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1. payrolls      uplifting     =   heartening    =  electrifying  =        inspirational  =   bracing
hear    heart     hearth    = cooking bench                       
   hearten  = spirit    =stimulate  = inspire  =  invigorate       =   be electrified  by      =   uplift
  1. Were there occasions when enthusiasm ebbed?

    热情会有衰退的时候吗

    • the ebb and flow of empires. :帝国的兴衰

      1.  everyone  is   at a low ebb  :低潮萎靡时期
        1. His little girl's life ebbed away.= elapsed

          他小女儿的生命衰竭了

          1. When the tide ebbs, you can paddle out for a mile and barely get your ankles wet.

            退潮时,你可以蹚水走出1英里远而几乎湿不到脚踝。

  • Agriculture is in the doldrums, so millions of peasants are leaving the land, to find alternative work at home or in distant      cities.

    农业低迷,所以数以百万计的农民离开土地,寻找在家乡或是遥远的城里的其它工作。

    fell back  = recession  = ebb           depression  downturn  decline 
  • We have shifted from depression to recession.             depressed =  sluggish 

    我们已经从萧条转向衰退。

  • There is sign that the recession has bottomed out.

    有迹象表明萧条已达最低点。

    • Many small firms did not weather the storm  =  ride out a storm  =pull through = pull throw  of the recession.

      许多小公司没能经受住这次经济衰退的风波。

  That may fan fears of
2.    trickle        trickling  
  1. A tear trickled down the old man's cheek.

    一滴泪水顺着老人的面颊流了下来。

  • My thoughts, Like melting glaciers in March, Trickling sluggishly; Like limpid streamlet(brooklet), 

    我的思念;如三月里消融的冰河舒缓的吟唱;我的思念,如清澈的溪流

    Flowing merrily through your spring.

    快乐地流过你心泉。


sluggishly    =  dilatorily 
dilatory = draggy  = slow-motion
   I think that's premature   我认为那早出现了
  1. Accidents are still the number one cause of premature death =  unnatural death           for Americans.

    事故仍然是美国人非自然死亡的首要原因。


3. one-time:以前的(adj) 一次性的io(adj)      
  1. a one-time charge.

    …一次性收费。

 4.     a lot of  =        lots of       =      many        a lot(副词姓短语adv表示程度) :thanks a  lot    
5. a Senate impasse led to the expiration of extended unemployment insurance benefits
    impasse   =  logjam  = deadlock                
    expirate       expiration        expiration time =  period of validity  =valid time  = validity date   =   indate
  1. about ten days before the expiration of my leave of absence. =  holiday time 

    ...大约在我休假结束的十天前。


6. The number of recipients          
7. fall by        
     She fell by just as we were going out.
      我们刚要出门时,她突然来访。   

           fall together by the ears
         clairaudience       :顺风耳                      extendable ears   
  • clairvoyance    :千里眼


8.  For what it's worth,  
9. purchasing manager      is  petering out       Peter out =  fade away  = die down  =  dribble away 
goods in stock   = merchandise inventory  
make an inventory of           =          check          = take stock 
  1. Before starting, he  made an inventory of  everything that was to stay.

    出发前,他把要留下的所有东西列了一份详细清单。

   inventory restocking
10. Without a follow through from household and business spending,
        the industrial sector won't be providing much oomph  to the economy   
follow it through :坚持下去
stick   stick out    stick it out  = follow through   = stay the course  = hold on to the last 


11.this tells a story of moderate growth  适度增长
12. expiring date    =       maturity  date           expiring at :到...为止
13. face some headwindfrom expiring fiscal stimulus
   and those headwinds will build over the coming six to nine months
14. foment dissension                 foment war              fomenter
foment =  stir up                                              disorder
15.It is the doctor's  mandate:医生命令
16. the  recipient  of a mandate: 委托要求命令 的接受者
17.custodian:托管人,保管员,监护人
18.  mandatory clause
interpret   as  =  
  • But  in the eye of legislative opinion, this must be interpreted as a mandatory clause.   compulsive 

    但依立法本意来看,应理解为强制性条款



19.  carpet  bombing              carpet / blanket search              inch by inch  = piece by piece
at random =  randomly   =  casualy    =  unceremoniously  
at hazard  = at  a  venture   = venturesomely  =  riskly 
 I drew a bow at a venture我只是瞎猜的 ----draw a bow at a venture
a shot in the dark    =  guess blindly     =   make a wild guess    
 =  guess without ground    =    guesstimate     =    by  guess and  by god 
 
  1. I was numbed by the enormity of the responsibility.

    我对责任的艰巨性感到不知所措

  1. committed   this   atrocity:犯下暴行 
       atrocity   (atrocities)      
  • terrorist enormity  恐怖分子的暴行


  1. the enormity of the disaster.

    …灾难的深重。

  sinister(阴险的  = insidious  (狡猾阴险的)           snaky  
drain/ drink the cup to the dregs/ bottom  倍尝辛酸;不幸到了极点
  • Furthermore, that the " carpet bombing "method puts people in a trance

    and that their harms are simply     too numerous   to record    /    to be listed.

    而“地毯式的轰炸”更是让人恍恍惚惚﹐害处简直是“罄竹难书”。

    bemuse =  confuse    =    bedaze 

    The beauty of the scenery bedazed all of us.

    风景之美使我们都眼花缭乱

20.  backer  patron    
     bar patron(酒吧常客)
21.  the  throng of worshippers       
  • The jubilant  throng is like the waves of the sea.

    欢腾的人群宛如大海的波涛。


    jubilant      =   acclamatory        acclaim  acclaimed     acclamation        

           22.   said a  grieving woman at the site of the bombing.
  1. He's grieving over his dead wife and son.   

    他因丧妻失子而悲痛不已。   grieve over  =mourn over  =  grieve for                 grieved over this mishap                              


23. face up to their true nature.
24. had been bracing for something
25. mosque     skeeter= mosquito          Only a couple of days ago
  • For I am sick and tired of the mosque and seminary.

    因为清真寺和神学院使我厌倦,让我深感疲惫。

26. The shrine's custodian      lax security          lax:松懈的,腹泻的;  洛杉矶
27. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack
28. virulent offshoot        sheltering sky / harbor  
29. commandos of militants sheltering in somewhere 
   militant =  fighting =  combative  = aggressive = pugnacious  = bellicose   =         trigger-happy


belligerent
muss up   =  mess up 
30.in the red:负债,亏损,赤字                        outnumber  =  overnumber



31.The bloodshed at the mosque triggered a wave of  attacks on the army and police.
32.The consequent offensive by the Pakistan army in Swat and later in somewhere.
33.shipping casualties
34.Taliban aredesperateto regain the initiative they lost to the army last year
  • devil-may-care 


35.port installations:港口设施
36.have killed and maimed hundreds of civilians     maim      lesser maim:次级残废
  1. Mines have been scattered in rice paddiesand jungles, maiming and killing civilians.

    地雷散布在稻田和丛林中,致使平民伤残和死亡。

    disable =  maim


37.They are now striking those they consider heretics
38....sect    :什么宗派  religious sect
39. repugnant to sb/sth:  与什么矛盾,与什么敌对
  1. Everything about the affair was repugnant toher.

    有关那件事的一切令她反感。

40.   Enlightenment  = edification  
              enlighten  =   edify                 
            political hub   central hub:中央枢纽               hub =  center
41 supplicants and beggars              playing devotional music,
fail  = flunk =  qualified 
  1. low-paid menial jobs, such as cleaning and domestic work.

    …工钱少又卑微的工作,诸如打扫清洁或做家务。



42. reciting the Koran    
   and singing tributes to the Prophet Muhammad for hours    
43.chose for mass-murder
44.The long and obscure arm of the law
45. relentlessly   = atrociously, cruelly            and  predictably
46.was convicted on July 5th and sentenced to an eight-year prison term
on charges of illegally obtaining state secrets related to the oil industry
47  testimony against them           other than a guilty verdict 
  1. The jury returned a unanimousguilty verdict.

    该陪审团作出了一份一致通过的有罪裁决。

  1. Editors were unanimous in their condemnation of the proposals.

    编辑们一致谴责这些提议。

48. Its predictable result notwithstanding(adv)
49. For one thing       For another                   postponement   = delay  = raincheck

take a raincheck:改天吧

50.  stubbed out cigarettes on his bare arms
  1. stub of a pencil:铅笔头                            ticket stub                  

     

51.a clear indication of           an official visit   
 in violation of China’s own laws.                
  • in violation of regulatiions


    violate = infringe  =  transgress =act against   =disobey  = 

    be in breach of


52.According to the Associated Press, which first broke the news of this case,
53. ran afoul of    run afoul  of               run afoul of the law                  run afoul of  sb :
54.What counts as a state secret in China is notoriously   murkyand arbitrarily enforced
murky  =   mirky    =  gloomy   = 
  1.   
    1. The law here is a little bit murky.

      该法律此处有点含糊不清。= ambiguous =  Vague  =  unclear 


55. iron-ore market :铁矿石市场                
  in some measure  = in one way  =   to some extent   =to a (certain) degree = to some degree
56.  there are indications that                indication  =  sign
indicate = 表明   =   indicative of  =  attest   =  testify   =   declare    = demonstrate  = manifest      。。。。。。
indicate  =  预示。。。。。 predict   = presage  =forebode =  foreshadow  =   augur   = betoken 

 correctly, properly, exactly, right    = aright 
genocide
  • They are the first people of the Americas, subject to wave after wave of genocide since the arrival of the Conquistadors.

    他们是第一批达到美洲的人,自从征服者踏足美洲后,他们就经受了一波又一波的种族灭绝。

vanquisher,  =   enslaver            = conquistador    =   conqueror
57. its efforts to publicise his case may have benefited him in some measure
  1. They disseminated anti-French propaganda.      seminate  = disseminate =diffuse 

    他们散布了反法宣传资料。

58. trump up     = to forge  = to fake     
  it is well known that        infamous = disreputable  = notorious  = arrant(彻头彻尾的,十足的,臭名昭著的)
  • These meetings ought not to be sanctuaries for factious and flagitious =(felonious ) fellows.

    这些聚会不应成为帮派斗殴和凶残的人的庇护所。

    • The young gentleman had employed a course of the most persevering                                                    and flagitious artifices to win the girl's heart.

      那位先生为了骗取一个姑娘的心,曾经处心积虑,用尽卑鄙的手段。

        

      artifi  

       

       artifice=  fraud, scheme, trick  =  ruse 


         artificer   


        artificial


      1. Many people have a natural and emotional aversion to insects.

        很多人对昆虫有一种天生的厌恶之感。


        aversion = abomination       


        abominate = detest = revolt at    =  abhor  

        1. He was a man who abhorred violence and was deeplycommitted to reconciliation.

          他是一个憎恶暴力并极其致力于和解的人。


          cilia   =ciliation  = eyelash  = eyesh  =  eyewinker    


59. use thuggish   tactics against foreign governments
60.After 61 years of forced separation, a slow restorationof financial ties
61.encompasses hundreds of categories  
62.at least some extent, state-controlled
63.is still stuck in  regulatory  purgatory in Taipei.
64.snail-like approval process
65.as long ago as 2001,
66.Taiwan’s banks were better off than their mainland peers
67. Taiwan’s financial system is fragmented and highly competitive.

68.One consequence of this is low profit margins
(the average net interest margin for Taiwan’s big banks is roughly half that of China’s)
and low growth rates.
69. have the wherewithal to dominate Taiwan                    Tie-ups
70.which makes innumerable brands of shoes
71.his scepticism about sth.....
72.grow out of existing relationship
73.saturated market              sensitivities between the two countries still run high.
.74.but utterly wrong-headed.
He was in a manner a friend of mine, but he was always obstinate and wrong-headed. 说起来他也算是我的朋友,但是他一向是固执而坚持己见的。