报刊阅读词汇

malpractice n. 玩忽职守；不法行为；治疗不当 医疗差错
5.Why are firms not working harder to keep old employees? Part of the reason is that the crunch has been beyond the horizon of most managers. Nor is hanging on to older workers the only way to cope with a falling supply of labour.
tribute n. 礼物；贡物；颂词
8.The US dollar index, a measure of the performance of the US dollar against a basket of other currencies, dropped 3.2 percent the past month. And as the nation launches the second round of a quantitative easing program early next month, the dollar is expected to further depreciate.
infringement n. 侵犯；违反 侵权 践踏
7.Despite the Western obsession with the "China Collapse Theory" the country has emerged as the world's second largest economy in 2010. The rise of China is totally based on the hard work and correct leadership of its own people. Therefore it is a great tribute to Chinese history and a lesson for the Western nations that China could rise even on the ashes they had left after burning the famous imperial gardens in Beijing.
1. The resumption of direct peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians this week was auspicious, despite a long history of failed attempts that fosters justifiable pessimism about the ultimate chance of success
plausible ['plɔ:zəbl] 貌似可信的，花言巧语的；貌似真实的，貌 似有理的 似合理的 似乎可信的
3.These power blackouts caused ordinary people huge difficulties, which were not justified by these local officials' last-minute endeavors to meet their energy conservation targets at any cost. If consumers have to sacrifice their basic daily needs to help achieve some short-term green goals, how can they be expected to embrace a green lifestyle enthusiastically?
blackout n. 灯火管制；灯火熄灭；暂时的意识丧失 电力中 断 防空灯火管制
4.The central government has ordered local governments to correct their malpractice and ensure normal power supplies to residents, but policymakers must do more to ensure public support for green growth is not undermined by those officials who fail to do their jobs.
depreciate 减价
9.But by far the largest cause of this human tragedy is that thousands of employees were heavily overweighed in Enron stock.. Many had placed 100% of their 401(k) assets in the stock rather than in the 18 other investment options they were offered. Of course that wasn’t prudent, but it’s what some of them did.
crunch n. 咬碎，咬碎声；扎扎地踏 vt. 压碎；嘎扎嘎扎的咬嚼；扎扎地踏过 vi. 嘎吱作响地咀嚼；嘎吱嘎吱地踏过 危机
6.Since Hutchins' death, his photographic archive has passed to trustees who, worried about copyright infringement, have stopped the pictures from being published or exhibited in China.
auspicious [ɔ:'spɪʃəs]吉兆的，吉利的；幸运的 吉祥的 吉兆 的
2. The results were good: a decision to meet again in Egypt in two weeks and every two weeks thereafter to negotiate an agreement on all the borders of a new Palestinian state, security for Israel, the status of Jerusalem and the future of Palestinian refugees. The leaders set an ambitious one-year deadline. If they are truly committed, that seems plausible. But that’s a big if.
prudent adj. 谨慎的；精明的；节俭的 明智的
10.But even if some people don’t like Islam, or illegal immigrants, or gay weddings, they may respond to admonitions that our society is built around freedom of conscience and equal treatment under law. If he applied his oratorical gifts to these principles, Obama could remind a grumbling nation what it liked about him in the first place.
admonition n. 警告 劝诫 箴言