野心时代 Age of Ambition

＃ 第一章至第二章

Fortune - Unfettered, The Call

单词

1. emancipate:/ ɪmænsɪpeɪt /set free esp. from legal, social or political control

For China to thrive, there must be limits on “emancipating the mind.”

2. poster boy：形容人有名气，海报上印着其照片
   3.典型话语

Let some people get rich first, and gradually all the people get rich together

4. China was crippled by invasion：形容中国被侵略，cripple用的很好：To cripple a machine organization or system means to damage it severely or prevent it from working properly.

A total cut-off of supplies would cripple the country's economy.
The loss of human resources would cripple a company.

5. heyday：Someone's heyday is the time when they are most powerful, successful and popular

In the heyday of socialism

语句

His thinking had already begun to take a sharp turn.

思想转变

The news buried any remaining hope that the island might regain control of the mainland.

没有一丝希望苟存

Things are flying ahead in leaps of progress.

猛烈，极速发展

仿写

In the heyday of youth, things are flying ahead in leaps of progress, such us being a poster boy in campus. As long as someone gets touch with civilization, his thinking will take a sharp turn.