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Bland:毫无生趣的，枯燥无味的、无聊的、食物清淡的，味道温和的，和蔼的 n. blandnessThe soup is too bland for me .She ate bland food because of his stomach trouble.The oatmeal is so bland that it is tasteless.Serel has a bland personality than Bill.The blandness of television.China fast food is bland.Log :原木，日志Counter:柜台、v抵制、抵消、。的对立面、反驳驳斥，计算器，不用处方的。Her cosmetics counter.The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of blockade/NATOs traditional role as a counter to the military might of Warsaw pact.The finding ran counter to all expectation.Pentagon:五角大楼Rebalance:是。重新平衡。Sovereign：主权的，具有主权的，君主，独立国Respective：不同的zero-sum game：零和博弈alienate v.离间，转移，使疏远n.让渡（财产或权利）Once the regional tension escalates, Washingtons interference will be logical and feasible.一旦亚太区域紧张加剧，美国政府的干涉就是合理可行的、Eclipsing：使。黯然失色，阴影笼罩。The swimmer American Missy Franklin who won the 100m backstroke and formed part of the US womens 4x100m freestyle relay, touched home in 2:04.06, eclipsing the previous best set by Kirsty Coventry in Rome in 2009.evacuated,:疏散。撤离，抽空traumatic创伤的，治外伤的，n.外伤药（玛丽莲梦露sexual identity）、sexual intercourse 性交painful periods 痛经cramp痉挛，（复数）腹痛，绞痛schizophrenia: 精神分裂症twilight years: 晚年mental institution: 精神病院paranoid schizophrenia: 偏执型精神分裂症endometriosis: 子宫内膜异位症gynaecological: 妇科的pelvic: 骨盆的orgasm 高潮negative 负片，negative cutter负片剪辑a deep-rooted fear of对。有根深蒂固的恐惧calamity:不幸，灾难。灾祸，不幸的事，困难，困苦。The marriage proved to be a calamity.事实证明这桩婚姻是他一生最大的灾难。 The frost last week was a calamity to citrus industry上周的霜冻对柑橘种植业是一场灾难。The attack on pearl harbor was a crushing calamity .偷袭珍珠港Gothic:哥德式（建筑）Gothic buildings leafy avenues 林荫大道high-tech start-ups 高科技创业private equity 私募股权投资基金gobble:狼吞虎咽，很快用完，发出咯咯声。咯咯叫声.As he was still hungry, he up a second sandwich.(狼吞虎咽地吃)She gobbled up all the relevant information(如饥似渴地搜集)。The government seems to gobble up the taxpayers money.(大笔大笔地乱花)Spiffy:漂亮的 our college has built a spiffy new library ,an art center outlay：花费 开支 费用. Disburse :vt /vi 支出 付出 shell out：支付，花费 切除hes already shelled out too much 他已经付得太多了 he shelled out a lot to get that iphone4.I shelled out RMB62 for a ticket to Shenzhen.in terms of the cash outlay, ,the sum is peanuts 从花费来看，这笔钱只是区区小数。There is very little outlay on the new machinery.添置新机器的费用微乎其微。But there is no effect on the year-to year cash flows, because depreciation is not a cash outlay.但是这对年与年的现金流没有影响，因为这就不是一项现金支出。The outlay seems to bear no relation to object aimed at. 这费用似乎与预期目的完全不相符。Jack up 用千斤顶顶起，大幅度提高增加 不合理抬价 吧凌乱的东西料理好 放弃all I had to do was jack the car up and out on the spare.我要做的就是用千斤顶将车托起来画上备胎 dont worry ,he will jack the whole thing up for us 别担心他会替我们把一切料理好的he has no intention to jack up the plan.(give up)the cost of tuition next year is about to jack up because of the inflation.Frenzy:狂乱，狂暴，极度的激动，狂怒（n）vt 使发狂 使狂乱 使狂怒“get out !”she ordered in a frenzy(狂怒地命令道。)The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy.这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂。In a frenzy of hate she killed his enemy(在一阵痛恨之下)Your eccentricity and conceit touch verge of frenzy(你这种反常和自负的行径已接近疯狂了)In its second minute the hate rose to a frenzy(到了第二分钟，仇恨变成了疯狂)Stoke：煽动，鼓动 饱餐一顿 拔旺火，给添柴火the demands are helping to stoke fear of civil war.The little girl was asked to stoke the stove with sticks of maple(给炉子添枫树枝)=stoke upThe heavy military expenditure no doubt could stoke the embers of crisis.Philanthropy:博爱，慈善活动 慈善事业A retired banker well known for his philanthropy.以乐善好施著称的退休银行家。The Red Cross apeals to philanthropy红十字诉诸人类的善心Any scheme of management which has philanthropy as one of its elements ought to fail.People have long believed that “whatever the cost, a college education is a necessary ticket to future prosperity.”Cremate:火葬Narrative：叙述的，叙事体的善于叙述的，记叙文 故事 叙述手法A fast-moving narrativeNeys simple narrative styleNeither author was very strong on narrativeMitigate v.减轻 缓和Are there any mitigating circumstances in this case?本案中是否有任何情况可以减轻被告的罪行？ A sentencing judge is required to consider any mitigating circumstances before imposing the death penalty.在处死刑之前，要求量刑法官必须考虑是否有减轻罪行之情节。, Analysts expect that this mitigating motive might help her avoid an immediate death penalty.分认为这一减刑动机可能有助于她避免立即处死Smear：vt 涂抹 污蔑 诋毁 彻底击败 n 污迹 污点 诽谤The newspapers ran a smear campaign against him.He has been spreading false story in an attempt to smear us.My sister smeared herself with suntan oil and slept by the swimming pool.Faint :模糊的，微弱的，软弱的 无勇气的，将昏倒似的 vi. 头晕 混混过去渐渐不明 消失n昏厥 昏倒He could see the faint lines in her face.She felt faintly ridiculous.He became aware the soft, faint sounds of water drippingPolitburo:政治局Violation：违反（行为事例） 冒犯 强奸 亵渎They went to prison because they violated the lawTo deprive the boy of his education is a violation of state lawA government which is a known violator of human rights.Pervert :滥用 腐蚀 败坏 使堕落He perverted her mind He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice 他被控谋划妨碍司法公正Open-and-shut case 一目了然的，既简单的，明白的It s an open and shut case ,the hospital is at faultVerdict 陪审团的裁决 经过试验检验而发表的决定，意见Snuff out :杀 消灭 扼杀 消灭 死掉Rethinking the welfare stateAsias next revolutionCountries across the continent are building welfare stateswith a chance to learn from the Wests mistakesSep 8th 2012 | from the print editionASIAS economies have long wowed the world with their dynamism. Thanks to years of spectacular growth, more people have been pulled from abject poverty in modern Asia than at any other time in history. But as they become more affluent, the regions citizens want more from their governments. Across the continent pressure is growing for public pensions, national health insurance, unemployment benefits and other hallmarks of social protection. As a result, the worlds most vibrant economies are shifting gear, away from simply building wealth towards building a welfare state.The speed and scale of this shift are mind-boggling (seearticle). Last October Indonesias government promised to provide all its citizens with health insurance by 2014. It is building the biggest “single-payer” national health schemewhere one government outfit collects the contributions and foots the billsin the world. In just two years China has extended pension coverage to an additional 240m rural folk, far more than the total number of people covered by Social Security, Americas public-pension system. A few years ago about 80% of people in rural China had no health insurance. Now virtually everyone does. In India some 40m households benefit from a government scheme to provide up to 100 days work a year at the minimum wage, and the state has extended health insurance to some 110m poor people, more than double the number of uninsured in America.In this section Asias next revolution Goodbye Doha, hello Bali Picking on foreign students Tick tock Tripped upReprintsRelated topics Indonesia United States Indian politics Chinese politics Asia-Pacific politicsIf you take Germanys introduction of pensions in the 1880s as the beginning and Britains launch of its National Health Service in 1948 as the apogee, the creation of Europes welfare states took more than half a century. Some Asian countries will build theirs in a decade. If they get things wrong, especially through unaffordable promises, they could wreck the worlds most dynamic economies. But if they create affordable safety nets, they will not just improve life for their own citizens but also become role models themselves. At a time when governments in the rich world are failing to redesign states to cope with ageing populations and gaping budget deficits, this could be another area where Asia leapfrogs the West.Beyond Bismarck and BeveridgeHistory offers many lessons for the Asians on what to avoid. Europes welfare states began as basic safety nets. But over time they turned into cushions. That was partly because, after wars and the Depression, European societies made redistribution their priority, but also because the recipients of welfare spending became powerful interest groups. The eventual result, all too often, was economic sclerosis with an ever-bigger state. America has kept its safety net less generous, but has made mistakes in creating its entitlements systemincluding making unaffordable pension and health-care promises, and tying peoples health insurance to their employment.The record in other parts of the emerging world, especially Latin America, is even worse. Governments have tended to collect insufficient tax revenue to cover their spending promises. Social protection often aggravated inequalities, because pensions and health care flowed to affluent urban workers but not the really poor. Brazil famously has a first-world rate of government spending but third-world public services.Asias governments are acutely conscious of all this. They have little desire to replace traditions of hard work and thrift with a flabby welfare dependency. The regions giants can seek inspiration not from Greece but from tiny Singapore, where government spending is only a fifth of GDP but schools and hospitals are among the best in the world. So far, the safety nets in big Asian countries have generally been minimalist: basic health insurance and pensions which replace a small fraction of workers former income. Even now, the regions social spending relative to the size of its economies is only about 30% of the rich-country average and lower than any part of the emerging world except sub-Saharan Africa.That leaves a fair amount of room for expansion. But Asia also faces a number of peculiarly tricky problems. One is demography. Although a few countries, notably India, are relatively youthful, the region includes some of the worlds most rapidly ageing populations. Today China has five workers for every old person. By 2035 the ratio will have fallen to two. In America, by contrast, the baby-boom generation meant that the Social Security system had five contributors per beneficiary in 1960, a quarter of a century after its introduction. It still has three workers for every retired person.Another problem is size, which makes welfare especially hard. The three giantsChina, India and Indonesiaare vast places with huge regional income disparities within their borders. Building a welfare state in any one of them is a bit like creating a single welfare state across the European Union. Lastly, many Asian workers (in India it is about 90%) are in the “informal” economy, making it harder to verify their incomes or reach them with transfers.Cuddly tigers, not flabby catsHow should these challenges be overcome? There is no single solution that applies from India to South Korea. Different countries will, and should, experiment with different welfare models. But there are three broad principles that all Asian governments could usefully keep in mind.The first is to pay even more attention to the affordability over time of any promises. The size of most Asian pensions may be modest, but people collect them at an early age. In China, for example, women retire at 55; in Thailand many employees are obliged to stop work at 60 and can withdraw their pension funds at 55. That is patently unsustainable. Across Asia, retirement ages need to rise, and should be indexed to life expectancy.Second, Asian governments need to target their social spending more carefully. Crudely put, social provision should be about protecting the poor more than subsidising the rich. In fast-ageing societies, especially, handouts to the old must not squeeze out investment in the young. Too many Asian governments still waste oodles of public money on regressive universal subsidies. Indonesia, for instance, last year spent nine times as much on fuel subsidies as it did on health care, and the lions share of those subsidies flows to the countrys most affluent. As they promis