English Salon Reading Notes 2014
free-trade pact
historic step
time-phased achievements
prosperous, peaceful and stable China
dispensable 可有可无的, indispensable 必不可少的 eg: If innovation is the new engine for China's development, reform is the indispensable igniter.
debut 初次登台,开张
roughly 大概,大约 roughly speaking 大约说来
respective/respectively 分别的,各自的
share/shares 股份
trailblazer 开拓者,先驱者 (pioneer)
fame 名声,名望 famous 著名的,出名的。 flame 火焰
projection n.投射,规划,推测。
clean air and water, and a livable climate are inalienable(不可分割的,不可让与的,不可剥夺的) right human rights.
It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew into a major difference, and finally it exploded into an exchange of bitter words followed by weeks of silence.
creek 小溪
spite n. 不顾,恶意,怨恨 vt. 刁难,使恼怒 (make a difficulty) in spite of 尽管,不管不顾。
spiteful怀恨的,恶意的,spitefully, spitefulness n. 怀恨在心,充满恶意;