1006G[REBORN FROM THE ASHES组]备考日记 by 木虫虫--不积跬步，无以致千里

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.22]

好词
America's Senate 美国参议院
House of Representatives  众议院
Republican 共和党
Democrat 民主党
tooth-and-nail 拼命
nose-counting清点票数
stripped of 剥夺
on the ground of 以……为理由
only in the sense that 只有在这个意义上说
by no means 一点也不
stumbling block障碍物
give ground让步

一些专有名词解释、相关
Manager's Amendment：A Manager's Amendment is a package of numerous individual amendments agreed to by both sides in advance.
The managers are the majority and the minority member who manage the debate on a bill for their side.
The Public Option ： The public option is a government health insurance program akin to Medicare, which would be open to anyone.

好句
Republicans, who have been fighting tooth-and-nail to block passage of the bill seem to have given up the fight, and have given warning instead that this will be a wish that he comes to regret.

The result was a vote on precisely partisan lines,（表决的）结果是精确地勾出党派线的一场投票

there was no room for error whatsoever无论什么、任何

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裁员 or ill-health, will have those worries lifted from their shoulders.

Republicans, however, hate the bill, mostly on the ground of cost. The advertised price-tag of the Senate bill is a bit under $900 billion over the next ten years, but Republicans contend声称 that the numbers will be much higher than that, as① the cost of subsidies has been underestimated and predicted savings will not materialise.②Even at the stated number, this is a large bill at a time when America is running huge deficits赤字 that it urgently needs to tackle.本段论证使用了让步的方法，先指出反方概括的观点，然后罗列第一条论据：耗资会不只有预计的那么多，再让步，说即使耗资不变，在美国现有的财政赤字情况下该方案也不可行。

Republicans say these will never be enacted. Past history provides them with给……提供 evidence to back up支持 that claim.

Less politically involved observers also note that it is unprecedented for such a substantive and expensive bill to have been forced through Congress on such a narrow vote.

The bill passed the House on a margin of just five votes, and in the Senate it has no safety margin.

As of today though, health-care reform, expensive and imperfect though it is, is looking a lot抽签 more likely.

Comment

This is a repot about the Health care reform in American. It reminds me of the Medical system reform in China, both of these are difficult to carry out. On the one hand, Obama wants this health care reform bill can bring tens of million of Americans a benefit in health-insurance. On the other hand, Republicans, insist that these will cost much more than estimated budget and make situation of the huge deficits even worse. In the end of this article mentions the disadvantage of the public option. Although the bill has leaped the first and the most difficult hurdle, there is still a long way to go.

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.23]&[12.24]

好词~
rise dramatically大幅度上升
shopfloor workers 车间里的工人
consistent with符合
walk away with 轻而易举的得到
Strikingly引人注目的
By one estimate 根据一项估计
substantially大幅的the pay has increased substantially
arm's-length 保持距离----crony密友
subject to 服从
inevitably不可避免的


专业词语的解释
hedge fund：http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%B9%E5%86%B2%E5%9F%BA%E9%87%91


好句~
But today it is becoming radioactive, as governments step in干涉 to rescue failing companies and ordinary people are forced to tighten their belts.(语言果然是相通的啊）

Is the anger justified?

Isn't this a disgrace?

Huge rewards for the few demotivate降低积极性 the rest of the workforce.

The growing pay of executives has to be balanced against权衡 the growing difficulty of their jobs, particularly as turnover in the boardroom increases.

These criticisms have been exacerbated加重 by the financial crisis and the desire to find scapegoats替罪羊.

Markets are the driving force for senior executives in all these industries and talented people jump across industries, based on market perceptions of their worth.

The final myth to bust is that CEOs control their boards and earn high pay through this control and not performance.

It inevitably led to failures like the subprime disaster次贷灾难 and the dominoes it toppled推倒了多米诺骨牌 as it took the economy down with it 这个比喻很生动哦

Theboard justified this by referring to归因于……

you have got to be kidding.

The numbers and details may be at the extreme, but the underlying根本的 approaches are representative.

In my comments, I will discuss the seven deadliest sins of executive compensation


理下思路：
The proposer's opening remarks

正方根据反方的论点，采取各个击破，并且在具体问题的论证过程中还组合了逻辑顺序，进行了有序的让步论证，方法如下：

①反方观点CEOs are routinely criticised for being overpaid.
→In fact, the average CEO pay (adjusted forinflation) has dropped since 2000, while the pay of other groups hasincreased substantially.

②反方观点Critics argue that boards do not respond to market forces.Boards are criticised for not tying CEOs' pay toperformance.
→In fact, the opposite is true and boardsincreasingly fire them for poor performance.

③展开详述Introduce how CEO pay is measured, to illuminate the arthor's contention more particular.
→The graph shows strikingly, relative CEO pay is a half of what it was in 2001, a huge decline.
首先大部分CEO没有拿很多的钱，不仅如此还比以前拿到的少了；
→Top executives regularly leave to work for privateequity firms and hedge funds. Law partners and consultants leave towork for public companies as general counsels and executives.其次，即使有人拿到比较多，那也是因为他在玩对冲基金或者其他风险投资，总之他们拿到的回报与他们的能力和付出是相称的
→The typical CEO is paid for performance. This was reinforced in 2008, when average realised CEO pay declined by 25%
不论如何，CEO的工资是根据他们的表现计算的。

④反方观点：CEOs control their boards and earn high pay through this control and notperformance.
→In fact, CEO tenure has declined, from ten years in the1970s to six years today, and boards have got tougher on their executives when they do not perform.(CEO也不容易啊，哪有那么大本事控制董事会啊，反过来是董事会对CEO很强硬)

In sum， market forces govern CEO compensation. CEOs are paid what they are worth.



The opposition's opening remarks
反方的方法主要是对问题进行层层分析和举出生动的事例。根据具体事情进行逐步反驳。
论点Excessiveexecutive compensation of the past decade is both a symptom and a cause of the current economic mess.

①Incentive compensation rewarded executives for the quantity of transactions rather than the quality oftransactions.

②The decisions that led to the meltdown were made by executives who knew that they would be paid tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars no matter how successful the consequences of those decisions.

③The example of Angelo Mozilo , making it clear to everyone in the executive suite that the pay-performance link was not a priority.

④The story of AubreyMcClendon，the CEO of Chesapeake Energy

在事例的最后提出了反方的观点，与事实进行比较，使反驳更加有力：A market-based response would be: (1) that was his risk and it is inappropriate to the point of misappropriation to force the other shareholders, already substantially out of pocket with their own losses due to his poor leadership of the organisation, make up for his losses (2) if the deals are good ones, he will be adequately rewarded when the benefit of those deals is reflected in the stock price; and (3) If this is pay for performance, what exactly is the performance we are paying for?

Comment:

As the executives are overpaid for a long time, there goes the debate about executive pay; some arguers claim that the executive pay is often out of control. Others attempt to convince us that CEOs are paid what they are worth. In my opinion, both sides of the arguers have a logical exposition and compelling evidence. The reasoned structure of their debate makes the both assertions acceptable to me. As it is an expert article for me, I really can’t understand some theories in economics. I can not to definitude my view of weather the executives are overpaid. Absolutely, this debate enlarges my field of vision and provides me a lot of knowledge never touched before.

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一不小心又熬过一天……Merry Christmas！

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.26]https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1045471-1-1.html



Words and expression:

stay sane  保持理智
keep abreast of 保持与……并列
wind up 结束
acquisitive   adj. 渴望得到的
dog-eared 卷角的（纸制品）
inch-thick 一英寸厚
no fewer than 至少
heaven forbid 但愿不会如此
ditch 摆脱= to get rid of
Ironically 具有讽刺意味的是
jumbled 乱七八糟的
alphanumeric 字母和数字的
interspersed with 用……点缀着
resort to writing 采取
all and sundry 所有的
as a matter of course理所当然的
binary digit 二进制
brute force 蛮力
robust 稳健强劲
new year’s pledge 誓言
To be on the safe side

LastPass is an online password manager and form filler that makes web browsing easier and more secure.



He admits to flouting藐视 the advice（注意是单数） of security experts

staying in touch with the rest of the world

have an understandable aversion（反感）

The third component, randomness, is measured by a concept borrowed from thermodynamics热力学—the notion of entropy熵 (the tendency for things to become disordered).

Choose passwords that are strong enough to make cracking them too time consuming for thieves to bother.


comment

Frankly, when I read over this article, I come to wonder, whether this is an advertisement for LastPass?

Apart from my supposition of it, I can draw inspiration from the introduction about the theory of passwords protecting. The article begins with a story of “your correspondent”, and in the end it has been mentioned again in a funny way. To explain randomness, the author even fetches the conception of entropy. Nowadays, we are living in a world with high-tech and computerized working, in which we always have codes and passwords surround us to protect our private information. Therefore, this article is meaningful to all of us. Let’s modify our passwords now!

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O(∩_∩)O谢谢！一起努力哦

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.27]https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1045738-1-1.html

words & expression
new novelty
another curious corner
remained steadfastly踏实不变的 old-fashioned
were surprisingly busy.
Consigning the picture to Sotheby’s  托人代售
The most sought after追捧 are
on behalf of 代表
threading a needle穿针引线
close at hand 就在眼前


The taste for clutter and realism is curiously buoyant
WHILE the contemporary art market constantly seeks the new

Its success lay in the high prices achieved for those that sold, half of which were bid up beyond their high estimate.

John Atkinson Grimshaw is a painter who celebrated industry, commerce and conspicuous wealth during Queen Victoria’s reign, dying in 1893.

His works are often dark social commentaries featuring streets and portsides, full of ships’ rigging and lamplight that seems visually interchangeable with moonlight.

His work is, if anything, even more unfashionable-looking than Grimshaw’s.

Behind them the sea, silvery, shimmering波光粼粼 and full of light, has the same idyllic quality of water painted at the time by the Scottish Colourists




专有名词解释
Christie's is a leading art business and a fine arts auction house.
Sotheby's is the world's third oldest auction house in continuous operation.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema
Alfred Munnings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Munnings
Dame Laura Knight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_Laura_Knight
Charles Spencelayh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spencelayh

Cornish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E5%BA%B7%E6%B2%83%E5%B0%94



clutter uncountable

• a confused disordered jumble of things
• background echos, from clouds etc, on a radar screen

sentimental
1 a : marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism b : resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought <a sentimental attachment> <a sentimental favorite>
2 : having an excess of sentiment or sensibility
— sen·ti·men·tal·ly adverb

lot
1 : an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance
2 a : the use of lots as a means of deciding something b : the resulting choice
3 a : something that comes to one upon whom a lot has fallen : share b : one's way of life or worldly fate : fortune
4 a : a portion of land b : a measured parcel of land having fixed boundaries and designated on a plot or survey c : a motion-picture studio and its adjoining property d : an establishment for the storage or sale of motor vehicles <a used car lot>
5 a : a number of units of an article, a single article, or a parcel of articles offered as one item (as in an auction sale) b : all the members of a present group, kind, or quantity —usually used with the <sampled the whole lot of desserts>
6 a : a number of associated persons : set <fell in with a rough lot> b : kind, sort
7 : a considerable quantity or extent <a lot of money> <lots of friends>


comment
At the first sight of this report, I was attracted by the particular title. As the highlight of this article, the interesting title is the epitome of the promising future of old-fashioned art works, which are taken for granted that should be “look back" never exit the stage of high bid.
Recession brings inflation and stock, this trend was reflected in the art market. Dealers and collectors treat art more like a reserve assets while neglecting the charm of art itself. However, it is the prosperity of the auction support artists in some extent in this day and age.

Further more, through this article, I know some famous artist in history, it is a meaningful gain.

木虫虫UID: 2694986

这几天发烧了……还在头晕中，还有很多书要看，没法及时完成作业了，呜呜T_T
熬不住了，这篇没做完，有空补吧
[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.28]
renaissance复兴
Mumbai孟买
in the midst of 在……的中途
entrepreneurship企业家能力
business heroes
engaged in 从事
They also engaged in a frenzy of networking.
strike it rich 发横财
hand in glove 密切
But perspectives have changed in the intervening decades
governments of almost every ideological stripe










Speaker after speaker praised entrepreneurship as a powerful force for doing good as well as doing well.


Instead of risking the turmoil of “creative destruction”, Keynesian economists, working hand in glove with big business and big government, claimed to be able to provide orderly prosperity.

Indeed, the trend is now so well established that it has become the object of satire.







Wipro Technologies Limited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipro
Keynesian economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics

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虫虫发烧了？要注意身体啊，好好休息呢再继续加油！~↖(^ω^)↗

plukaUID: 2721764

发烧了？严重么，休息呀！在美梦中渡过新年，然后充满活力地醒来吧！

木虫虫UID: 2694986

72# AdelineShen 73# pluka
看到大家这么关心，我真的好感动哦/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~现在烧已经退了，经证实没得甲流，不过是感冒重了点。
这次在“安眠药”和止咳糖浆的包围中度过的跨年，也照样的安详和甜蜜……呵呵，估计这是我最难忘的一次迎新年了，头还晕着就要拼命了。
距离期末考还有10天，在别人熬夜K专业时，我都在熬夜K英语，所以这个问题很为难。接下来就是累到吐血的考试周了，可能是我这专业太变态的关系吧，我今天算了一下，加起来要背1000多页，淡定的说，如果我每天只睡5个小时，还是有可能把书看完的，但是还不一定回过……因为100分的卷子中70分是选择填空⊙﹏⊙b

为了我的GPA至少还能看，我必须忍痛小拖一下作业了，实在是不得不，我也知道曾经的要求是再忙也要保证基本作业的……所以才说不得不啊，唉~原谅我吧

从明天起，5点半起床，12点回宿舍……

木虫虫UID: 2694986

我说了只是拖作业……考完试我一定会补的！

考完考完，等我考完