cover story(封面故事):
- Clean energy’s dirty secret:清洁能源的肮脏幕后;
0. 词汇
- respite:n. 缓解;暂缓;暂时的休息;缓期执行;也作及物动词(vt)
- the respite in the euro crisis
- ordeal:n. 折磨;严酷的考验;痛苦的经验
- how dispiriting that Europe is still so ill-prepared for the ordeal to come.
- alter:改变;
- austere:adj. 严峻的;简朴的;苦行的;无装饰的
- oust:vt,驱逐,剥夺,
- predecessor:n. 前任,前辈
- accommodate:vt. 容纳;使适应;供应;调解
1. 文化典故
- Achilles heel:阿喀琉斯之踵,致命要害
- Europe’s Achilles heel
2. 经济
bail-out:n. 跳伞;以优先股发给股东作为红利之行为
- bail-out fund 救市资金
- bail-out plan 救援计划 ; 经济稳定紧急法案
Fiscal compact:
- European Fiscal Compact:欧洲财政协定
3. sentences
Time is short.
- Time is short in that you have to move very quickly.
- 时间又是短暂的,因为你必须时常做出改变。
with so much at stake,带着这么多恩恩怨怨,
4. 政治
- mandate:授权,命令;
- mandatory:强制的,
- chancellor:总理,
- Angela Merkel,Germany’s chancellor
- looming:adj. 隐隐约约的;正在逼近的
Another government spending(政府开支) crisis is looming in the United States. - endorse:背书,认可,附议,在背面签名;
- we endorse Hilary Clinton for president.
- fiscal:adj. 会计的,财政的;国库的;fiscal team:财政团队;
5. 社会
- hazard:
- vt. 赌运气;冒…的危险,使遭受危险;
- n. 危险,冒险;冒险的事
- moral hazard,道德风险,
6. 修辞
contagion:n,传染病,蔓延,
- contagion from a Greek exit would infect Portugal, Ireland and even Spain and Italy.
delusion:迷惑,欺骗,
- self-delusion