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难句解释

China’s Growth Poses Opportunity and Risk

1. Japan has effectively run out of low-wage workers for its industries, and quickly brought much of its economy up to and in some cases beyond Western technological standards.

日本在工业方面实际上已无低工资的工人可用了，它已快速地将其经济的相当部分提升到，并在某些方面超越了西方的技术标准。

2. But while the danger poses by Japan to other economies over the last decade has taken on the numbing form of economic stagnation and political lassitude, China poses the risk of fast , fast sharp shocks.

但是正当日本在过去十年中对其他经济体构成的威胁呈现出经济迟滞、政治上无所作为的麻木状态时，中国的威胁却是迅猛而又令人惊心的。

3. Its transition from a planned economy to a form of capitalism seems to make it especially susceptible to economic booms and busts, and Chinese officials have begun worrying that an unsustainable bubble is developing.

它由计划经济向某种形式的资本主义的转变似乎使之特别容易受到经济荣衰的影响；中国的官员开始担忧，不可持续的泡沫正在形成。

4. China s strengths are indeed impressive. Its wage advantage is much greater than Japan s was a decade or two ago, China has the diplomatic muscle to resist trade and currency concessions that might undermine its competitive edge.

中国的力量确实令人印象深刻。它在工资方面的优势要比一二十年前日本在这方面的优势大得多。中国还有强大的外交力量以阻止贸易与货币方面的退让，这种退让有可能损害其竞争优势。

5. For all these reasons, the Chinese trade surplus with the United States has soared, quintupling in the last decade to $124 billion in 2003.

由于这些原因，中国对美国的贸易顺差得以飞速增长，在过去十年中增加了五倍，于2003年达到了1240亿美元。

6.Wearing a blue company baseball hat and a blue company-issued shirt, she works 8 to 11 hours a day stuffing power cords, remote controls and other DVD accessories into plastic bags. 她带着公司的蓝色棒球帽，穿着公司发的蓝衬衣，一天工作八到十一个小时，将电源线，摇控器及其他DVD配件塞进一个个塑料袋中。

7. 5. The biggest question lingering over China is how vulnerable it remains to acute setbacks____ a banking failure, an inflationary spiral, even a temporary bust.

一个一直以来让中国挥之不去的最大问题是，它对于急剧的挫折仍是如何脆弱，诸如银行破产、螺旋式通货膨胀，那怕是短暂的经济衰退等。

After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter to become the world’s second-largest economy behind the United States, according to government figures released early Monday.

根据早在周一政府公布的数字，经过30年的惊人的增长之后，中国已于第二季度超过了日本，成为了仅次于美国的世界上的第二大经济体。

China is already a major driver of global growth.

中国已是全球增长的主要推动力。

Economists say that China’s economy is too heavily dependent on exports and investment and that it needs to encourage greater domestic consumption — something China has struggled to do.

经济学家说，中国的经济对出国与投资的依赖太强，它需要进一步刺激国内的消费，而这正是中国一直以来竭力在做的一件事。

Best Graduate Schools

1. A rollicking children s tune blares as students enter LIS406___ a graduate-level library science course at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.

在欢快的儿童乐曲的喧闹声中，学生们进入了LIS406的课堂，这是伊利诺伊大学Urbana-Champaign分校的一门研究生级别的图书馆学课程。

2.The classroom is a virtual one, with students logging in from bedrooms and offices all over the globe.

这间教室是虚拟的。学生们是从全球各地的寝室、办公室上网来到这里的。

3.In just the past year, remote enrollment has more than tripled,, to 4,441, at the University of Maryland University College, one of the most established distance-ed providers.

就在去年，马里兰州大学大学学院的远程教育招生人数就增加了三倍多，达到了4441人。该校是最有建树的远程教育的提供单位之一。

4. This trend has given rise to an older pool of graduate students: Today, more than half are over age 30, and nearly one quarter are over 40.

这一趋势带来了一批年龄较大的研究生。如今，一半以上的研究生年龄在30岁以上，将近四分之一年龄超过了40岁。

5. I had always wanted a master s degree, but it’s hard to suspend a career and a family for it, especially when the closest school of public health is four hours away.

我一直想要一个硕士学位，但是为了学位而中断事业，并暂时置家庭于不顾却是困难的。特别是当最近的一所公共健康专业的研究生院距离我所在的地方也有四个小时的车程的时候更是如此。

6. She says the discussions between student and professor, and among peers, were more rigorous than those she experienced in the two on-campus master s programs she previously attended. “We needed to cite references for everything we said [in E-mail postings],” explained Behrend. 她说，学生与教授之间，以及同辈人之间的讨论都要比她以前在校园里经历的两个硕士学位课程的讨论严谨得多。“我们不管说什么，都要交待出处【以电子邮件发帖子的形式】”Behrenc解释说。

7，Education requires a relationship between people because it s a process of identity formation, validation, encouragement, emulation, and inspiration. This only happens face to face.

教育需要人际关系，因为它是一个形成个性，被人认可，相互鼓励，相互竞争，并从彼此身上获取灵感的过程。而这只有面对面时才可能发生，

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8.Once targeted at older, working adults, distance learning has moved into the education mainstream at stunning speed over the past couple of years, as technology allows ever-richer, more-interactive learning experiences online----- and as college costs continue to rise and classrooms are packed to capacity.

随着技术的发展令比以往任何时候更为丰富，更多互动的网上学习体验成为可能，随着大学学费的持续上涨以及教室设计容量的饱和，曾经面向年龄较大，在职成年人的远程教育，在过去几年中以一种令人震惊的速度进入了教育的主流。

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