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RCEP，区域全面经济伙伴关系(Regional Com-prehensive Economic Partnership,RCEP)，即由东盟十国发起，邀请中国、日本、韩国、澳大利亚、新西兰、印度共同参加（“10+6”），通过削减关税及非关税壁垒，建立16国统一市场的自由贸易协定。

若RCEP谈成，将涵盖约35亿人口，GDP总和将达23万亿美元，占全球总量的1/3，所涵盖区域也将成为世界最大的自贸区。

a bull market，牛市，价格上涨的市场Russian ruble，俄罗斯卢布anti-dumping，反倾销stock in trade，库存, 存货paid on delivery，货到付款unanimous vote，全票通过carbon footprint，碳足迹碳足迹，英文为Carbon Footprint，是指企业机构、活动、产品或个人通过交通运输、食品生产和消费以及各类生产过程等引起的温室气体排放的集合。

它描述了一个人的能源意识和行为对自然界产生的影响，号召人们从自我做起。

目前，已有部分企业开始践行减少碳足迹的环保理念。

recursive function，递归函数在数学上，关于递归函数的定义如下：对于某一函数f(x)，其定义域是集合A，那么若对于A集合中的某一个值X0，其函数值f(x0)由f(f(x0))决定，那么就称f(x)为递归函数。

provisional agenda，临时议程ready-made garment，在服装行业中，一般人容易被一些常见的名称如成衣、高级成衣及高级定制服混淆，其实这些名称背后都各有其统一的基本概念。

成衣成衣（Garments)，指按一定规格、号型标准批量生产的成品衣服，是相对于量体裁衣式的订做和自制的衣服而出现的一个概念。

成衣作为工业产品，符合批量生产的经济原则，生产机械化，产品规模系列化，质量标准化，包装统一化，并附有品牌、面料成分、号型、洗涤保养说明等标识。

高级成衣与一般成衣的区别，不仅在于其批量大小，质量高低，关键还在于其设计的个性和品位，因此，国际上的高级成衣大体都是一些设计师品牌。

United Nation secretariat，联合国秘书处Global Environment Facility，全球环境基金International Refugee Organization，国际难民组织The World Travel and Tourism Council，世界旅行和旅游理事会种族歧视，race discrimination就职演说，inaugural speech和谐共赢，harmonious and win-win文化事业，cultural undertakings全民健身，nationwide fitness programs本地化服务，localization services产能过剩行业，industries with excess capacity放宽市场准入，liberalize market access自主创新能力，capacity for independent innovation载人航天飞行，manned space flight促进生态修复，promote ecological restoration公共卫生体系，public health system科技成果产业化，industrialization of scientific and technological achievements多语言跨文化交际，multi-language cross- cultural communication古为今用，洋为中用make the past serve the present, to make foreign things serve China英译汉As long as there is class division and social inequality, Karl Marx will be the most relevant social thinker of the twenty-one century.……汉译英科学家们花了300年的时间，通过做实验并进行计算，才确定了光在真空中惊人的传播速度：每秒钟186,282英里（约折合299,784公里）。

It took 300 years of experiment and calculation to pin down the speed at which light travels in a vacuum: an impressive 186,282 miles per second.光在空气中的传播速度比真空中稍慢一点。

实际上在一些极度的实验中，已经可以把光减速到犹如爬行，甚至可以使其看起来象是在后退。

但是在我们日常生活所遇到的尺度范围中，光传播得极快，以致于我们感觉周围的一切都是实时发生的。

Light will travel slightly slower than this through air, and some wild experiments have actually slowed light to a crawl and seemingly made it go backward, but at the scales encountered in our everyday lives, light is so fast that we perceive our surroundings in real time.抬头仰望夜空，这种错觉就开始站不住脚了。

Look up into the night sky and this illusion begins to falter.“光从那里到达地球需要时间，所以…那里‟越远，光离开那里的时间也就越早，因此我们在某个时刻看到的所有天体都是过去的情形。

”"Because light takes time to get here from there, the farther away 'there' is the further in the past light left there and so we see all objects at some time in the past."It took 300 years of experiment and calculation to pin down the speed at which light travels in a vacuum: an impressive 186,282 miles per second.Light will travel slightly slower than this through air, and some wild experiments have actually slowed light to a crawl and seemingly made it go backward, but at the scales encountered in our everyday lives, light is so fast that we perceive our surroundings in real time.Look up into the night sky and this illusion begins to falter."Because light takes time to get here from there, the farther away'there' is the further in the past light left there and so we see all objects at some time in the past," explains Floyd Stecker of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Light-yearsWe see the relatively close moon as it was 1.2 seconds ago and the more distant sun as it was about 8 minutes ago. These measurements—1.2 light-seconds and 8 light-minutes—can be thought to describe both time and distance.The distance to more remote objects such as other stars is so greatit is measured in light-years—the distance light will travel in a year, or about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).. Even the nearest star system, Proxima Centauri, lies more than four light-years away, so it appears to us on Earth as it was just over four years ago when the light began its journey.In this way, light's finite speed gives us a valuable view into the past, and as we strain our gaze deeper into the universe we look further back in time."In the case of distant galaxies, we see them as they were billions of years ago when the universe was relatively young," Stecker said.Out of sightSome galaxies are so remote that their light hasn't had sufficient time to reach us yet, despite about 13.7 billion years of travel. There could also be more distant objects that will forever remain unknown to us."Because the universe is expanding and the expansion appears to be accelerating, there may be distant galaxies which if we can't see them now because their light has not had time to reach us, we will never see," Stecker said.So we can never see the universe as it is, only as it was at various stages of its development.To interact with remote parts of the universe—to see them as they are now—would require some exotic means of travel, such as to travel faster than light which, according to Einstein's special theory of relativity, is impossible as it would require an infinite amount of energy."The equations of special relativity imply that nothing can go faster then the speed of light in empty space. Therefore, if super-luminal speeds are possible in empty space, they violate the principle of special relativity," Stecker told .Offbeat theoriesThere are ways to travel faster than light that do not violate special relativity, but these either outpace light in a transparent medium such as water or do not involve the transmission of information.To break light speed in space and gain the same easy interaction with the universe that we experience everyday on Earth is a task considered practically impossible even when offbeat theories are considered."There are some postulated but unproven theoretical models, inspired by the motivation to unite the quantum theory with the general theory of relativity, which violate special relativity," Stecker said.These theories involve accelerating particles with mass to super-luminal speeds using ultra high energies. It may also be possibleto take a shortcut to distant parts of the universe through a tunnel in space-time known as a wormhole."If stable wormholes can exist in space-time and if we can survive traveling through them, then they could provide shortcuts as in thesci-fi movies," Stecker said.∙Video: Can You Time Travel?∙The Greatest Mysteries in Science∙The Strangest Things in Space原文出处：Why the Universe is All HistoryBy David Powell/bilingual/287487【汉语写作与百科知识】一、名词解释（25*2'=50分）帕特农神庙在希腊首都雅典卫城坐落的古城堡中心，石灰岩的山岗上，耸峙着一座巍峨的长方形建筑物，神庙矗立在卫城的最高点，这就是在世界艺术宝库中著名的帕特农神庙。