一 句子

1.?Last Thursday, the French Senate passed a digital service tax, which would?impose an entirely new tax on large multinationals that provide digital services to consumers or users in France. 上周四，法國(guó)參議院通過(guò)了一項(xiàng)數(shù)字服務(wù)說(shuō)。該稅收的主要征收對(duì)象，是為消費(fèi)者或用戶(hù)提供服務(wù)的大想跨國(guó)公司。

2.?Rather than just focusing on GDP,over 40 different sets of criteria，from health ,education and civil society engagement ,have been measured to get a rounded assessment of how countries are performing ?這項(xiàng)研究不僅關(guān)注GDP,為了能更全面地衡量一個(gè)國(guó)家的表現(xiàn)，從健康、教育、公眾社會(huì)參角度采用了40余種不同的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)進(jìn)行測(cè)量。

3.?At a time when Jim and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing?power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealth aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states 在吉姆和其他經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家提醒人民繼承財(cái)富將給王室?guī)?lái)越來(lái)越多的權(quán)力以及越來(lái)越嚴(yán)重的不平等現(xiàn)象時(shí)，富有的貴族家庭仍然被作為現(xiàn)代民主國(guó)家的核心象征，很令人奇怪。

4.?What motivated him，we were to understand ,was his zeal for fundamental fairness—— protecting the taxpayer, controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits 但是，我們要明白，是他對(duì)基本公平的的熱情促使他這么做——保護(hù)納稅人的利益，控制支出，確保只有最值得的申請(qǐng)人才能獲得救濟(jì)。

5.?As Jim notes, “In the 10years ending in 2009, factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70years; roughly, one out of every three manufacturing jobs — about 6 million in total——disappeared” 正如吉姆說(shuō)的。2009年前的十年之間，工廠辭退工人的速度很快。被裁減的人數(shù)幾乎相當(dāng)于過(guò)去70年招工人數(shù)的總和。粗略估計(jì)，每三個(gè)制造業(yè)崗位中，就有一個(gè)消失?？偣蚕У膷徫唬写蠹s600萬(wàn)個(gè)。

6.?Online culture thinks highly of the notion that the information flowing onto the screen comes there by specific request 網(wǎng)絡(luò)文化推崇這樣一種理念：出現(xiàn)在屏幕上的信息，應(yīng)該是特別要求的結(jié)果。

7.?The court did suggest accepting favors in return for opening doors is distasteful and nasty 法院的確提出：為賄賂者開(kāi)路并收取好處，是令人厭惡和骯臟的。

8.?In particular ，they called for forging closer collaborations with western state government ,which are often uneasy with federal action,and with the landowners . 特別之處在于，他們要求去西部的州政府建立更加密切的合作關(guān)系。而這些州，經(jīng)常對(duì)聯(lián)邦行為感到不安。與地主打交道，也會(huì)讓他們感到不安。

9.?Even the very phrase job seeker’s allowance is about redefining the unemployed as a job seeker who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions 甚至，求職者津貼這個(gè)短語(yǔ)，就已經(jīng)將失業(yè)者重新定義成求職者了。他們沒(méi)有領(lǐng)取救濟(jì)金這個(gè)基本的權(quán)利，而這個(gè)權(quán)利是他們通過(guò)繳納國(guó)民保險(xiǎn)應(yīng)得的。

10.?It has sparked significant controversy with the USA trade representative ,opening an investigation into whether the tax discriminates against American companies,which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against France 但是，這已經(jīng)引發(fā)了巨大的爭(zhēng)議。美國(guó)代表開(kāi)始檢查這項(xiàng)稅收是否歧視美國(guó)公司。這可能會(huì)導(dǎo)致對(duì)法國(guó)的貿(mào)易制裁。

二 單詞

1.?Impose 征收

2.?Senate 參議院

3.?Multinational 大跨國(guó)公司

4.?Criteria 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)

5.?Civil 公眾的

6.?Assess 測(cè)量

7.?Bizarre 奇怪的

8.?Aristocratic 貴族的

9.?Inherit 繼承

10.?Symbolic 象征的

11.?Democratic 民主的

12.?Zeal 熱情

13.?Await 等待

14.?Signature 簽名

15.?Reality 現(xiàn)實(shí)

16.?Access 通道

17.?Restrict 限制

18.?Substance 物質(zhì)

19.?Nasty 骯臟的

20.?Distasteful 令人厭惡的

21.?Favor 好處

?

?