1.the oddsof yet another leadership crisis have just shortened dramatically
2.it ousted the long-ruling Liberal Democrats (LDP) ten months ago
3.nemesis, to disenchantment
4.campaigned tirelessly
5.When your correspondent stumbled across him on the campaign trail
voters behaved as if they were in the presence of a pop star
6.disgruntled
7.the election is maddeningly hard to read
8.which had tried desperately to reverse Junichiro Koizumi:小泉纯一郎
9. such leaders seem to be in short supply
10.the éminence grise in the DPJ
11.snipe at him cast himself as a man of the people
12.Good Karma became bad Karma
13.restive minority regions at its periphery
Another hour passed and the crowd grew/became restive.
又过了一个小时，人们有些不耐烦了。
14.periodically erupt into violence.
15.But in one sense, time works against Beijing
16.Sensitive dates have often been catalysts for renewed trouble
17. reviled by Beijing as a conniving splittist
18.stave off big concessions
19.Serf Emancipation Day
20.Amnesty International torturing detainees
21. received a five-year prison sentence for inciting subversion
22.carnage in somewhere
23.break even
24.is scheduled to be the first of its peers to .....
25.The group has lost money for 10 straight quarters
26. credit crunch set the stage for the recovery
27.the corner has been turned:困境好转了
28.free cash flow A Rising Tide’ double-dip
29.Tighter supply coupled with rising demand is helping carriers increase ticket prices
30. in the first half
31.I’m in more of a 'show-it-to-me’ frame of mind.
32.surcharge civil servant
33.pre-eminently ardent ardently
Better far to do one thing pre-eminently well than to dabble in forty. 将一件事做到极致远远强于将四十件事作为兴趣浅尝辄止。
34. seen as the evil genius who inspired today’s global jihad
35. enigmatic melancholy
36. secular nationalism of the day manifesto martyr
37.Shortly after seized power Milestones
John passed through a difficult period shortly after his marriage broke down. 婚姻破裂不久，约翰经历了一段短暂的艰难时期。
38. a
debased Western culture sexual
promiscuity
39.abject benighted condition of Arabia prior to theadventof Islam
Both of them died inabject poverty...
他们两人都于穷困潦倒中死去。
Both have failed abjectly.
两人都遭遇了惨败。
40. vanguard
insidious
appalled appalling appall at 吃惊
They have been living under the most appalling conditions for two months.
他们已经在恶劣不堪的条件下生活两个月了。
41. off-message descended on commitment to
42. a resilient insurgency meddlesome neighbours
43.is so well endowed with mineral wealth
44.the growing band of pessimists the provinces of the rebellious south
45.The most hard-nosed realists
warlords
There are many such warlords who understand this peculiarity of China's.
中国有很多这样的军阀，他们都懂得中国的特点。
hard-liner 不妥协者
high-binder
globe-trotter环球旅行者
