1006G splendidsun的备考日记——Protect my dream

splendidsunUID: 2723757

原文https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1042731&extra=page%3D1%26amp%3Bfilter%3Dtype%26amp%3Btypeid%3D280&page=1
Comments：
The topic of this article is very popular in recent days. As we all know, the climate conference in Copenhagen attracted the focus all over the world. A new agreement is expected to sign for avert the threat of climate change.  In this article, the author cites a typical example that the mountain bark beetles destroy the pine forest in British Columbia due to the high temperature. Actually human activity should be responsible for the increased frequency of climate change. Especially the concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas is much higher than before, which may result in a global temperature increase. Furthermore, the aberrant temperature may increase the frequency of serious climate changes that are dangerous. To avert this situation people should adjust its behavior. Technological tools and economics are not limitation for taking action. However, politics plays key role in promoting improve recent situation. Instead of signing a huge protocol that would never work, the government should implement a pragmatic deal efficiently and effectively. This passage is very well-organized to illustrate the author’s idea. The key point is that the author calls for taking practical action to prevent the bad trend of global warming.

不太理解的句子
It is a prisoner’s dilemma, a free-rider problem and the tragedy of the commons all rolled into one.

splendidsunUID: 2723757

原文：https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1044038-1-1.html
跟我的专业很相近，嘿~还比较好写~
Comments：
Medical reform is a tough problem thorough the world. Even in the most developed country United States, governments are expected to build up a complete medical system, which ensures the majority of people could benefit from it. Firstly, the essential problem is the coverage of medical insurance. The private insurances have very serious standard to be involved. Elder people or people suffer from pre-existing medical conditions are impossible to benefit from private insurances. However, the new reform promotes to break this limitation, which broads the benefit ranges. In China’s reform, the government also gives access to everyone, such as elder people and children, farmers and laid-off workers, to have medical insurance. The second problem which is urgent to address is the fairness of medical insurance. The expense of this great bill is from taxpayers. Yet the people who don’t have any contribution to the tax also could have the insurance. Thus, it’s a dilemma between the coverage and the fairness. Making a balance is an obviously most difficult issue that has to be done.
难句：
The health bill has been stripped of something very dear to many of then: a “public option” of a government-backed insurance scheme that would compete with private insurers in order, supposedly, to keep costs down and guarantee access.
第一个分句不太明白
Technically only a motion to end debate on a “manager's amendment” put together by the Senate's majority leader, Harry Reid, what the vote really represented was a crucial exercise in nose-counting.
好句：
The hope is that tens of million of Americans currently without coverage will now be able to get it, and many tens of millions more, who have insurance but fear losing it through redundancy or ill-health, will have those worries lifted from their shoulders.
好词
on the ground of 以……为理由
back up 支持
stumbling block 绊脚石
arm-twisting 压力
tooth-and-nail 竭尽全力
nose-counting 人口调查
此外还了解了一些美国的政治相关的东西
America's Senate参议院
Congress 国会
Republican 共和党
Democrat 民主党
deficit赤字

splendidsunUID: 2723757

12-21
原文https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1043638-1-1.html
Comments：
This article talks about the problem that involves in every country-the global financial crisis. As we all know, this financial disaster brought widely difficulties for countries to recover. However, the world economy is recovering. Since the past losses are much larger than future gains, the effect of could not be seen very soon. In the state of California, the state government cut has filed for bankruptcy. And it had cut much of the spending in education, which makes difficult for faculties to apply for funding. Furthermore, the graduate schools admit less international students than before. Thus, the disadvantage since financial crisis happened is the decrease number of scholarships which may bring economic burden for oversea students to study abroad. The author also refers that even the world economy recovers, it will not return to normal. The crisis would have strong lasting effect on all aspects in our society that we would discover later on.
词汇
securitisation markets
physical capital
national exchequer
America’s Treasury
overinvestment and overspeculation
vindicate
Federal Reserve
fell off a precipice
beguile
fancy
demand falls short of supply
好句
He likened the economy to a piece of string stretched taut on a board. The more forcefully the string is plucked, the more sharply it snaps back.

When you are falling, you do not look up. Only when you hit bottom can you stop and contemplate the cliff you must now climb.

难句
Moreover, if the financial system remains in disrepair, savings will flow haltingly to companies and the cost of capital will rise. Firms will therefore use less of it per unit of output.

“overinvestment and overspeculation…would have far less serious results were they not conducted with borrowed money.”

splendidsunUID: 2723757

原文：https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1043352&extra=page%3D1%26amp%3Bfilter%3Dtype%26amp%3Btypeid%3D280
Comments:
There arise two different views of American’s attitude dealing with China. One is that China is a potential threat to America. And the other is China is still dwarfed by America’s although China is developing very fast. At the beginning of this article, the author inferred what Obama said that the position of America on China will be more determined the future of itself. And the cooperation between these two huge countries is vital to solving the world’s problems. However, at the latter half part of this essay, the main point is that China still has plenty of problems within the country to deal with in social, political and economic fields. Obviously, the author’s preference is very much for the point that China is still a dwarf which could not be a threat to America.
In fact, this is the first time that I’ve read the passage that expresses the position of American’s on China. Some viewpoints seemed ridiculous to me. They find that China is developing very fast but they refuse to accept parts of the facts. That one thing I learned from this passage is that although we have growing financial muscle, we still lag far behind as technological innovators. I think that’s why the government encourages the creative and innovative work now. There is still a long way to go for our great country.

splendidsunUID: 2723757

也不算啥备考日志，我深刻地知道我这两天堕落了~~
今天起，继续好好努力，兼顾期末考和GRE~~
对于我来说，新的一年崭新开始，22岁注定要好好拼搏一下！

splendidsunUID: 2723757

昨天，前天堕落了~今天就要补作业~
欠了的迟早要还~嘿~草版名言~
刚回来看到已经分小组了~大家都好好呀~~感谢adam同志和又八同志~~
最终加入了麦太纸包G小组~和木虫虫，adam，敛影寒一起加油！

12-23&24的debate
原文：https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1044413&page=1&extra=
my comment：
This debate is relevant to a widely discussed topic that executives are overpaid. Firstly, the moderator opened the topic and presented the main points of the proposer and the defender. Then, the proposer and the defender stated their ideas subsequently. Actually, I think that the statement of one’s opinion for the first time is the same way with writing an issue. The presenter or the author establish his/her own viewpoint, and then use some relevant examples to illustrate his/her ideas. In this debate, the proposer concluded that the pay of CEO in recent years didn’t increase. Contrast to the other groups, such as professional athletes and hedge fund, the pay of CEO decrease as the financial crisis brought severe injury to the economy. The second point of the proposer is that the pay of CEOs had a high relationship with the performance of themselves. While, the defender thought that excessive executive compensation was both a symptom and a cause of the current economic mess. In order to demonstrate his idea, the defender takes Michelle and McClendon as examples to show that the pay of CEOs is determined by the performance. This is the first round of the debate. Each side has valid reasons and examples. However, there are still some questions need to be clarified.

敛寒影UID: 2613052

呵呵 也才补完作业！来留个脚印！加油！喜欢那句：“既然选择了远方，就要风雨兼程！”

adammaksimUID: 2675466

来串个门儿~~~:victory:

splendidsunUID: 2723757

Comment
原文：https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1045738-1-1.html

My comment:
It is hard to forecast the taste of people in art.  Nowadays, the realism seems more popular than other art styles. Comparing with the contemporary art, the pictures of realism remain the style of old-fashion, cluttered and sentimental. The buyers in all different sectors follow a pattern that would like to pay over the odd for top-ranking pictures. A dealer, Mr. Mason, indicated that the inflation of economy would be the art dealers’ friends, which means that the sale of art markets would prosperous during the inflation. The examples of Spencelayh’s picture “The old dealer” and Knight’s picture “on the cliffs” give us a picture that the buyers tend to bid up the price and pay for them in much higher prices than expected. In my viewpoint, the appearance of this aberrant phenomenon could attribute to the attitudes of people toward art. During the inflation, almost everything would lose its origin value. While people consider the art works are the most steady and valuable things that could keep the buyers’ wealth. As a result, the prices of art works are much higher than that were estimated before.
好句：
1. The taste for clutter and realism is curiously buoyant.
2. Its success lay in the high prices achieved for those that sold, half of which were bid up beyond their high estimate.
3. Consigning the picture to Sotheby’s, that same American saw his Grimshaw sell to an anonymous bidder for £397,250 (including commission and taxes), the third highest price achieved for the artist at auction.
4. The most sought after are realistic pictures of men, often gathered around a table in a room full of clutter, with glazed jugs, books, umbrellas and pieces of velvet jumbled together.
5. Behind them the sea, silvery, shimmering and full of light, has the same idyllic quality of water painted at the time by the Scottish Colourists.
bid up 抬高竞价
fetch=gain money
on behalf of 代表
underbidder 出较低价格的人
Chinese porcelain 中国瓷器

木虫虫UID: 2694986

嘿嘿，大家一起:victory:加油啊

splendidsunUID: 2723757

12-25
原文https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1045209&page=1&extra=
My Comment：
As I have mentioned last time, the first round of the debate likes making an issue task. While in the rebuttal statement, both sides seem to write arguments. Especially, in the part of the proposer the whole structure of his remarks could be regarded as an argument. First, he concludes the points of the defender. Then he points out several unreasonable points and refutes each one in details. For the content of this debate, I can’t fully understand all the points and the examples that the proposer and the defender cite. What I have got form this rebuttal remarks are including following points: first, the top executives play key roles in the management and operation. Their compensations are much higher than the rank and file, which is determined not only by their performances. During the financial crisis, many executives were fired by the boards. But they could gain a large amount of money for their retirement. Meanwhile, others are suffering the difficulties that the recession brought.
prop up 支撑
reiterate 重申
golden parachute——黄金保护伞
A golden parachute is an agreement between a company and an employee (usually upper executive) specifying that the employee will receive certain significant benefits if employment is terminated. Sometimes, certain conditions, typically a change in company ownership, must be met, but often the cause of termination is unspecified. These benefits may include severance pay, cash bonuses, stock options, or other benefits. They are designed to reduce perverse incentives—paradoxically (and ironically) they may create them.

the rank and file老百姓，普通职员
extreme pay differentials
boost 促进
compensation 薪金
top executive 最高行政管理人员
Incentive compensation奖金
meltdown 暴跌
take account of 考虑到
robust健康的，强健的
the lion's share最大份额的
cash in 兑现
noted 著名的
diametrically直接的
insider trading内线交易
get away with it侥幸成功，逃脱处罚
global capital glut全球的资本过饱和
loose monetary policy宽松的货币政策
mortgage抵押贷款
net income净收益
bounce back反弹，恢复活力
subsidy津贴
testimony证言
bailout救助
clamp down on 压制
sustainable growth可持续增长
accounting cost会计成本
arm's length 公平的
Dividends红利
Perquisite津贴
Pay is uncoupled from performance
不懂的句子：
Once again, Wall Street is all about capitalism when it comes to the upside, but all about socialism when it comes to the downside, that is, from each, according to his ability, toeach, whatever he can get away with.

splendidsunUID: 2723757

12-26
原文https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1045471-1-1.html
As the spreading of computer and Internet all over the world, the security online seems to be focused by more and more people. The Internet is widely used in our daily life and also for the business purpose. It gives access to improve the efficiency of work and bring huge convenience to the rank and file. However, many people refuse this new life style because they are worried about the safety of their assets. Actually, the current situation of the Internet is not very well. Many hacks steal the passwords from others’ computers, which may lead to the loss of money in their accounts. In order to protect ourselves from being stolen, we could adopt a safe code which is difficult for hacks to crack. The main factors of strong password are a good length, complexity and randomness. Taking my own case as an example, last year I made a friend majored in computer science online. At the second time we chatted, I was surprised by his understanding of me. He knew my university, my hometown, and even the type of cell phone that I used. He told me that all he knew is from google. As I almost use the same logon in different website, it is easy to get all the information. After then, I knew that the complexity of my logons and passwords are indeed poor. Nevertheless, in this article the author recommends that people could use Lastpass to avoid being stolen and remembering such a large amount of information in our mind. But I really doubt whether this software is safe. If its security cannot be guaranteed, this software would be the largest threat of online activities.
Sane

keep abreast of并驾齐驱，了解……最新消息
ingenious有独创性的
wind up 卷起，结束，使紧张
dog-eared 书角折页的
flout嘲笑，侮辱
heaven forbid上天不容，但愿不会如此
scrap碎屑
ditch丢弃
consolation令人安慰的事物
crackable会裂开的
aversion厌恶
jumbled 混乱的
alphanumeric字母数字的
intersperse with 有……打断
resort to 依靠，求助于，常去
Post-it 即时贴
all and sundry 全部
intruder 入侵者
hack
brute-force 强力攻击，蛮力
indulge in 沉湎于
entropy熵
toss 投掷
binary digit二进制数字
encryption加密，加密术
Put another way换句话说
overkill过度的杀伤
rigorous严格的
mnemonic记忆的
pledge抵押，典当
be on the safe side万无一失

He considers it crucial in order to keep abreast of all the ingenious technology which, once debugged by the world’s most acquisitive consumers, will wind up in American and European shops a year or two later.

splendidsunUID: 2723757

12-29
原文：https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1046472&page=1&extra=
Comment：
Today’s topic is very fresh and familiar to me at the same time. This essay introduces a book The Faith Instinct to us. The author, Mr. Wade, masterly combines the study of religion with evolutionary biology to explain his viewpoint. He cites the theory of Darwin and applies it to human society. In my opinion, the evolution of society is similar to the evolution of individuals more or less. In the wild, different kinds of creatures change their physical structure or living habits in order to adapt the surroundings. People are struggling for surviving in this competitive society. Religion could give supports to people who need help to overcome psychological difficulties and cheer them up. Although almost all religions are concerned in vary degrees with metaphysical ideas, I don’t think it is controversial with science. As I know, many thoughts and sayings in different religions are very useful, which may guide us behave properly. The function of different religions share one point is that they could help people increase the quality of lives as expected.

Useful words and phrases:
endure 忍耐，持续
analyst分析师
sanctity圣洁，神圣
Eton College 伊顿公学
chapel小教堂
be a far cry from 与……大不相同，两码事
hunter-gatherer狩猎采集者
ecstasy狂喜
dusk-to-dawn黄昏到黎明
primordial原始的
blazing fire 烈火
hideous 可怕的
side with 支持，站在……一边
propensity倾向性，偏好
prevail over 胜过
The advent of ……的出现
priestly castes 僧侣的世袭社会等级
monopolise垄断
divine神圣的，非凡的
limpid 清澈的，透明的，平静的
prose散文
metaphysical形而上学的
norm规范
hidebound死板的，墨守成规的
Puritans清教徒
eschew避开，避免，躲避
transcendental超越的，超自然的
Protestant清教徒
obsession困扰
curb抑制，控制
provocative刺激的，挑拨的
monotheism一神论
endorse认同，赞可
Islam伊斯兰教
dissident 持不同意见者
stumble使困惑
Hebrew scriptures 希伯来圣经
masterly 巧妙的

WHEREVER their investigations lead, all analysts of religion begin somewhere.
这个句子中lead用的好精准~~喜欢~
It lays the basis for a rich dialogue between biology, social science and religious history.

splendidsunUID: 2723757

这个帖子纯粹属于签到帖~
呼~上午纠结在gter时断时续当中
下午开始纠结神经生物学的PBL
直到现在，突然发现已经到了2009年的最后一天
有点害怕~
命中注定新的一年对于我会是极端的忙碌
相比2009年也是很充实的
呼~加油吧~先把09年的最后一个任务做好！
The smile of pain刚好是我presentation的主题
痛并快乐着吧~只要过程中有收获，只要结果让人问心无愧~~

AdelineShenUID: 2630498

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