the signal-generating machine, and gave them appropriate feedback, the success rate jumped to 92%.
pluck ：to pull something, especially with a suddenmovement, in order to remove it

Intriguingly, one unexpected benefit was that the device’s feedback banished the phenomenon of phantom limbs, in which an amputee perceives that his missing appendage is still present.
Banish：to send someone away, especially from their country, and forbid (= refuse to allow) them to come back
amputee ：a person who has had an arm or leg cut off

Standard prostheses are held in place by a compression socket, which squeezes the artificial limb onto the stump of the natural one. That can be uncomfortable, and the socket is a constant infection risk.
compression ：the act of pressing something into a smaller space or putting pressure on it from different sides until it gets smaller:
socket ：the part of a piece of equipment, especially electrical equipment, into which another part fits
stump ：the part of something such as a tree, tooth, arm, or leg that is left after most of it has been removed:

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【Native Speaker每日综合训练—43系列】【43-05】经管
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His decision to make the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, a special economic area on the outskirts of the port city, a shining example of market reform is thus a test of his mettle.
mettle : ability and determination when competing or doing something difficult

China Daily, an official newspaper, marked the anniversary by trumpeting that the zone had reached a “record-breaking milestone”.
Trumpet: a brass musical instrument consisting of a metal tubewith one narrow end, into which the player blows, and one wide end. Three buttons are pressed in order tochange notes.

Foreign firms going in are hoping for a first-mover advantage—but such an edge has yet to materialise, whispers one manager.
has yet to : If you have yet to do something, you have not done it

When he paid a visit last month (see picture) he grumbled that reforms were moving too slowly.
Grumble: to complain about someone or something in an annoyedway

Perhaps for that reason, the local official ostensibly in charge of the area was pushed out of his job on the eve of Mr Li’s arrival.
ostensibly : appearing or claiming to be one thing when it is really something else

It is hardly encouraging that Mr Li, the most senior economic figure in China’s most powerful central administration in decades, cannot get his own bureaucracy to implement promised reforms with gusto.
gusto: great energy, enthusiasm, and enjoyment that isexperienced by someone taking part in an activity,especially a performance:

Another is the ongoing crackdown on official corruption, which has made administrators reluctant to pursue bold policies that may later attract unwanted scrutiny.
crackdown : when someone starts to deal with bad or illegal behaviour in a more severe way

neverland1021

【Native Speaker每日综合训练—43系列】【43-10】科技 Blood
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The findings, presented in a poster Saturday, March 29, 2014, at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Washington, D.C., suggest that hypertension should be carefully monitored and controlled among patients with atrial fibrillation.
hypertension : a medical condition in which your blood pressure is extremely high
atrial fibrillation :  a problem in which the heart beats faster than normaland in a way that is not regular, resulting in the atria ( = top spaces) of the heart not emptying properly:

“This highlights the importance of blood pressure control in addition to anticoagulation to reduce the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.”
Coagulation/kəʊˌæɡ.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ : the process by which blood changes into a solid stateto form a solid seal

For the past 30 years, the process of global blood sharing has been gradually standardized during the biennial congress of the International Society for Blood Transfusion, which took place this week in Seoul, South Korea.
Biennial: happening once every two years

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【Native Speaker每日综合训练—43系列】【43-11】经管
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As the hoarding slows, prices are likely to weaken again—unless world demand picks up or oil production is cut.
Hoarding: a very large board on whichadvertisements are shown, especially at the side of aroad:

Neither seems imminent.
imminent : coming or likely to happen very soon:

Russian oil production is also inching up, suggesting sanctions have not yet begun to be felt in its oilfields.
Sanction: an official order, such as the stopping of trade, that is taken against a country in order to make it obey international law:

In September, its output rose to 10.6m b/d, within a whisker of the highest monthly figure since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
whisker : any of the long, stiff hairs growing on the face of a cat, mouse, or other mammal:

Just before this week’s oil-price slump, the International Monetary Fund cut its projection for global growth in 2014 for the third time this year to 3.3%.
slump : (of prices, values, or sales) to fall suddenly:

AFTER declining gradually for three months, oil prices suddenly tumbled almost $4 on October 14th alone.
Tumble: to fall quickly and without control:

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【Native Speaker每日综合训练—43系列】【43-12】经管 Euro zone
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Heeding global calls for action to shore up Europe's sagging economy, euro zone's top finance official proposed a new growth pact on Friday to break a policy logjam and spur reforms by rewarding countries with cheap funds and leeway on budget targets.
shore up ：to support or improve an organization, agreement, orsystem that is not working effectively or that is likelyto fail:
sagging ：to drop down to a lower level in the middle:
logjam ：a situation in which neither group　involved in an argument can win or get an advantage and no action can be taken:
leeway ：freedom to act within particular limits:

The International Monetary Fund, which cut its global growth forecasts for the third time this year this week, flagged Europe's weakness as the top concern, a sentiment echoed by many policymakers, economists and investors.
Sentiment： a thought, opinion, or idea based on a　feeling about a situation, or a way of thinking about something:

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the chairman of euro zone's finance ministers, used the forum to propose a new "growth deal" for Europe offering nations embarking on ambitious economic reforms more fiscal wiggle room and low-interest EU funds.
wiggle ：to (cause to) move up and down and/or from side to sidewith small, quick movements:

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew repeated a familiar mantra that nations with strong economies and sound public finances should do more to shore up global demand.
mantra ：a word or phrase that is often repeated and expresses aparticular strong belief:

Several officials, including Osborne, voiced skepticism about infrastructure spending as the latest prescription for a world economy that six years after the global financial crisis was still struggling to find a firm footing.
prescription : a piece of paper on which a doctor writes thedetails of the medicine or drugs that someone needs:

The Group of 20 major industrial and developing powers agreed last month to prop up growth over the coming years largely via targeted public investment in infrastructure.
prop up: to lift and give support to something by putting something under it:

But since then fresh evidence of weakness in the euro zone, including in its powerhouse Germany, has rattled financial markets and heightened the sense of urgency.
rattled : a sound similar to a series of quickly repeated knocks:

Global shares hit a eight-month low on Friday, while oil prices skidded to their lowest level since 2010.
skid : (especially of a vehicle) to slide along a surface so that you have no control:

After a 13-week rally, the U.S. dollar ended lower for the week on the view the Federal Reserve may have to delay tightening U.S. monetary policy.
rally : a public meeting of a large group of people, especiallysupporters of a particular opinion:

"It's panic mode. Panic and capitulation," said Carsten Fritsch, commodities analyst at Commerzbank.
Capitulate: to accept something or agree to do somethingunwillingly:

While several euro zone governments are hamstrung by excessive debt and fiscal deficits, the IMF, the United States and other G20 members have repeatedly called on Germany to use its wiggle room to ramp up spending and shore up sagging growth.
hamstrung : to limit the amount of something that can be done or the ability or power of someone to do something:
wiggle : a small, quick movement up and down and/or from side to side:
ramp up : to increase the speed, power, or cost of something:

In contrast, France and Italy have announced budget plans that fail to meet their deficit targets, and EU officials were engaged in last-minute efforts to persuade Paris and Rome to tweak the drafts to avoid likely rejection.
tweak : to change something slightly, especially in order to make it more correct, effective, or suitable:

After a two-year siesta, the euro zone is back in the financial markets' firing line due to stagnating growth, low inflation, budget problems in France and Italy and rising political risk in Greece, where the bloc's debt crisis began in 2009.
siesta : a rest or sleep taken after lunch, especially in hotcountries

This is not euro crisis 2.0. At least not for now. The bond market is nervous but not seething with contagion as it was in 2010-12.
Contagion: the situation in which a disease is spread by touching someone or something:

* economists and investors are concerned Germany is pushing the wrong austerity recipe for its own and other euro zone countries' economic problems, depressing demand and neglecting sorely needed public investment;
Austerity : the condition or practice of living without things that are not necessary and without comfort, with limited money or goods, or a practice, habit, or experience that is typical of this:

* Greece's politically motivated dash for a premature exit from its 240 billion euro bailout programme has raised market doubts about its ability to fund itself without external aid and risks of an early election bringing radical leftists to power.
Leftist: a supporter of the political left