1 on and off and other odds and ends
2. have become friends over the years.
3. therapist draw together local agencies
Would you please draw together the snag in my cuff?
请你把我袖口上的裂口缝上好吗？
4.they have an intense emotional attachment
5. Band-Aid homes with chock-full yards or porches are eyesores
That new multi-storey carpark is a real eyesore. 那座新的多层停车场实在难看。
6.newspapers piled near kitchen stoves or rats infiltrating apartment complexes.
7.To foot the bill
I was in a jam because I didn't have enough money to foot the bill.
我带的钱不够付帐，处境很狼狈。
8.hosted by none other than the First Lady herself.
9.prompted imitators : 引起模仿（者）....
10 take a cash prize
It's like trying to shovel sand off the beach with a teaspoon
11.Some task forces sprang up because city officials didn't know how to deal with hoarders.
上句 无间断，中间没有标点符号
12. passing the buck （ 取自 现在进行时句中）
13.We're not there to strong-arm them
14.they were bagging up these papers
15.and she sleepsnestled among bags of clean clothes.
She nestled the eggs safely in the straw in Jim's basket.
她把鸡蛋轻轻地放在吉姆篮子里的稻草上。
16.cat burglar
17.Its manufacturing workers toil for
a small fraction of the cost of their American or German competitors
18.China’s boomtowns
19. little more than one-twentieth of the average monthly wage in America
His violincello had become little more than a meal ticket.
他的大提琴技艺仅仅成了谋生手段。
20.As China’s economy has bounced back, wages have followed suit
In the wake of his success, other filmmakers began to follow suit.
随着他的成功，其他电影制片人纷纷开始效仿。
21. A spate of strikes has thrown a spanner into the workshop of the world.
22.Why the goons were called off
23. Chinese workers were never as docile as the popularcaricature suggested
24.has swiftly quashed previous bouts of labour unrest
25. China is reluctant to get heavy-handed with workers in big-brand firms
that attract global media attention.
26. spooking foreign investors spook scare
27.In the wake of the financial crisis
28.That is mostly because workers get such a small slice of the national cake
29.Letting wages rise at the expense of profits
would allow workers to enjoy more of the fruits of their labour.
30. twofold ( two,three,four,five,six,seven,......twelvefold..............+fold)
double 2 triple3 quadruple 4 quintuple5 sixtuple6 septuple7 octuple 8
31. China’s floating population will have to drop anchor.
32.Her quip, written in 1962,
My advice is to ride it out, make an occasional smart-aleck quip.
我的意见就是出去旅行，并时不时地说些自作聪明的俏皮话。
His smart aleck comments made him thelaughing stock
of the class.
他自以为聪明的评价让他成为班上的笑柄。
33. zillions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico
34. gaffes gushed from his lips
He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made. 他没意识到自己已出乖露丑。
receive severance pay
35. fabulously remunerated for doing what turned out to be a lousy job.
an adequately remunerated job.
报酬丰厚的工作
You will be remunerated and so will your staff.
你将得到酬劳,你的职员也如此。
36.business-bashing loot
37. catastrophic failure
38.Penalise failure too harshly
39.golden parachutes
40.two years in exceptional cases:例外的情况下，会付两年的（薪酬）
41.efforts are afoot to make it harder for bad bosses to walk away with a fortune.
42.the reviled BP： 被辱骂的BP
43.does nothing of the sort.
44.a mistake in the eyes of activists,
45. parlous state of the economy 严峻形势
46.The severity of these regulations, by and large, is at the government’s discretion
47.Many states are also pressing ahead with planned curbs onemissions
48.it aims to pare its emissions back by 85% by 2050.
49. under existing state
50.America could belch out 13% less by 2020.: 到2020年 锐减？ 少13%？
51.And it is the optimistic scenario
52.for fear of appearing undemocratic
53.Even if officials around America do promulgate fierce regulations
those will take some time to come into force, = come into operation = go into effect = become effective = validate = take effect
54.and are bound to be the subject of endless lawsuits
55.There’s a sense of ruefulness in the industry.” It is widely shared.
He rubbed his cheek with pseudo ruefulness. 他露出假装悔恨的表情摸摸自己的脸颊。
56. is being hailed as a big step towards overhauling Kenya’s creaking political system
While the battle raged, the bullets flew thick as hail. 战斗激烈进行时，枪弹密如雨点。
as thick as hail
57.the ensuing violence left 1,500 people dead and 300,000-plus homeless.
58.the government has been assertive and astute in trying to keep the peace
Astute salesmen know how to invest emotionally.
精明的商人懂得如何感情投资。
59.the most combustible bit of the country
It was surrounded with heaps of combustible materials. 它周围是一堆易燃物质。
a high-strung combustible nature
一碰就发火的性格
60.endorse the new document
I can endorse their opinion wholeheartedly.
我可以全力支持他们的意见。
61.But lukewarm support could lead to strife
The reactionary ruling clique was torn by internal strife.
反动统治集团内部勾心斗角，四分五裂。
62. checks and balances presidential fiat
He has tried to impose solutions to the country's problems by fiat.
他试图下令强行解决该国的问题。
63.fixed terms
The police will be smartened up (勤奋）
Some fresh flowers should smarten up the room. 几枝鲜花会使房间漂亮起来。
are at pains to emphasise that
Most academic staff are hired on afixed termcontract.
大多数学校员工是签订固定期限劳动合同的。
64.their civil rights would be trampled by the Christian majority in the hinterland.
65.Another area of contention is land reform
66.The new document allows for the reallocation of land
67.may be applied arbitrarily.
68.without compensation dual citizen diaspora
In addition to China's population, there is a widespread Chinese diaspora.
更何况，除了中国的庞大人口，不容忽视的还有海外华人的力量。
69.Another clause lets foreigners buy land only on a 99-yearlease, but not with freehold.
70.most ardent proponents (opponent) by police death squads
71.it is deplorable that Some of the worst villains are still in government.
The Chief Constable said that sexual harassment was deplorable.
郡警察局长说性骚扰应受谴责。
It is deplorable that anyone should come between a child and its parents.
如果有人想离间孩子和父母，那将是可悲的。
72.Individual freedoms are more keenly demanded
73.The media are vibrant The private sector is growing fast
a nation vibrant with enthusiasm
有热情的民族
a vibrant personality
充满活力的性格
a youthful vibrant voice
富于青春活力的声音
His voice was quiet, yet vibrant with controlled rage.
他的声音平静沉着，但是因为他竭力抑制住满腔怒火，还是不免有点颤抖
74.government revenues have grown apace
75. Aside from the niceties of the constitutional debate
76. jockeying for.... jockey for position
77. plumped for the dangers that have afflicted Kenya will not evaporate
78.has dismally failed to address the main causes of instability
79. Far too many young men
Rift Valley
80.fetid slums the anger of such people could boil over again in 2012
the fetid stench of vomit.
呕吐物发出的恶臭
The air of the room was fetid with stale tobacco smoke.
房间里的空气有陈烟的臭味。
81.mayhem incumbent rulers cling leech-like to power
Their arrival caused mayhem as crowds of refugees rushed towards them. 他们到达后大批难民一拥而上，引起一片混乱。
82.and economic heft in Iraq to jolt its politicians into heeding the wishes of Iraq's voters
83. So by what right can America meddle in its internal politics?
84.without doing anything that risks rocking the fragile boat.
85.the better part of valour
86.say with a straight face God willing
They couldn't keep a straight face. 他们没法不笑出来。
87. I expect more than a little bit of the peace dividend
88.some were sabotaged some became inoperative
89.little or no maintenance There was terrific bungling , no doubt about that
You can't do a thing without bungling it. 你做事总是笨手笨脚。
90.We have a lot of other fish to fry
91.schizophrenic the story omits .......
92.offices werelooted and more pragmatic approach
93.Obama had his marching orders from his benefactors
