1. The?management consultancy?Mckinsey has predicted that the luxury business

could be worth $27 billion annually within four years, almost triple the current

estimated figure.

麥肯錫管理咨詢公司預(yù)測在四年內(nèi)奢侈品行業(yè)規(guī)模可能會達到 270 億美元，幾乎是目前市

場估值的三倍。

2.?American?Vogue?editor-in-chief?Anna Wintour 美國?Vogue?雜志主編安娜·溫圖爾

3.?A Map of the World?author?Jane Hamilton 《世界地圖》作者簡·哈密爾頓

4. at twenty metres distance 在 20 米距離

5. our next door neighbour 我們的隔壁鄰居

6. It was all phony: the accent, the?$ 10,000 a year salary?he was supposed to be

earning, the contracts in the United States and Britain.

一切都是假的：口音，他可以掙到的 1 萬美元年薪，以及在美國和英國的合約。

7. Many philanthropic activists are propelled in their work by what authors Cheryl and

Jim Keen and?wife/husband?Sharon Daloz Parks and Larry Parks Daloz describe in

their book,?Common Fire: Lives of Commitment, as “experience of the other”.

《共同的激情：奉獻的人生》是謝麗爾和吉姆·基恩以及莎倫·達羅茨·帕克斯和拉里·帕

克斯·達羅茨夫婦所寫的一本書，書中描述的“另一種體驗”是很多慈善活動家從事慈善

事業(yè)的動力。

8. cradle to grave system 終身制度

9. first-time readers of?Paradise Lost?第一次閱讀《失樂園》的讀者

10. hand-to-hand combat 貼身搏斗

11. In his recent book?Satisfaction, Emory University psychiatrist Gregory Berns points

to extreme endurance athletes who push themselves to their physical limits for days

at a time.

埃莫利大學(xué)精神病學(xué)家格雷戈里·伯恩斯在他的近作《滿足》中指出，極限耐力運動員每

次訓(xùn)練都要使自己的身體連續(xù)數(shù)天處于極限狀態(tài)。

12.?Prada?director David Frankel《普拉達》的導(dǎo)演大衛(wèi)·弗蘭科爾

13. The 2008 Berlin International Film Festival awards have been announced.

2008 年柏林國際電影節(jié)各個獎項的歸屬已塵埃落定。

14. That?Economist?review called Goodman’s latest book,?Intuition,“exciting”

“exotic”.

《經(jīng)濟學(xué)家》所刊登的那篇書評稱贊古德曼的新作《直覺》“激動人心”“充滿異國情調(diào)”。