1006G备考日记 by rodgood——生命因奋斗而绽放灿烂

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第四次作业 第23篇

TOPIC: ARGUMENT101 - The following appearedin a memo from the president of a company that makes breakfast cereals.

"In a recent study, subjects who ate soy beans at least five times per week had significantly lower cholesterol levels than subjects who ate no soy products. By fortifying our Wheat-O cereal with soy protein, we can increase sales by appealing to additional consumers who are concerned about their health. This new version of Wheat-O should increase company profits and, at the same time, improve the health of our customers."
WORDS: 409          TIME: 00:29:13          DATE: 2008-3-27 22:05:21
题目思路：1.最近调查显示，吃beans频繁的人比不吃的人胆固醇含量低à推论1.多吃beans有益身体健康

2.用含soy protein丰富来吸引关心自己身体的人（潜在前提：大豆蛋白的作用和大豆一样）à推论2：产品销售会增加
           推论1+推论2à利润提高，顾客健康得到改善
反驳：
1.调查不可信，没有样本大小，没有被调查人的生活、身体条件信息，没有调查的时间长度
          2.仅仅强调产品大豆蛋白含量高不一定能够吸引到顾客。顾客选择食品还会参考食品的价格、质量、品牌以及服务质量等等因素。而且，并没有有力地证据表明大豆蛋白能起到和大豆一样的作用，能够代替直接食用大豆。

3.公司利润的提高的原因不充分。既然前面提出要吸引顾客，就需要投入资金加大宣传，销售量是否提高也不能肯定。另外，仅仅食用含有大豆蛋白的食品就能够改善顾客的健康这个说法也没有根据。

In this memo, the president suggests that in order to increase the profits of company and improve the health of customers, it is necessary to fortify WO cereal with soy protein. At first glance, president's suggestion seems appealing; however close scrutiny reveals that there are some logical fallacies in the memo that undermines its credibility.

The threshold problem with this memo lies in that author fails to provide detailed information about the study such as the total number of subjects in the study. Lacking this information makes his conclusion become less statistical reliable.
这里反驳调查的可信度。但是仿佛太不充分，给人感觉在例行公事，而没有真正根据讨论的实际话题来反驳。

Even if the study is statistical reliable, the president's suggestion still seems unsound for the simple reason he fails to offer direct evidence that the soy beas is low in cholesterol. （题意理解错误。不是soy beans含cholesterol少,而是可以降低身体中cholesterol水平）Thus, it is entirely other issues such as less eating eggs and red meat that contribute the low in cholesterol. Without ruling out this possibility, author cannot convince me that eating soybeans would lower cholesterol.

Even if the soybeans do have the function of reducing cholesterol level, it has no indication that consumers would prefer company's product that mixes it with WO cereal.（题意理解错误。公司的产品正是WO，其中含有大豆蛋白） Perhaps such mixing would result the taste of the product become so bad consumers even those who are most concerned about health are not able to accept its taste. If this is the case, such product will become complete failure in the market. Therefore, failing to accounting this possibility, author cannot make his claim that the product will be appealing to consumers who are concerned their health persuasive.

Finally, even if such product can be accepted by consumers, author's conclusion that it is capable of increasing company's profits is still logical unsound. A common sense informs that the profit of certain product is dependent on its cost and sales. Although thi sproduct could gain a good sale in market, its cost is also rising since some soy protein is added to the product. And the president fails to exclude the possibility that the increase in cost reaches such a high level that undermines its profits. It this is the truth,president's suggestion become completely unwarranted.
作者的反驳的方向正确，但是没有展开分析，仅仅局限于加入原料的成本来分析。还可以尝试针对广告宣传的成本等等方面来反驳。

In sum, this argument is not well-supportedas it stands. To bolster it , president should offer concrete evidence that theproduct that mixes cereal and soy protein will be good for consumers' health,and this product will be accepted by consumers. Moreover, company should carryout a survey among potential consumers before they make such a decision.

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第四次作业 第24篇

TOPIC: ARGUMENT15 - The following appeared in a newsletter offering advice to investors.
"Over 80 percent of the respondents to a recent survey indicated a desire to reduce their intake of foods containing fats and cholesterol, and today low-fat products abound in many food stores. Since many of the food products currently marketed by Old Dairy Industries are high in fat and cholesterol, the company's sales are likely to diminish greatly and their profits will no doubt decrease. We therefore advise Old Dairy stockholders to sell their shares and other investors not to purchase stock in this company."
In this newsletter, the author recommends that Old Dairy (OD) stockholders should sell their shares and other investors should not to purchase stock in OD. To justify this recommendation, the author points out that people want to reduce their intake of foods containing fats and cholesterol, according to a recent survey, and that low fat products are abound in many food stores. The author also points out that many food products currently marketed by OD are high in fat and cholesterol. Careful scrutiny of these evidences, however, reveals that this recommendation is unconvincing in several respects.
A threshold problem with the argument involves the statistical reliability of the survey. First, we are informed nothing with respects to the way the poll was conducted and how well the respondents represented the public opinions. （投票的方式和调查对象的代表程度）Secondly, the author provides no evidence that the number of the respondents is statistically significant. （调查对象数目是否有意义）Thirdly, it is highly possible that people inclined to caring their intake were more willing to repond to the survey than were other people.(还是说调查对象的代表程度，与第一点重复) If this is the case, the over 80 percent respondse rate is not persuasive.
除了一、三点重复以外，感觉都是泛泛而谈，没有针对题目的具体事件讨论，像是套话。比如，调查对象的代表程度就可以展开，比如地域，健康，思想观念等等。
Even assuming the result of survey is reliable, the author's reasoning that OD's will no doubt decrease is unjustifiable. First, people's concerns about their intake of foods and their eating of these foods is two things.(可以继续说，如果高脂的东西，甚至是OD的高脂食物，因为非常可口，仍然有很多顾客购买) Next, although the author points out that low fat products abound in many food stores, it is possible that a majority of popular foods remain the kind of OD's products.（作者想说，OD的产品也可能有很多事低脂的。不妨直接点好） Thus, without ruling out this possibility, the author cannot conclude that the profits of OD will no doubt decrease.
Before I come to my conclusion, it is necessary to another flaw appearing in this argument: the author draws a hasty conclusion, merely based on these facts cited in the argument, that OD stockholders should sell their shares and other investors should not to purchase stock in OD. Perhaps, the sales of foods containing fats and cholesterol are not the major sources of OD's revenues. （仿佛与上段第二点有些重复）For that matter, after perceiving this trends, perhaps OD would take effective measures to change their products in the near future in order to gain a greater profits. （前面一句说，很可能含脂肪和胆固醇的食物的收入不是OD的主要收入。这句又说，“for that matter”,也许OD会采取措施改变其生产。很明显的逻辑问题）In short, absent additional information concerning these scenarios, I find the author's recommendation is unconvincing.
To sum up, tha author fails to provide key evidence needed to support the recommendation. To bolster that suggestion the author must show that the survey is statistically reliable, To better assess the suggestion the author must also show that the foods containing fats and cholesterol are to a great extent lose their market. Also useful would be any information concerning whether OD has other major sources of profits and whether OD will take measures to deal with the trend.

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第四次作业 第25篇

ARGUMENT46 - Although black bears are common in the eastern Canadian province of Labrador, grizzly bears-often similar in color, but much larger-were believed to exist only in the western provinces. Despite a nineteenth-century explorer's account of having startled and narrowly escaped from a grizzly bear deep in the woods in Labrador, modern scientists find no physical evidence that grizzly bears have ever lived in Labrador. But recent research into the language and legends of the Innu, a people who have lived in Labrador for thousands of years, reveals that their language has words for two different kinds of bears, and their ancient legends attribute different characteristics to the two kinds of bears. Therefore, there probably were grizzly bears in Labrador, and the explorer's account probably accurately identified the bear.
The arguer drew two conclusions above. First, there may be grizzly bears in Labrador. Second, the explorer's account probably accurately identified the bear. The reason he provided is that there are two different kinds of bears in the Innu language and the Innu ancient legends attribute different characteristics to the two kinds of bears. There are logical errors in the arguer's deducing, which makes his assertions are unreliable.
For one thing, the main reason the arguer brought forward are the language and legends. The problem is that whether the research of language is useful, or can there be any misunderstanding to the language. (对于语言的误解自己倒没有想到)Because we don't know whether or not the language research was made by authorities or some one not so professional, we can not firm rely on this search result.（语言的误解不仅仅是专业与否的影响，还可能是语言本身的理解的学习问题） Maybe there are some words’ meaning just like grizzly bear, or the description of some other kinds of bears which is similar to grizzly lead the arguer mistaken it as grizzly bears. The legends are neither can be used as evidence. （个人觉得对于传说的反驳可以再开一段，而且这里的论述很不充分。可以针对传说的来源，传说的可信度反驳。还可以联系之前的语言理解问题来反驳）That is only something without evidences support. The arguer seemed to deduce a conclusion with things need warranted, made a serious logical mistake.
Even though there may be grizzly lived in Labrador, no evidence show that the explorer's account is true, let alone to accurately identify the bear. （对于题目中出现的较为绝对的词，如这里的accurate，需要引起注意）For one thing need to be investigated is whether he really startled and narrowly escaped from a grizzly bear? （这里的目光狭隘了点）We must make sure that there were not other reasons that may him to tell a lie. For another, is the report reliable? For it was happened in nineteenth-century, there may be some mistakes in the report which is not so accurate as our contemporary.（个人觉得重点应该放在这里。毕竟是19世界的事情，不管在可信度上还是在专业度上都有待怀疑） Another case may be that the explorer had mistaken a bear just be like to the grizzly bear as the grizzly bear.
From analyzed above, we can see that the arguer’s assertions are not persuasive. He should offer more statistic evidence or study reports to give sufficient support to his conclusion, such as studies of the number of grizzly bears or researches did by authorities.

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第四次作业 第26篇

TOPIC: ARGUMENT51 - The following appeared in a medical newsletter.
"Doctors have long suspected that secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. This hypothesis has now been proved by preliminary results of a study of two groups of patients. The first group of patients, all being treated for muscle injuries by Dr. Newland, a doctor who specializes in sports medicine, took antibiotics regularly throughout their treatment. Their recuperation time was, on average, 40 percent quicker than typically expected. Patients in the second group, all being treated by Dr. Alton, a general physician, were given sugar pills, although the patients believed they were taking antibiotics. Their average recuperation time was not significantly reduced. Therefore, all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment."
WORDS: 448          TIME: 00:30:00          DATE: 2008-2-28 16:08:20

个人反驳要点：
1.
两个研究小组的医生不一样，一个是专业的运动医生，一个是综合医生。于是在医术和医疗方法上都有不同。在这样不同的条件下进行比较，显然不足为信。
2.
文中没有证据证明两个小组的伤者的身体素质和受伤程度是一样的，研究中仅仅比较恢复的时间就得出结论也不合理。
3.
在题目的结论中说到，所有的肌肉拉伤的病人都建议服用抗生素。难道轻微拉伤也需要服用？这显然是不合理的。需要根据实际受伤情况来提出建议。
In this argument , the author advises that all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment. To substantiate his point, he cites a study consists of two group of people, the people who are given antibiotics recover more quick than other group. At first glance ,this argument seems reasonable, but further inspection shows it suffers from many logical flaws.
   
First and foremost, the study cited in the argument is lack of credibility. Firstly,
the study provides insufficient information about two group people's age , sex and physical condition. Without these information, we may think that the first group is consist of people who are young and more healthier than the those in second group. On the contrary, the people in second group may be some old people who have a poor health condition and recovery speed.（老年人的身体状况就一定poor? 这里只说恢复能力不如年轻人就好） In this case, the study is invalid to make a comparison. Secondly, the doctor in the two groups are different. Common sense tells us  that the doctor specialized in sports medicine will do better in curing the muscle strain compared with a general physician. Therefore, there is a high possibility that the first group's shorter recuperation time is result form the doctor's better treatment in first group not the function of antibiotics.  
Second, the arguer provides no information of the function of sugar pills in the treatment of second group. It's entirely possible that the sugar pill will do some harm in people's recovery. Maybe it is the sugar pill that causes the second group people recuperating slower than group one. Without ruling out this possibility, the arguer can not convince me that the antibiotics will reduce people's recuperation time.  
Even if antibiotics could reduce patients' recuperation time, the arguer unfairly assume that all patients must take antibiotics as part of their treatment. Firstly, the arguer provide no evidence that patients who suffered from muscle strain is likely to get secondary infections. There is a good chance that most of patients suffered from muscle strain don't get secondary infections, therefore using antibiotics will have little effects. Secondly, the side-effect of antibiotics should also be take into patients' consideration. If the antibiotics have many side effects such as damaging one's immune system, nausea, vomiting, choosing use antibiotics only to reduce recuperation time is not a wise decision.  
这里值得学习。作者分析了使用抗生素的必要性和抗生素的副作用，对题目中的“all”进行了反驳。而自己仅仅考虑到了病情的严重性。
To sum up, this argument relies on an doubtful study, which renders it unconvincing as it stands. To strengthen it , the arguer should provide more details of the function of sugar pill and consider the doctor's effect in the comparison. To better improve it, the arguer should also investigate whether the antibiotics have some side effects.

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今天听说reborn组的QQ群里的战友已经开始分组了，突然被打击到了。

上周海选结束，因为自己作业没有达到要求，暂时就没有领到QQ群号。于是努力赶作业。

刚才交给草木斑竹这一周的作业进度，到现在还没有收到回复。是通过了，还是继续被拒，一切未知。于是开始反思自己在这一周的做的工作。这周完成了8篇文法，7篇语法，5篇A的修改，4篇economist读后感，背了大半篇economist文章。感觉不是很多，但是自己尽力了。虽然研二了老板布置的事情很多，但自己还是挤出时间在赶作业的同时继续完成新的任务，读新的文章。每天都是熬到1点之后睡觉……

万念俱灰。

今天就到这吧，明天再写今天的economist的comments。

就算再被拒，GRE Killing仍然继续。

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请问a vigorous, arm's-length system 是什么意思啊？ 谢谢

Useful words:

Disgrace耻辱,
tethered to与联系在一起,
sanguine乐观的，满怀希望的,
moderator调解者,
mediocre平庸的,
lackluster tenure碌碌无为的任期,
bandits强盗,
activist激进主义分子,
exacerbate使恶化,
cronies密友,
bust使爆裂、破产，逮捕,
subprime disaster次贷危机,
domino多米诺,
avalanche雪崩,
bailout跳伞，紧急救助,
metric度量标准, impute
归罪于，归咎于,
appropriation挪用,
outlier异常值，异常例子,
sin罪孽, misperceptions误解


Useful phrases and sentences:

taxs on the inputed income: 所得税
walk away with 轻而易举的得到

subject to 服从

bail out保释，帮助摆脱困境,

thrash out研究解决,
start off开始,

meekly signed off懦弱地停止,
perverse incentives不正当的刺激,
has increased substantially,
consistent with
in the top decile
a vigorous, arm's-length system
particularly in relation to
tying CEOs' pay to performance
the only metric that matters in looking at pay

Such bold opening statements raise questions galore.

Contrary to public perception, CEO pay has not gone up in recent years.

Note that the CEO does not actually walk away with this money.

Those who argue CEOs are overpaid have to explain how CEOs can be overpaid and not subject to market forces, when the other groups are paid at least as well and are subject to market forces.

But the results speak for themselves.

They could hardly have done worse.

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



My comments:

The debate is a great example to study and imitate for us to prepare for Issue Task.

The questions of whether executive pay has gone up dramatically and is forced by market or not are focuses of the debate.

The proposer denies the misperception of CEO pay directly at the beginning. In order to support the point that CEO pay has not rised without control, he firstly introduces two measures of CEO pay, which are called expected pay and realized pay. And expected pay is the best measure. Then he uses two graphs to prove that average expect pay of CEO has not increased since 2001 and CEO pay related to the income of the top 1% of taxpayers has declined in 2002, respectively. Then statistics and examples are employed to prove the combination of CEO pay and market force.

On the other side, the opposition offers several extreme examples to support her point of view. She suggests that it is incentive compensation in certain corporation that damaged the credibility of Wall Street and the American financial market. Examples of Countryside and Chesapeake Energy are also presented to argue that CEO pay is mostly depends on blindness of boards rather than market. At last, the opposition will discuss several deadliest sins of executive compensation.

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Useful words and expressions:

maligned诽谤
been propped up by
appoint任命
golden parachutes降落伞
extreme pay differentials极端的薪水差额
glut充斥
leverage杠杆影响
mandate批准
outright彻底的 welfare payments
conclusive evidence决定性的证据
out of whack重击

She bases her conclusion on two "outlier" examples.

It is irresponsible to claim that CEOs do not bear any downside risk.

In direct contradiction to Ms Minow's conclusion,…

The CEOs did not take much off the table. The CEOs had a substantial amount of downside risk.

Ironically, even her two anecdotes about Angelo Mozillo of Countrywide and Aubrey McClendon of Chesapeake Energy fail to support her case.

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, to each, whatever he can get away with.


Based on their past performance and their unwillingness to tie future pay to genuine measures of sustainable growth, I suggest that the best choice for shareholders is to let them leave.
好幽默


CEOs earn a lot and their stock appreciates（vi.增值，vt.赏识） when their companies perform well.

If found guilty, he potentially will end up paying three times what he took out.

Shouldn't the American people expect some sort of discounted calculation of the bonuses that reflect a market-based assessment of performance?


Ironically, even her two anecdotes about Angelo Mozillo of Countrywide and Aubrey McClendon of Chesapeake Energy fail to support her case.
哈，这里精彩了，以子之矛攻子之盾。因为上篇文章中opposition举了这两个anecdotes来证明CEO的糟糕表现damages the credits of Wall Street...balabala
As for Mr McClendon, he runs an energy company. How could he possibly have had anything to do with the financial crisis?
Mr McClendon 经营的是能源公司，他又怎么会和经济危机有关呢？说的好，所谓釜底抽薪。
The preponderance of the data and, even Ms Minow's "outlier" "anecdotes," therefore, fail to provide any evidence that top executive compensation had much to do with the financial crisis.
总结呼应前面的ironically

"The typical CEO is paid for performance. Boards increasingly fire CEOs for poor performance." The second sentence has no relationship to the first. 仔细一想，的确如此。真是佩服犀利的眼光。



My comments:

In proposer's rebuttal remarks, opposition's claims in the debate yesterday are refuted in details. Firstly, some examples of CEO who suffered losses before been fired are presented to prove the existence of pay-for-performance system. (Unfortunately, this becomes a point that the opposition attacks later on.) Then proposer states that with the fact that CEO pay rises with corporation's upside risk, CEOs also undertake downside risks. Furthermore, the anecdotes mentioned by the opposition in the last round of debate as evidence to prove damage to the credits of American economy from bad performance of certain CEOs are reversely become swords towards the opposition. Finally, the proposer restates the viewpoint that there is no combination between executive compensation and the financial crisis.

The opposition focus the rebuttal on the poor existence of incentive compensation. At the beginning, the example of AGI is used to argue that incentive compensation is useless and may cause bad influence. Then the rebuttal begins with disagreement on the accuracy of the data offered by proposer in the last round. Additionally, the relationship between pay-for-performance and firing-for-performance is substantially and perfectly denied. The comparison of CEO to other high paid groups and government authorizing to incentive compensation are also disproved. Seven deadly sins found in executive compensation plans are listed.


知识背景：
1.She also reiterates the point that there are plenty of devices such as golden parachutes降落伞 that cannot possibly be justified by performance.

金色降落伞概述 　　金色降落伞（Golden Parachute，又译黄金降落伞），是按照聘用合同中公司控制权变动条款对高层管理人员进行补偿的规定，最早产生在美国。“金色”意指补偿丰厚，“降落伞”意指高管可规避公司控制权变动带来的冲击而实现平稳过渡。这种让收购者“大出血”的策略，属于反收购的“毒丸计划”之一。其原理可扩大适用到经营者各种原因的退职补偿。
　　金色降落伞规定在目标公司被收购的情况下，公司高层管理人员无论是主动还是被迫离开公司，都可以得到一笔巨额安置补偿费用，金额高的会达到数千万甚至数亿美元，因此使收购方的收购成本增加，成为抵御恶意收购的一种防御措施。但其弊端是，巨额补偿有可能诱导管理层低价出售企业。
　　http://wiki.mbalib.com/wiki/%E9%87%91%E8%89%B2%E9%99%8D%E8%90%BD%E4%BC%9E

2.David Viniar used an unforgivable oxymoron矛盾修饰法 in a conference call with reporters: "Our competitors are paying people quite well [and are] very willing to pay employees guaranteed bonuses of very high amounts." (emphasis added)

An oxymoron (plural oxymora (Greek plural) or, more often, oxymorons) ("sharply dull" in Greek) is a figure of speech that combines normally contradictory terms. They appear in a range of contexts, from inadvertent errors such as extremely average, to deliberate puns like same difference, to literary oxymorons that have been carefully crafted to reveal a paradox.

The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination. For example, the following line from Tennyson's Idylls of the King contains two oxymora:

"And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."

Less often seen is noun-verb combinations such as the line

"The silence whistles"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron

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今天研究所到农家乐去团年，现在才回来。又是一天没有摸过作业。打开今天的comments活动文章，大家都把作业贴上去啦。那我还等什么呢？

貌似今天的文章不是很长，争取回寝室之前做完。回去再补篇作业。

让前两天的郁闷变成前进的动力~~~

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昨天的comments作业
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1045471-1-1.html
Useful words and expressions:


dog-eared书页折角的,

aplenty丰富，


flout轻视,

vault地窖,

consolation抚慰,

aversion反感, averse反对的，不愿意的


jumbled混乱的,

alphanumeric字母数字混合的,

entropy熵,

encryption加密，加密术, encrypt把……译成密码


mnemonic记忆的，助记的


be locked up,

staying in touch with,

heaven forbid, 万万不可地


on scraps of paper,

crackable words,

Post-it notes便条纸，


brute-force methods暴力搜索法,

Best to最好是,

He considers it crucial in order to keep abreast of（跟上某事物的发展） 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.

For ordinary purposes, that would seem overkill小题大做的.

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

A good length is at least eight symbols.

A password with 64 bits of entropy is as strong as a string of data comprising 64 randomly selected binary digits. Put another way, a 64-bit password would require 2 raised to the power of 64 attempts to crack it by brute force—in short, 18 billion billion attempts.

Your correspondent has been experimenting with LastPass.

To be on the safe side, however, his dog-eared list of passwords will still go with him.


My comments:
I am very excited to read such a report about technology. For the past week, boring articles on politics and economy, though useful for improving my reading ability, have made me feel sick. Partly because of my major of engineering or links to our daily life, it costs me relatively less time to finish the reading.

The report starts by posting a question of how to preserve our logons and passwords use to surf the web from being thieved by hackers. Then the writer introduces the easiness of cracking an ordinary password, followed by the relationship between the safety and the length, complexity and randomness (or entropy) of a password. Sometimes it is jumbled to memorize different logons and passwords used in different web sites. Therefore, some software managers aimed to help us administer our passwords or ever shopping on lines are introduced. However, the point of reliance on software being not a securest method after all is stated in the end.

This article makes me think about something convenient and, to some extent, deleterious technology brings us. Cell phones combine us with wireless communication, but radiowave contamination followed. Automobile replaces our foot to get to a far distance, yet tail gas it produces is warming our earth everyday. Like the report here introduces, while the internet is becoming a new part of our modern life, it becomes another thread to our privacy. Dealing with such tough problems is a contradiction itself. As far as I am concerned, negatively maybe, the most original method is available, just like the ending of the report.

rodgoodUID: 2619326

今天就完成了3个list的单词……感觉背单词这个东西，真的需要不停的复习。不管之前背了多少遍，背得多牢固，只要一段时间不碰，很快就搞忘了。就像菲尔普斯的教练对他说的，你一天不下水，状态就要后退三天。背单词也是这样~~

今天comments作业貌似不长，谢天谢地。几个星期前投出去的论文有回复了，但是需要两天内作出修改，正发愁没时间呢！赶紧去搞定它。

加油~~

rodgoodUID: 2619326

今天修改了一天的论文，终于投出去了。明天可以有时间补作业了。但是现在摆在面前的是两天的comments作业……其他要补得作业就不用说了。感觉相当惭愧。前几天的郁闷还在，现在更加着急了，感觉差距没有在缩小，反而增大了。一直想自己默默努力，等待可以被肯定OK的时候，现在却遥远了。

可能我悲观了。

一会儿回去把昨天的comments做了。明天加油~~

plukaUID: 2721764

a vigorous, arm's-length system
arm's-length是独立的，arm's-length market就是独立市场。这里说的是一个独立而有活力的体系吧~

rodgoodUID: 2619326

谢谢你。我又查了一下， arm's length 还有公平公正的意思。那么这里的意思就是有活力并且公平的体系了。
87# pluka

rodgoodUID: 2619326

惭愧，现在补上27号的comments作业

Clutter杂乱，混乱，
Buoyant活跃的，上涨的，
shut down关门
follow a pattern
pay over the odds过高的（价格） for
fussy interiors
pipe烟斗
on behalf of
Consign交付，分派，委托

war was close at hand

WHILE the contemporary art market constantly seeks the new—new names, new imagery, new media or simply new novelty—another curious corner of the art market has remained steadfastly old-fashioned, cluttered and sentimental.

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

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

The most sought after（最抢手的） 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.
Behind them the sea, silvery, shimmering and full of light



My comments:

The report depicts a picture of the buoyant market of old-fashioned, cluttered and sentimental art. However, behind the prosperity and luxury, what we should put attention on are an inflating economy and the desperation of people to it.

Just as the report says, inflation has always been the art dealers’ friend. Compared to the risk of other business such as real estate, art investment is relatively safe in recent years under the financial crisis. Without doubt that the works in those incredibly transaction are of great art value, but it is really a pity that dealers’ purchase of these exquisite works with such high bid is firstly for the purpose of assets maintaining.

ziyouren2008UID: 2722735

我的G的备考也是如此刚开始的懒惰到后来的匆忙，感悟到了人生因奋斗而精彩.....