Europe fell into a debt crisis. Japan faced a natural disaster. Emerging markets, once the bright spots on the global landscape, lost their glow. Political crises from Italy to Egypt to Thailand raised the prospect of another round of global unrest.

01-19

10月份，南非减持美国政府债券到103亿美元。

01-14

不过，企业在年终奖上的吝啬，造成的影响可能不仅仅是破坏员工的春节假期，还可能回头反噬雇主：39%的回复者表示如果年终奖不能恢复正常，他们会另谋高就，这一比例比2015年高了2.3个百分点。

01-14

Separate temperature measurements taken from satellites do not show 2014 as a record year, although it is close. Several scientists said the satellite readings reflected temperatures in the atmosphere, not at the earth’s surface, so it was not surprising that they would differ slightly from the ground and ocean-surface measurements that showed record warmth.

01-14

这里我得提一下小牛队的处境。你很难在11月就告诉你球队的球迷们球队希望尽失，而你的名人堂球员仍旧在球员名单上时这一动作难度就更大了。

01-13

There’s nothing worse than a boss who says one thing and does another, and nothing better than one who keeps his word. Just as managers must trust their team, employees must trust their boss to have their best interests at heart。

01-13

['institju:t]

01-13

Taobao, subsidiary of Alibaba, came in second place, with a brand value of $42.9 billion, overtaking China Mobile, Baidu and ICBC.

01-12

[si'lebriti]

01-11

我经常在不重要的事上花费很多精力

01-11

Henda Ayari

01-11

他说：“目前为止，健身追踪器还不属于这类产品。但是下一代可穿戴设备有潜力跨越这个至关重要的里程碑。”

01-11

追踪制造业、服务业和建筑业商务活动的官方指标显示，10月份这几个驱动中国经济的关键行业的增长有所放缓。

01-11

A lighthearted rom-com starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore is the last thing you'd expect to mirror real life, but this comedy was in fact partially based on a true story. Sandler plays a veterinarian who falls in love with Barrymore, an amnesiac whose memory resets at the beginning of each day. He learns that Barrymore has replayed the same day over and over again since a car crash left her with a traumatic brain injury. Upset by the lie she has been living, Sandler's character makes a series of videos that explain her accident and her life for her to watch each morning.

01-10

Atlas Wearables founder Peter Li says battery technology and user retention are two more obstacles facing the wearables market. Some use cases require significant improvements to battery technology for a compelling experience, he says, and there’s always a balance to be struck between wear time between charges and processing power and features.

01-08

遇到别人我能很轻松地和他/她交谈

01-07

尽管每轮市场反弹最终都呈V形，每次连续的涨势中，个股的参与越来越少。今年春夏两季的绝大部分时间里，时事分析评论员们都专注于赢家与输家、大盘股和小盘股之间的明显差异。欧洲的通缩担忧以及日本的技术性衰退，使得分析师们愈加困惑，尽管美国经济正在好转，美国国库券收益率和通胀指标却双双下行。

01-07

中子星相撞

01-07

读：蕾丝（花边）

01-07

三线城市居民的经济压力和人际关系压力相对较小，且拥有更好的社会环境、自然环境和基础设施。

01-07

继8月中旬贬值后，人民币在9月和10月有所上涨，但在11月再度走低，昨日人民币汇率收跌至三个月最疲弱水平，为1美元兑6.4082元人民币。“中国周边很多国家自10月份起经历了一些资本外流，中国也未能幸免，”深圳招商证券(China Merchants Securities)经济学家谢亚轩表示。“美元走强势必在一定程度上引发转投美元资产的行为。”

01-07

获奖者：金·卡戴珊

01-07

单词tunnel 联想记忆：

01-07

n. 病毒，病原体

01-06

在人类的历史上，我们正处于最和平的年代。早在二十世纪四十年代，每10万个人中就有300人直接死于战争。我们可以很欣慰地告诉你今天这个数字少于1。

01-06

Lawrence’s 2016 earnings dropped 11.5 percent from her 2015 total of $52 million. Forbes will release its list of the world’s highest-paid actors on Thursday. Last year Robert Downey Jr. topped the list with an estimated $80 million.

01-06

Leadership

01-06

Show must go on

01-05

previous

01-05

Wang Jianlin, the entertainment mogul behind a series of high-profile acquisitions in Hollywood, and internet tycoon Jack Ma retained their spots at the top of the list, with fortunes of $32.1bn and $30.6bn respectively.

01-05

每一次我们詹姆斯已经达到了顶点，詹姆斯就会拿出更好的表现超过那个顶点。他那无所不包的各项技巧，是詹姆斯辛苦训练的证明。你可以嘲笑他所提发布的所有Instagram录像，但这些都是他仍然能够做到这一点的真正原因；詹姆斯从来不轻视他的每一场比赛，一次都没有。结果便是晚上一次又一次无可比拟的表演。

01-05

Next year, the mayor’s affordable housing plan, which calls for building or preserving 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade, will begin to take shape. It hinges on a policy that requires developers to build affordable housing in exchange for being allowed to construct taller and denser buildings in neighborhoods rezoned by the city. Developers and housing advocates alike are waiting to see what it will look like once the administration adds muscle and flesh to the bones of the proposal.

01-04

Thank you to Aicha Nezzar for sharing this gem on the Facebook Group- Global English Forum.

01-04

高盛将大派红包，饱受各方抨击一个月，然后静悄悄地干回自己的老本行－－挣钱。

01-03

While on the nonsurgical front, Botox and laser hair removal remain firm favourites.

01-02

《广告狂人》对时装的影响体现在品牌的发展当中，例如香蕉共和国(Banana Republic)就推出了《广告狂人》系列（这个系列是与该剧的服装主管贾妮·布赖恩特[Janie Bryant]联合设计的），而且很多心照不宣的地方在设计中更加随处可见：裁剪和印花，褶边和接缝；它的影响渗入了在秀台上普遍存在的一种鲜明理念：如果你缺乏灵感或者产生了审美怀疑，就去回顾60年代吧。

01-01

The fact is, Hon Lik is not the first person to invent the e-cigarette. Way back in 1963, Herbert Gilbert made the world's first device that could be used to inhale tobacco-flavored air. In Gilbert's original version, there was no form of combustion and it was free of nicotine. He later designed a prototype that used a battery to create heat. He also used different flavors of water to create steam. He presented his prototypes to different chemical, pharmaceutical, and tobacco companies, but they simply turned down his prototypes.

01-19

无论是过去还是现在，都有一系列通过煽动攥取权力的例子。

01-11

那么，这对2015年的油价意味着什么呢？人们对此各执己见。然而，今后12个月的油价走势将由下列五大因素（排名不分先后）决定。

01-11

The Microsoft founder's net worth is $86 billion, up from $75 billion last year.

01-07

达洛伊西奥常喜欢说“时间是新的货币”。这是一个17岁男孩对人生的睿智洞察，也是Summly软件背后的发展理念。而我们多数人在他那个年龄，时间多得都不知道该怎么做才不会荒废。我很容易就忘了这样一个事实：达洛伊西奥在1995年出生于一个中上层阶级家庭，连高中都还没毕业，还住在小时候住的那个舒服卧室里。在我和他父母聊天的时候，他离开房间去在电脑上干活。只见他穿着袜子下楼，牛仔裤腿扫过大厅的地毯──此时此刻是他最像个孩子的时候。

01-05

在开放课程排行榜顶端，赛德商学院(Sa?d Business School)排名上升幅度最大，跃升5位至第4名。这是这所位于牛津大学(University of Oxford)的商学院首次进入前五。赛德商学院在所有10项受学员评分影响的指标上的排名都有所提升。

01-03

万分沮丧之下，他发明了可以允许自拍的东西：他称之为"伸缩杆"。因为智能手机还没发明出来，所以，连接在自拍杆末端的是一个微型相机。在杆的前端有一面小镜子，方便使用者调整他们在相机里的姿态。他在1983年为"伸缩杆"申请了专利。虽然自拍杆进行了大量生产出售，却属商业败笔——相片的质量比较差。另外，以前的研究表明，那时的女士会因自己有自拍的想法而感到尴尬。在2000年，自拍杆被韦恩·弗洛姆(Wayne Fromm)重新发明，那时，上田宏的"伸缩杆"专利期尚有三年。弗洛姆称他的自拍杆为"快捷豆荚"。他认为他才是当今自拍杆的发明者，甚至起诉其他自拍杆生产者。当被问到上田宏的自拍杆时，弗洛姆评论说它们是"先前的艺术"。

01-01

9.在培养皿中跳动的心脏

12-31

“只要总体市场仍然相对积极，只要交易继续执行良好，我们继续预期今年余下时间会保持健康的交易量，”高盛(Goldman Sachs)美洲股票资本市场主管戴维?路德维格(David Ludwig)表示。

12-30

知名安全机构SplashData近日发布2017年最糟糕密码榜单，统计于今年遭泄露的超过500万个密码。“123456”和“password”（密码）再度居首。

12-26

Mr Erdogan, who has also benefited domestically from the row with Mr Rutte, has sought to broaden his diplomatic dispute to take on all of the EU, particularly Germany, which has had similar run-ins with Ankara over campaigning in Germany’s large Turkish community.

12-24

Turn your work in on time. If extra credit work is offered, do that too.

12-23

对于网瘾的焦虑导致了一个定位模糊的新行业的出现：网癖训练营，由退伍军人管理,承诺帮助青少年戒除网瘾。但是 由新京报与镜报在近日发表的调査报告中显示，在郑州林伯强新思路生活训练学校(该学校声称自己是河南省东部的一个网瘾康复营)中存在虐待的情况，至少一名学生死亡。

12-18

3.The End of the One-Child Policy

12-15

n. 财产

12-13

Lawrence, 26, took the top spot largely through a slice of the profits from the final movie in the Hunger Games franchise, as well as a big upfront fee for her forthcoming space adventure movie Passengers, Forbes said.

12-13

China's 2016 office box sales are expected to exceed the 2015 total of 44 billion yuan (6.8 billion U.S. dollars), the country's film watchdog said.

12-11

The most encouraging news may be that 88% of the 4,000 executives in a new survey by staffing firm Robert Half International expect business to pick up in the coming 12 months.

12-08

报告还显示，近四分之一的人为所有账户设置同一密码。

12-04

That’s a lot of issue-related messaging to pack into a single color trend (or even two), but the Pantone statement says it’s the company’s job to reflect social trends and capture them in a shade — which will then become part of the fabrics of our lives, as it were.

12-02

E.E.卡明斯有句话说得很有道理，“除了你自己，不要成为任何人，在这个竭尽全力、不分日夜想把你变成别人的世界里，这样做意味着迎接人类最艰苦的战斗；永不停息，战斗到底。”

12-01

最后，今年只有两所学校首次登上开放课程排行榜。上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院(Antai College of Economics and Management)直接排到第32名，而亚利桑那大学(University of Arizona)艾勒管理学院(Eller College of Management)在75所院校中排名第68位。

11-29

4. Add Color

11-25

时间：2011-12-27 编辑：Jasmine

11-23

在2017年FT对全球95个管理学硕士项目的排行中，虽然瑞士圣加仑大学(University of St Gallen)继续蝉联冠军，但法国和英国商学院分别以24个和18个项目入围成为中坚力量。超过一半的英国商学院排名上升，而只有一家法国商学院排名上升。三分之一的英国商学院排名上升5位，相比之下，三分之二的法国商学院排名下降5位或更多。

11-19

camp（n 田野，营地），aign名词后缀－营地－备战的地方

11-18

是的，当你到处面试的时候，去MIA没有借口借口很牵强的时候十分明显。可以在私人时间比如午饭时间电话面试。也可以利用节假日或者带薪假期进行长时间的现场面试，这样面试的时候你不会因为要赶回来上班感到紧张压迫。同时也可以帮助你面试进行的顺利，而且你也没占用工作的时间，Kay说。

11-17

让我们看看2017年余下时间有哪些贸易动向：

11-11

Sarah Collins

11-08

他还表示“包括现代汽车(Hyundai Motor)和爱茉莉太平洋(AmorePacific)在内，几乎每家韩国大企业都严重依赖对华销售。”

10-28

fatigue

10-28

This habit can seriously hurt you in a work setting. If you’re one of those folks who believes that you do your best work at the last minute and put off projects or assignments until the day (or hour) before they’re due, you may not be aware of the impact your habit is having on your co-workers.If your last-minute rush requires others to work quickly, you will likely anger them, and you’ll be the first one blamed when a project fails or isn’t completed on time.

10-23

此外，她还指出同工同酬的问题。她表示这不仅仅是女性的问题，这实际影响到每一个人。希拉里表示："如果你有妻子，母亲，姐妹，女儿，她们在工作中没有被公平对待，那么整个家庭都会为此受影响。"

10-21

这次奠基之战借鉴了查克·温柏和拳王阿里的比赛，这个无名小卒温柏成了在阿里的职业生涯中击倒过他的区区4人之一。和电影里一样，温柏与阿里打了15回合，尽管他看起来（感觉也）像被卡车撞过。虽然他和洛奇最后都被对手技术性击倒，但温柏胜在启发了史泰龙塑造这个了不起的角色。

10-16

It was the first "real" James Bond song (again, the first two films only opened with orchestral music), and it's still the best. Shirley Bassey got an opportunity to sing her soul out and she accepted the challenge with obvious pleasure. This is a song that makes the villain Auric Goldfinger seem a lot more threatening (and attractive) than he actually is, but that's part of the miracle of Bassey's work here. It's proud and heroic and enticing and it's kind of a lie, but who cares? The music is pure James Bond, the lyrics are pure machismo, and the performance is perfect.

10-13

该报告还指出，在这方面一马当先的是律师事务所，明年有30%的律所有望扩员。该行业最紧缺的是拥有4~6年工作经验的律师助理，此外，熟悉“诉讼、医疗保健、破产以及止赎等细分法律领域的律师也将炙手可热。”

10-10

我国火车票购票官网12306网站已成为世界最大火车票购票网站，2017年该网站交易总量达35亿张车票。

01-13

Prior to the slowdown that began in 2014 employers in China had been less stingy with cash bonuses, which can total well over a full month’s salary and send employees back home for the holiday with plenty of cash for gifts to elders and other family members (or to squirrel away as savings).

01-12

埃尔多安发表上述言论之际，距荷兰大选投票已不足24个小时——反伊斯兰候选人海尔特?维尔德斯(Geert Wilders)引发的围绕伊斯兰在荷兰社会中角色的热烈辩论，让本次大选变得格外有看头。维尔德斯的自由党(PVV)目前在民调中排名第二。

01-06

CCTV reported Friday morning that teams would still try to lift the vessel.

01-05

至少希拉里今年赢得了点什么。我相信她会非常兴奋。

12-30

D'Aloisio himself strives to maintain a bubble of normalcy. He dates the same girl he did before the whirlwind hit. And though he's stopped attending school-he's too busy to sit in class while overseeing Summly's development-he still gets his work from his teachers and meets with them regularly. He cherishes the fact that his circle of friends knows little of his life as a budding industrialist. When I met him, he was about to head to Greece for a weeklong vacation with a pack of high school pals.

12-28

Online marketplace Amazon.com Inc made its debut in the 2015 Thomson Reuters Top 100 global innovators list, leaving International Business Machines Corp, the world's largest technology services company, out of the list.

12-23

单词complex 联想记忆：

12-15

这位开国之父指出，选举人团既会防范外国势力想在我们议会中获得不当影响力之心，又会确保总统之位永远不会落到并非具备必要素质的杰出者那种人手里。

12-13

Current prosthetic hands do little beyond filling the arm-shaped space between your body and the air. Sure, they can grasp things all right, and they help in balance, but they lack one of the human hand's most important abilities—the sense of touch. People with prosthetics can't detect if they're in contact with an object without looking at it directly.

12-08

在周二发布的一份研究报告中，行业组织国际金融协会(Institute of International Finance)经济学家罗宾?克普克(Robin Koepke)表示，投资者、新兴市场政策制定者以及美联储自身都忽视了美国利率在引发新兴国家汇率、银行及债务危机方面的作用。

12-07

As a national exam with more than 1 million test takers every year, the National Postgraduates Entrance Examination is very important for students' academic life, and cheating incidents have been exposed from time to time.

12-07

After Zhou contaminated the water, one of Zhou's classmates surnamed Tang noticed that the water coming out of the dispenser was milky and had a pungent scent.

12-03

In the apparent belief that “lower for longer” now means “lower forever”, investors have been piling into EM assets in recent weeks.

12-03

据《21世纪经济报道》称，广东去年的GDP增速为7.5%。

12-02

['steibl]

12-01

Online peer-to-peer broker Ezubao previously cheated about 900,000 investors out of more than 50 billion RMB through a giant Ponzi scheme, the Xinhua News Agency reported in February.

12-01

营造80年代的感觉

11-25

The malaise was not confined to those picking individual stock winners. Through December 1, aggregate hedge fund returns trailed the market to the point of farce. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, hedge funds were up an average of 2% on the year, just barely offering the coupon rate of a risk-free 10-year Treasury note. Over 1,000 funds are on track to close down in 2014, the worst year for liquidations since 2009.

11-25

The candidate

11-23

Outbound investment for the period totalled $86.3bn, according to the Ministry of Commerce.

11-18

《老友记》大部分剧集拍摄之时，手机和Google都还未普及，剧中的服装和道具现在看来也有些过时，但是，剧中的主题却依旧深得现在年轻观众的心。

11-11

中国在朝鲜半岛问题上的立场是明确的、一贯的，坚持实现半岛无核化，坚持维护半岛的和平稳定，坚持通过对话协商解决问题。

11-11

Given a choice, Chinese university graduates prefer to find employment rather than start a company.

11-10

科学院说：“今年的诺奖关注的是经济学的一个中心问题：如何尽可能适当地匹配不同市场主体。”

11-05

In dollar terms, imports plunged 18.8 per cent last month to $114.19, from a 7.6 per cent drop in January and versus an expected drop of 3.6 per cent.

11-04

卢华东表示：“今年是西藏反贫困的重要时期，我们将根据不同情况和引起贫困的原因，继续制定政策和计划，并持续增加资金。”

11-04

英国和法国成为欧洲商学院教育的两大来源。在上榜商学院中，近一半要么来自英国（20所），要么来自法国（19所）。从排名、毕业生薪资（法国为5.5万美元，英国为4.9万美元）以及学生数量（法国为9000人，英国为1200人）看，法国在管理硕士课程方面强于英国。然而，从MBA商学院数量（英国上榜商学院为18所，法国为5所）和学生数量（英国为1900人，法国为1300人）来看，英国商学院MBA课程强于法国，尽管在毕业生薪资方面，英国MBA课程（11.5万美元）不敌法国（13.7万美元）。

11-03

“五位一体”总体布局：经济建设、政治建设、文化建设、社会建设、生态文明建设

11-03

考克斯说：“没人真正知道末日是什么样子的，上帝又会如何让末日降临。”

11-03

Bangkok is projected to host 21.47 million "international overnight visitors" this year, according to the 2016 report by financial services corporation MasterCard.

11-03

"Has anybody ever told you that you're a very pretty girl?" With these words to his co-star Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the 1963 movie Cleopatra, Richard Bu

11-03

The sales volume peaks at around 15 million per day, with nearly 700 tickets sold in every second.

10-23

对可穿戴技术有兴趣的不止是科技公司。梅赛德斯-奔驰（Mercedes-Benz）正在将移动体验移植到可穿戴设备上，而维珍航空（Virgin Atlantic）正在试验性地探索谷歌眼镜在顾客服务上的应用。

10-22

当前油价正在发生什么变化？在业内人士和严肃的投资者中间，对这个问题有两种不同的看法。2016年油价走势或许有助我们看清哪种观点是正确的。

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Unemployment was the most searched for financial item, followed by "Wall Street companies" and "recalls".

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