1. 《出租车司机》被誉为历史上最伟大的电影之一，讲述了一名沮丧的前海军陆战队员，在被爱慕的女子拒绝后，试图暗杀参议员的故事。名义上的出租车司机崔维斯·拜寇，生活混乱，充斥着毒贩和妓女，但他的故事从来不是不现实的幻想。相反，它揭示了一个人差点成为成为枪手的真实预警。

2. A report by human resources website Zhaopin released recently found that only 3.1 percent of students expecting to graduate in July said they will start their own business, down from 6.3 percent in 2015.

3. 毋庸置疑，改造比创造容易。任何曾经对着白纸一筹莫展的人都知道这一点。但是，在过去七年里，时尚界对60年代的普遍模仿至少暴露出，这个行业缺乏想象力——不只是对于服装和消费者缺乏想象力，而且对于文化与服装的关系也缺乏想象力。

4. 今年3月，福特以16亿美元将沃尔沃卖给中国吉利汽车，从此退出豪华汽车市场。虽然这是一个巨大损失——福特11年前购买沃尔沃这家瑞典汽车制造商花了60亿美元——但2009年福特实现了27亿美元的利润，是2005年以来首次盈利。受惠于“旧车换现金”计划（更不要说丰田的加速器问题了），今年2月福特重新占据了美国最大汽车制造商的宝座。这也是为什么福特首席执行官阿兰?穆拉里能够将目光投向国外，如印度这样的大市场，在印度推出了紧凑车型Figo。

5. n. 疏忽，忽视

6. 穆迪分析(Moody's Analytics)在报告发布之前表示：“由于大宗商品价格不断下跌，生产者价格仍将处于下行趋势。”

应用

1. 买securities很不security（n 安全）

2. I'm only a child yet I know we are all part of a family, five billion strong, in fact, 30 million species strong and we all share the same air, water and soil -- borders and governments will never change that. 我只是一个小孩，但我知道我们都是一个大家庭的成员，超过60亿人的大家庭，以及超过三千万物种的大家庭，政府和国界永远都无法改变这个事实。

3. 下面是2014年的几部重现活力、需要刮目相看的老剧——以及几部死气沉沉的老剧。

4. The husband-and-wife team behind Little Miss Sunshine tackle the 1977 gender war between Bobby Riggs, washed-up 55-year-old tennis pro, and Billie Jean King, the young ace (then No 2 in the world) he challenged to a match.

5. A historically jittery commodity, crude oil has seen calm prices for three years, and one big factor has been helping smooth the wrinkles: U.S. shale oil.

6. Other Chinese companies that filed a large number of patents included ZTE, Alibaba, Xiaomi, BYD and Haier, all of which are rapidly expanding into Europe.

旧版特色

1. But what will politicians actually do While President Trump is focused on bringing back traditional manufacturing jobs to America, different US states are experimenting with other policies to help low-paid precarious workers. These range from sharply higher minimum wages to new rules to stop employers changing staff schedules at the last minute.

2. 关于“白”的定义总是存在一定程度的不稳定性。美国的爱尔兰与意大利移民，英国的犹太人，都曾一度被排除在白人多数群体之外，如今却因为他们的种族特征，同样被视为白人主流的一部分。与此同时，尽管犹太人也是白皮肤，特朗普的某些支持者们还是会把他们视为外来者，这些人经常在社交网络上散布反犹太的网络米姆。

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