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经济学人下载:公务员与财政紧缩不曾变革的时代

2014-03-10来源:Economist

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1.financial crisis 财务危机

Did the financial crisis change very much?
金融危机是否带来了许多变化？

The international monetary fund is in financial crisis.
国际货币基金组织正处于财政危机之中。

2.take up 开始从事；接受

But a plot description could take up all my space, and more.
一个情节的描述会占用我的全部空间还不够。

Ten billion twitter messages take up little storage space: about five terabytes of data.
一百亿条twitter信息所占用的存储空间很小：约五万亿字节数据。

3.plan to 打算,计划

Many plan to stomach more risk.
许多人计划承担更多的风险。

Other countries plan to buy or build more.
其他国家也打算购买或建造更多的潜艇。

4.as much as 差不多

But the most swingeing cuts were to pensions, which were slashed by as much as 55%.
但是大部分大幅的削减都是在养老金上面的，足足高达55%。

Because he believes you doubt him as much as he doubts himself.
因为他相信你会怀疑他就像他怀疑他自己一样。