【clover】 ECO analysis by 银落~

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此贴不许水。。

CLOVER的组员们不许像我一样把ECO分析得特别简略。。我个人只是每天读一篇。。起到表率作用。。把一些好的词语和句子以及比喻的用法摘抄下来。。到时候给你们挑精华背诵。。但是。。逻辑和行文结构就没有太过关注。。而这却是你们一定要好好学习的重点。。

小组的计划特别魔鬼。。sigh。。做死我了。。。

anyway。。。anything will be ok。。。

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American politics

Where to now?
A ticklish week for Barack Obama


Jan 25th 2010
From Economist.com

THE president’s annual state-of-the-union speech, despite the fuss（起哄） and standing（lasting） ovations in Congress, is often a forgettable laundry list of priorities. 这句比喻很生动哇But Barack Obama’s first proper go at the address to Congress on Wednesday January 27th as mandated by the constitution (his inaugural speech last year did not count as这里是主动a state-of-the-union talk) will be watched with unusual interest, and not only because he is a far better speaker than his predecessor, George Bush. After the recent stinging loss of a Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans, the president’s domestic agenda is imperilled. He needs to present a clear idea of what he plans to do next.

Health care is still foremost in many minds despite the arguments surrounding Mr Obama's continuing efforts to rein in America's bankers. The Massachusetts vote means that Republicans, now with 41 of 100 seats, have denied the Democrats a super-majority（deny sb sth） and so can use a filibuster 红宝单词to talk out almost any bill. Scott Brown, the new senator for Massachusetts, has promised to do just that. How the Democrats respond will matter greatly, both for the prospects of the bill and the performance of the two main political parties at mid-term elections in November year. Some Democrats want to push形象生动 the Senate version of the health bill through the House of Representatives without amendment, which would mean not putting it back（=put off） through the Senate. But that would appear to ignore the voters' wishes in Massachusetts, risking a big voter backlash 集体反对later in the year.

Mr Obama has instead hinted that he would like to build support for a bill “around those elements of the package that people agree on.” But if this means only the populist平民党党员，了解即可
bits, this looks like bad policy. For example, both Democratic bills would make it illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to customers because of a pre-existing condition. This would make premiums more expensive, by putting more unhealthy people in the system, as Mr Obama himself has conceded. It is not clear what other elements the president believes could be agreed on.

A bolder option Mr Obama might pursue is to make the bill bigger not smaller. Last year, he talked of bringing America’s famously plaintiff-friendly medical malpractice litigation 接连都是红宝单词under control. This helped to win the support of the American Medical Association. But none of this proposal made it into either the House or Senate bill. Offering this, the thing the Republicans say they want most out of 从。。。health-care reform, could put Republicans on the spot立即. If they obstruct 妨碍阻扰the bill, they would look like they have no interest but bringing Mr Obama down. But adding tort 民事侵犯行为reform could lose （lose sb。注意用法，没用被动）Democrats, who are closer to trial lawyers.

Mr Obama may instead want to move away from health care and to talk instead about the economy overall. One reason for the punishment in Massachusetts might have been voter anger that politicians are paying too little attention to joblessness and the recession. Mr Obama has claimed that the same anger that brought Mr Brown’s victory in Massachusetts carried Mr Obama himself to office. But the president can pose as an outsider only for so long. He needs to develop some of the empathy that Bill Clinton famously showed when he adopted and made famous the phrase “I feel your pain”. Mr Obama might try: “I feel your anger.”

This could mean even more of Mr Obama's bank-bashing构词方法 populism平民主义. His latest plans, unveiled 注意语法，学会用法on Thursday, will restrict the size and range of activities of American banks. They come a week after he announced plans to make the banks pay back, through special taxes, the bail-out money they received during the financial crisis. The latest rules to curb America's banks were inspired by the thinking of Paul Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman and Obama adviser. If this has made Ben Bernanke, current Fed boss, a little nervous, the wavering （以后用于代替hesitation）last last week of some Senate Democrats over backing（支持别用spt了） his confirmation for a second term will not have improved his composure. Mr Obama's team spent the weekend shoring up（有一个spt的代替） support for Mr Bernanke.

Other domestic agenda-items, such as cap-and-trade legislation on greenhouse gases, will be wrapped up in the language of学用法，这个比喻很隐晦的
energy security, job-creation and boosting（上升的代替词） American competitiveness, rather than by talking about the climate changing, about which voters appear relatively unconcerned.

Most attention will be on domestic issues, but in foreign policy, too, the president has daunting challenges. He has won Republican support (and Democratic grousing) for his decision to boost troop numbers temporarily in Afghanistan. His vice-president, Joe Biden, has been deployed to hold hands in Iraq, where a de-Baathification commission has banned a large number of Sunni Arabs from the forthcoming elections, stoking（incite） fears of renewed sectarian war宗教战争，专业词. And Iran remains a conundrum, with Mr Obama still committed to offering negotiations over nuclear matters, while gradually stepping up缓慢加速 criticism of the regime’s violent handling of 以后代替行为opposition protests. It would not surprise to hear Mr Obama offer his most ringing斩钉截铁的 condemnation of Iran yet.

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conclusion：
好的adj：standing，stinging， ringing，foremost，boosting，sectarian，daunting

好的动词：wrap up，stoke，push，deploy，obstruct，curb，rein，pose as，bash=condemn harshly，imperil=danger

好的名词：backlash，wavering of=hesitation，handling of=behavior，ovation=praise

好的词组：back up=support=shore up，count as，hold hands，on the spot=immediately，step up=gradually increase，for a second term=for a second times，bring 。。。under control

好的句式：be wrapped up in a language of。。。，is often a forgettable laundry list of proprieties

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呵呵，昨天我也读的这篇。把好的词句分类整理是要清楚多了，学习了。
我对结构的分析：
先说奥巴马要做个全国演说，在通过民主党丢了麻省的议员席位过渡到他要讲的内容。接下来以奥巴马可能的想法为引线，介绍了医疗措施，经济改革等方面他遇到的困难，每段结尾都有过渡。从老掉牙的医疗到沸沸扬扬的银行限制法案，逐渐深入。

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哇~真的好详细哦……学习了~
看来我要加把劲~

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The European Union

What is it for?
Jan 21st 2010
From The Economist print edition

THE failure of the EU to make much of an impact at last month’s climate-change summit in Copenhagen caused shock in European capitals. At the moment of adopting a new rule book, the Lisbon treaty, to give the EU global clout红宝单词，代替influence, confused Europeans find themselves asking: what is their union for?

In this moment of angst(因忧世忧民而引起的)焦虑不安, 烦恼, a masterly historical survey of the European project, coupled with（不是单单只有with） a critique of its current failings, is just what the EU needs. Perry Anderson, a British historian at UCLA and a former editor of New Left Review, offers these valuable aids to reflection思考 in this collection of essays on Europe and the union. Firmly left-wing句式不错, his solidarity with the “street” against the “palace” allows him to see the modern EU for what it too often is句式不错: a “cartel of self-protective elites”. He can be crudely dismissive生动形象 of pet hates: Britain, New Labour, Winston Churchill (a “modest” historical figure, who briefly inspired his country during “a war won by Soviet troops and American wealth”).

But much of his sharpness is original, and clever: the European Commission has to secure power through regulation, he notes插入语, because it has so little to spend on policy instruments (the EU budget is less than 2% of the union’s GDP). Regulation costs Brussels only the salaries of a few thousand officials: the real costs fall on those regulated. He describes how the EU has “castrated” 阉割，形象=throw away national parliaments by dumping complex legislation on them for swift短暂的，昨天看到的standing是反义 approval, only after it has been haggled over by national diplomats: a process that has removed power from publicly accessible parliaments “into the closed world of chancelleries”.

Alas, the book is finally a disappointment. It includes essays so old they find Mr Anderson pondering the weakness of the Chirac government in France, and how Germany will change when its capital moves to Berlin. Even its updates are out of date.讽刺 Bafflingly奇怪的是, the author decided not to alter代替change the book to take account of代替include the global financial crisis. His climactic prediction for the EU is particularly weak.

A swooning francophile（组词法，亲法者）, Mr Anderson was aghast to（=shocked） see President Nicolas Sarkozy taking France back into the military structures of NATO, and sending troops to Afghanistan. With France joining other big countries in surrender to the “Atlantic imperium绝对权”, the EU, he concludes, is preparing itself for the role of “deputy empire” to the Yanks.

This is lazy stuff. Among European politicians, American power is suddenly the object of sighing nostalgia, not a source of alarm. 好句型All talk now is of a post-American century, dominated by powers like China, which Mr Anderson barely mentions. As a result, he condemns this vast and sometimes brilliant book to the realm of irrelevance.

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好的动词：secure power(=assure the charge of power)，dump, alter=change,ponder(=think/reflect)

好的名词：clout=huge influence, elites，historical figures，haggle,

好的adj：swift=temporary,

好的副词：crudely dismissive，firmly，particularly(=especially), bafflingly(=strangely)

好的词组：make much of sth=make the most of sth, be coupled with=with, allow sb to do sth(代替被动），fall on, castrate=throw away, in surrender to, to the realm of（=in the field of ), be aghast of (=shock)

好的句型：A's power is the object of B, not a source of C.(A 是B，不是C）

66更加透彻的分析

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Carlo Gesualdo

Lurid rhythms
Jan 21st 2010 | From The Economist print edition

THE lives of 16th-century composers of unaccompanied madrigals抒情短歌，情歌 do not by and large（=in general）
make promising subjects for lurid films and operas. Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa (near Naples), is the exception. Descended from Norman rulers of Sicily and a Medici mother, he took a twice-widowed 24-year-old bride when he was 20, then bloodily murdered her and her lover (as local custom required) when his uncle, having himself failed句式（没有直接用failed） to seduce her, informed Carlo of his wife’s infidelity. Things went downhill迅速恶化 from there. The prince abused his next wife, and was subject to遭遇 fits of 一阵突发的melancholy that could be lifted only by thrice-daily beatings from a team of young men retained for the purpose. He ended his life tormented（代替severely trouble） by the spells and potions of 咒符和药剂a rejected former concubine妃子 who turned to witchcraft.

Werner Herzog made a mountain out of this不懂 in his “Death for Five Voices”, purportedly据称 a documentary, in 1995. In the same year, Alfred Schnittke’s opera about Gesualdo added the (false) detail that he killed his own child, as if the facts were not colourful enough already. Aldous Huxley, who listened to Gesualdo’s music while taking mescaline, was so carried away着迷（=be obsessed in） by it that he once made up stories about him in a lecture. Bernardo Bertolucci has a film project about Gesualdo that is in development now. But it is the eerie怪诞的 passion of Gesualdo’s music, not the drama of his life形象生动, which led Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg to him.强调句（led sb to sb用得很好） Both composers regarded Gesualdo as to some extent a model for their own musical innovations.

An 18th-century history of music described Gesualdo’s harmonies, which veer in and out of familiar scales, as “harsh, crude and licentious”. In 1956 Time magazine headlined a review of a Gesualdo recording as “Ahead of his time”, a questionable idea since it presupposes that the history of music is travelling in a single preordained direction. There was a boom of interest in Gesualdo among musicologists in the 1950s, and although performance of his music continues to thrive, Glenn Watkins, an American scholar of renaissance music and the leading authority on Gesualdo’s works, reports that academic interest in him is waning, for now. Mr Watkins published a study of Gesualdo’s life and music, with a preface by Stravinsky, in 1973; his new book traces the ebb and flow of Gesualdo’s reputation over the centuries, and tries to explain it.

But it does not try very hard. Mr Watkins gets lost rambling（瞎扯） among minor details, and prefers musing over questions to answering them. He makes no attempt to explain musical terms: readers who do not know what a “diatonic全音阶的, homophonic pronouncement of a frottola rhythm” is will be none（adv。毫不，一点儿也不） the wiser after reading about it here. Mr Watkins writes that this book is part historiography, part cultural history, part autobiography, and “might well be called a notebook”. This is one notebook which probably should have remained in a drawer.讽刺

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LS "make a mountain out of "是小题大做、夸大其词的意思？
觉得水的话就删了吧。。。
话说我对于双重验证真是快抓狂了。。。。