生词表 2007
rally
quirk 怪癖，古怪之处
By some strange quirk/By an odd quirk of fate (= unexpectedly), we ended up on the same train.
There is a quirk in the rules that allows you to invest money without paying tax.
feed 输送人才
ranks （团体或组织的）成员
the European natioanl youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks
pronounced 明显的
She's a woman of very pronounced views which she is not afraid to air.
astrological 占星术的
confer 授予（称号）；赋予（优势）
Certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills.
stamina 耐力，持久力
mania 狂热
intuitive 直觉的
inborn 先天的
swamp 沼泽；淹没
pursuit 爱好；追踪；追求
supplement （杂志或报纸的）增刊，副刊
field 应付，处理（难题，电话等）
She has fielded five calls from salespeople.
He fielded some awkward questions very skilfully.
Joe 普通人 the average ~
So it is a bit confusing when vos Savant fields such queries from the average Joe ( whose IQ is 100 ) as, What's the difference between love and fondness? Or what is the nature of luck and coincidence?
suit ( to make sb have the right qualities to do sth )
elude 避开;（观点，事实）不为（某人）所理解（或记得）
It's not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers.
encompass 包含
chronological 按事件发生的年代顺序排列的 ~ age 生理年龄
Traditional tests fail to measure creativity and practical knowledge, components also critical to problem solving and life success.
toil 苦干；艰难缓慢地行走
Anyone who has toiled through SAT will testify that test-taking skill also matters, whether it's knowing when to guess or what questions to skip.
pink slip 解雇通知单
of every stripe/of all stripes 各类
backup 备份，替补
budget 制定预算
An extra $20 million has been budgeted for schools this year.
Today's families have budgeted to the limits of their new two-paycheck status.
weather 平安度过（困境）；经受住
outlive 比……活得长
the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money
trade sth for sth 用某物交换某物；不做某事/用某物转而做某事/用某物
I wouldn't trade you for the world.
retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for payments depending on investment returns
deductible （保险）免赔额；（工资）扣除金额（指在收到工资时已经被扣除的各项金额）
demographics 人口统计数据
work against/for 对（某人）不利／有利
odds 可能性，几率
attendant 服务员，侍者；伴随而来的
Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent—and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance—have jumped eightfold in just one generation.
wholesale 批发的（地）；（尤指坏事或过于极端的事）完全的（地），大规模的（地）
From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financail responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders.
fallout （核爆炸后产生的）放射性坠尘；不良影响，恶果
sort out 解决
compliance 服从，顺从，遵守
accounting and compliance troubles 财务和合规问题
earn 招惹
heads will roll 有人将被辞退（或被迫辞职）
？the executive suite 主管办公室
Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them—especially in America—the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity.
？put right 纠正
Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the boss's agenda in businesses of every variety.
redundancy 冗余
dim 愚蠢的，迟钝的
go astray （东西）被遗失，被放错地方
go/do the rounds 到各处去；到处传播
corporate America 美国商界
clique 小圈子
vaunted 被吹捧的
deploy 有效利用 ~ effective organizational skills
stretch （时间）连续的一段 for long stretches
sustained 持续的 ~ concentration
inadequacy: a lack of confidence that makes you feel unable to deal with a situation
suffer from feelings of inadequacy
fledge （幼鸟）长出飞羽
