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1.Clintonhas strongly defended those practices and blamed excesses on the money-gobbling U.S. political system, which he says is “out of whack”.
克林顿坚决捍卫上述做法，指责美国政治制度耗资甚巨、胡作非为，他说这是“不正常”的现象。
excesses [pl] (fml文) personal acts which go beyond the limits of good behaviour, or humanity越轨的行为;无人性的行为:His excesses at parties are well known.尽人皆知他在聚会上十分放肆.
Out of whack: out of balance or out of adjustment;
2.【不懂】标题Clinton Shows Weakness Among His Own Generation
克林顿在选民中支持率较低
E.g.Clinton shows weakness among women
Portsmouth, New Hampshire (CNN)As Hillary Clinton seeks to break that "highest, hardest glass ceiling," she is finding that -- at least in this state -- women voters aren't so eager to help her shatter it.
"That ceiling will be shattered at some time and I just think it takes the right person to do that and right now she is not the right person for me," said Ann Kaiser, a gray-haired grandmother from Hampton, New Hampshire, who is supporting Sanders. "I think she would be very vulnerable. She would be hit so hard, in so many sectors that I think it would be tough for her to win."
3.So far, 51 trade complaints have been lodged with WTO. That’s almost one-third the number of disputes handled by the WTO’s predecessor, The General Agreement on Tariff and Trade in its half century of existence.
到目前为止，世贸组织共接到了51起贸易投诉，这几乎是世贸组织的前身即关税及贸易总协定历时半个世纪以来所解决贸易争端数的三分之一。
~ sth (with sb) (against sb) present (a statement, etc) to the proper authorities for attention向负责部门提出（某事）:
lodge a complaint with the police against one's neighbors向警方告邻居的状
4.Atthe other extreme will be specialists that survive by doing one thing either very cheaply or exceptionally well.By offering lower prices or better services, specialists will discipline the financial supermarkets.
另一个极端是，一些行家通过降低成本或提供优质服务的手段在市场竞争中求得生存。这些行家凭借更低廉的价格或更优质的服务可以引导和规范金融超市。
Whether Mr Chenault would want to return American Express to the "financial supermarket" model which proved so disastrous for it in the past is another matter.过去，美国运通的“金融超市”模式已证明是灾难性的，而陈纳德先生是否想让美国运通回归这种模式，那就是另一回事了。
Modern financial supermarket was focused on design and produce of financial products, then to sale, which created various of financial products, improved liquidity of financial assets.而现代的金融超市以金融产品的设计制造和销售为核心，创造了多样化的金融产品，提高了金融资产的流动性。
punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;e.g."The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
5.West Germany ‘s Volkswagen and other manufacturers are well entrenched and have been able to get protective barriers against possible Japanese competition.
西德（原德意志联邦共和国）的大众汽车和其他汽车制造商品牌（在本国市场的）地位稳固，凭借贸易保护壁垒可以充分抵御日产汽车品牌的潜在威胁。
by 1947 de Gaulle's political opponents were firmly entrenched in power.到1947年，戴高乐的政治对手们已大权在握。
Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.电视看来要在全国广告媒介中牢固地占据头等位置。
The Nationalists entrenched their power further by adding six seats to the Parliament.国民党人在议会中新增了6个席位,从而进一步稳固了他们的势力。
However, almost all of these are owned at least in part by the government and benefit from protective barriers in their home market.然而，几乎所有这些中国公司至少部分地由政府拥有并从国内市场的保护性壁垒中渔利。
6.TheGen. Eric Shinseke is depicted as a by-the-book and overly cautious officer during his tour in Bosnia.
将军埃里克·辛塞科在出访波斯尼亚时，给人留下了教条刻板而又过于谨慎的形象。
someone is a by-the-book:很教条的人
overly cautious：过于谨慎
7.Theprimary currency of the SALT negotiations became limit on the number of launchers, not limits on missiles or their characteristics.
限制战略武器会谈的主要议题是限制发射器数量，而非限制导弹数量或其特性。
[if !supportLists]1969[endif]- Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.1969年的今天，处于冷战中的苏联与美国在芬兰的首都赫尔辛基，就第一阶段限制战略性武器会谈进行了协商，目标是削减双方战略性武器的数量。
SALT缩写→Strategic Arms Limitation Talks限制战略武器会谈:the Salt treaties限制战略武器会谈协议.
Currency:
[if !supportLists]1.[endif]货币；流通；流通时间
[if !supportLists]2.[endif]A medium of intellectual exchange or expression交换意见的媒介，即议题
8.Allied jets were able to destroy “few, if any, mobile launchers” of scud missiles fired by Iraq at Saudi Arabia and Israel during the conflict.
在沙特阿拉伯和以色列发生冲突期间，盟军飞机所能摧毁伊拉克用于发射飞毛腿导弹的移动发射架数量“寥寥无几”。
It is often assumed that non-European societies such as China shared few, if any, of these assumptions.这些假设，常常被认为很少（如果有的话）为欧洲以外的社会如中国所享有。
It is interesting to note that few, if any, other engineering media can provide such a tight coupling between a model and its corresponding engineering artifact.有趣的是，几乎没有任何其他的工程媒介能够为一个模型和它相应的工程工具提供如此紧密的连接。寥寥无几
9.【不懂呢！】Themost savvy companies realize that it will help them to discover new customers, writing more revenue out of existing ones, and lower financing costs.
那些最精明的公司意识到，从现有客户那里赚取更多收益并降低融资成本有助于发掘新客户。
Savvy Businesswoman:精明实业家
financing cost融资成本；集资费用；筹资成本
只查到了write-off的含义https://www.douban.com/note/524095503/?type=like
10.【做这道题感觉自己数学或英语白学了】So big is the capital-spending boom that Japanese Companies’ outlays in Japan topped American Companies domestic outlayby $521.4 billion to $494.8 billion？in the months ended March 13 even through Japan total output of goods and services is less than two-third America’s.
尽管日本商品和服务的总产出还不到美国的三分之二，但在截至3月13日以来的近几个月中，日本公司资本支出猛增，国内投资额达5214亿美元，比美国公司国内资本支出多4948亿美元？？？。
spending, esp to help future developments in a business, etc花费,开支（尤指有助于公司等进一步发展的）:There was very little outlay on new machinery.添置新机器的开支微乎其微.
sum spent in this way（作上述用途的）费用,款项:a considerable outlay on basic research发展基础研究的一大笔费用.
Latest data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed speculators reduced net short sterling positions to 57,391 for the week ended April 13, off a high of 71,624 in late March.投资人已然开始削减英镑的空头部位.美国商品期货交易委员会最新数据显示,投机客在4月13日止当周减持英镑净空头部位至57,391口合约,低于3月底71,624口的高位.
capital spending：资本开支，资本支出；资本投资
In late 2007, the Chinese government was scrambling to control a capital-spending boom.2007年末，中国政府正忙于控制资本投入猛增。