打卡 | 7天读《经济学人》计划！6.17-6.23
上一次 15天读《华尔街日报》计划 如期结束！感觉是坚持记新单词了，达到一段时间就会和一些常用词混个脸熟，不足之处是还需要考虑如何复习归纳
这两周换个口味，读《经济学人》吧（WSJ的订阅价是$4/月，经济学人$6.5/月，大家看看学校有没有订阅再考虑）
Weekly Wrap-up
n. affray brawl skirmishes artillery punch-ups casualty backlash iron rods in thrall to... netizens coercion au pairs nonpartisan hypertension ward deficit interrogation hand grenade lenience v. wield reciprocate thump lament irk abduct sack hurl chide hamper toil hasten venture retaliate languish pseudonymize disparage subpoena
adj. / adv. positive: laugh uproariously gratifying negative: daunting damning caustic impermissible feeble unrepentant fraught reckless unduly harsh appalled
neutral: allegedly on a sweltering afternoon terse draconian contested slumping eminently reliant
phrases: without bloodshed (Troops) square off play down they're napping on the border China's growing clout on carve-out at pains to ramp up the rhetoric on... cast lights on ... a trickle of ... pop into in reams of ... end-run illicit crossing multitude of ... curry favor with ... plead with ... a quid pro quo hip-deep self-inflicted
6.23 Why China Bullies
Words:
China is often called a country in thrall to 受……奴役 nationalism He was completely in her thrall. He was completely in thrall to her
On a sweltering (uncomfortably hot) afternoon in Beijing
terse 简洁的 reports
Indeed, some netizens 网民 treated the story as a joke, mocking India’s soldiers as feeble 无力的. his voice sounded feeble and far away
Millions of Chinese demanded Mr. Morey’s sacking 解雇.
hurl rocks 用力丢石块
India is not in the rogue’s gallery of imperialist bullies that China’s young learn about at school.
reckless 鲁莽的
Beijing’s Use of Coercion 压迫 in the South China Sea
it has decided to impose a draconian 严苛的(usually for law) national-security law on **, slapped trade boycotts on Australia and other Western nations, and sent coastguard ships to sink or harass foreign vessels in the contested 有争议的 waters of the South China Sea
It is hard for governments to chide 责骂 China over democracy in **, say, while also negotiating to buy Chinese ventilators.
This is a time of slumping 猛然下跌 global demand for China’s goods and interrupted supply chains.
Chinese officials growl that **-based foreign banks must support the national-security law, for they are eminently 非常的 replaceable.
China feels less reliant on other countries
Expressions:
casts another light on
6.22 Trump Order Would Temporarily Suspend New H-1B, Other Visas
on a slate of 一块板
J-1 visas for short-term workers including camp counselors and au pairs (a young foreign person, typically a woman, who helps with housework or child care in exchange for room and board)
panned both by immigration advocates for being unduly 过分的 harsh and immigration hardliners 强硬派 for being too narrow.
A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center shows that a majority of Americans, about 64%, believe immigrants primarily fill jobs Americans don’t want.
a nonpartisan 无党派的 think tank
would hamper 阻碍 economic growth rather than bolster it.
New York City Begins Phase Two of Reopening After Coronavirus Lockdown
who normally toil 辛苦工作 in the city
the city kicked off phase two
a thin but steady trickle of 一小股 commuters exited their trains
The 41-year-old said she popped into 急忙走进 her office over the weekend to scope out 利用 public transportation before officially starting back on Monday
As more New Yorkers have ventured 冒险旅行 outside in recent weeks
he worried that reopening will hasten 加速 a rise in infections similar to Florida
6.21 Fathers Also Do their share of ‘invisible labor’
discussing, debating and dissecting 仔细分析
appalled 惊骇的
I would rather weigh in on a Latin assignment
this is not gratifying 悦人的 work
some people are lamenting 哀悼 the “quarantine 15”, extra points they gained by stress-eating or baking
As Covid-19 hits developing countries, its victims are younger
美国70%以上的COVID死者是75岁以上的老人，意大利则有75%以上。但墨西哥则恰恰相反：仅17%的死者年龄75岁以上，近半数死亡病例在45-65岁之间。
一个原因：在发展中地区，中年人患有隐性疾病（糖尿病等）的概率更高，且这些地区的医疗系统更差。以墨西哥为例，4成新冠死者患有高血压，4成患有糖尿病，而四分之一的死亡病例有超重问题。
另一个原因：发展中地区缺乏养老机构——三成以上的美国死亡病例都发生在养老院里，这些地方病毒传染十分迅速。而在墨西哥等欠发达地区，老人大多与家人居住在一起，这样老人之间传播的概率就会降低。
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads from the hardest hit areas of Europe and the US to the developing world
It is much the same story...
a greater prevalence of underlying deseases ...
upshot 要点
hypertension 高血压
Mexicans like to joke that they eat too much Vitamin T - carbonhydrate-laden comfort food like tacos, tortillas and tamales
to make up the deficit
he was taken to the Covid-19 ward 病房
6.20 The Huawei Hostage
Beijing retaliates 报复 against Ottawa by prosecuting two Canadians
two Canadian men face lengthy prison sentences after Chinese prosecutors indicted them as spies
Canada lent the US a hand by arresting...
The US alleges 声称 that
She denies any wrongdoing
the two have languished 憔悴、失去活力 in Chinese custody for some 18 months
and Canadian officials worry they’ve been subjected to interrogation 审讯 and sleep deprivation
6.19 IRS Used Cellphone Location Data to Try to Find Suspects
IRS从一个做marketing的公司那里买到了一些匿名用户数据，有些用户数据是基于定位的。定位数据本身能有什么用呢？其实如果你多想一步就很可怕了：比如你过夜的地方往往就是你的住处，比如你每周去的心理医生诊所就是你的固定心理医生等等。目前法律是要求政府必须获得使用令才能利用这些数据起诉的，但对marketing（即匿名）数据的利用则处于灰色地带。
COVID期间，政府开始尝试利用定位数据来控制疫情，但这一利用对隐私的侵犯也令人担忧。不过目前看来IRS的尝试是失败的：据他们所说，今年他们没有一次成功使用这些数据胜诉……
how anonymized information sold by marketers is increasingly being used by law enforcement to identify
according to Mr. ‘s aide 助手
interest in reams of ... 大量的
related to an alleged crime 所谓的
the data that xxx uses is pseudonymized 匿名化
as part of an end-run 迂回战术 around the fourth amendment
illicit crossing 非法穿越
6.18 Five Takeaways From John Bolton’s Memoir - NYT
New words:
“The Room Where It Happened” describes Mr. Bolton’s 17 turbulent months at President Trump’s side
plans to publish a damning 受诅咒的 book
the White House chief of staff, disparaged 贬低 the departing adviser
espionage sources （the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information）
I thought was not properly classifiable （To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret）
a hand grenade 手榴弹 who’s going to blow everybody up
Mr. Bolton explains his position in the epilogue 结语
Mr. Bolton volunteered to testify in the Senate trial that followed if subpoenaed 传唤
malpractice
six-count indictment 控告
was convicted of evading sanctions 逃避制裁
during its follow-up consent decree 和解协议
an act of lenience 仁慈
Mr. Bolton has rarely shied (past participle of shy) from giving his opinions
Putin had to be laughing uproariously 放声大笑 at what he had gotten away with in Helsinki
caustic 腐蚀性的、挖苦的 infighting 混战
indicative of possible impermissible (too bad to be allowed) behavior.
the White House chief of staff, disparaged 贬低 the departing adviser
espionage sources （the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information）
I thought was not properly classifiable （To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret）
New phrases:
through a multitude of 大量 crises
He also asserts that the president was willing to intervene in criminal investigations to curry favor 迎合、讨好 with foreign dictators. （ingratiate 迎合 oneself with someone through obsequious 谄媚的 behavior）
Mr. Trump pleaded with 恳求 China’s president
a quid pro quo (a favor or advantage granted or expected in return for something) that House Democrats called an abuse of power.
he objected to the “drug deal” being cooked up by Mr. Trump’s associates to force Ukraine to help
who was hip-deep (sooooo involved) in the affair
self-inflicted 自己造成的 wound
Cute expressions:
one of the capital’s most outspoken hawks
笑死: Mr. Bolton also describes an environment inside the administration marked by caustic infighting in which various players trash one another in a contest for the president’s ear — and the president trashes all of them.
6.17 India and China have their first deadly clashes in 45 years
New words:
The border affray 动乱 is a sign of worrying military escalation between Asia’s giants - when the brawl 喧闹、动乱 ended - since skirmishes 小冲突 with Vietnam
THE TWO armies each had guns, artillery 大炮 and tanks to the rear
But they wielded 使用 only sticks and stones at the front
Chinese casualties 伤亡 are unknown
managed their differences without bloodshed
As troops squared off （打斗等时）摆好（架势）, punch-ups 群架 erupted twice in May
backlash 强烈抵制（a strong and adverse reaction by a large number of people, especially to a social or political development）
India had reciprocated 报答
iron rods 铁棒
China’s government was unrepentant 顽固的
the PLA thumped 重击 India’s army in a brief border war in 1962
Last year China was irked 厌烦 by India's decision ...
Relations with Pakistan are also fraught 使人担心
two Indian officials in Pakistan were allegedly 据说 abducted 绑架
New phrases:
Even then, India’s government played down 减少 the severity of the crisis, eager to avoid giving the impression that it had been caught napping on 疏忽 the border
India is anxious over China’s growing economic and political clout on 日渐增长的影响力 India’s periphery and over the influx 流入 of Chinese warships into the Indian Ocean.
a $3.5bn arms deal
and carve out 拆分 Ladakh into a separate territory
Though India is at pains to 努力 stress that
Cute expressions: - The border has turned stormier - the Global Times, a state-run tabloid 《环球时报》，一个政府运营的八卦小报 - at least 20 Indian troops lay dead in the picturesque Galwan valley - Indian officials also ramped up 提高 rhetoric 修辞、豪言壮语 on retaking the entirety of - In response, successive Indian governments have tilted closer to America - A quartet of 四重奏 China-sceptic countries known as the “Quad” - And then more soldiers were sent tumbling to their deaths by China’s troops
