1.As the supply of migrant labour dwindles
Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling...
出口在缩减,贸易赤字在增长。
I'd rather not dwell on the past. 我不想再沉湎于过去了。
It's morbid to dwell on cemeteries and such like. 不厌其烦地谈论墓地以及诸如此类的事是一种病态
They are concerned for the fate of the forest and the Indians who dwell in it...
他们为这片森林及居住于其中的印第安人的命运而担心。
2. as docile, diligent and dirt cheap
3.But the recent unrest has put Chinese labour at odds with foreign capital.
4.Firms may have to get used to bolshier workers
5.The malcontents may also represent a generational shift among migrant workers.
6. indulge nationalist sentiment.
7. their wages were disproportionately lower than those of their foreign managers.
8.to crack down on the recent unrest
9.shouted their grievances to journalists
10.Others think this conclusion premature.
11.and so forth
12.a surplus of labour in the countryside can coexist with shortages on the coasts
13.bindle stiff
I want you to carry a stiff upper lip whatever happens.
我希望你无论如何不要垂头丧气。
Moira sat stiffly upright in her straight-backed chair.
莫伊拉直挺挺地坐在她的直背靠椅上。
14. shoulder their bindle stick and seek their fortunes.
15.Census Bureau
16.have declined for two years in a row,
17. In so far as they can be tracked
In so far as you are a student, you are free to use the library.
只要你是学生,便可免费使用该图书馆。
18.is often touted as the next China.
19. triple quadruple quintuple
20.Workers downed tools 95 times in the first three months of this year
21.Vietnam is not perhaps the sanctuary from strife
that firms fleeing China’s coasts might wish for.
22.sanctuary
23.Three inland provinces are wooing Foxconn
24. after a string of suicides by workers
25.but its income per person belongs to another realm
26. forklift trucks
27.its hilly topography accentuated by the skyscrapers above and the deep pitsbelow
His shaven head accentuates his large round face...
光头使他的大圆脸更加突出。
28. pays homage to sb/sth
We pay homage to the genius of Shakespeare. 我们对莎士比亚的天才表示敬仰。
They bowed in homage to the Unknown Soldiers. 他们向无名烈士墓鞠躬致敬。
29.Hewlett-Packard (HP) ,made its first laptop in the municipality
30.among other things
31.Sold up the river
32.Chamber of Commerce Pearl river delta
33.cars traverse a 3.8km tunnel through a mountain.
34.western boomtowns
35.Higher consumer spending will increase demand for services
36. such as housing, retailing and haircuts, which consumers favour,
37.in its present predicament
38.China cannot rescue the world economy on its own.
39. Its consumer spending amounts to only 13% of American GDP, 相当于.....
40.the moribund rich world.
41.In principle,
42.As long as the central bank remains vigilant
43.shoppers push their trolleys around a Wal-Mart supercentre,
the company’s third store in the city.
44.Bumpy ride to polling day
45.has suffered a dramatic reversalof fortune.
46.the opinion polls have turned savagely against the Labor
47.giving Labor a moment to catch its breath,
48.if it hopes to hold onto power it will have to rely on second-preference votes cast by Greens.
49. hard luck = tough luck
50.the Labor leader whom she deposed as prime minister in June
51.succumbed immediately to his own bad luck
52.It was another spate of disastrous opinion polls
53.earlier this year, that triggered the coup that brought Mr Rudd down.
54.saw the dismal figures and moved quickly to dump him
55.But that may not be enough to quell the disquiet
56.there will have to be a public rapprochement between the two
57.a revamp of the government’s plans to fight climate change
58.has been widely derided
59.has admitted on that she now faces a rugged fight
60.“It is going to be a photo finish.”
61.Playing perfect tit for tat, ?????? 完美的以牙还牙
62. Ms. Gillard needs to cuss , Has she tried cussing?
63.Welcome to the fickle Australia electorate
64.labours have an upper hand
65.victory belongs to those who beleive it in the most
66.filling in a pre-poll absentee vote the other day
67.Sb has had a tumultuoustime
68.see as an interloping Southerner from Victoria
69.She has placed the issue of the economy squarely back into the centre of the battleground
70.castigated the high-flying sb........
71.Labor and the LNP are now on equal pegging with Australian voters
72.over the line
73.pandering to the extreme right of his Party pander
74.wavering voters
75.who are paying off high-price mortgages on their homes
76.has a tough, grinding and worrisome fight on her hands
77. It remains to be seen
78.Looking at it from afar,
79.Making a run 'til November 'til =until =till
80. have long been disgruntled with sb the cadre of politicos that .....
81.Mr Jean’s candidacy would be a mixed blessing for Haitian democracy
82.eligible voters grumbled about its sloppy management.
83.may be a loophole The constitution is paper, and bayonets are steel.”
84. someone who has Haiti's reconstruction at heart,
85. from that perspective
86.Given the current situation on the ground,
87."Hail Mary pass" Good natures of people are played..
one element is overlooked
88.As for governance know-how
89.In the wake of the Haitian earthquake
90.But would do-gooders be better off sending their money elsewhere?
91. Smoking Gun funny money
The Smoking Gun looks at the foundation’s funny money
92.For one,
93.Leviathan Inc: 形容BP的
94.in an effort to get the economy moving
95.has turned his back on the laissez-faire approach of the past
96.are pressing for policies that support manufacturing
97.state’s new meddling in business
98.seems to be working wonders
99.the West was in awe of
Japan and its inexorable rise;
100.voodoo
101.the state released its stifling grip and
opened the country to private enterprise and to the world.
02.The likes of sb...........
03.choke them off choke off
04 coddle pamper pamper spoil
05.......... faster than ever before.
06.utility vehicle
07. vacuum cleaners tufted carpets
08.to cite examples noted by sb/ sth
09.get seduced by the hype of voguish high-tech sectors
10.sb blinded by .........
11.subsidised school subsidised the industry so lavishly
112. it slashed its subsidies
13. keep the beast at bay Not all such money is wasted, of course. all such
14. a pharmaceutical company
15. increase the number of its bets in order to raise its hit rate.
16.But that is a cavalier way to behave with taxpayers’ money.
cavalier way
17.In an age of austerity
18.they can ill afford to lavish money on extravagant industrial projects.
19.Straightforward
steps to improve the environment for business—less red tape,
20. favoured firms: 受优惠的/有特权的Inc
21.Competition will do far more for jobs than coddling
22.Europeans ought to be seeking to strengthen the rules of their single market
rather than pushing to dilute them;
23.donning hard hat
24.or else