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作者: 李豪 时间: 2005-7-12 19:28 标题: How to increase your word power in a short time

How to increase your word power in a short time

Qianjin (上海前进进修学院)will hold its summer GRE preparation course starting July 18, 2005. (前进2005年GRE暑期班于7月18日开课)

In order to better help the student crack the GRE, the GRE teacher from Qianjin e-mails hundreds of New York Daily News with annotations to his students. So, taking a GRE prerparation course can not only help one to crack the GRE, but also get one better prepared for any other kind of English exam, as, the New TOEFL, SAT, and Advanced English Interpretation Test.

New York Daily News
Tom's com-on for a wife 广告加网站　寻觅意中妻

[Tom com.是单身汉Tom Barrella为找老婆而设立的网站。Tom's com-on的com-on使人联想到come-on(引诱；诱饵)。New York Daily News有许多此类颇具匠心的标题]

By BRIAN HARMON
DAILY NEWS LONG ISLAND BUREAU CHIEF
Friday, July 1st, 2005

He cooks, cleans and irons. He owns a house on the bay and, for Pete's sake (天哪；这里表示惊奇), he shops at J. Crew and the Gap (the Gap系美国著名的零售商店).

How on Earth (究竟，到底；用以加强语气) is this 41-year-old teacher still single?

Tom Barrella has asked himself the same question for years. Now, bored with the dating scene, the salt-and-pepper-haired (有黑白相间头发的) bachelor is renting a billboard at the exit (出口) of the Midtown Tunnel (隧道)in hopes of landing (获得) a bride.

"This is the last piece of the puzzle - and the most important," said Barrella, whose billboard will face eastbound (向东行驶的) drivers exiting the tunnel in Hunters Point. "I want the fulfillment of having the right woman in my life."

The high school business teacher is shelling out (支付) $20,000 a month for the billboard, which carries his silhouette (剪影) and a simple message: "see-tom.com."

Barrella also is shelling out big bucks (钱) on a public relations firm, all in the hopes of finding "a soul mate.(知音)" The former computer businessman promised this is no publicity (宣传) stunt (噱头) for some Internet-based business.

"I am looking for a woman who's adventurous, energetic, gracious, accomplished (有才艺的), feminine and inquisitive (好奇的)," the hazel-eyed (淡褐色眼睛的) Barrella said without taking a breath. "I know I may not get them all, but I am looking for something special, really, because I feel I have something special to offer."

[gracious adj. pleasantly kind; wishing well to others; courteous 和蔼的；善良的；有礼的]

Barrella also wants kids - two or three - so that means, he said, a woman who is preferably about 30 years old.

On his Web site, which is due to be up and running today, Barrella will post pictures and stories about himself. He will have testimonials (证明书；推荐书) from friends and family and quiz (=test informally by questions) his prospective brides (未来的新娘) on the meaning of love.
There is a link where a female visitor can ask him out on a date, and there's another link where the woman can ask him questions.

"What I'm trying to do with my site is to give you a feel for my personality and to tell you a lot about me," he said. Barrella said he is a "very genuine person" and is "very creative." His hobbies include boating and photography.

He is a former independent record producer, and the Long Island native spent 10 years in Atlanta running a computer business. For three years, Barrella has taught at a high school in Nassau. At home, he said, he cleans, irons and picks out his own clothes. He even sautés some mean shrimp (他甚至炒得一手好虾).

[mean adj. Slang. excellent; skilful <俚>　出色的；熟练的]

Barrella, who is off from teaching for the summer, said he's wondering less about what his students will think about his endeavor than how the school administration will react.

Long Island is still home to Barrella's parents, and a brother and sister. His family has reacted with "guarded hopefulness and weariness," Barrella said.

"This is a way for me to hopefully attract a woman who may find me interesting, and would have never known me if I didn't do something like this."

作者: 李豪 时间: 2005-8-1 00:59

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Qianjin (上海前进进修学院)will hold its autumn GRE preparation course starting September, 2005. (前进GRE2005年秋季班于9月开课)

In order to better help the student crack the GRE, the GRE teacher from Qianjin e-mails hundreds of New York Daily News with annotations to his students. So, taking a GRE prerparation course can not only help one to crack the GRE, but also get one better prepared for any other kind of English exam, as, the New TOEFL, SAT, IELTS (雅思) and Advanced English Interpretation Test.

New York Daily News
In the mood for Zhang Ziyi 好想章子怡
By ELIZABETH WEITZMAN
Sunday, July 31st, 2005

Imagine a young, virtually unknown movie actress stealing a blockbuster out from under Denzel Washington and Catherine Zeta-Jones. And then, a few years later, she shines so brightly that her co-stars - let's say Nicole Kidman, Hilary Swank, Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt - are left in the shadows. And by the time she reaches her mid-20s, nearly every major director in the country has lined up to work with her.

[blockbuster n. anything very large, forceful or overwhelming; a great success, a smash hit 一鸣惊人的人或事；极大成功；极为成功的影片或戏剧]

Sound unlikely? Welcome to the extraordinary career of Zhang Ziyi. Of course, the 26-year-old actress hasn't taken on those Hollywood stars yet, but she has outshone China's and Hong Kong's equivalents.

A Beijing-born dancer and student discovered during an audition (试演)for a shampoo(洗发剂) commercial (广告), she started out in Zhang Yimou's lyrical drama "The Road Home" in 1999. But she made her first big impact the following year, in Ang Lee's period epic (史诗般的影片), "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.(《卧虎藏龙》)"

A Hong Kong action film with an arthouse sensibility, "Dragon" should have been the vehicle that enabled long-established Asian superstars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh to become fixtures on the American movie scene.

[fixture n. a familiar or invariably present element or feature in some particular setting; especially : a person long associated with a place or activity 固定成分，固定特色；(尤指)长期同某个地方(或某项活动)相联系的人]

Instead, all eyes were on Zhang, whose ethereal beauty (飘逸的美) and balletic grace (芭蕾舞般的优美) only enhanced the strength and ferocity of her martial-arts (武术) moves. And when "Dragon" became the biggest-selling foreign film of all time, few gave the credit to Chow or Yeoh.

[ethereal adj. light; heavenly; unusually unrefined 轻飘的；天上的，非人间的；飘渺的]

Since then, Zhang has made box-office smashes (取得极大的票房成功；非常卖座) like "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers" in China and "Rush Hour 2" in America. But her heart, she insists, remains in small films that tell intimate stories.

[smash n. Informal a resounding success <口> 巨大的成功]

Next Friday she stars in "2046," a smoky, nostalgia-tinged (带有怀旧色彩的) anti-romance directed by Wong Kar-wai. The cast (演员阵容) features some of the biggest names in East Asian cinema, including Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li and Faye Wong. But once again, it is Zhang's intricate performance that will electrify (使激动) audiences. It is, says Nick James, editor of the British film magazine "Sight and Sound," "the perfect evocation (唤起) of erotic mystery."

[erotic adj. of or rousing sexual desires or feelings; pertaining to passionate love 引起性欲的；色情的]

GIGGLES AND TEARS (欢笑与眼泪)
Zhang plays Bai Ling, a young woman who makes ends meet (使收支相抵) as best she can. For a single girl in 1960s Hong Kong, that means finding generous boyfriends. It is her great misfortune to fall for a womanizing (玩弄女性的) writer (Leung) who has been destroyed by love once (in Wong's 2000 "In the Mood for Love") and has no qualms (良心上的不安) passing his heartbreak on to someone else.

[fall for 1. to fall in love with; become infatuated with 爱上；迷恋　　2. to be deceived, duped, or entrapped by 受…的骗，上…的当，中…的圈套]

The actress (指Zhang) captures Bai Ling's vulnerable (易受伤害的) dignity and immense pain so precisely, it's difficult to reconcile the character (指Bai Ling ) with the Zhang who bounds (跳跃) into our interview wearing a denim miniskirt, tank top (紧身的短背心) and flip-flops (平底人字拖鞋), and who might pass for 18(被当作18岁；冒充18岁).

Zhang, who giggles a lot and exudes (渗出；散发；流露) much warmth, freely acknowledges the contrast between herself and "2046's" Bai Ling.

"For me, this role was most difficult," she says, speaking in halting English for part of the interview, and through a translator at other points. "I'm not like this woman. My friends are not like her. I have never experienced her kind of disappointment. The only way I could act this character is from using my imagination, what I think she's supposed to be like."

Grady Hendrix, a founder and programmer of the New York Asian Film Festival, observes that it is this deeply felt immediacy (直觉性) that allows Zhang to stand out, no matter how illustrious (notably or brilliantly outstanding 著名的；显赫的) her co-stars.

"She goes up against icons (偶像) and more than holds her own," he says. " '2046' is full of good actors, but she's so present, so much more magnetic (有吸引力的) than everyone else, that she comes across as the most alive human being in the movie."

Eventually, Zhang built such an intense bond with the role that, she says, "I could not separate the character from myself. In the last scene, I started crying and I couldn't stop. And I heard that they said 'Cut! Cut!' but I just lay against the wall crying. I couldn't get up. Her pain was my pain."

Ironically, it is the disconnect between her characters and her own life that usually drives her choices. "I always look for roles [lives] I wouldn't lead myself," she says. "I have a very simple life. I go to school, I come home, I make a film, I come home. These movies allow me to experience different kinds of living. Because in my own personal life there would not be the possibility to feel these kinds of experiences."

Zhang's life is not quite as low-key as she protests (声言) it is. She is a major celebrity in Asia, and a favorite of fashion photographers in the West. But though she has become, as Hendrix puts it, "a significant red-carpet presence (上宾待遇的人物)," she rejects the idea that she's drawn to the more glamorous aspects of her profession.

"It doesn't feel real," she says. "Each time, when I'm wearing the gown, the diamonds, it feels like a part of my work, not my life."

Her next film, "Memoirs of a Geisha," is being produced by Steven Spielberg. If that's a success, surely it would be hard for Zhang to resist the siren (诱人的) call of Hollywood?

She shakes her head, answering carefully. "I'm a very practical person," she says. "I never think about what could happen in the future, as long as I have one good script (脚本). I want every character I play to give me the opportunity to contemplate. I like drama, deep, hard - " she smacks (打) her open palm (掌) with her fist (拳) - "difficulty."

FEELING LONELY (深感寂寞)
She could be referring to challenges of both the physical and emotional kind. As Nick James says, pointing to Zhang's varied resume (简历，履历), she is "equally poised (镇静的) whether standing very still or flying across the room."

Zhang's deceptively restrained performance in "2046" offered her the chance to meditate (沉思，深思) on relationships. The night before our interview, she says, she was walking through the airport and realized that "our profession is very lonely. Because you can't have the common human life. You can't be with your love, your friends. I always go around this city for a few days, that city for a few hours. Sometimes, suddenly, I just feel that it's really sad. So I think right now I just [can't] have any life. Well, a young girl's life."

But is the tradeoff worth it?

"Yes!" she says. "The movies can give me a lot of things, a lot of happiness, a lot of confidence, a lot of - " she looks to her translator to make sure she's choosing the right word, and nods, "satisfaction."

Star File: Zhang Ziyi
· Born: Feb. 9, 1979, in Beijing.
· Parents: Zhang Yuan Xiao, economist; Li Zhou Sheng, schoolteacher.
· Siblings: An older brother, advertising agency owner.
· Relationships: Previously linked to Fok Kai San, the grandson of Hong Kong businessman Henry Fok, and also Zhang Yimou, her director on "The Road Home," "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers."
· Education: Attended dance school as a child and later the China Central Drama College in Beijing.
· Key films: "The Road Home" (1999), "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000), "Rush Hour 2" (2001), "The Legend of Zu" (2001), "Musa" (2001), "Hero" (2002), "

urple Butterfly" (2003), "My Wife Is a Gangster 2" (2003), "House of Flying Daggers" (2004), "Jasmine Flower" (2004), "2046" (2004), "

rincess Raccoon" (2005), "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005).

作者: 李豪 时间: 2005-8-22 12:47

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Qianjin (上海前进进修学院)will hold its autumn GRE preparation course starting September, 2005. (前进GRE2005年秋季班于9月开课)

In order to better help the student crack the GRE, the GRE teacher from Qianjin e-mails hundreds of New York Daily News with annotations to his students. So, taking a GRE prerparation course can not only help one to crack the GRE, but also get one better prepared for any other kind of English exam, as, the New TOEFL, SAT, IELTS (雅思) and Advanced English Interpretation Test.

New York Daily News
Schooling for SATs 　　　　　　　　SAT培训
BY PHYLLIS FURMAN
DAILY NEWS BUSINESS WRITER
Thursday, August 18th, 2005

When Melody Bernstein, a travel agent from Howard Beach, Queens, was entering college more than two decades ago, she never even considered taking a course to prepare for the SAT.

But when it came time last year to get her son Justin ready for the big test, she and her husband, a New York City public school teacher, signed a check for $999 for a Kaplan Test Prep class. The payoff (结果；报偿): Her son scored 100 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test than what he got on the PSAT (=Preliminary SAT).

"Of course, it's a lot of money," Bernstein said. "You rob Peter to pay Paul. It's something you have to do."
[rob Peter to pay Paul to change one duty or need for another; take from one person or thing to pay another 　　挖肉补疮；借东还西；文中的意思是：花钱接受培训换取较高分数]

As parents of teens get ready to send their kids back to school this fall they are facing yet another big expense - preparing them for the SAT.

Sitting down with a book and memorizing word lists just won't cut it (管用；凑效) anymore. The advent (=arrival) of the recently launched new SAT, which added a writing section to the already tough (=difficult) exam, has upped the SAT stakes (SAT战) to new nail-biting (充满悬念的；令人神经紧张的) levels.

[cut n. Slang to be able to manage; handle successfully　有能力对付；成功地处理
Stakes is used to refer to something that you are considering in terms of a race or a competition which it is possible to win or lose. 争夺赛]

Adding to the tension is the intensifying competition to get into any college, let alone (更别提) a top-rated school. In the last decade, the number of students who have taken the SAT has surged (激增) by 40%, according to the College Board, which administers the test.

During that period, the average math score rose 14 points to 518, while the average verbal score gained nine points to 508.

While some schools do not require the test, others use it to account for (占) as much as 40% of a student's profile (简介), experts say.

"The SAT is a big part of your future," said Justin Bernstein, who is 17 and a senior at the Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Brooklyn. "During the school year, I was crazed like a maniac (像疯子一般；这里指“紧张得要命”)," he said.

Sure enough, a host of people are rushing to capitalize on (利用) the SAT jitters (为考SAT而紧张不安的心理), including private instructors who help kids crack (破译) the code. And the amounts parents are willing to pay is soaring (飚升) to unforeseen levels.

One Manhattan-based tutoring company called Advantage Testing, which caters to (迎合) the very high end of the market, charges a jaw-dropping $600 or more for a two-hour session. The company offers scholarships to some students.

But there are plenty of affordable (付得起的) options (选择), too. Larger companies like Kaplan and Princeton Review have vastly expanded their services to offer lower-cost learning programs like online classes and even mobile software programs that prod (刺激；激励) kids with questions through their cell phones.

"The good news is, as opposed to 10 years ago, when there were not as many affordable options for students and families, now there are a range of services," said Andy Lutz, vice president in charge of research and development for Princeton Review.
One of the most promising new developments in SAT prep is an increasing number of partnerships between high schools and prep services that offer courses at little to no cost to students.

Princeton Review, for example, runs programs in more than 20 city schools. Bread and Roses High School in Harlem offers students a 10-week free course taught by Columbia University students.

"A number of schools are finding creative ways of providing SAT prep at no cost," said Michele Cahill, senior counselor for education policy at the city Department of Education.

Experts suggest parents get involved early on in the process. "Eighth or ninth grade is not too early," to start thinking about the SAT, said private college counselor Frank Leana, who guides families through the college application process.

Leana recommends using flash cards to build a child's vocabulary. "Turn it into a family exercise," he said.

He recommends Princeton Review's "Word Smart" series and suggests the whole family participate.

Formal SAT preparation should begin by 11th grade, but probably not too much before that.

"There is a saturation point (饱和点，极限), Leana said. "Kids can get burned out (累垮)."

Get a leg up 寻得帮助
[a leg up Slang 1. the act or an instance of assisting; a boost. 帮助；鼓励
2. a position of advantage; an edge　　优势]

Getting your child ready to face those math problems and write that essay will cost you money, but there are a wide range of services at various price points to choose from.

· Private tutoring: Expect to pay between $100 to $300 an hour for the luxury of one-on-one private classes taught in your home. Both Kaplan and Princeton, as well as private tutoring companies like Advantage, offer this service.
The average number of hours for a Princeton tutor is 25. That means you could be paying $5,000 - before even writing a tuition check.

· Classroom: Kaplan's standard course for the new SAT starts at $899 for 36 hours of class time and course materials.

· Online courses: For those who prefer the flexibility and convenience of online delivery, both Kaplan and Princeton offer an SAT online course for $399.

· Mobile phone software: You've heard of downloading sports scores and songs on your cell phone, how about some SAT practice tests? Kaplan Mobile SAT 2005 costs $19.99. Princeton charges $2.99 a month.

· Books: For those who are highly self-motivated, books can still be an option. Check out Princeton Review's "Cracking the New SAT," available on Amazon.com for $13.57.

作者: 李豪 时间: 2005-10-11 14:57

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Qianjin (上海前进进修学院)offers a NEW SAT preparation course in early Novenmber, 2005. (前进于2005年11月初开设NEW SAT课程)

The GRE teacher from Qianjin,who has been conducting the GRE prep course for about 20 years, is to give lectures on the NEW SAT. All the difficult points of the NEW SAT are to be dealt with, with detailed written explanations provided to the students. He'll also e-mail hundreds of New York Daily News with annotations to his students to increase their word power and improve their writing ability.

New York Daily News
Wedding punches KO (=knock out) bliss (extreme happiness)
婚礼大打出手　幸福彻底毁灭
BY TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, September 15th, 2005

The bride wore white, and the groom wore handcuffs (新郎带着手铐).

Eleven members of a Westchester wedding party, including the groom, wound up in jail (结果锒铛入狱) after brawling (争吵，打架) with another bridal party and cops at a hotel bar, police said yesterday.

Instead of spending the night in wedded bliss with bride Erica Cancel, Joseph Fortunato Jr., 29, cooled his heels in a White Plains lockup (临时拘留所) with his dad, brother, new father-in-law and other guests.

[cool one’s heels wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilely; be kept waiting 空等；坐冷板凳]

"It was pure bedlam," White Plains police spokesman Martin Gleeson said of the Saturday morning melee.

[bedlam n. a place or situation of noisy uproar and confusion. 混乱喧闹的场所(或场面)

melee n. a general, confused hand-to-hand fight 混战；大打出手]

The trouble started when Fortunato's wedding party arrived at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in White Plains, where a group from another wedding was relaxing in the bar. Apparently, a member of the wedding party in the lounge (休息厅) mistook Fortunato's best man, his brother Alfonse, for their missing photographer and confronted him. Alfonse, 26, of Katonah, took umbrage and "clocked" his antagonist (给了对手一下子)- sparking a free-for-all (激起了一场混战), police said.

[best man the bridegroom's chief attendant at a wedding (婚礼上的)男傧相

umbrage n. resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult 怨恨；愤怒；生气]

"Everybody's fighting everybody," Gleeson said. "And both brides are kind of walking around helpless like, 'This is my wedding? I can't believe this is happening!'"

At least 10 police officers responded, and when they arrested the groom, other members of the Fortunato group went ballistic and started fighting the cops. Eleven suspects - all from the Fortunato wedding - were charged with first-degree riot, a felony (重罪)that carries up to four years in prison, resisting arrest (拒捕) and disorderly conduct.

[go ballistic Slang to become very angry or irrational. <俚> 发怒；失去理智]

Sebastian Russo, 28, of Staten Island, also was charged with criminal mischief for kicking the glass out of a hotel door as he was escorted to a squad car(警车), cops said. The combatants were released on bail (保释金) the next day.

Police said the hotel sustained about $2,000 worth of damage, but no one was seriously hurt. "We believe the event may have been alcohol-driven," Gleeson said.

作者: 李豪 时间: 2005-10-21 16:33

Studying Example Sentences Is an Efficient Way of Building Your Vocabulary

Example sentences or phrases inform the reader about the meaning of the word, how the word behaves grammatically in a sentence, and the attitudes that speakers have toward the word.
They are most useful in showing which kinds of words regularly combine with the word being defined. And besides, new and interesting example sentences (with Chinese annotations) can help the reader learn more new words and expressions than he can ever hope to learn by merely reading vocabulary books without example sentences. Now let’s look at a few example sentences from the dictionary《中高级英语考试词汇捷径》(上海远东出版社) 　上海外文书店、上海书城；上海前进进修学院
书店有售。

1. venturesome adj. daring; bold 好冒险的；大胆的 Kate, with her bungee jumping, free-falling, and rock climbing, had always been the most venturesome of the four. 凯特爱好蹦极跳，降落伞张开前的自由下落和攀岩运动，是这4个人中最爱冒险的。
(bungee jumping…) [translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition.]

2. assert v. to state strongly or positively; insist on or demand recognition of (rights, claims, etc.) 断言；坚称；坚持；维护 When Jill asserted that nobody else in the junior class had such an early curfew, her parents asserted themselves, telling her that if she didn’t get home by nine o’clock she would be grounded for the week. 当吉尔断言3年级班级中没有任何其他人这么早就得留在屋里，她的父母坚持自己的意见，告诉她如果9点之前她还不到家，这星期她就甭想再出门。 (grounded: confined at home as punishment——21ST CENTURY DICTIONARY OF SLANG) assertion n.
(curfew, grounded) [translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition.]

3. inscrutable adj. impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious 难以探测的；不易理解的；神秘的 Experienced poker players try to keep their expressions inscrutable, hiding their reactions to the cards behind a so-called poker face. 有经验的扑克牌玩家总是试图保持神秘莫测的表情，把他们对牌局的反应隐藏在所谓的扑克脸(毫无表情的脸)之后。
(poker face) [translated from BARRON’S GRE14 edition.]

4. tractable adj. docile; easily managed 驯服的；听从的 Although Susan seemed a tractable young woman, she had a stubborn streak of independence that occasionally led her to defy the powers-that-be when she felt they were in the wrong. 虽然苏姗看起来是个听话的年轻女人，但她生性有几分坚持己见的固执，因此当她认为当权者错了时，偶尔会公然违抗他们。 tractability n.
(powers-that-be) [translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition.]

5. transitory adj .impermanent; fleeting 非永久的；昙花一现的；倏忽的 Fame is transitory; today’s rising star is all too soon tomorrow’s washed-up has-been. 声誉如过眼烟云；今天的当红明星瞬间成了明日黄花。 transitoriness n.
(washed-up, has- been) [translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition.]

6. beseech v. to beg; plead with 乞求；恳求 The workaholic executive’s wife beseeched him to spend more time with their son. 那个经理醉心于工作，其妻恳求他多化些时间与他们的儿子在一起。
(workaholic) [translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition.]

7. impudence n. impertinence; insolence 无礼；厚颜无耻 Kissed on the cheek by a perfect stranger, Lady Catherine exclaimed, “Of all the nerve! Young man, I should have you horse-whipped for your impudence. 凯瑟琳女士的脸蛋被一完全陌生的人亲了一下，不禁惊叫，“厚颜之极！年轻人，因你的无礼我该叫你挨马鞭打。”
(Of all the nerve! Horse-whipped) [translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]

8. propitious adj. favorable; fortunate; advantageous 顺利的；吉利的；有利的 Chloe consulted her horoscope to see whether Tuesday would be a propitious day to dump her boyfriend. 克洛伊查阅了星象，看看星期二是否是抛弃男朋友的吉利日子。
(horoscope, dump) [translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]

9. auspicious adj. favoring success 吉利的 With favorable weather conditions, it was an auspicious moment to set sail. Thomas, however, had doubts about sailing: a paranoid, he became suspicious whenever conditions seemed auspicious. 那时天气情况有利，是升帆起航的大好时机。然而汤姆却对起航有疑虑：他患有多疑症，每当情况看似吉利的时候，他就反而疑心重重。
(paranoid, suspicious) [translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]

10. loquacious adj. apt to talk too much; talkative 过于健谈的；多话的 Though our daughter barely says a word to us these days, put a phone in her hand and see how loquacious she can be: our phone bills are out of sight! 近来女儿难得同我们说一句话，但如果让她拿起电话，你瞧她是多么健谈：我们的电话费高得离了谱！
(out of sight) [translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]

作者: 李豪 时间: 2005-10-22 23:13

Studying Example Sentences Is an Efficient Way of Building Your Vocabulary (2)
　　
　　上海前进进修学院2005年10底开设New SAT，面向国内外招生。学院有住宿。
　
以下例句摘自《中高级英语考试词汇捷径》(上海远东出版社) (上海外文书店、上海书城；上海前进进修学院书店有售)

　
　　1. misogamy n. hatred of marriage 厌婚症 He remained a bachelor not because of misogamy but because of ill fate: his fiancée died before the wedding. 他打光棍不是因为讨厌结婚而是因为命运不好：他的未婚妻在婚礼之前死了。
　　misogamist n. 厌婚者　　[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　
　　2. felicity n. happiness; appropriateness (of a remark, choice, etc.) 幸福；(措词等)恰当 She wrote a note to the newlyweds wishing them great felicity in their wedded life. 她写信给那对新婚夫妇，祝愿他们婚姻生活幸福快乐。
　　[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　
　　3. amorous adj. moved by sexual love; loving 多情的，好色的；表示爱情的；含情的 “Love them and leave them” was the motto of the amorous Don Juan. “爱她们随后抛弃她们”是风流浪荡子唐璜的座右铭。[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　
　　4. paramour n. illicit lover or mistress 情夫；情妇；姘夫；姘妇 She sought a divorce on the grounds that her husband had a paramour in another town. 她要求离婚，理由是丈夫在另一个城里有姘妇。[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　
　　5. philander v. to make love lightly; flirt 玩弄(女性)；调情 Do not philander with my affections because love is too serious. 不要玩弄我的感情，因为爱是绝对不能视同儿戏的。[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　
　　6. philanderer n. faithless lover; flirt 对爱情不忠的人；爱调情的人 Swearing he had never so much as looked at another woman, Jack assured Jill he was no philanderer. 杰克发誓说别的女人他连看也从不曾看一眼，叫吉尔放心他绝非拈花惹草之徒。 [translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　
　　7. duplicity n. double-dealing; hypocrisy 口是心非，两面派；伪善 When Tanya learned that Mark had been two-timing her, she was furious at his duplicity. 当坦尼娅得知马克与第三者暗中亲热对她不忠时，她对他搞两面派怒不可遏。[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　
　　8. cohabit v. to live together (男女)同居；姘居 Many unwed couples who cohabit peacefully for years wind up fighting night and day once they marry. 许多未婚男女同居多年相安无事，一旦结了婚，结果是日吵夜吵，吵个没完。[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　
　　9. dissemble v. to disguise; pretend 掩饰；假装 Even though John tried to dissemble his motive for taking modern dance, we all knew he was there not to dance but to meet girls. 尽管约翰试图掩饰跳现代舞的动机，但我们都知道，他去那里不是去跳舞而是去与女孩子会面。 dissemblance n.
　　[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　10. penchant n. strong inclination; liking 强烈的倾向；爱好 Dave has a penchant for taking risks: one semester he went steady with three girls, two of whom were stars on the school karate team. 戴夫喜欢冒险：一个学期他同3个女孩恋爱，其中2个是学校空手道队的名将。[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　
　　11. assuage v. to ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger) 缓和，减轻(痛苦)；充(饥)；平息(愤怒) Jilted by Jane, Dick tried to assuage his heartache by indulging in ice cream. One gallon later, he had assuaged his appetite but not his grief. 迪克被简抛弃后，试图以大吃冰淇淋来抚慰心痛。吃了一加仑后，他满足了胃口但并没有缓和悲伤的情绪。assuagement n.
　　[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　12. indifferent adj. unmoved or unconcerned by; mediocre 冷淡的；不感兴趣的；平庸的 Because Ann felt no desire to marry, she was indifferent to Carl’s constant proposals. Not only was she indifferent to him personally, but she felt that, given his general inanity, he would make an indifferent husband. 因为安不想结婚，所以她对卡尔一个劲儿的求婚不感兴趣。她不仅对他这个人冷淡，而且以为，他那副木讷的模样，将来准是个平庸的丈夫。[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　
　　13. chisel v. to swindle or cheat; cut with a chisel 欺骗；诈骗；凿，雕，刻 The crook chiseled me out of a hundred dollars when he sold me that “marble” statue he’d chiseled out of some cheap hunk of rock. 骗子把他用劣质石块凿成的那尊“大理石”塑像卖给我，骗取了我100美元。[translated from BARRON’S GRE 14th edition]
　　
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2005-11-1 14:18

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　　Qianjin (上海前进进修学院)offers a New SAT preparation course in early November, 2005. (前进于2005年11月初开设New SAT课程) (前进GRE寒假班开始招生,名额有限)
　　　　
　　　　The GRE teacher from Qianjin, who has been conducting the GRE prep course for about 20 years, is to give lectures on the New SAT. All the difficult points of the New SAT are to be dealt with, with detailed written explanations provided to the students. He'll also e-mail hundreds of New York Daily News with annotations to his students to increase their word power and improve their writing ability.
　　
　　
　　
　　New York Daily News
　　Sky-high winter heating costs loom 冬季供暖费用　天价迫在眉睫
　　[loom v. 隐约地出现；阴森地逼近]
　　BY JONATHAN SARUK
　　DAILY NEWS WRITER
　　Monday, October 31st, 2005
　　
　　Homeowners are starting to sweat (fret or worry 烦恼；担心) over home heating bills (账单) after already enduring months of high gasoline prices.
　　
　　"It's hanging over my head every month," said Queens resident Pearl Salerno, who recently paid about $430 to have her East Elmhurst home's oil tank filled with 158 gallons.
　　
　　She is braced for (准备面对) prices as much as a third higher than a year ago, when it took her until July to pay off her bill.
　　
　　"Instead of putting in 175 or 180 [gallons], I am just going to tell him to maybe put in 100 because I know I can't afford it," said Salerno.
　　
　　Experts attribute high heating oil costs to strong demand worldwide, especially with fast-growing India and China, and disrupted distribution from this year's record-setting hurricane (飓风)season.
　　
　　[attribute … to… 把…归因于…。注意：disrupted (中断的)distribution与strong demand平行]
　　
　　With prices for natural gas also rising, New Yorkers are expected to pay $1.2 billion more for their heat than last winter, Sen. Chuck Schumer said at a news conference in East Elmhurst yesterday. That's an average of $466 more per household, according to survey by Schumer's office.
　　
　　"You've got to be reasonable when it comes to warmth," said Fran McDonald, also of East Elmhurst. "The price of oil, from the hole in the ground to the spigot has gone crazy." (意思是：从地下开采出来的原油一直到放在油箱里可供取暖的油的价格全都涨疯了)
　　
　　To help quell (压制) high prices, Schumer is calling on the Bush administration to tap into a 2 million-barrel federal heating oil reserve. The heating oil, held in four locations in New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island, fulfills Northeast demand for 10 days, roughly the same time it takes to bring more oil up from the gulf.
　　
　　"Working-class people are going to have to choose between putting on that extra sweater (“穿上多加的羊毛衫”，这里意思是“多付额外的取暖费”)　or saving some money for the kids' college tuition (学费)," said Schumer. "This is not what people should have to do."
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2005-11-4 18:53

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　　　　Qianjin (上海前进进修学院)offers a New SAT preparation course in early November, 2005. (前进于2005年11月初开设New SAT课程) (前进GRE寒假班开始招生,名额有限)
　　　　　　
　　　　　　The GRE teacher from Qianjin, who has been conducting the GRE prep course for about 20 years, is to give lectures on the New SAT. All the difficult points of the New SAT are to be dealt with, with detailed written explanations provided to the students. He'll also e-mail hundreds of New York Daily News with annotations to his students to increase their word power and improve their writing ability.
　　
　　
　　
　　New York Daily News
　　Grave advice for killer beau
　　[beau n. a boyfriend]
　　By BARBARA ROSS
　　DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
　　Friday, November 4th, 2005
　　
　　A slain (被杀害的)topless dancer spoke to her killer from the grave (坟墓) yesterday, when a letter she'd written to her boyfriend was read aloud in Manhattan Supreme Court before he was sentenced to 20-years-to-life in prison.
　　
　　[topless adj. wearing no clothing on the upper body]
　　
　　"Remember in life to think things through and try to see the consequences (后果) before you take any action," Sheila Cordell's letter to Edgar Ortega read.
　　
　　Ortega, 33, pushed Cordell, 32, through a window to her death in the courtyard below her Gramercy Park apartment two years ago.
　　
　　Ortega, who maintains (坚称) Cordell's May 26, 2003, death was an accident, also heard from Cordell's survivors.
　　
　　"Your selfish and vicious actions destroyed our lives," the victim's sister, Lisa Cordell, tearfully told Ortega in a shaky whisper.
　　
　　"My family wishes you no harm," Cordell told a sorrowful Ortega as the dead woman's mother and another sister listened. "We hope you will live a long life - in prison - with your thoughts."
　　
　　Then she read her sister's handwritten note to Ortega, penned about a month before the murder:
　　
　　[penned about a month before the murder修饰her sister's handwritten note to Ortega]
　　
　　"You are a special person. You mean a lot to me.... Don't let bad people make you stoop to （堕落到）their level...Let karma take care of them."
　　
　　[karma n. (in the Buddhist and Hindu religions) the force produced by a person's actions in one of their lives which influences what happens to them in their future lives ]
　　
　　Prosecutors contended that Ortega was enraged (狂怒) because Cordell was preparing to move out of their E. 17th St., fourth-floor apartment. Trial testimony showed that the violent argument that ended in Cordell's death woke up neighbors and firefighters in a neighboring firehouse.
　　
　　Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro told Ortega that he "made a bad choice" by deciding to stay and fight with Cordell, rather than leave their apartment as he'd done when things got violent before.
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-1-14 17:06

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　　　　上海前进进修学院New SAT 实战培训班、GRE寒假班, GRE春季班(第82期GRE，含针对2006年Revised GRE General Test)开始招生,名额有限，额满即止。

执教教师提供大量生动活泼、措词地道的英语原版论说性文章给学员(例如下面的文章)，以使学员迅速扩大词汇量，掌握地道的表达法(词组、成语等等)和句型，快速提高阅读水平与写作水平。

New York Daily News
Bring back shame          重新唤起羞耻感

The Department of Education has started providing maternity leave (产假) for students who get pregnant (怀孕) in high school. The program is a response to a report by Controller William Thompson that showed the overwhelming majority of girls who drop out of school (辍学) do so because they get pregnant.

On the surface, the department's move (措施), which currently affects about 60 girls, would appear to promote education, give girls an opportunity to graduate from high school and put them in a better position to be able to take care of a child. But in reality, the program does more harm than good because it sends the wrong message to the rest of the student body. It shows that the system is willing to bend over backwards (do anything to help, try to please 尽力而为; 倾全力帮助, 极力讨好) for you when you're pregnant.
What happened to shame? There was a time when shame accompanied a teen pregnancy, when it wasn't okay to attend the prom (班级舞会) in a maternity dress (孕妇服) or proudly march down the aisle (座席间的纵直通道，走道) to get a diploma (文凭) weeks away from delivery (分娩).

There is no longer a stigma (token of disgrace; brand  耻辱；污名) attached to teen pregnancy, and while the system must do something to ensure these young .ladies get an education, night school and alternative schools are more viable (feasible 可行的) options (选择). There should be some consequence (后果) to having a baby out of wedlock (婚外).

The more we make provisions (措施) to help kids navigate (渡过) teen pregnancy, the more we make it [指teen pregnancy]acceptable.

In his State of the Union speech this week, President Bush addressed the issue of abstinence (禁欲). He already has put some $100 million of federal funds into abstinence education in schools and wants to boost (提高；增加) that budget even more. But this will be as ineffective as Nancy Reagan's ill-fated Just Say No drug campaign of the 1980s. It didn't work for drugs and it won't work for sex.

The government makes (成为) a lousy (poor; inferior 糟糕的；蹩脚的；劣等的) parent.

The message of abstinence and responsibility must start early at home. And it must start with bringing back a level of shame to the notion of having a child out of wedlock.
In the interest of being politically correct and not hurting feelings, we have eliminated words like "bastard" (child of unmarried parents 私生子) and "loose" (sexually immoral; dissolute 淫荡的；放荡的) from our vocabulary. I would rather hurt a feeling than encourage the cycle of bringing children into this world who don't have all of the tools to succeed - and one valuable tool is two committed (承担义务的) parents.

While there are some wonderful and successful single parents, they are the exception, not the rule. Just a tiny snapshot (a brief appraisal or profile 简评；概况) of what happens to the children of unwed mothers was seen this week when Mayor Bloomberg stopped in to tour some of the most dangerous schools in the system. He said he asked the principal of one school, "What percentage of the kids have two parents?" The answer: 15%.

It is no coincidence (巧合) that more than 70% of those in prison come from single-parent homes. And the overwhelming majority of children living below the poverty line? Single-parent homes.

Shame and stigma are two powerful weapons. Let's bring them back. The message - in schools and at home - should be very clear.

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-2-17 23:46

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　　　　上海前进进修学院New SAT 实战培训班、GRE春季班(第82期GRE，含针对2007年Revised GRE General Test)开始招生,名额有限，额满即止。

New York Daily News

Would you die to keep
your cell phone 为了保住你的手机，你会不要命吗?
By SONI SANGHA and JOSE MARTINEZ
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

It seems like a no-brainer: Your cell phone or your life.

[no-brainer n. simple task to complete, question to answer, or problem to solve轻而易举的事情；简单易答的问题]

But some New Yorkers' attachment to (依恋) their mobile phones is strong enough that the answer may not be so clear-cut (明确的).

When 26-year-old Martin Muchalski took two bullets (子弹) Sunday from a robber who demanded his cell phone on the Williamsburg Bridge, he became the latest New Yorker to put a pricey (价格高的，昂贵的) gab-gadget (小巧的手机) ahead of his own safety.

[gab-gadget是个新词，gab的意思是“闲聊，神侃”，gadget的意思是“小巧的机械；精巧的装置]

"It was very, very automatic (不经思索的)," he said yesterday. "You don't think too much when it happens."

Asked if he would give up the phone if he could do it over, he was noncommittal. "Nothing, basically, really bad happened," he said.

[noncommittal adj. neutral; unpledged; undecided 不表态的；不承担义务的；不确定的]

Muchalski's near-fatal encounter followed the February death of Lina Villegas, a Queens teen who jumped on to the subway tracks to retrieve (取回) a phone - only to be slammed (猛击) by an oncoming train.

"Some people feel naked without their phone," said Paul Vitale, an 11th-grader from Brooklyn, who carries an Ericsson camera phone. "I almost got suspended (勒令停学) in school because my teacher told me to give up the phone and I said no."

"You get tired of having to buy new ones," added Pablo Marquez, 20, of Far Rockaway, Queens. "They're like $300 (它们毕竟要化300美元呐)."

A New York University psychologist theorized that cell-phone owners can become so tied to their phones, and every bit of information stored inside, that they hold on to them too dearly.

"In general, cell phones represent a connection," said Robert Prince, of NYU's postdoctoral (博士后的) program in Psychotherapy (心理治疗) and Psychoanalysis (心理分析). "

eople get very emotionally attached to always being connected."

Still, plenty of New Yorkers said they would have no problem losing their phones to a thief or a train track.

"My cell phone is important to me, but not that important," said Samantha Fox, 31, of Brooklyn, who was buying a $399 Motorola camera phone at a T-Mobile store on Ninth Ave. "My life is not worth a cell phone (我的命不止值一部手机，即My life is worth more than a cell phone)."

"I would give it up in no time (马上)," agreed Chris Nisbett, 19, of Broad Channel, Queens.

Lost or stolen phones also are of little value if subscribers (用户) quickly disable their service, said a spokesman for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association.

"Anytime a consumer loses a phone or has it stolen, they should report it to the carrier immediately," spokesman Travis Larson said.

But it's a dilemma (窘境，困境) cell-phone users would rather avoid.
"A life is worth more than a cell phone, a bike, a jacket or whatever it is," said Sam Petilon, 56, who works at the T-Mobile store on Ninth Ave.

With Adam Lisberg

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-2-22 15:44

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　　　　上海前进进修学院New SAT 实战培训班[教材采用最新原版权威教材以及内部注释讲义]、GRE春季班(第82期GRE，含针对2007年Revised GRE General Test)[试题含盖1980至2003年全真题] 开始招生,名额有限。中高级口译同时招生。

New York Daily News
Bedbugs blitz city 臭虫“猛攻”纽约城
By AMY SACKS
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Sleep tight (睡个好觉), New York.

The city has been infested with (受……侵扰) bedbugs, and the bloodsucking (吸血的) night crawlers (爬行的昆虫) aren't discriminating (区分) between swank (上等的；奢华的) high-rises (高层建筑) and low-income tenements, the Daily News found.

[the bloodsucking night crawlers指bedbugs]

"It's the best-kept secret in New York," said Andy Linares, owner of Bug Off Pest Control Center in Washington Heights.

A decade ago, Linares would see one or two bedbug cases a week, and only in decrepit (worn out by age 破旧的；陈旧的) buildings.

Now he sees about 20 - and they're everywhere.

"I'm repulsed (反感), I'm horrified (震惊)and I'm disgusted (厌恶)," said a mother of three, who lives in an upscale (高档的) building in Jackson Heights, Queens, where the beasties (小动物；这里指bedbugs) have spread to 26 apartments.

[upscale adj. of, for, or catering to well-off consumers (为)富裕消费者的；迎合富裕消费者的]

Nationwide, there was a 19% increase in bedbug complaints (=complaints about bedbugs 有关臭虫侵扰的投诉) during an 18-month stretch from summer 2003 to winter 2004, according to a March survey by Pest Control Technology magazine.

While there is no official tally (记录) of bedbug complaints in New York City, pest control experts and scientists say the city is in the midst of a serious outbreak.

Tom Nimetz, who has run Better Pest Control Management in Brooklyn for 35 years, said he has been called to more than 500 bedbug jobs in the last two years, up from one or two cases in a year.

The small, flat, wingless pests are about the size of an apple seed and come out of hiding at night to seek out a warm body. They feed for five to 10 minutes, then crawl (爬) to a crevice (裂隙) for several days to digest (消化) the meal.

The only way to know about an infestation (这里指”臭虫的侵扰”) are the telltale red, itchy (发痒的) welts (条痕) on your skin in the morning.

[telltale adj. revealing something not meant to be known 泄露内情的；说明问题的]

Once a common problem, bedbugs almost disappeared after World War II, when heavy-duty pesticides (强力灭虫剂) such as DDT were put into wider use. But the insecticides are now being used less because they cause environmental damage (环境破坏).

Unlike other bugs, bedbugs are proliferating (激增；繁殖) in Europe and the Middle East and can easily hitch a ride here (“搭车”到此) in travelers' luggage and clothing, said Cornell University entomologist (昆虫学家) Jody Gagloff-Kauffman, who said complaints about the nasty biters are increasing in hotels and residential buildings.

The city Health Department has noticed the resurgence (重新兴起；这里指bedbugs又大量出现了) but isn't set up to combat the bugs - especially because they do not transmit disease and do not pose an imminent (迫在眉睫的) health hazard (对健康危害), said one department source.

"We're only starting to discuss what needs to be done. Who handles it? That's the question," the source said.

The response outraged (使愤慨) City Council Member William Perkins (D-Manhattan), who plans to hold a hearing (听证会) on the issue.

"If you're being bitten by bugs, that's a health issue," said Perkins.
Gagloff-Kauffman said heavy infestations of bedbugs have been shown to cause anemia (贫血症) in children and the elderly. And, like cockroaches (蟑螂), bedbugs may contribute to allergies (变态反应；过敏性).

Victims agree the nasty insects are more than just an itchy annoyance.
"Having open sores (痛处；溃疡) on your arms and legs is a health risk for someone with HIV," said Chloe, an HIV-positive transsexual who is one of many tenants who have been battling the landlord at their E. 28th St. building for a year to get the bedbug problem under control.

[HIV abbr. human immunodeficiency virus 人体免疫缺损病毒，艾滋病病毒]

transsexual n. 1. one who desires to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex 有易性转化欲者，易性癖者 2. one who has undergone a medical operation and taken hormones to achieve this purpose (经外科手术等)改变性别者]

Maura, a Columbia University law student who, like most people interviewed for this article, did not want her last name used, has fought the pests (害虫；这里指bedbugs) on and off (断断续续地) for two years.

She first got them from a blanket she borrowed from her roommate at their infested building on W. 139th St.

The nightmare continued after the budding attorney (初露头角的律师；指Maura ) moved into her university-owned apartment in Morningside Heights. She thought she had gotten rid of them but recently woke up to find bites on her arm.

"It kind of drives you crazy (把你逼疯) because you want to wake up in the middle of the night to try to catch them," Maura said.

[kind of to some extent; somewhat; rather 某种程度地；有点；相当]

"They sneak up on (偷偷地爬上来) while you're sleeping. They crawl under your sheets (被单). And then they're gone."

How not to get bitten

- Be wary of (谨防；提防) used furniture, especially mattresses (床垫) and mattresses from small companies that may be selling refurbished (翻新的) bedding. Check tufts (用线束钉牢的床垫钮扣), crevices and seams (裂缝) carefully for bugs.

- Anyone selling a used mattress is required to have a license from New York State and from the city's Department of Consumer Affairs.

- If you have bugs, thoroughly clean affected areas - particularly bedding, linens, curtains and rugs (地毯) - with hot water. For items that cannot be washed, vacuum and use a hair dryer on the highest temperature.

- Use a pesticide recommended for bedbug infestation. For suggestions, go to pmep.cce.cornell.edu

-Call a licensed exterminator if the problem persists. Shop around; prices should range from $250 to $475. Exterminator should not "bomb" the apartment but rather target affected areas.

[exterminator n. 1. a person whose work or business is exterminating rats, cockroaches, and other vermin 以消灭老鼠、蟑螂和其他害虫为职业的人(或公司) 2. a powder, liquid, etc. for exterminating vermin 灭虫药；杀虫剂]

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-2-28 21:49

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　　New York Daily News
　　No-fault divorcein N.Y.? YES 对“无过错”离婚说yes
　　By NANCY CHEMTOB
　　Sunday, February 26th, 2006
　　
　　A special matrimonial (婚姻的) commission, created by the state's top judge, Judy Kaye, recently recommended that New York make divorce a "no-fault" proposition (使离婚成为一件“无过错”的事情).
　　
　　This is a welcome step toward having divorce become a decision reached by a husband and wife - and not a judge. New York and Alaska are the only states that still require a spouse to prove fault to terminate (=end) a marriage. Three decades of experience with no-fault show [show作动词] it does not, as some have claimed, make divorce into an irresponsible or ill-conceived (=poorly conceived or planned) act. And it does not cheapen the institution of marriage - states have experienced an increased divorce rate with no-fault, but that trend is only temporary.
　　
　　Currently, the party seeking the termination of marriage must allege (and if necessary prove at trial) "grounds" for a divorce (离婚的理由)[注意下文中的grounds均指此义]. Often, spouses are unable to meet any of the acceptable grounds – adultery (通奸), cruelty, abandonment (遗弃), fraud or imprisonment - because they cannot prove them to a judge. It is much fairer to base the divorce on "irreconcilable differences(不可调和的分歧)" - a standard determined by a husband and a wife themselves.
　　
　　 No-fault eliminates (消除) some of the destructive financial consequences of using grounds. Each spouse can be forced to spend upward of $20,000 for a grounds trial, and one party can claim insufficient grounds merely as leverage (手段) for a more favorable settlement of assets (资产).
　　
　　Not only is the requirement to justify grounds a costly proposition, it also invades one's privacy. The decision to divorce should not be judged by a tribunal using its criteria (评判标准) on when a marriage should be ended. Eliminating grounds would reduce the demands on our overburdened court system. And the court's resources could be devoted to the really important issues in divorce actions, such as custody (监护), parenting time, child support and equitable (公平的) distribution (分配) of marital assets (婚姻财产).
　　
　　[parenting n. the giving of guidance, care, and affection to child by its parents
　　
　　child support - court-ordered (法庭判令的) support paid by one spouse to the other who has custody of the children after the parents are separated 儿童赡养费]
　　
　　No-fault divorces allow people to move on with their lives in a more timely fashion. And the process, while still painful, does not force the parties to dredge up (to come up with; unearth 提出；发掘，挖出) the past to prove grounds. No-fault makes the best of a bad situation.
　　
　　Chemtob is a Manhattan attorney who practices matrimonial law.
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-3-3 22:33

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　　New York Daily News
　　No-fault divorcein N.Y.? NO 对“无过错”离婚说No
　　By ANNE F. DOWNEY
　　Sunday, February 26th, 2006
　　
　　It would be a grave mistake for New York State to adopt a no-fault divorce system. A number of states that allow no-fault divorce are now rethinking the "beauty" of the no-fault system. In a 2003 poll, 49% of those surveyed said divorce should be harder to obtain and only 26% said it should be easier. Here are some of the problems with this process.
　　
　　First, no-fault divorce gives leverage (手段) to a spouse who wants to leave the marriage, rendering powerless the spouse who wants to preserve the union. Statistics indicate that four out of five no-fault divorces are unilateral (单方面的) - the spouse seeking divorce is able to terminate (=end) the marriage even though the other spouse has done no wrong.
　　
　　[rendering powerless the spouse who wants to preserve the union 使想保持婚姻的一方“束手无策”]
　　
　　Second, whenever we pass a law to make something legal, we give it our tacit approval. In other states that have adopted no-fault divorce, studies show that eliminating fault has led to an increase in divorce rates, perhaps as much as 25%.
　　
　　Third, no-fault divorce turns marriage into an insignificant relationship. The institution of marriage becomes little more than a temporary relationship, one easily undone (解除).
　　
　　Fourth, no-fault divorce is often tied into the notion that a divorce is justified because of "irreconcilable differences." Such a system is inherently flawed because every marriage involves irreconcilable differences. We should encourage couples to remain in long-lasting marriages despite their differences.
　　
　　Fifth, no-fault divorce ignores the fact that all marriages go through seasons. Under no-fault divorce, a spouse seeking divorce can exit (=move out of or depart from) the relationship quickly, even if the marriage might otherwise be able to turn a corner (出现转机；一般说turn the corner).
　　
　　Finally, laws that tinker with marriage and divorce undermine (=weaken) a proven system that has been the foundation upon which societies were built. For thousands of years, civilizations and religions around the world have recognized marriage as a unique relationship, crucial to the well-being of society. Through strong marriage laws, and by restricting divorce, societies have strengthened the basic building block of society: the family.
　　
　　[tinker v. To make unskilled or experimental efforts at repair; fiddle 不熟练地修补；瞎摆弄: tinkered with the engine, hoping to discover the trouble; tinkering with the economy by trying various fiscal policies.]
　　
　　No-fault divorce will not help our state. It will only hurt individuals and families. As a society, we can and must do better.
　　
　　Downey, a practicing attorney, is the New York director of Concerned Women for America.

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-3-4 18:28

The best way to get ready for the English Interpretation Test is to read and practice as much as you can. Read as extensively as possible, read English-English dictionaries as well as English-Chinese dictionaries, and you'll feel free to express whatever you want to express in English.
　　 Take the idiom ‘to jump ship’ for example. You’ll find the Chinese annotation in the authoritative English-Chinese Dictionary: 1 未经允许离船 2 潜逃，逃脱 But actually, if you want to express “跳槽” in English, you can very well use this idiom, as can easily be seen from the following definition:
　　 jump ship - to leave a job or activity suddenly.
　　 Although most of our employees are satisfied with their jobs, half of them would probably jump ship if something became available elsewhere.
　　 The original star of the TV series jumped ship after the first season.
　　Usage notes: often said about someone who goes to work for another company
　　
　　　上海前进进修学院New SAT 实战培训班[教材采用最新原版权威教材以及内部注释讲义]、GRE春季班(第82期GRE，含针对2007年Revised GRE General Test)[试题含盖1980至2003年全真题] 开始招生,名额有限。执教者有10多年连续执教GRE之经验。

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-3-15 14:42

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　　New York Daily News
　　Raise cigarette tax?: Yes 对提高烟草税说Yes
　　BY BERNIE HORN
　　Sunday, March 12th, 2006
　　
　　Right now there is a proposal in Albany [美国纽约州首府]to raise the tobacco tax by $1 per pack outside New York City and by 50 cents inside the city.
　　
　　While there's no doubt the state will put the new money to good use, the most important reason to support the proposal is to save young people's lives.
　　
　　Regardless of political party or ideology(思想意识), Americans believe we have a responsibility to take reasonable steps to protect all of our young people. Isn't that what adults are for?
　　
　　Across the state of New York, about 70,000 people under the age of 18 become regular smokers every year. One-third of them will die prematurely from diseases caused by tobacco. So it is literally (确实是) a matter of life and death.
　　
　　Public health authorities have amply documented that every 10% increase in the price of cigarettes causes about 7% of young people who smoke to quit[注意搭配causes … to ..]. Across New York, the tobacco tax increase would prevent about 100,000 young people alive today from becoming addicted (成瘾的) - and save more than 30,000 lives.
　　
　　Of course, it would also cause tens of thousands of adults to stop smoking as well. As a bonus, the state would gain about $300 million per year.
　　
　　You might wonder, if raising tobacco taxes has so many benefits, wouldn't it be wildly popular across the nation? Well, it is. Since the beginning of 2002, 41 states and the District of Columbia have passed more than 50 separate state cigarette tax increases. Support for tobacco taxes has been bipartisan (两党的)- 30 were signed into law by Republican governors and 22 were signed by Democrats.
　　
　　While losing battle after battle, tobacco company spokesmen have made two basic arguments. First, they say a rise in tobacco taxes increases smuggling (走私) and tax evasion (逃税). Sure, but all major studies have shown that, compared to the benefits, these are relatively insignificant problems.
　　
　　Second, they say that increased tobacco taxes are regressive, that they place an unfair burden on those who make less money. But they have it backward (但他们搞倒了). It is the hazards (危害) of smoking that are regressive - lower-income communities disproportionately (不成比例地) suffer from smokingrelated (同抽烟有关的) disease, disability and death.
　　
　　Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. So let's do what we can to stop it. Raise the tobacco tax.
　　
　　
　　Horn is policy director at the Center for Policy Alternatives, a nonpartisan group that focuses on state legislatures.

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-3-18 00:09

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　　New York Daily News
　　Raise cigarette tax?: No 对提高烟草税说No
　　BY DICK ARMEY
　　Sunday, March 12th, 2006
　　
　　The war on smokers rages on (激烈地进行着). New York will soon be home to the highest cigarette tax in the nation if a proposed $1-a-pack cigarette tax increase becomes law. The hike [指a proposed $1-a-pack cigarette tax increase] would put the total government tax at $3.66 per pack in New York - and even higher in New York City. Being sold as a budget fix, this attempt to cover up excessive state spending must be stopped.
　　
　　When it comes to the budget, New York has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. The state controller recently said that Gov. Pataki's proposed budget will put taxpayers in $7.9 billion of red ink over the next two years.
　　
　　Looking to cover this giant spending increase, the governor is turning on the state's smokers, optimistically estimating the tax hike will yield upward of $300 million. But cigarette tax increases are an unstable and disappointing form of revenue - and New York knows this from experience. Today, four years since New York State and City raised their taxes to $1.50 a pack, the state raises about 14% less from the cigarette tax than when the tax was lower.
　　
　　If the $1 cigarette tax hike is passed, a carton of cigarettes (一条香烟) would cost $19.29 more than in neighboring states and $37.89 more than cigarettes found on the Internet. It would push even more consumers to the Internet or to bootleggers (非法制造或贩卖者), further decreasing tax revenue. The Cato Institute found that in 2003 about half of all cigarettes consumed in New York City [修饰cigarettes] avoided state and city excises (烟、酒等的消费税).
　　
　　As consumers move to these alternative sources [指上述to the Internet or to bootleggers], convenience stores and gas stations - largely operated and owned by small businesses - lose sales, and the whole state economy suffers. Clearly a lose-lose situation (明显地是双输局面).
　　
　　The burden of this new tax will disproportionately fall on those who can least afford it, upping the annual tax burden on pack-a-day New York smokers - many of them low-income individuals - from $970 to $1,335.
　　
　　It is hardly fair to enrich state coffers (国库) by penalizing the poor for their legal, private lifestyle choices. Public health arguments aren't a basis for equitable (原义：平等的；这里有“一刀切”的意思) and pro-growth (pro- = favoring; supporting) tax policy. If you accept that logic, then why not a safety tax on motorcycles and a fat tax on fried food (如果你接受那种逻辑，那么为什么不对摩托车课以安全税、对油煎食品课以肥胖税呢)?
　　
　　Before Gov. Pataki attempts to cover the state's spending problems by passing the buck (推卸责任) onto low-income smokers, he should recall recent history. He can only address the budget problem by controlling spending, not by blowing smoke at the taxpayers.
　　
　　[blow smoke : to speak idly, misleadingly, or boastfully 讲空话；讲欺骗性的话；讲大话]
　　
　　Armey, the former House majority leader, is chairman of FreedomWorks, a nonprofit grass-roots issue advocacy organization.
　　
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作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-3-20 00:21

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　　New York Daily News
　　Prosecute those who spread AIDS?: No
　　起诉那些传播艾滋病的人？不
　　BY MARJORIE HILL
　　Sunday, March 19th, 2006
　　
　　No one disputes that someone who intentionally harms another individual should face legal consequences. In fact, New York State has several criminal statutes that address these acts, including a state law that makes intentional transmission (故意传播) of a sexually transmitted infection a prosecutable(可被起诉的)crime. Why, then, add another statute (法规) that calls for criminal sanctions where someone intentionally infects another person with HIV?
　　
　　This is the question that I and others in the HIV/AIDS community are asking. To single out individuals with HIV will do nothing to stop the spread of this deadly disease, and will further stigmatize people living with HIV as potential criminals. It will also discourage individuals from seeking HIV testing, which is the primary opportunity for them to learn their HIV status and take steps to avoid infecting others.
　　
　　[stigmatize v. To characterize or brand as disgraceful or ignominious. 描绘(或指责)…为可耻的]
　　
　　Another argument against enacting (制订) this type of legislation is that intent (意图) is difficult, if not impossible, to prove. For example, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, one in four New Yorkers with HIV do not know they are carrying the virus (病毒；这里指艾滋病毒). How could a case be made against people who don't even know they have the disease?
　　Making intentional transmission a crime (把故意传播列为犯罪) would likely dissuade individuals from getting tested to avoid criminal prosecution and thereby increase the risk of someone unknowingly (不知不觉地) transmitting HIV. Passing this law would undermine (削弱) the public health incentive (动机) of individuals to voluntarily (自愿地) disclose their status because it would put them at legal risk.
　　
　　Constructing a special criminal status for people with HIV would likely foster (助长)the marginalization (使处于社会边缘；边缘化) of those who are most at risk of HIV infection, and make it harder for accomplished education, treatment and support programs to succeed in preventing HIV transmission.
　　
　　Effective HIV/AIDS education campaigns stress (强调) that it is everyone's responsibility to take precautions (预防措施) to prevent transmission of HIV. Creating an HIV-specific criminal offense would counter this successful model and, instead, create a public health hazard because the individual's paramount (首要的) precaution would be to prevent prosecution.
　　
　　Hill is interim executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis.
　　
　　为使广大考生更好地迎战2006年6月GRE笔试，上海前进进修学院特设GRE强化班（题目含盖1980至2003年全真试题，注释详尽的书面资料包括题型总结、难题解答、难句分析、阅读与解题技巧、作文资料等）并e-mail答疑。即日起开始报名，额满即止。
　　　　　　　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-3-21 14:26

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　　New York Daily News
　　Prosecute those who spread AIDS?: Yes
　　起诉那些传播艾滋病的人？是
　　BY PETER VALLONE JR.
　　Sunday, March 19th, 2006
　　
　　The intentional transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome(人体免疫缺损病毒/获得性免疫缺损综合症) (HIV/AIDS) (艾滋病毒/艾滋病) should be a felony (重罪). Even if sex is consensual (两愿的), its potentially (潜在地) fatal (致命的) consequences certainly aren't.
　　
　　While this may sound overdramatic (过分夸大的), it has happened in cases across the country. Take the case of Keith Brennan, who lived with his girlfriend in Queens for three years without ever mentioning he was infected with AIDS. She only found out after stumbling across (无意中发现) some medical files. Six months later, she learned she had AIDS.
　　
　　"I have been given a life sentence of death," said Brennan's victim. "Do I deserve to suffer every day in anguish (精神上的极度痛苦)and constant pain?"
　　
　　But prosecutors could only charge him with reckless endangerment because New York is one of 24 states without a law against transmitting AIDS. In almost every area of law, if your actions endanger someone's life, you are held responsible, but not in this case.
　　
　　Obviously, we must respect medical privacy and protect HIV/AIDS sufferers from discrimination (歧视), but common sense and common morality dictate (规定) a responsibility to ensure others are not infected.
　　
　　I have introduced legislation to make knowing transmission (故意传播) of HIV/AIDS a crime in New York City. Proving intent in these cases is difficult, but with my bill (议案) a person only has to knowingly transfer the disease. This language protects both victims and defendants.
　　
　　Together with Councilmen Vincent Gentile and Michael Nelson, I introduced a resolution (决议)urging the state Legislature to make knowing transmission a felony. In New York State, the Public Health Law already makes it illegal to knowingly transmit venereal disease (性病).This should be extended to include HIV/AIDS.
　　
　　New York State has the highest rate of AIDS in the nation, with New York City having more than 75% of the cases in the state. My proposals are not meant to stigmatize any individual or group.
　　
　　Rather, they are designed to prevent the spread of this disease and ensure that those who knowingly pass it along to others are punished.
　　
　　New York State may not have the death penalty, but the woman victimized (受骗；受害) by Keith Brennan has been "given a life sentence of death," while he is roaming free (逍遥法外).
　　
　　Councilman Vallone is chairman of the Public Safety Committee.
　　
　　为使广大考生更好地迎战2006年6月GRE笔试，上海前进进修学院特设GRE强化班（题目含盖1980至2003年全真试题，注释详尽的书面资料包括题型总结、难题解答、难句分析、阅读与解题技巧、作文资料等）并e-mail答疑。为使学员对英语融会贯通，一举多得(通过高级口译、New TOEFL、New SAT等考试)，加发详加注释的New York Daily News 800篇（对扩大词汇量、提高阅读、口译、写作均极有帮助)
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作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-3-24 23:32

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　　New York Daily News
　　Women need to make a case for equal pay 妇女需证明同工同酬有理由
　　
　　Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
　　
　　Any ladies reading this? Great. I hope you don't mind, but today you'll be working for free. One day next week, too. And one day every week for the rest of your life.
　　
　　How come? Simple. You're a woman. And women still earn only 77% of what their male counterparts do (=earn). So the money that a man earns in three days, a woman earns over the course of four [省略years].
　　
　　[how come Informal How is it that; why <口>怎么回事；为什么: How come you're so late?]
　　
　　This rank (公然的；十足的) injustice has been off the radar for a while. But the wage gap (工资差距) has not budged one cent over the past 10 years. And it won't, until we do something about it.
　　
　　[not budged one cent (毫无改变)是下列成语的活用： not budge/give an inch to refuse to change your opinion or agree to even very small changes that another person wants 丝毫不改变主意，寸步不让
　　I keep asking her to think again, but she won't budge an inch.
　　He refuses to give an inch on health and safety issues. [sometimes + on]
　　
　　In her galvanizing (令人振奋的) new book, "Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men - and What to Do About It," economist Evelyn Murphy reports that "the gender wage gap exists between women and men working at every economic level, from waitresses (女侍者)to corporate lawyers, from nurse's aides to CEOs." Worse, over a lifetime, that difference gets compounded (加重). So women with high school degrees will end up earning an average of $700,000 less than their male colleagues. Women with advanced degrees will earn $2 million less.
　　
　　[advanced degrees (学士以上的)高级学位]
　　
　　That's serious money. And yet, mention this gap, as I did to some friends yesterday, and you'll hear that women brought it on themselves by choosing the "mommy track" or being less ambitious. (然而，一提及这种差距(就像我昨天对一些朋友提及时的情况一样)，你就会听到这样的说法：是由于妇女选择“妈妈轨道”或缺乏抱负而自己造成的)
　　
　　[mommy track n. A career path determined by work arrangements offering mothers certain benefits, such as flexible hours, but usually providing them with fewer opportunities for advancement. ]
　　
　　As if women wanted to earn less than their male counterparts (好像妇女自己想要比她们的男同行赚得少似的).
　　
　　By focusing on full-time workers in the same fields, Murphy refutes these excuses and focuses on the real reason for the wage gap: plain old discrimination (纯粹是老的歧视).
　　
　　This comes in different forms. Sometimes women are given a lower title for the same job - "cleaning woman" versus "custodian," for instance - and hence paid less. Sometimes they are passed over for promotion (未被考虑提升) because their bosses assume they can't handle the responsibility (or they weren't at Scores when the job came up). Then there are the old stereotypes (陈规): When a man is about to become a dad, his boss might throw him an extra project to help defray expenses (支付费用). Rarely, Murphy says, does a pregnant woman get that kind of perk (=perquisite 特殊待遇).
　　
　　The wage tables and court cases dug up by Murphy prove that all this stuff is still going on, despite the fact that sex discrimination has been illegal for 40 years.
　　"A lot of women assumed inevitably (不可避免地) we'd all get equality, but there's nothing inevitable about it," says Murphy, a former lieutenant governor (副州长) of Massachusetts. That's why she wants women to start forming "wage clubs" - small groups where women can research salaries and determine how to present their findings to the boss. (To start a club, go to www.wageproject.org.)
　　
　　Only the boss can change things - on this, Murphy is adamant (坚定不移的). At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for instance, a female professor requested a larger lab and was refused. So she measured the labs of her fellow faculty. Guess what? Tenured (享有终身职位的)women like her had an average of 1,500 square feet. Tenured men: 3,000.
　　
　　Armed with these statistics, she and her female colleagues went to the college president and he agreed to universitywide (全校范围的) change.
　　
　　Without gathering the facts, women cannot approach the boss. Without approaching the boss, as a team, women cannot gain parity (平等).
　　
　　Starting a wage club may sound daunting. Losing out on (输掉；未能获利) $2 million sounds worse. [指第4段提到的Women with advanced degrees will earn $2 million less.]
　　
　　[daunting - discouraging through fear . 望而生畏的，令人却步的]
　　
　　
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　　　　即日起开始报名，额满即止。

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-3-26 01:01

　大量阅读原版新闻全面提高英语水平(17)
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　好消息：为使广大考生更好地迎战2006年6月GRE笔试，全面提高英语水平，上海前进进修学院特设GRE强化班（题目含盖1980至2003年全真试题，并07年Revised GRE),即日起开始报名，额满即止。
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　执教教师(有10多年连续执教GRE之经验)提供大量生动活泼、措词地道的英语原版论说性文章给学员(例如下面的文章)，以使学员迅速扩大词汇量，掌握地道的表达法(词组、成语等等)和句型，快速提高阅读水平与写作水平。
　　
　　
　　New York Daily News
　　What a tangled Web we weave 我们编织了一个多么缠绕的网络
　　By PIPER WEISS
　　Sunday, March 19th, 2006
　　
　　Using Google, the wildly popular Internet search engine, as an action verb has been a part of our cultural fabric for years now. Daily, millions use it to "Google" old flames (旧情人), long-lost friends and even ourselves in hopes of digging up dirt. But who would have thought this addictive habit could stand in the way of (阻碍) landing (找到) your next job?
　　[dig up (some) dirt (on someone) - to look for and find unpleasant or embarrassing information about someone 找出对某人不合意(或难堪的)的信息. They tried to dig up some dirt on their political enemies.]
　　
　　But it's not your Googling another person that starts the trouble: the danger occurs when a potential boss Googles you.
　　
　　An increasing number of employers are investigating potential hires online to find out more about an applicant than what's on their résumé (履历).
　　
　　You may be the perfect candidate for the job, but if your name pulls up something incriminating in a Google search, you could lose your shot (机会). "

eople do need to keep in mind that the information they post online - whether in a résumé, profile (传略) or otherwise - should be considered public information," warns Danielle C. Perry, director of public relations at Monster.com. Sure, you may not have intentionally posted something controversial about yourself online, but from blogs to dating profiles, the Web has become a place where people air dirty laundry (泄露隐私) without a thought, making it a dangerous place to mix business with pleasure.
　　[air your dirty laundry/linen in public to talk to other people about personal things that you should keep private 宣扬隐私，外扬家丑
　　I was brought up to believe that it was wrong to wash your dirty linen in public.]
　　
　　Just ask 27-year-old Colleen Kluttz. Type the freelance television producer's name into Google and the second item that comes up is her popular My Space profile. This online social network has become an outpost for photographic and written self-expression, but it's not always an asset (优点) in landing a job. "A friend of mine posted a picture of me on My Space with my eyes half closed and a caption (图片的说明文字)that suggests I've smoked something illegal," says Kluttz.
　　[freelance - a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them 自由作家(或艺术家等)；自由职业者注：上文中的freelance是形容词]
　　
　　While the caption was a joke, Kluttz now wonders whether the past two employers she interviewed with thought it was so funny. Both expressed interest in hiring Kluttz, but at the 11th hour (在最后一刻) went with someone else. "As a freelancer, I'm constantly on the lookout for the next best opportunity, but I haven't been having much luck recently," Kluttz explains. "I really haven't been concerned that people are Googling me, but now that I'm doing the math, it seems like this is definitely going to be a constant concern from this day forward."
　　
　　In addition to all the other stresses of a job search, do you really have to assume you'll get Googled any time you apply for a job? Employment experts say yes. "More and more companies are doing background checks," says Michael Erwin, senior career adviser at Career Builder.com. "If you have something on Google, it's better to let them know in advance (beforehand 预先)." He also warns, "Make sure what you put on your résumé is truthful."
　　
　　
　　FOIBLES AND RANTS EXPOSED
　　
　　Bloggers may also have reason for concern. When Ciara Healy applied for a job at a university, she had no idea her personal blog could get her into trouble. But when a member of the search committee Googled her, he found she had called him a "belligerent jerk(好斗的蠢人),” though not by name, and canceled the interview. "I almost immediately deleted (删除) the blog," wrote Healy via E-mail. For obvious reasons, Healy doesn't think employers should Google candidates, but also because she doesn't believe that one's entire life should be up for review. "What is on the table at an interview should be skills, detectible levels of craziness, overall impression and a good fit in the workplace," she writes, "not your foibles (小缺点), rants (夸夸其谈), petty opinions or brilliant insights."
　　While Kluttz can change her My Space profile and Healy has axed (“砍”；删除) her blog, other Google-addled (=confused) job seekers, like Jason Hartley, find themselves stuck. Hartley, 34, a full-time blogger and writer, has always been careful about what he posts on his personal music blog, Advanced Theory. But there's nothing he can do about the two other Jason Hartleys that appear when you type his name into Google.
　　[ax v. Informal To remove ruthlessly or suddenly 无情地(或突然地)除去: a social program that was axed to effectuate budget cuts]
　　
　　"There's a guy who's a dancer," says Hartley. "We're the same age and I used to be a dancer, so people assume it's me." If that weren't enough, there's a third Jason Hartley and he's a well-known blogger. "He's a soldier who's gotten a lot of recognition for writing about the Iraq war. He's a real standup guy and again people think he's me." Needless to say, whenever Hartley goes on an interview he has to be upfront (坦率的). "If I were going on a job interview, I would have to say I'm not that guy."
　　
　　
　　Be good for Google
　　
　　Worried about what'll pop up (意外地出现) if a potential boss looks you up? On Google, you can't afford to fudge (篡改) a date or a job title, so be sure your résumé information matches your Web presence. If you keep a blog, be careful how much you reveal about your personal life. Even if it doesn't affect your getting hired, it may expose aspects of your life you'd rather keep out of the office.
　　Of course Google can work to your advantage, too. If you're looking to seal (使…定局) the deal on a job, it can't hurt to search for your employer's interests and job history to see what you have in common. Hint at a shared interest and he or she might just overlook that compromising My Space picture after all.
　　[compromising adjective A compromising situation, photograph, etc makes people think you have done something wrong. The press printed compromising photographs of the princess and her bodyguard.]
　　
　　为使广大考生更好地迎战2006年6月GRE笔试，上海前进进修学院特设GRE强化班（题目含盖1980至2003年全真试题，注释详尽的书面资料包括题型总结、难题解答、难句分析、阅读与解题技巧、作文资料等）并e-mail答疑。为使学员对英语融会贯通，一举多得(通过高级口译、New TOEFL、New SAT等考试)，加发详加注释的New York Daily News 800篇（对扩大词汇量、提高阅读、口译、写作均极有帮助)
　　　　　　即日起开始报名，额满即止。

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-4-7 22:13

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Size isn't everything when it comes to intelligence
就智力而言，脑子的大小并不是最重要的
· 01 April 2006
WHEN it comes to the brain, bigger isn't always better. Intelligence has more to do with when and how the brain grows than with its overall size.

The brain's cortex (脑皮层) thickens in childhood, reaches a peak, and then thins again in adolescence. To see how this pattern is related to intelligence, Philip Shaw and colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, took brain scans (扫描) of 307 children every two years on average from age 6 to 20. The children were divided on the basis of IQ tests into average, high and superior intelligence.

In the brightest(最聪明的那组小孩), the thickness of the prefrontal (前额的) cortex (脑皮层), a brain region thought to be responsible for many facets of intelligence, increased rapidly through the pre-teen years before thinning out again after the age of 11. The pattern was the same, but much less pronounced (显著的) in children who were averagely intelligent (Nature, vol 440, p 676).

It is possible that a stimulating environment might encourage this thickening and thinning in the cortex. "In a way (在某种程度上), children with the most agile (机敏的) minds have the most agile (灵敏的) cortex," says Shaw.
From issue 2545 of New Scientist magazine, 01 April 2006, page 21

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-5-2 16:58

　大量阅读原版新闻全面提高英语水平(19)
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　上海前进进修学院2006年暑期GRE班（题目含盖1980至2003年全真试题，并07年Revised GRE),5月8日起开始报名，名额有限。
　　执教教师针对大多数英语学习者“有话难表达”的英语写作薄弱环节，提供大量生动活泼、措词地道的英语原版论说性文章给学员(例如下面的文章)，以使学员迅速扩大词汇量，掌握地道的表达法(词组、成语等等)和句型，写出属于自己的地道的英语作文。
　　
　　
　　New York Daily News
　　Do immigrants drive down citizens' wages?: No 移民使公民的工资水准降低了吗？否
　　By DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH
　　Saturday, April 15th, 2006
　　
　　Lou Dobbs can rant all he likes (Lou Dobbs尽可以夸夸其谈；随便Lou Dobbs怎样夸夸其谈). The truth is, immigration doesn't lower wages - and it may actually raise them.
　　
　　Some economists, such as Prof. George Borjas of Harvard University, assert that the wages of native-born Americans are driven down by the lower wages employers can pay immigrants. But Borjas assumes that immigrants are complete substitutes (替代者) for American workers and that investment in factories and machines - what we call "physical capital" - is fixed.
　　
　　Both assumptions are wrong.
　　
　　First, immigrants aren't substitutes for native-born workers. Immigrant labor is concentrated among the low-skilled, who have no high school diploma, and the high-skilled, who have doctorates in science, engineering and technology. And while there are many low-skilled immigrants among agricultural workers, tailors and gardeners, there are fewer among funeral service workers and correctional officers. High-skilled immigrants are more often found in science and dentistry than in law or veterinary (兽医的) practices. The upshot (结果): Immigrants don't compete with most Americans for wages.
　　
　　Second, the availability of immigrants can result in new projects, which can create more jobs for native-born American workers. Consider a county that has to pay $15 per hour to clean and service a community pool. It might conclude that the pool is not worth building. But if immigrants could do the job for less (结合上文，for less = for less than $15 per hour), the pool might be built. And some of its builders would be native-born Americans.
　　
　　Or take (以…作例子) an entrepreneur (企业家) who owns a computer chip company that faces a shortage of engineers. Hiring bright immigrants could result in more production, more sales and more jobs for all.
　　
　　Research supports this reasoning. Profs. Gianmarco Ottaviano of the University of Bologna and Giovanni Peri of the University of California, Davis, have shown that over the past two decades, immigration has resulted in a 2% boost in the wages of native-born American workers. Increases ranged from 0.2% for those without high school diplomas to 2.5% for college grads.
　　
　　Whatever your politics, immigrants don't lower wages.
　　
　　
　　Furchtgott-Roth is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Employment Policy at the Hudson Institute. She was chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2003 to 2005.
　　
　　上海前进进修学院06年暑期GRE班，执教者与广大学子探讨并传授精通GRE、精通原版英语报刊－－精通英语之道。
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-5-11 22:01

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　　　　上海前进进修学院2006年暑期GRE班（题目含盖1980至2003年全真试题，并07年Revised GRE),5月8日起开始报名，名额有限。
　　执教教师针对大多数英语学习者“有话难表达”的英语写作薄弱环节，提供大量生动活泼、措词地道的英语原版论说性文章给学员(例如下面的文章)，以使学员迅速扩大词汇量，掌握地道的表达法(词组、成语等等)和句型，写出属于自己的地道的英语作文。
　　

New York Daily News
　　Should class size be a top priority?: No 　班级大小应当成为优先考虑的事吗？不
　　BY ANDREW J. ROTHERHAM
　　Sunday, April 30th, 2006
　　
　　Common sense and research both tell us that if all else is equal, smaller classes are good for students. Unfortunately, in urban education, all else is rarely equal, and a host of problems hinder (阻碍) efforts to attract top teachers. So reducing class size without addressing teacher quality more broadly is akin to (类似于)continually adding pitchers to your bullpen (一个球队的全体候补投手) without worrying about whether any of them can even throw a fastball.
　　
　　Which challenges should have higher priority?
　　
　　First, education faces what economists would call an "adverse selection" problem. That means students with stronger scores on national exams like the SAT and GRE are less likely to enter the profession [这里指“教师”职业]in the first place - and more likely to leave it within the first few years. Cutting class size won't fix that, and could even make things worse as schools have to find more teachers
　　
　　Second, teacher pay is still overwhelmingly based on years of service and advanced degrees rather than specific skills, willingness to take on challenging assignments and performance. As a result, not only is teacher pay too low overall (总体上), but underperformers and high achievers basically earn the same. The United Federation of Teachers and the city are starting to take small steps to address that - but what's needed is a radical overhaul (根本的改革) rather than tinkering (修修补补).
　　
　　Hiring, placement and retention of teachers also need to change. The New Teacher Project has found that in districts including New York City, collective bargaining contracts complicate teacher hiring, placement and retention. And rather than receiving substantial mentoring (指导)and support, rookies (新手) are largely left to sink or swim on their own.
　　
　　Research is clear that good teachers matter more than small classes, and all of these problems are substantial obstacles to attracting and retaining top teachers. To get the most bang for the buck, teacher quality rather than quantity should be New York City's top priority right now.
　　
　　[bang for the/one's buck Value returned for investment or effort. 投资(或努力)换得的价值]
　　
　　Rotherham is co-director of the think tank Education Sector and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute. He writes the blog Eduwonk.com.
　　
　　上海前进进修学院06年暑期GRE班，执教者与广大学子探讨并传授精通GRE、精通原版英语报刊－－精通英语之道。
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-5-21 22:34

大量阅读原版新闻全面提高英语水平(21)
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　上海前进进修学院2006年暑期GRE班（题目含盖1980至2003年全真试题，并07年Revised GRE),5月8日起开始报名，名额有限。
　　　　执教教师针对大多数英语学习者“有话难表达”的英语写作薄弱环节，提供大量生动活泼、措词地道的英语原版论说性文章给学员(例如下面的文章)，以使学员迅速扩大词汇量，掌握地道的表达法(词组、成语等等)和句型，写出属于自己的地道的英语作文。
　　　　
New York Daily News
Tell kids to defy school cell phone ban?: Yes 叫孩子违反不许带手机到校的禁令？是
BY JUDITH BAUMEL
Saturday, May 20th, 2006

I won't let my son out of the house without his cell phone. Keys, check (钥匙，检查；这里的意思是“看有没有忘记带了”). MetroCard(地铁卡), check. Wallet, check. Phone, check — every single day.

So Mayor Bloomberg can say cell phones are banned from school. I don't care. My son is bringing his.

Why? The basic answer is safety. Ever since middle school, my son has been traveling from the Bronx to Manhattan. In seventh grade, bigger kids jumped him on the upper West Side. He took out his phone and called 911. By the time the cops arrived, the kids were gone —but the police cruised for a while and found them. Now a freshman at Stuyvesant in downtown Manhattan, he travels 90 minutes each way.

[jump v. Slang To spring upon in sudden attack; assault or ambush 伏击: Muggers jumped him in the park.]

The mayor and chancellor claim safety inside school buildings is one of the reasons phones are banned. In my son's school, that argument makes no sense.

Distraction (分心)in classrooms is the issue ? If phones are turned off, they don't pose a problem.

Cheating (作弊) is the issue? No more than it was when kids passed notes or jotted down answers on their wrists.

In the end, controlling phones ought to be just another part of old-fashioned classroom management. If teachers, administrators and school security are the ones we count on to stop kids from misbehaving and fighting, why can't we rely on them to stop kids from using phones, too?

The mayor seems to think our lives are straight out of some TV drama, in which we put the kids on the school bus in the morning, then meet it in the afternoon.

No — I work. My son's stepfather works. There are fewer and fewer pay phones (投币式公用电话) on the street. And like it or not, kids these days don't plan ahead (现在的小孩不是提前作出安排), they phone on the fly (他们在匆忙中打电话). That's how extracurricular (课外的) life works.

Parents associations have asked the chancellor to change his list of prohibited items. The teachers union has asked. Bloomberg and Klein will not budge(改变主意；让步).

If they won't listen to us, I won't listen to them. My child will disobey the ban and bring his phone — and other students should, too. Let the schools figure out how to confiscate (没收) them and log them in, if they insist on following through.

I'll teach my son to break a senseless rule rather than put himself at risk any day of the week.

Baumel is a New York City public school parent.

　上海前进进修学院06年暑期GRE班，执教者与广大学子探讨并传授精通GRE、精通原版英语报刊－－精通英语之道。

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-6-13 00:07

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　　New York Daily News
　　N.Y. Mexicans cheer goaaal! 　　　　纽约墨西哥人欢呼3次进球
　　BY DAVE GOLDINER
　　DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
　　Monday, June 12th, 2006
　　
　　There were chickens to roast, salsa (辣沙司) to make and customers to serve inside Los Pollitos restaurant on Fifth Ave. in Brooklyn.
　　
　　But for Miguel Tufino, the most important thing was the Mexican soccer team playing its opening game of the World Cup against Iran.
　　
　　"I was working, but I was watching, too, of course," said Tufino, 23.
　　
　　Cheers echoed in taquerias (墨西哥快餐店) and Mexican restaurants across the city as Mexico shook off a slow start (摆脱缓慢的开场) to beat Iran 3-1 (结果以3比1胜伊朗).
　　
　　"I hope they keep it going," said Tufino, an immigrant from Puebla, Mexico. "We are all behind them."
　　
　　For Mexicans, the day was just about soccer, pure and simple (pure and simple　完完全全；纯粹).
　　
　　Things were a bit more complicated for Iranians in the city, several dozen of whom gathered in Manhattan to munch on kebabs ((印度)烤肉串)and watch the game.
　　
　　They despise the authoritarian (专制的) Islamic regime in Tehran, but they insist they still support their underdog team (处于劣势的球队) 100%.
　　
　　"

olitics don't matter in soccer," said Reza Khalili. "I'm an Iranian, these guys on the team are Iranian, so I support them."
　　
　　Iran has made headlines (作为重要新闻见报)for its nuclear program, its president's anti-Israel rants and strict Islamic laws that bar women from even watching soccer games with men.
　　
　　But controversies and politics were set aside for the day as Iranian expatriates (这里指“移居纽约的伊朗人”) concentrated on the basics - enjoying each other and rooting for their team (给他们的球队加油)
　　
　　. "I miss the feeling of being among all my family and other Iranians," Farnoosh Fathi said. "It's great to have this chance to get together."
　　With News Wire Services
　　
　　上海前进进修学院06年暑期GRE班，执教者与广大学子探讨并传授精通GRE、精通原版英语报刊－－精通英语之道。

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-6-15 16:52

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　　New York Daily News
　　How I got sexy at 60 60岁我是如何变得“性感”的
　　By JANE RIDLEY
　　Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
　　
　　When her husband said he had something to tell her, Judy Steinberg hoped it wouldn't take long because she had to pick up their kids from the mall.
　　
　　But on receiving the crushing blow that '70s comedy-icon-turned-TV-director David Steinberg delivered - that their 24-year marriage was over - she couldn't even step out of the house.
　　
　　[the crushing blow that '70s comedy-icon-turned-TV-director David Steinberg delivered 意思是： 70年代喜剧偶像出身的电视导演David Steinberg予以的毁灭性打击；　注意：后面的　- that their 24-year marriage was over –　可以视为同位语从句，说明the crushing blow的内容]
　　
　　"I was devastated and had no clue it was coming," recalls Steinberg, a former producer who recently moved from Los Angeles to Long Island. "I thought we had a wonderfully happy life."
　　
　　The following years passed in an agonizing whirl of mediation(沉思), child- custody issues (孩子监护权问题), recriminations (countercharges 反控，反责) and tears.
　　
　　David Steinberg, a fixture on hit (热门) programs including "The Tonight Show" who [指fixture] now hosts his own show on TV Land, agreed with his wife that their parting should be as amicable (友好的) as possible for the sake of their two daughters.
　　
　　[fixture n. a person long associated with a place or activity]
　　
　　But the timing was particularly wretched because Judy Steinberg, then 54, was struggling through menopause (更年期).
　　
　　"My life was a mess," she says. "My self-esteem was shot (击毁). Like many women, I'd given over everything for my husband and my family. Many friends I'd known during our marriage dropped me like a hot potato (烫山芋).
　　
　　"I went into a depression because I felt worthless."
　　Then one afternoon Steinberg turned on her radio to hear casting agent Robyn Todd confidently discussing how children cope when their parents split.
　　
　　[A casting agent is a person who finds jobs for actors, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses]
　　
　　Todd was David Steinberg's new, much younger girlfriend (they're now married) and she was promoting her book "How I Survived My Boyfriend's Divorce." [My Boyfriend's Divorce指David Steinberg's　divorce]
　　
　　"I was so angry I grabbed my cell (cell phone 手机) and called up the radio station," recalls Steinberg [指Judy Steinberg]. "I told the researcher my name and that I was thinking of writing a book called "How I Survived My Husband's Girlfriend's Book." She put me through right away (她马上给我接通了)."
　　
　　The two women sparred (争论，辩论) on-air for 20 minutes. Steinberg told her side of the story eloquently and with humor.
　　
　　By then, she had built a network of friends at a ballroom dancing class. She toned (增强) her body, redecorated her home and overhauled (彻底改革) her wardrobe (行头) .
　　
　　[tone v. To make firmer or stronger. Often used with up: exercises that tone up the body.]
　　
　　"I realized that living well was my best revenge," explains the glamorous 63-year-old [指Judy Steinberg], who is often mistaken for being in her 40s. "I'd reached my 60s, but I wasn't six feet under. It didn't mean I couldn't have fun.
　　
　　[six feet under 　dead and buried. Example: You're just waiting until he's six feet under so you can get his money.]
　　
　　"The curse (苦恼) of the older woman is that you often feel invisible. Nobody notices you, especially men. But, after the menopause, you have a choice.
　　
　　"You can resign yourself to (甘心) being a Barbara Bush, or you can strive to be a Jane Fonda at 67. I know who most would rather be (我知道大多数人宁愿做谁)."
　　
　　Steinberg's next step was to write her lighthearted self-help guide, "Fabulous After 50 and Sexy at Sixty! ," which gives advice on getting over an ex (= a former spouse or partner), dating, dressing your best, managing your weight and spicing up (使增添趣味；使更加活跃) sex.
　　
　　"I've been through it all," says Steinberg, who has dated dozens of men since her divorce, including guys in their 30s. "But I am not alone.
　　
　　"Older women of today are very different from their mothers and grandmothers at the same age.
　　
　　"Having launched their children into lives of their own, many of them are setting out to accomplish the things they have always dreamed of doing, like traveling or learning a new skill.
　　
　　"They're thinking: 'It's my life. It's my time!' And that's fantastic (了不起的)."
　　
　　Judy's words of wisdom
　　HOW TO DRESS
　　· Don't dress like a teenager: It doesn't make you one (穿得像少年不会使你成为少年). But don't dress like a grandmother: You'll be perceived as one.
　　
　　· Don't wear sleeveless tops: However much you work out, your upper arms will always look flabby (松弛的) or wrinkly (皱纹的).
　　
　　· Cashmere shawls (开士米披巾) and pashmina scarves add understated elegance: And invest in a few good pieces, such as a simple silk shirt, fitted suit and smart, tailored raincoat.
　　
　　DATING YOUNGER MEN
　　· Men are drawn to older women. They are less high maintenance than those scouting for (寻找) a potential father of their babies.
　　
　　· Never slip into the mother role. You can bet Demi Moore doesn't hand Ashton Kutcher a sweater every time he leaves the house.
　　
　　· Only date him if he's half your age plus seven years. Pass (这里意含do not date him) if his mother is younger than you! Face facts. He's not in it for the long term. Have fun while it lasts.
　　
　　TRICKS FOR THE BOUDOIR (闺房布置的诀窍)
　　· Make your bedroom a luxurious, inviting cocoon . Install soft lighting ... and ditch (<俚>丢弃) the pictures of your kids and grandkids.
　　
　　· Hide all medications, especially hormone pills or yeast infection creams!
　　
　　· Splash out on a floor-length satin nightgown with a lace top (大手大脚地花钱，买一件拖到地的带有花边上部的缎子睡衣). Think Shirley MacLaine seducing Jack Nicholson in "Terms of Endearment."
　　
　　[splash out or splash out on something To spend a lot of money, especially extravagantly or ostentatiously. (尤指奢侈地或炫耀地)花许多钱　Example: He splashed out on a fancy new car]
　　
　　"Fabulous After 50 and Sexy at Sixty," by Judy Steinberg and Raechel Donahue (Penguin, $13)
　　
　　上海前进进修学院06年暑期GRE班，执教者与广大学子探讨并传授精通GRE、精通原版英语报刊－－精通英语之道。(除上课面授“秘诀”外，长期通过e-mail与广大学子研究精通英语之道)
　　
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-7-6 23:58

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　　New York Daily News
　　Bronx man popped in cola caper 盗窃可口可乐商业机密　一男子被捕
　　[pop v. To get arrested. <俚>　遭逮捕
　　caper n. Slang An illegal plot or enterprise, especially one involving theft. <俚> (尤指涉及盗窃的)非法勾当]
　　By BILL HUTCHINSON
　　DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
　　Thursday, July 6th, 2006
　　
　　A Bronx man was among three people busted (=arrested) yesterday in a $1.5 million scheme (阴谋) to sell trade secrets stolen from Coca-Cola to the soft-drink giant's chief rival Pepsi, prosecutors said.
　　
　　[the soft-drink giant指Coca-Cola]
　　
　　But Ibrahim Dimson's plot (阴谋) fizzled (=failed) when the PepsiCo officials he allegedly contacted in Westchester County told their Coke counterparts (=Coke officials) of the conspiracy(阴谋).
　　
　　Federal prosecutors said Dimson, 30, of the Bronx was working hand-in-hand with Joya Williams, 41, of Norcross, Ga.(=Georgia), an administrative assistant to top Coke executives. Edmund Duhaney, 43, of Decatur, Ga., was also charged (指控) in the soda-pop (果味汽水) scandal (丑事), which threatened to expose the secret formula (配方) to a new product Coca-Cola has been working on, officials said.
　　
　　"While this breach of trust (背信，指受托人的违背义务)is difficult for all of us to accept, it underscores (强调，突出) the responsibility we each have to be vigilant (警惕的) in protecting our trade secrets," Coca-Cola Chief Executive Officer Neville Isdell wrote in a memo (备忘录) to employees yesterday.
　　
　　With details that read like a cheap spy novel, the federal complaint (控告) claims the trio (这3个人，指第3段被指控的3个人) tried to pass (传送，送交) PepsiCo documents marked "highly confidential" and requested a cash exchange be made in a yellow Girl Scout cookie box.
　　
　　Federal agents said Dimson even operated under the alias (化名) "Dirk" in his quest to quench his thirst for money (满足对金钱的渴望).
　　
　　The investigation started in May when PepsiCo officials gave Coke a 14-page letter it received from Dimson, in which he proposed selling "very detailed and confidential information." An FBI agent posing as (扮作) a PepsiCo executive answered the letter, setting the trap for the trio by offering to pay top dollar for the stolen goods.
　　
　　[top dollar n. The highest amount being paid for a commodity or service 最高价格: paid top dollar for the tickets]
　　
　　Officials said the insider (了解内幕者) was Williams, who had access to the confidential documents because of her job at Coke's Atlanta headquarters (总部). Covert (隐蔽的) cameras captured Williams stuffing (塞) her purse with top secret papers as well as a bottle with a liquid sample of a new Coca-Cola product.
　　
　　The three were arrested as they waited for PepsiCo brass (头儿) to deposit $1.5 million in a bank account they had set up, Atlanta U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said.
　　
　　Dimson, Duhaney and Williams were charged with wire fraud, unlawfully stealing and selling trade secrets.
　　
　　"Competition can sometimes be fierce, but also must be fair and legal," said Pepsi spokesman Dave DeCecco. "We're pleased the authorities and the FBI have identified the people responsible for this."
　　 With News Wire Services
　　
　　上海前进进修学院GRE班，执教者与广大学子探讨并传授精通GRE、精通原版英语报刊－－精通英语之道。
　　　　
　　　　06年暑期GRE班即将开课，秋季GRE班开始报名。

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-7-7 19:01

I’ve been an avid reader of New York Daily News for quite a long time, and I’ve been so fascinated with its lively diction and style as well as its interesting variety of content that reading it daily has become a part of my life. I’d very much like to share my happy experiences with those learners of English who, as far as I know, cannot yet fully enjoy reading the Daily News because of their limited vocabulary and their unfamiliarity with the idioms therein. It is really a great pity that a learner of English cannot read NY Daily News! To my mind, to read NY Daily News avidly is to learn English efficiently. New York Daily News not only proves its worth in news reporting, but also makes truly idiomatic and up-to-date English learning material. I’m posting the News texts with Chinese annotations so that thousands upon thousands of learners of English whose native language is Chinese could enjoy reading the Daily News to improve their English.
　　
　　
　　To those who are confused while reading the news in the original. (献给读原版新闻“头晕”的朋友)
　　
　　New York Daily News
　　Bronx man popped in cola caper 盗窃可口可乐商业机密　一男子被捕
　　[pop v. To get arrested. <俚>　遭逮捕
　　caper n. Slang An illegal plot or enterprise, especially one involving theft. <俚> (尤指涉及盗窃的)非法勾当]
　　By BILL HUTCHINSON
　　DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
　　Thursday, July 6th, 2006
　　
　　A Bronx man was among three people busted (=arrested) yesterday in a $1.5 million scheme (阴谋) to sell trade secrets stolen from Coca-Cola to (把从Coca-Cola 公司盗窃的商业机密卖给) the soft-drink giant's chief rival Pepsi(这个软性饮料巨头的主要对手Pepsi公司), prosecutors (公诉人)said.
　　
　　[the soft-drink giant指Coca-Cola]
　　
　　But Ibrahim Dimson's plot (阴谋) fizzled (=failed) when the PepsiCo officials he allegedly contacted in Westchester County told their Coke counterparts (=Coke officials) of the conspiracy(阴谋). (据称他在Westchester County联系了Pepsi公司的主管人员，Pepsi公司的主管人员把这个阴谋告诉了Coca-Cola的同行，Ibrahim Dimson的阴谋随即败露)
　　
　　[Ibrahim Dimson指第1段提到的A Bronx man；　Bronx是纽约的一个区。he allegedly contacted in Westchester County是定语从句，修饰the PepsiCo officials]
　　
　　Federal prosecutors said Dimson, 30(30岁), of the Bronx (Bronx区的) was working hand-in-hand with Joya Williams, 41, of Norcross, Ga.(=Georgia), an administrative assistant to top Coke executives . Edmund Duhaney, 43, of Decatur, Ga., was also charged (指控) in the soda-pop (果味汽水) scandal (丑事), which threatened to expose the secret formula (配方) to a new product Coca-Cola has been working on(Coca-Cola公司一段时间以来致力于研发的新产品的秘方，因为这件丑事，受到泄密的威胁), officials said.
　　
　　[an administrative assistant to top Coke executives (Coca-Cola公司高层执行官的行政助理)，是Joya Williams, 41…的同位语] [which是关系代词，当然指the soda-pop (果味汽水) scandal (丑事)]
　　
　　"While this breach of trust (背信，指受托人的违背义务)is difficult for all of us to accept, it underscores (强调，突出) the responsibility we each have to be vigilant (警惕的) in protecting our trade secrets," Coca-Cola Chief Executive Officer Neville Isdell wrote in a memo (备忘录) to employees yesterday.
　　
　　With details that read like (读起来像) a cheap spy novel, the federal complaint (控告) claims the trio (这3个人，指第3段被指控的3个人) tried to pass (传送，送交) PepsiCo documents marked "highly confidential" (把标记为“高度机密”的文件送交Pepsi公司) and requested a cash exchange be made in a yellow Girl Scout cookie box.
　　
　　[A Girl Scout cookie is one of several varieties of cookie sold on neighborhood tours by Girl Scouts as a fundraiser for their organization. ] [上述requested a cash exchange be made in a yellow Girl Scout cookie box, 其目的是为掩人耳目]
　　
　　Federal agents said Dimson even operated under the alias (化名) "Dirk" in his quest to quench his thirst for money (满足对金钱的渴望).
　　
　　The investigation started in May when PepsiCo officials gave Coke a 14-page letter it received from Dimson, in which[指14-page letter] he [指Dimson ]　proposed selling "very detailed and confidential information." An FBI agent posing as (扮作) a PepsiCo executive answered the letter, setting the trap for the trio (为这3个人设下圈套) by offering to pay top dollar for the stolen goods.
　　
　　[top dollar n. The highest amount being paid for a commodity or service 最高价格: paid top dollar for the tickets]
　　
　　Officials said the insider (了解内幕者) was Williams, who had access to the confidential documents because of her job at Coke's Atlanta headquarters (总部). Covert (隐蔽的) cameras captured Williams stuffing (塞) her purse with top secret papers as well as a bottle with a liquid sample of a new Coca-Cola product.
　　
　　The three were arrested as they waited for PepsiCo brass (头儿) to deposit $1.5 million in a bank account they had set up, Atlanta U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said.
　　
　　Dimson, Duhaney and Williams were charged with wire fraud, unlawfully stealing and selling trade secrets.
　　
　　[wire fraud - fraud committed using a means of electronic communication (as a telephone or computer)]
　　
　　"Competition can sometimes be fierce, but also must be fair and legal," said Pepsi spokesman Dave DeCecco. "We're pleased the authorities and the FBI have identified the people responsible for this."
　　 With News Wire Services
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-7-13 00:34

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　　New York Daily News
　　Some ifs & butts 马特拉齐究竟骂了什么使齐达内怒不可遏
　　
　　[Some ifs & butts的直译：“一些“如果”和“但是”。　　有的时候，butt通but，例如： No More 'Ifs,' Just Butts: Clay Aiken Will Perform, But Will Journos Shut Up Over Gay Sex Scandal (没有更多的“如果”，只有但是：Clay Aiken将出场表演，但记者们会对同性恋丑闻闭嘴吗?)]
　　
　　
　　By ELIZABETH BRYANT
　　SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
　　Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
　　
　　PARIS - A French anti-racism (反对种族主义) group yesterday demanded an investigation (调查) into reports that a racial slur (诋毁，中伤) provoked (激怒；刺激) French soccer legend (传奇人物) Zinedine Zidane to attack an Italian player - possibly costing France the World Cup.
　　
　　Zidane was booted (撵走，这里指“被罚下场”) )during the crucial last minutes of Sunday's World Cup final (世界杯决赛) after he head-butted (用头顶撞) Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the chest (意大利后卫Marco Materazzi的胸部). Italy went on to win 5-3 on penalty kicks (以5比3罚点球获胜).
　　
　　SOS Racism urged the world soccer federation FIFA to look into (调查) allegations (说法)that Materazzi had provoked Zidane by calling him "a dirty terrorist" and insulting his Algerian heritage.
　　
　　[FIFA - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (International Federation of Football Association; Zurich, Switzerland) 国际足联]
　　
　　A lip reader who studied footage (镜头) of the incident told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper that Materazzi called Zidane the Italian equivalent of the N-word and even insulted the French champ's (= champion’s )mother, telling him, "We all know you are the son of a terrorist whore (婊子)."
　　
　　[lip reader - someone who can understand spoken words by watching the movements of a speaker's lips (通过观察说话人的嘴唇动作理解话意的)唇读专家
　　N-word指nigger (老黑)，非黑人用这个词，带有侮慢性。上述called Zidane the Italian equivalent of the N-word意思是“相当于用意大利语骂了Zidane“老黑”这样带有侮慢色彩的话”]
　　
　　Zidane's mother reportedly is seriously ill. She and his father, both Algerian immigrants, struggled to raise five children in the southern port city of Marseilles((法国)南部港市马赛).
　　
　　Materazzi spoke to Zidane in Italian, but the French team captain speaks the language [the language指Italian], the Daily Mail said.
　　
　　"So far, these are just suppositions (假设) and they must be verified (证实)," said SOS head Dominique Sopo. "Zidane must also speak about what happened. Even if his gestures were inexcusable (不可原谅的), if racist remarks were made the soccer federation (足联) must react firmly."
　　
　　FIFA reviews all red cards (红牌) at the World Cup. A spokesman for the governing body declined to comment on the case.
　　
　　Materazzi staunchly (坚定地) denies insulting Zidane. And so far, Zidane is keeping mum (silent 沉默的) about the incident.
　　
　　"If it's the case, it's lamentable (可悲的)," Zidane's brother Djamel told The Associated Press. "One can't talk about terrorism, one can't talk about the family."
　　
　　The outburst (情感爆发，指上述“用头顶撞对手胸部”事件) marred the end of a sparkling career (使一个辉煌生涯的结局大为减色). Zidane, 34, had said he would retire after the tournament.
　　
　　But despite the ejection (逐出，指“被红牌罚下”), Zidane won the Golden Ball as the World Cup's best player (获世界杯最佳球员金球奖)yesterday. He and his teammates returned from their loss in Germany to a hero's welcome, lunching with French President Jacques Chirac (与法国总统Jacques Chirac共进午餐), who called Zidane "a genius of world football."
　　
　　Although "Les Bleus," as the French players are known, had scrapped (放弃)plans for a celebratory (庆祝的) march down the Champs 蒷ysées, thousands of fans (球迷) turned out to cheer them on (给他们鼓气) anyway.
　　
　　"It's completely logical for Mr. Zidane to respond to insults by that Italian soccer player," said fan Claudia Chetrit, a grocer.
　　
　　"Imagine if someone called you a terrorist - what would your reaction be?"
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-8-6 12:03

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　　New York Daily News
　　4G can't buy her love 4千美金打水漂如意郎君终“缥缈”
　　BY JOSE MARTINEZ
　　DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
　　Saturday, August 5th, 2006
　　
　　A Brooklyn woman looking for love is suing (告，起诉) a dating service for allegedly wronging (欺骗)her - rather than finding her Mr. Right (而并没有替她找到如意郎君).
　　
　　Sarah Valentine [指上述A Brooklyn woman looking for love] says her heart was broken when Great Expectations [指上述a dating service] ripped her off (敲她竹杠) by overcharging her by nearly $2,000, and never finding her a boyfriend.
　　
　　"Maybe there are people who have met the man or woman of their dreams, and they didn't care what they paid," said Valentine's lawyer Richard Altman. "Well, she was dissatisfied with what she got."
　　
　　In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the 55-year-old Valentine accused Great Expectations of billing her (要她支付) $3,990 for its services, even though state law prevents dating services from charging individuals more than $1,000.
　　
　　Valentine says she didn't even come close to finding the "nice guy" she had hoped to meet.
　　
　　"She's a really lovely woman," her lawyer said.
　　
　　Great Expectations calls itself "the nation's premiere destination for meeting and dating quality singles.(全国首家会见并约会优秀单身属的目的地)" The New York-based outfit (机构) takes credit for getting 20,000 couples hitched (称有“撮合”成两万对伴侣的功劳) in nearly 30 years.
　　
　　But Altman believes Valentine isn't the only one who has been let down (disappointed 失望) by Great Expectations and predicted her lawsuit could grow into a class-action suit (共同起诉案).
　　
　　"

eople are being exploited (利用)," Altman said. "We feel this is going on (继续，发生)on a wider scale (范围更广)."
　　
　　Members of Great Expectations sign contracts (签约) allowing them to contact potential mates (接触可能的配偶) whose profiles and photos are entered into a company database.
　　
　　Last year, a Manhattan Civil Court judge ruled (裁定) that the company owed (欠) refunds (退款) to two New York women who had been charged (索价) too much to meet guys, court records show.
　　
　　A Great Expectations spokesman declined to comment on Valentine's allegations, saying he had not reviewed the lawsuit.
　　
　　上海前进进修学院GRE班，执教者与广大学子探讨并传授精通(新老)GRE、精通原版英语报刊、精通英语写作－－精通英语之道。
　　　　　　
　　秋季GRE班开始报名,名额有限。
　　　　　　
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-8-22 16:50

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　　New York Daily News
　　No calm after the storm “暴风雨”之后无平静
　　
　　Monday, August 21st, 2006
　　
　　War, it is said, is a series of catastrophes (灾难)that, sooner or later, result in victory. But the war between Israel and Hezbollah has resulted not in victory but in a disturbingly unquiet peace.
　　
　　First, there's the question about whether the United Nations will put some muscle (= power or authority) where its mouth is and insist on disarming (解除……的武装) Hezbollah. President Bush has declared victory, but that is way premature (大大地过早). It doesn't fit with Secretary of State Rice's statement that the disarmament of Hezbollah should be achieved "voluntarily (自愿地)."
　　
　　Dream on! Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the boss of Hezbollah (and Iran's puppet 傀儡), has already said he won't disarm. To no one's surprise, the Lebanese defense minister vows not to order his army to confiscate (没收) Hezbollah's rockets, mainly because his army couldn't defeat the New York City Police Department. As for the UN, its record in Somalia, Bosnia and Lebanon offers little cause (理由) for hope.
　　
　　So nobody will do it, and Israel, which might (=might do it), is withdrawing on the basis of a document widely seen as a fraud even before the ink on it dries.
　　
　　The bottom line (最终结果): Lebanon may well be Hezbollah's for the taking. What that would mean, of course, is the prospect of more rockets and missiles raining on Israeli civilians.
　　
　　[for the taking - easily available 可轻易获得的. If you're interested in the job, it's there for the taking.
　　Usage notes: often used in the form someone's for the taking: Just when it looked like the gold medal was hers for the taking, she fell and twisted her ankle 正当看起来金牌唾手可得时，她却摔了一跤把脚踝扭伤了]
　　
　　The world's information media seem either incapable of or unwilling to apprehend (=understand) what's now going on around the globe. Al Manar, Hezbollah's TV station, has always been devoted to hate. Al Jazeera, the other Arab cable network, likes to proclaim its integrity (正直) but demonstrates nothing of the kind. These two propaganda (宣传) channels have inflamed the Arab masses with anti-Israel, anti-American propaganda. The American media, of course, have presented the war in a more balanced fashion - but the "balance" of on-the-one-hand, on-the-other reporting is bogus (虚假的). Truth simply doesn't always reside in (存在于) the middle.
　　
　　If that sounds odd, try this: The Japanese, on the one hand, were wrong to bomb Pearl Harbor, while the Americans, on the other, were wrong to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such "balance," in the Middle East, ignores some rather important facts:
　　
　　1. That if Hezbollah laid down its arms, there would be no war, while if Israel laid down its arms, there would be no Israel;
　　2. That this was not a war waged by Israel against innocent Lebanon but a war against Hezbollah;
　　3. That it was not a fight to occupy but merely to protect Israel's right to exist within recognized, legitimate borders.
　　
　　Context. That's precisely what's missing in the media's "balanced" reporting of the conflict. Television is especially problematic (成问题的). The images we see on our screens may be factually accurate, but many represent a profound untruth, leaving viewers with a plethora of (大量) images of a shattered Lebanon and a surging Israeli military. A number of American reporters acknowledged that Hezbollah overseers (监督者) determined what they [指A number of American reporters ] filmed. Repeated - and sometimes doctored (窜改的；伪造的)- photographs of several damaged buildings were intended to confer on Beirut [黎巴嫩首都] the epic status of a Dresden in World War II.
　　
　　The "balanced" media are also somehow incapable of pointing out the fact that it was then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak who ended the Israeli presence in Lebanon in 2000, only to have Hezbollah begin frenetic (狂热的) preparations for an offensive (进攻的)war - missiles are not, after all, defensive (防御的) weapons. Or that since Ariel Sharon ordered the unilateral (单方面的) withdrawal from Gaza last year, Israel hasn't experienced a single day of peace.
　　
　　The media must begin to recognize the fact that its familiar formulas (惯例) for integrity just don't work in this new world that is anything but (=not at all) brave.
　　
　　The final question is how civilized countries should deal with terrorists who hide among women and children. A country under attack must defend its citizens. Period (就这么回事). But when such a country does respond, the media focus on the death toll among the innocents without reflecting what caused the need for military reprisal (报复)in the first place.
　　
　　[period interj. Used to emphasize finality, as when expressing a decision or an opinion: You're not going to the movies tonight, period!]
　　
　　How can the civilized world establish and enforce the principle that civilians are never to be used as human shields? We must have a process for irrefutable (无可辩驳的) international condemnation of terrorists who employ such measures. Failing to do so would mean the terrorists win either on the field of war or in the field of public opinion - while the defenders lose either on the field of war or in the field of international opinion - a lose-lose for the civilized world.
　　
　　The notion of disproportion must be between the side that cares about civilian deaths and the side that revels (= takes great pleasure or delight) in them. We must support those who endanger themselves to protect innocent civilians and condemn (谴责) those who endanger civilians to protect themselves.
　　
　　Fighting terrorism certainly gives life to the sage (睿智的) old adage (格言；谚语), "Never get into a fight with ugly people - because they have nothing to lose."
　　
　　
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作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-8-26 17:57

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　　New York Daily News
　　A sober sweat check 汗水检测仪：监视酒后驾驶的累犯戒酒
　　BY RICHARD WEIR
　　DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
　　Friday, August 25th, 2006
　　
　　Nassau authorities have a new tool to combat (=fight) drunken driving that should make repeat offenders (累犯) sweat.
　　
　　[注意：sweat除了perspire (出汗)的常见义外，还有To suffer much, as for a misdeed.(受到惩罚，吃苦头，难受)义]
　　
　　Chronic (积习难改的) drunken drivers who have been banned (禁止) by courts from tipping the bottle (喝酒) will soon have a high-tech, Big Brother-like (像老大哥似的；这里意指“起处处监视作用的”) device strapped on to help make sure they stay dry (保持戒酒), officials announced yesterday.
　　
　　[dry adj. practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages 完全戒酒]
　　
　　Chronic drunken drivers …will soon have a high-tech, Big Brother-like device strapped on…的具体意思见下文：ankle bracelets that, upon a judge's order, will be worn by repeat drunken drivers…]
　　
　　Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice said her office will purchase 60 "SCRAM" ankle (脚踝) bracelets (镯) that, upon a judge's order, will be worn by repeat drunken drivers to ensure that they are adhering to (坚持，遵守) probation conditions that include abstaining from alcohol (戒酒).
　　
　　[注意：repeat drunken drivers与下文的its wearer，the wearer，the defendant所指相通]
　　
　　The district attorney said the SCRAM bracelet - for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring system - takes random samples (随机取样) of its wearer's perspiration (汗) and then transmits the information by modem to the wearer's probation officer (监视缓刑犯的官员).
　　
　　Analyzing samples of the wearer's perspiration, the SCRAM bracelet detects the presence of alcohol, which lets the probation officer determine whether the defendant is abiding by (遵守) a court's no-booze (不许喝酒的) order (法令).
　　
　　Funding for the bracelets, along with other DWI enforcement related equipment, came from a $110,000 state grant provided by state Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr. (R-Freeport).
　　
　　[DWI = driving while intoxicated 酒后驾驶]
　　
　　"They will help keep recidivist (累犯的) drunk drivers off the road," Rice said in an interview yesterday. "They'll be used for the worst of the worst."
　　
　　According to the district attorney, drunken driving arrests so far this year are up 7% over last year, with 2,012 DWI busts (arrests 逮捕) from January to June, compared to 1,881 for the same period last year.
　　
　　"That's ridiculous," Fuschillo said, referring to the rise in DWI arrests. "It's simply wrong that those statistics have increased at a time when public awareness is at an all-time high. It's inexcusable that people still choose to drink and drive."
　　
　　Fuschillo, author of New York State's ".08" law, called the bracelets a "new tool to fight drinking and driving."
　　
　　The devices, which already are in use in Suffolk County, upload (上载) their information into a modem that the defendants must have at home, in their office or both.
　　
　　While the wearer will be required to be near a modem at a set time to transmit the data, the bracelet keeps the defendant honest by taking continuous, random readings throughout the day.
　　
　　The defendants "can't plan to drink in the morning and then be tested at 5 in evening," Fuschillo said, adding that if the system detects any alcohol, it sends an alert (报警) to the probation officer.
　　
　　"

robation can go out and arrest the person immediately," he said.
　　
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作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-9-5 22:11

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　　上海前进进修学院GRE班
　　　　　　　　　　　　执教教师针对大多数英语学习者“有话难表达”的英语写作薄弱环节，提供大量生动活泼、措词地道的英语原版论说性文章给学员(例如下面的文章)，以使学员迅速扩大词汇量，掌握地道的表达法(词组、成语等等)和句型，写出属于自己的地道的英语作文。
　　
　　
　　New York Daily News
　　By the sweat of the brow 靠着辛苦的劳作
　　
　　[by the sweat of your brow (literary) 靠自己辛苦劳动 if you earn the money that you use to live on by the sweat of your brow, you earn it yourself, by doing hard, often physical work. 例： A decent, hard-working man, he supported his family by the sweat of his brow. ]
　　
　　Monday, September 4th, 2006
　　
　　American workers are doing their part to fuel a healthy economy, cranking out (不断地像机器般地产出) more goods and services per hour than ever in our history. However, they aren't reaping their share of the wealth. Wages are losing ground to (“让位给”) inflation, and benefits are taking an ever bigger bite out of paychecks (从薪水中扣去越来越大的份额；即：使薪水越来越少). Republicans in Washington are slighting (怠慢；忽视) the needs of the middle and working classes, and unions are losing more clout (影响，势力) with every passing year.
　　
　　[crank out something - to produce something continually, like a machine . He regularly cranks out one movie a year and hasn't shown any signs of slowing down
　　
　　take a bite out of something - to reduce something. Work is taking a bite out of his free time. Usage notes: often used about money: Rising energy costs would take a bite out of people's wallets.]
　　
　　Yes, there is a bright side: Thanks to this country's working men and women, American productivity soared 17% from 2000 to 2005 - even faster than during the 1990s boom (繁荣期)- despite the hit the economy took on 9/11 (尽管在9.11经济遭受重创), according to the Economic Policy Institute. Improving technology played a role, but so did old-fashioned elbow grease.
　　
　　[elbow grease - use of physical or mental energy; hard work 费劲；苦干]
　　
　　However, what did workers get for their efforts? Salaries that don't keep up with the cost of living.
　　
　　Median family income, adjusted for inflation (将通货膨胀计算在内), has dipped (降低) 3% since 2000. The growing economy, rather than spreading rewards up and down the ladder (阶梯；up and down the ladder这里指“社会各阶层”), is mainly benefiting those on the higher rungs (梯级).
　　
　　Meanwhile, the benefits most important to average Americans - especially health insurance - are getting less and less affordable. Employers faced with double-digit premium (保险费)increases are shifting costs to employees or dropping coverage (保险) altogether. So far this decade, the ranks of the uninsured (未保过险的人) have swelled (增加) by 6 million, or 15%.
　　
　　The unions that should be speaking up for workers are a shrinking force in American life. They went from representing one in five workers in the 1980s to one in eight today. In places where they still have muscle (力量), such as Detroit, they tend to be forces for stagnation (停滞) rather than progress - turning GM and Ford into health care providers rather than carmakers.
　　
　　This adds up to (总括起来意味着) eroding (“侵蚀的”，有损害的) lifestyles and downward mobility for average Americans, and they know it. When the Pew Research Center asked poll respondents to compare working conditions today to 20 or 30 years ago, 69% said there is more on-the-job stress, 62% saw less job security and 59% said Americans "must work harder to earn a decent living."
　　
　　This may be Labor Day, but all in all (总的来说), there's precious (=very) little to celebrate - except the workers themselves. So give yourselves a well-deserved - and well-earned - pat on the back.
　　
　　[pat on the back – An expression of approval 赞许的表示: received a pat on the back for doing a good job.]
　　
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作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-9-8 21:52

　大量阅读原版新闻全面提高英语水平(30)
　　　　
　　　　上海前进进修学院GRE双休日班
　　　　　　　　　　　　　GRE双休日班　执教教师针对大多数英语学习者“有话难表达”的英语写作薄弱环节，提供大量生动活泼、措词地道的英语原版论说性文章给学员(例如下面的文章)，以使学员迅速扩大词汇量，掌握地道的表达法(词组、成语等等)和句型，写出属于自己的地道的英语作文。
　　　　
　　
　　New York Daily News
　　How carpentry can unite us 消除党派之争团结一致为国
　　BY DON HEWITT
　　Friday, September 8th, 2006
　　
　　There is no greater challenge facing the next President of the United States or the electorate (选民) that will decide who that person will be than restoring to its vaunted (吹嘘的；自吹的) place in the world what the Founding Fathers called the United States of America. Unhappily, the nation today has lapsed into (陷入) what can best be called the Divided States of America - made up of states labeled "red" or "blue" that used to be labeled "red, white and blue."
　　
　　[There is no greater challenge facing the next President of the United States or the electorate that will decide who that person will be (下届美国总统或决定下届美国总统将是谁的选民所面临的挑战) than [注意： no greater challenge than…(没有比……更大的挑战了) restoring to its vaunted place in the world what the Founding Fathers called the United States of America (恢复开国元勋们所称的美利坚合众国在世界上自我标榜的地位).]
　　
　　Isn't it high time we told the Republicans and the Democrats that their interparty (inter- = between) struggles get in the way of (妨碍) the smooth running of our government - our [这个斜体的our表示强调] government - and that they should cut it out (结束他们的党派之争)? Isn't it time the parties assumed, at the very least, a modicum (一点点) of the dignity and decorum the Founding Fathers brought to the job of establishing this nation?
　　
　　[Isn’t it high time we told…是句型，意思是：“我们告诉……不是正是时候了？”注意：后面用过去式(例如本句是told)。这是常用的写作句型
　　
　　cut it out - stop talking or doing something. His friends kept fooling around, and he kept hoping they'd cut it out. Usage notes: often used as an order: Nora, stop it. Cut it out.]
　　
　　Somewhere along the line, one nation indivisible became one nation divisible, easy prey for the lobbyists (轻易成为游说者的牺牲品；语法上是前面的one nation divisible的同位语)who provide mountains of cash to any politician willing to do the bidding of (听命于) the moneymen who have "taken" Capitol Hill (国会山，美国国会所在地) just as surely as Teddy Roosevelt took San Juan Hill.
　　
　　[along the line - during the time while something is happening or being done. 例：Somewhere along the line we must have made a few right decisions. All along the line we missed chances to patch up our quarrel.
　　
　　San Juan Hill - An elevation in eastern Cuba near Santiago de Cuba. It was captured by Cuban and American forces on July 1, 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders became famous for a charge (冲锋)up the hill [指前文的elevation] during the battle.]
　　
　　What to do about it? How about something as simple as hiring a carpenter (木工) to take the middle aisle (走道) out of the Senate and the House of Representatives (参议院和众议院)and make the men and women who sit in those hallowed (奉为神圣的) halls leave their party affiliations (联系；从属关系) in the cloakroom (议院休息室) [这句话的意思见后文就明白了]. Instead, they would go to their seats as United States senators and representatives to vote on legislation that is in the best interest of (符合……的利益) their country - not the best interests of their party.
　　
　　Don Hewitt, creator and former executive producer of "60 Minutes," is author of "Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television."
　　
　　
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　　　　　　　　　　　　秋季GRE班开始报名,名额有限。
　　时间：双休日GRE班
　　　　地点：上海前进进修学院瞿溪路801号(近局门路)
　　　　执教者：《最新GRE词汇与例句》(Barron’s GRE词汇与例句中国第一本全译本1989年出版)译者《中高级英语考试词汇捷径》编著者李蒙恩

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-9-19 23:18

赴英留学的又一新模式

从2003年起英国利物浦约翰莫瑞斯大学(简称JMU大学)和上海大学多次磋商后,于2004年夏季双方正式签订合作协议,在上海大学上海经济管理中心(www.jmu-shanghai.com)开设工商管理硕士(MBA)班,以3+9的学习模式,共同在申城打造EMBA和IMBA新模式。目前此项目已成功运作到五期。

除开设EMBA课程外,此项目还有一个新的专业IMBA(国际工商管理硕士),主要面向大学本科毕业但又无工作经验者或大学专科毕业具有2年工作经验者, 面试合格即可录取入学。

招生对象
l EMBA（高级管理人员工商管理硕士）：本科毕业有工作经验或专科毕业两年以上工作经验
l IMBA（国际工商管理硕士）：本科毕业，具有学士学位可以直升
l IELTS6.0或TOEFL550；或接受免费英语强化培训后，直接入学

英语强化培训，中外英语教师联袂执教。
上海大学上海经济管理中心(www.jmu-shanghai.com)

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-9-26 22:48

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　　New York Daily News
　　Tough pooch turns tables on drug-dealing butchers
　　毒品贩子切开狗肚藏匿毒品顽强猛犬“起死回生”准备回击
　　
　　[turn the tables on someone -to change a situation so that you now have an advantage over someone who previously had an advantage over you 扭转局面(使劣势变为优势). She turned the tables on her rival with allegations of corruption (她以贪污的指控扭转了局面，占了对手的上风).
　　
　　BY MAURICIO OJEDA in Medellin, Colombia
　　and TRACY CONNOR in New York
　　DAILY NEWS WRITERS
　　Sunday, September 24th, 2006
　　
　　Two years after Colombian dope traffickers (哥伦比亚的贩毒者) sliced (=cut) open her belly (肚子) and filled it with heroin, a resilient (=marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune) Rottweiler (罗特韦尔狗，德国种黑色短毛高大猛犬) is almost ready to take a bite out of (= to reduce) crime.
　　
　　The dog - nearly doomed to a miserable death when narcotics agents (缉毒人员) rescued her - is finally finishing up her training to become a drug-sniffing (嗅毒品的) police dog.
　　
　　"Her health couldn't be better (健康状况非常之好)," said her handler (警犬驯练员), John Edison Foronda, of the Colombian national police. "She's recovered 100%."
　　
　　The pooch (=dog), nicknamed Heroina, was one of 10 dogs discovered in a January 2005 raid on (对……突袭查抄) a filthy veterinary (兽医的) clinic in Medellin.
　　
　　Their captors hatched a diabolical scheme (这些狗的捕获者策划了一个凶残的阴谋) to smuggle smack (走私海洛因) by implanting packets of it in the tummies of the helpless animals and then putting them on planes to New York (把一包包的海洛因植入这些无助的动物的肚子内，然后把它们放上飞往纽约的飞机), where they would be butchered again to retrieve the drugs (在纽约再把它们屠宰以取回毒品).
　　
　　The discovery of the narco-kennel (narco- ：毒品；kennel：狗窝；一群狗) led Colombian and U.S. agents to a huge drug ring (庞大的贩毒集团) and resulted in more than a dozen arrests here and abroad.
　　
　　Tragically, most of the puppies (=dogs) subjected to the crude operations (残忍的手术，指上述把“毒品植入肚子内”) died - but Heroina lived, and her remarkable tale of survival touched animal lovers across the city.
　　
　　Dozens offered to adopt (领养) her, but Colombian cops decided she should join their narcotics K-9 unit and help capture drug peddlers (毒品贩子) like the ones who disfigured her (损毁了她的外形).
　　
　　After giving birth to two puppies - who have also been adopted by police officers - Heroina embarked on (开始) intensive training.
　　
　　When she's not guarding police headquarters, she's taking part in drills to fine-tune her smelling abilities. The program is taking longer than expected but is almost over.
　　
　　"Her pedigree (纯种谱系) is tough," Foronda explains. "It's easier to train a German shepherd (牧羊犬) than a Rottweiler like her."
　　
　　Still, it sounds like Heroina follows directions better than one of her fellow survivors, a basset hound (猎狗) named Dona.
　　
　　The floppy-eared (耷拉着耳朵的) pooch [指Dona] was taken in by police agent Juan Carlos Bermudez, but he couldn't keep her because his work kept him away from home too much.
　　
　　"I never had enough time to take her out for a walk and that's very unfair," he said.
　　
　　"She couldn't get used to living in a city house. Dona was destroying and biting my furniture. The dog really needed open countryside."
　　
　　Two months ago, he took the hound to live outside Medellin with a woman whose brother is a veterinarian (兽医) - a boon (=blessing; benefit) in case Dona develops complications (并发症) from the two surgeries she underwent to repair the drug dealers' handiwork.
　　
　　"I'm sure she's [she指上述a woman] taking care of the dog better than me," Bermudez said.
　　
　　"Unfortunately, my 9-year-old son misses the dog so much and asks me about her [指前面的the dog] all the time. We constantly call the new handler to ask how she is."
　　
　　
　　上海前进进修学院GRE、New SAT班特色：
　　1. 研究各种英语难句，增进快速阅读与正确理解的技能。
　　2. 难词、难句、逻辑、解题技巧等方面详加注释，便于研究，融会贯通。
　　3. 利用构词法、联想法快速记忆大量英语词汇，并发大量的详加注释的最新资料(例如下面的文章)，以迅速扩大词汇量，增进阅读技能，活跃写作思路，
　　4. 通过e-mail批改每位学员作文，教师另外再写一篇供该学员参考。
　　5. “一举多得”，为通过“高口”、GMAT、New TOEFL、雅思等考试打下绰绰有余的扎实的基础。
　　
　　上海前进进修学院　
　　　　　　　　　　　秋季GRE双休日班、New SAT周末班开始报名,名额有限。

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-9-30 23:35

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　　像浏览网络中文那样随意轻松地浏览网络原版英语，是一个学习英语已达10年以上的人应当达到的水平，更是高口译者应有的境界。
　　
　　New York Daily News
　　Fake it till you make it 假装高潮以达“高潮”
　　By JANE RIDLEY
　　Thursday, September 28th, 2006
　　
　　It's the last piece of advice you'd expect from a leading feminist writer, but Fay Weldon is encouraging women to fake orgasms (假装达到性高潮)to keep both themselves and their man happy.
　　
　　The acclaimed novelist - best-known for "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" in which a wife wreaks revenge on (对…施行报复) her cheating (不忠的) husband and his lover - believes the majority of women who struggle to climax should just accept their lot (fate 命运) and seek pleasure elsewhere.
　　
　　[cheat v. Informal To be sexually unfaithful <口> (在男女关系上)表现不忠: cheat on a spouse (对配偶不忠实)].
　　
　　"Eighty percent of women only sometimes - or never - experience orgasm. Facts are facts and there we are," Weldon writes in her latest book, "What Makes Women Happy." "Do yourself and him a favor, sister: Fake it."
　　
　　She believes women who don't deceive their partners damage the relationship in the long term (in the final analysis or outcome 终究；结果) because the man may feel inadequate and less able to perform.
　　
　　Weldon explains: "If you are happy and generous-minded, you will fake it and then leap out of bed and make breakfast, squeeze orange juice (榨橙子汁) or pour Champagne (倒香槟酒), [saying], 'You are so clever,' or however you express enthusiasm (或随便以何种方式表达热情).
　　
　　"Faking is kind to male partners who like to think they have done their duty by you. Half the pleasure of sex is being nice to the other person."
　　
　　She goes so far as to say women are better off seeking fulfillment through other means, such as "the exhilaration (=excitement and happiness) of ideas, conversations, the company of good friends and so on."
　　
　　Women rarely admit to (承认) faking, even to their friends after a bottle or two of wine. But a recent online survey by Redbook magazine found 52% of American women frequently pretend they've climaxed (达到性高潮).
　　
　　The most common reasons are fatigue (疲劳), work stress (工作压力), the demands of being a mother and finding it difficult to relax.
　　
　　Tammy, 42, a mother of two from Queens who spoke anonymously (匿名地), believes most women fake orgasms from time to time. "What tired (疲倦的) mom, career woman or wife hasn't (= hasn’t faked)? But I object to (反对) the idea that it's okay to fake it just to make a man feel good. ... If I fake it, I fake it for me!
　　
　　"The main reason is to be done with it without making it into a big deal (主要原因是想了结此事而不要搞成什么了不起的大事)... or more often, just to get some sleep."
　　
　　Some experts are concerned about Weldon's advice, claiming that deception damages a relationship. If a woman is sexually dissatisfied and says nothing about it, cracks (裂缝) will soon develop.
　　
　　New York psychologist (心理学家) Esther Perel, author of "Mating in Captivity," says that faking is a woman's way of appeasing (soothing 抚慰) her man so he doesn't feel like a failure.
　　
　　But she doesn't recommend it.
　　
　　"

erhaps it's time for women to stop caressing male egos (也许妇女停止爱抚地对待男性的虚荣心是时候了)? In faking, a woman can placate (抚慰) an ill-handed (差劲的) lover, but she can also be avoiding the discomfort of asking for what she likes," she said.
　　
　　"I would never say faking makes women happy. At the most, it makes them feel safer or simply relieved. I don't advise (=recommend) it."
　　
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作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-10-6 23:27

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　　New York Daily News
　　Hands off my man! 别碰我的男人！
　　BY JO PIAZZA
　　Thursday, October 5th, 2006
　　
　　It has gotten so hard for women in this city to find a man that they have started stealing other women's boyfriends.
　　
　　Man-poaching (偷汉子) may be as old as dating itself, but recently ladies have been plucking (“抢”) men right from underneath their friends' noses.
　　
　　[poach v. To take or appropriate unfairly or illegally]
　　
　　Early yesterday morning reality TV star Shanna Moakler got her revenge (via fisticuffs 用拳击) on (向……报复) Paris Hilton for hooking up with (与……勾搭) her ex-husband, rocker (摇滚歌手) Travis Barker, during New York Fashion Week.
　　
　　Just last week it was revealed that attorney general candidate Jeanine Pirro's so-called friend Lisa Santangelo was the one she [指Jeanine Pirro ]suspected of having an affair (私通) with her husband, Al.
　　
　　Earlier this year, Denise Richards borrowed Richie Sambora from best gal pal (=girl friend) Heather Locklear around the same time that Paris Hilton stole Stavros Niarchos from Mary-Kate Olsen.
　　
　　In her cancer memoir "Cancer Vixen," New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto recounts stories of women she knew approaching her then-fiance (那时的未婚夫) during her illness, asking him, "Don't you want a healthy girlfriend?"
　　
　　And James Blunt had to fend off (挡开，避开) aggressive fans and groupies (“追星族”) at the MTV Music Awards recently, as they propositioned (=proposed sexual relations to) him right in front of his model girlfriend, Petra Nemcova.
　　
　　Is no man safe from the clutches (手掌) of man-poachers?
　　
　　Jennifer Weiner, author of "The Guy Not Taken," has a few simple rules for fending off a stud-stealer (偷帅哥者).
　　
　　[stud n. Slang a. A man regarded as virile and sexually active.
　　b. A man regarded as attractive.]
　　
　　"Don't have a pool if you have a hot (lustful; sexy 好色的；性感的) friend. That way, he can never see her in a bikini (比基尼)," Weiner recommends. "But, seriously, I think the first key is to get yourself a better set of women friends. Real friends don't poach each others' guys."
　　
　　And no matter how much you want a good guy, your best friends' husbands or boyfriends are off-limits.
　　
　　[off-limits adj. Not to be entered or frequented by a designated group 禁止进入(或常去)的: a bar that is off-limits to military personnel ]
　　
　　"If you're going to be friends with Denise Richards[此人在第5段提到], realize there are certainly risks inherent in that. Be friends with normal people," Weiner warns. "If you have a guy you care about, end that friendship with Paris [此人第3段提到]."
　　
　　Kelly, 28, was engaged (订婚的) when her fiance (未婚夫) took off (=left) with her best friend.
　　
　　"They worked together and started working ridiculous hours," she remembers. "Then, three months before the wedding, he called it off (call off 取消) and said he was in love with her." Kelly hasn't spoken to either of them since.
　　
　　She chose not to see the warning signs.
　　
　　"They both started mentioning each other a lot. They would name-drop the other one all the time for no reason and she started calling just to talk to him. In the beginning, I was actually happy that they got along so well. I shouldn't have been."
　　
　　[name-dropping n. the act of using a well-known person’s name in conversation and implying acquaintance with him to make one seem important (为抬高自己而在交谈中以熟人的口气)经常提及名人姓名 v. to practice name-dropping]
　　
　　Not surprisingly, man-poaching stems from insecurity. "The idea is that if I take something away from you then it makes me feel better about myself," says developmental psychologist Cooper Lawrence. "This woman is so completely mired in this narcissistic world (完全陷入这种自恋的世界中), she can only focus on her needs. They believe that you as a friend should understand that your man likes me better and he was going to be with me anyway."
　　
　　Many times, men won't even realize they are being poached.
　　
　　Doug had been dating his girlfriend for a year and a half when her close friend started being extra friendly.
　　
　　"The first thing I thought was, 'Wow, this girl is really friendly.' And for the first three or four times it happened, I didn't pick up on it (我对此并不领悟)," he remembers. "And then she broke the physical barrier and started touching me and it made me uncomfortable. I thought, 'This is great but I'll get in trouble if I sleep with this girl.' It was flattering, but I had to say no."
　　
　　Brad didn't say no. He acted on the impulse (冲动) when his girlfriend's twin sister started coming on to him. "I was drunk and she kissed me and I didn't stop it," he says. "It only happened once, but a year later I found out my girlfriend had known and ignored it and I felt awful."
　　
　　[come on to someone- to try to attract someone romantically or sexually 卖弄风情. She felt bold and confident enough to come on to him at the party.]
　　
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作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-10-22 23:18

　与时俱进通晓英语
　　以下所列的成语或俚语，均出自New York Daily News；解释均出自上海前进进修学院GRE班教师Mr.Lee。 (前进GRE班(以及New SAT班)把大量详加注释的New York Daily News作为迅速扩大词汇量、提高阅读与写作能力的补充读物，以期与时俱进，达到在短期内通晓英语之目的)
　　
　　纽约每日新闻成语俚语集锦 (1)
　　【标题】Nab fake 911 caller who carried a torch 单恋男子恶作剧虚报火警遭逮捕
　　【成语】carry a torch (for someone) to be in love with someone who does not love one in return; to brood over a hopeless love affair 单恋；单相思
　　【用法】张先生暗恋王小姐多年了。 Mr. Zhang has been carrying a torch for Miss Wang for years.

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-10-29 17:28

纽约每日新闻成语俚语集锦 (2)
　　
　　【谈话】"I hate to sound litigious, but why was the hole uncovered?" she asked. "I can tell you Nat will be very angry about this. He doesn't take anything lying down." 　“我可不想听起来好像挺喜欢打官司似的，但那个洞为何不盖上？”她问道。“老实说，Nat为此会大发脾气的。他是不会善罢甘休的。”
　　【成语】take … lying down to submit to harsh treatment with no resistance 屈从于；甘心忍受(苛待等)
　　【用法】　他不能像那样老是把你差来遣去的。你谅必不会甘心忍受那种苛待吧！　He can't just order you about like that. Surely you're not going to take that lying down!
　　
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作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-11-10 21:44

纽约每日新闻成语俚语集锦 (3)
　　
　　【句子】A crafty con man (骗子) was charged yesterday with using sob stories to scam (欺骗) scores of priests from coast to coast to the tune of more than $200,000, federal prosecutors said. 　　联邦检察官称，一个狡猾的骗子利用个人不幸遭遇的伤感故事在全美国欺骗众多神甫而在昨天遭到指控，其诈骗金额达20万美元之多。
　　sob story- A tale of personal hardship or misfortune intended to arouse pity (意在引起同情的关于个人不幸遭遇的)伤感故事
　　【成语】to the tune of -To the sum or extent of 共计；达……之多
　　【用法】该工厂去年生产利润共计1,000万美元。The factory produced profits to the tune of $10 million.
　　
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作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-11-24 00:30

纽约每日新闻  成语俚语集锦 (4)

【句子】Someday paying to make a call may seem as quaint as paying to use a john. 将来某一天付钱打电话可能像付钱用厕所一样显得怪怪的。
【俚语】john  n. Slang. a toilet  <俚> 厕所，盥洗室

纽约每日新闻  成语俚语集锦 (5)
【句子】The ring operated out of an eighth-floor suite off Fifth Ave. where "dispatchers"  took calls from johns drawn via a Web site. 　该卖淫集团(The ring在原文指the prostitution ring)从一套位于8楼的房间中“开展业务”(离第5大街处)，在那里“调度员”接听通过网站吸引来的嫖客的电话。
【俚语】john  n. Slang. customer of a prostitute  <俚> 嫖客

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-11-26 20:57

纽约每日新闻成语俚语集锦 (6)
　　【谈话】 "He's trying to look like he's doing something, but he's not doing anything but pass the buck “他试图让自己看起来正在做些什么，但除了推卸责任他什么都没有做."
　　【成语】pass the buck to blame someone or to make them responsible for a problem that you should deal with yourself 推卸责任.
　　【用法】孩子在校举止失礼，家长往往把责任推给老师。Parents often try to pass the buck to teachers when children misbehave in school. 说司机应对耽搁负责，公共汽车公司的这种说法纯粹是推卸自身的责任。Bus companies are just passing the buck by saying their drivers are responsible for delays.
　　
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作者: kentchan 时间: 2006-11-29 16:35

so long?

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-12-10 23:42

纽约每日新闻成语俚语集锦 (7)

【标题】Martha TV show
　　 cooks its goose 玛莎电视秀名声扫地
　　【成语】cook someone’s goose to ruin or damage someone；to ruin someone’s chances or future 毁掉某人；败坏某人的名誉; 毁了某人的机会或将来
　　【用法】人们在他的口袋里找到了失窃的宝石，这下他可完了。His goose was cooked when they found the stolen gems in his pocket.
　　
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2006-12-31 18:44

纽约每日新闻成语俚语集锦 (8)
　　
　　【标题】Quick sex fix for quick finishers 治疗早泄立竿见影
　　【俚语】quick fix n. Slang 　A hastily contrived remedy that alleviates a problem only for the time being　　<俚> 补救方法，应急措施
　　注：上述标题在fix前加了sex，灵活应用了quick fix。
　　
　　纽约每日新闻成语俚语集锦 (17)
　　
　　【标题】Boffo bash, lotsa cash for Bubba 盛大生日庆祝克林顿财源滚滚
　　 Bubba 南方白佬；指Clinton
　　【俚语】Boffo adj. extremely successful; great
　　bash n. A celebration; a party
　　
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作者: 李豪 时间: 2007-1-1 20:54

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作者: 李豪 时间: 2007-1-2 14:31

纽约每日新闻成语俚语集锦 (10)
　　
　　【句子】A pregnant woman leaving a man has to have reached the end of her rope, the straw that breaks the camel's back often being the man's infidelity, drug use, or abusiveness . 女人怀孕而同男人分手一定是到了忍无可忍的地步，使她最终无法再忍受的事情往往是男子的不忠、吸毒，或是虐待。
　　【成语】at the end of one’s rope –at the end of one’s patience, strength, or will to go on 忍无可忍；山穷水尽；走投无路
　　【谚语】the straw that breaks the camel's back 来自 the last straw that breaks the camel’s back (最后添加的一根稻草压断骆驼背脊), 意思是 the last in a series of unpleasant events which finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation

作者: 李豪 时间: 2007-2-25 12:32

本栏所列的成语或俚语，均出自New York Daily News；解释均出自上海前进进修学院GRE班教师李蒙恩。 (前进GRE班把大量详加注释的New York Daily News作为迅速扩大词汇量、提高阅读与写作能力的补充读物，以期“一举多得”(因为精通New York Daily News对真正把握高级口译很有必要，对New TOEFL、New SAT、雅思等考试以及对出国深造都大有益处)，与时俱进，达到在短期内通晓英语之目的。
　　
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　　纽约每日新闻成语俚语集锦 (11)
　　
　　【句子】 While his book is likely to take some of the wind out of the sails - and sales - of a Felt memoir, Woodward and fellow Pulitzer prizewinner Bernstein said their old source [指Felt] might have some fresh stories to tell.　伍德瓦德的书可能使费尔特的回忆录失去某些优势 ——还有销售量，但伍德瓦德和同获普利策奖的伯恩斯坦称，这位过去曾向他们提供消息的人士也许有些新鲜故事要讲。
　　【成语】take the wind out of (one's) sails - to rob of an advantage; deflate. 冷不防使某人丧失优势；使某人泄气
　　【用法】吉尔未能获得那项奖学金，着实很为泄气。Her failure to get that scholarship certainly has taken the wind out of Jill’s sails.
　　

作者: 李豪 时间: 2007-3-11 21:41

New York Daily News
He's got a spectacular
aptness for vernacular  他的词汇天赋着实惊人
By JESS WISLOSKI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, March 5th, 2007

Micah Jordan knows the meaning of "precocious lexicologist (“早熟词汇学家”) - because he is one.

Big words don't scare Micah, the city's new vocabulary champ (冠军) and a prodigy (神童) who has been reading since he was a toddler (学步的儿童) in the Bronx.

"My mom read a ridiculous amount when she was carrying me (怀上我；carry = be pregnant with)," said Micah, 16, a junior at the Pablo Neruda Academy for Architecture and World Studies.

In December, he beat out (击败) 95 other city students to win the right to represent New York in the first-ever National Vocabulary Championship.
[beat out - Informal. to defeat; win or be chosen over]

"I like competition and I like words," shrugged Micah in an interview with the Daily News. "This was [a] perfect meeting of the two."

Today, he hopes to show up (超过) 49 contestants from around the country in the national competition at the New York Public Library.
[show up - to make (another) seem inferior; outdo.]

Sponsored by the Game Show Network, the contest's payoff is bragging rights, fame and money.
[bragging rights -the supposed right to brag about an accomplishment]

Micah received $5,000 in college tuition funds for winning the city finals. The national champion will be awarded $40,000. And the cable network will air (播送) the contest on April 15. Micah's teachers and parents noticed his affinity (爱好) for language from an early age. His first-grade teacher often sneaked (偷偷地给) him reading material for fifth- and sixth-graders.

He loved learning new words, "the bigger the better," recalled his mom, Anna Jordan, who read the Bible to him while pregnant (怀孕时).

"It seemed like everything we did was word-related. We would have a piece of string and he would make letters out of it," she said.

Yet the mom, who dropped out of a trade school and now cooks at a school for the blind (盲人学校), said she and Micah's dad, a cable installer, didn't know how far he could go. "We couldn't ever have imagined this for him," she said.

Micah's life has not only been in the world of words. He grew up in the rough-and-tumble streets and schools of the city, and suffered through the untimely death of his older brother Fred, 28, a manager for music and talent at MTV, who died in his sleep in April 2001.
[rough-and-tumble - Characterized by roughness and disregard for order or rules  (打、斗等)混乱激烈的；杂乱的；不守规则的]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "He was like a third parent," said Micah, who went to parties for Mariah Carey and Jay-Z with his "smart, popular, successful" brother at the age of 10."

"I want to be like that," he said - adding he's more into (=interested in) engineering or work in a medical field.

Micah is the only African-American in the contest. "It's no extra pressure," he insisted, but "it is strange to be the only one of anything.

"When Tiger Woods first came out, he was 'the best black golfer ever,' " said Micah. "When he kept racking up (积累) those green jackets, it was just 'Tiger Woods is the best golfer (高尔夫球运动员) ever.'
[关于green jacket，　请看这段文字：In addition to a cash award, the winner of the tournament is presented with a distinctive green jacket, awarded since 1949, and highly coveted (渴求) among professional golfers.]

Read 'em & weep
High school students competing in the National Vocabulary Championship must beat the clock, and each other, by answering stumpers (疑难问题) like these:
1. Which of these words is an antonym for "energetic"?
A. Hebetudinous
B. Rimose  (full of chinks, cracks, or crevices)
C. Stannous  (of or relating to or containing tin)
D. Disjunctive

2. Which word can mean either "true nature" or "trifling difference"?
A. Multiplicity
B. Subterfuge
C. Quiddity
D. Sophistry

3. Find the bogus word.
A. Brousy
B. Sotted
C. Oleaginous
D. Farceur
Answers: 1) A. Hebetudinous means "the state of being dull," which is the opposite of energetic. 2) C. Quiddity can mean "the essential nature" or "a trifling distinction." 3) A. Brousy isn't a word. Sotted means drunken; oleaginous means "having the nature or qualities of oil, and farceur means "a writer or director of" or "actor in farce."

作者: 李豪 时间: 2007-4-2 17:53

纽约每日新闻成语俚语集锦 (12)
　　
　　【句子】Garoppolo bends over backward to find mitigating circumstances (read feeble excuses) to justify letting Ryan and Smith off with slaps on the wrist. Garoppolo竭尽全力找出可使罪行减轻的情节(应读作站不住脚的借口)，来为从轻发落Ryan 和 Smith作辩解。
　　【成语】bend/lean over backwards to do sth -- to try very hard to do something, especially to help or please someone else 竭尽全力
　　【成语】slap on the wrist -- A nominal or token punishment. 轻微的处罚；象征性的处罚
　　
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