析经济学人，习高分作文/19

做学生就多考分，做成人就多挣钱，这样尊严才可以多一点。

——我托福考试只剩07天。

周六早上好，一个人暂时没节日，专心谈学习。

今天读了钟道隆先生的五本书，受益匪浅。

真实情况是，昨天晚上深夜学到困倦，深感无力就打开了篇微信文章看到了这个作者发明的逆向学习法，于是就搜了下他的书看看，结果一发不可收拾，我好像是聚精会神看到了三点？然后醒来就五点了，发现自己坐在椅子上浑身不舒服，又上床睡到九点半，下午再翻完了两三本书，稍微截屏记了点笔记。

最大的感受是，真正想学好英语的任何人，只要肯付出努力，一定是可以的。

为什么？

钟道隆先生四十五岁开始学习英语，一年半成为口语翻译，当然你可以说他很聪明，但想让我们来分析一下他的优劣势。

- - 四十五岁年老时间紧迫，脑子不如年轻人灵光，硬件条件不如我们有手机电脑互联网，去培训师那里请教他人还被嘲笑挖苦；

+ + 身为军人执行力强，工作实在需要，从小到大都是优等生，物质条件丰厚，职位高自尊心强。

他第一次出国时要带随行翻译，但是感觉自己身为中国军队通信总高级工程师，却还要在口袋里放上一张纸条，用英语写着请他人帮助以防自己迷路的话，深感没面子于是回国下定决心学好英语，从听写和跟读录音带开始，但是同事们都在打牌，自己听不进去时就去清华园转转，在路上踢到了一个易拉罐，他想干脆把这个带回去，要是用的笔芯全部给装满，自己还学不会的话，那就放弃，说明自己尽力了，也无愧于自己。

但随着笔芯越堆越多，这过程虽然枯燥，自己的英语水平确实在扎实提升，遇到听不出来的就打电话问英语科班出身的翻译，第一次对方只听他读一遍句子就知道他听错了说明，第二次问对方要他把录音带拿过来仔细听听，后来几次两个人可以平等地一起讨论了。

你羡慕么？抑或是觉得这么苦的过程得多大毅力去支撑呀？

只不过旁观者看起来很无比辛苦罢了，主角主角乐在其中呢。

这种“逆向学习法”，其实就是“你想学习法”，只要你想学习，没人拦着你，有大量资源，有乐于助人的老师，有热心讨论的同学，有无数的方法论，有那么多前辈们....

余下还有很多，慢慢再写吧。

下面进入正题。

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Profits that heady smack more of an oligopoly than of a cut-throat battle forbusiness.

- heady: adj, affecting you in a strong and pleasant way

- smack:  01 n, a hit with your flat hand or with a flat object

                 02 v, to hit something hard and noisily

                 03 adv, noisily and with great force

- oligopoly: 寡头垄断， 求过于供的市场情况

这不是一句话，是名词性短语。

smack的意思很多，这里应该取名词。

- - - more of an oligopoly than of a cut-throat battle

        这个是比较结构，更像是寡头市场而非你死我活的战斗

- - - more of ... than of  ...

        更...而非...的战斗

- - -  of + a/an + n

        介词of加上不定冠词a或者an再加上名词表示形容词

经济学人中不时来个超省略的短语，比如这句：

- - - Would that things were simple.

▁▂▃▅▆ ▊§/B〓

In chasing performance, investors are pursuing a chimera.

- chimera:  01 formal a plan or course of action that is not possible to achieve
                   02  a frightening imaginary creature in old stories.(It has a lion’s head, a goat’s body, a long tail, and it breathes fire.)

这两个动词非常对应：

- chase

- pursue

▁▂▃▅▆ ▊¶/C〓

When a hot new tool arrives on the scene, it should extend the frontiers of economis and pull previously unanswerable questions within reach.

What might seem faddish could in fact be economists piling in to help shed light on the dicipline's darkest corners

Some economist, however, argue that new methods also bring new dangers; rather than pushing economics forward, crazes can lead it astray, especially in their infancy.

- piling: pile,  put a large number of things on top of each other

- craze: something that suddenly becomes very popular, but for only a short time

- astray: become lost or go to the wrong place 

这三句话各有句型：

- - - When something arrives on the scene

- - - What might seem faddish could in fact be ...

- - - new methods also brings new dangers

然后还有四个短语：

- - - pull previously unanswerable questions within reach

- - - pile in: enter a place in large numbers, especially in a way that is not organized

- - - shed light on: provide new information that helps you understand something

- - - lead it astray: go wrong or do something wrong

▁▂▃▅▆ ▊◆/D〓

In August, Olivier Blanchard, a heavyweight macroeconomist, wrote a plea to colleagues to be less “imperialist” about their use of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models, adding that, for forecasting, their theoretical purity might be "more of a hindrance than a strength".

- macro-: large, or considered in a general way used with some nouns and adjectives

- plea:an urgent or emotional request for something

- imperialist: wanting to take control of other countries

- equilibrium:  a situation in which there is a balance between different forces or aspects

- hindrance: something that delays or prevents progress

以上是几个生词，然后来两个短语：

- - adding that,

- - more of a .. than ..

这第二个和上面的重复的，不过这里 a hindrance 和 a strength 并列，且这两个单词是一组反义词

下面列一下反义词：

- - wax and wane

- - soar and sink

- - condone and condemn

- - in theory, in practice

- - rhetoric and substance

- - friend and foe

- - virtues and vices

- - boom and bust

- - carrot and stick

下面列一下近义词：

- - make and maintain

- - bedger and pester

bedger: try to make someone do something by asking them many times

pester: keep annoying someone, especially by asking them for something or asking them to do something

rhetoric: a style of speaking or writing that is intended to impress people but is not honest

substance:  the fact that something is based on accurate information

▁▂▃▅▆ ▊★/E〓

Much has been made, among EM Drive fans, of the fact that Dr White's paper was peer-reviewed.

这句话表示 许多事情已经做了

很简单的句型，在说对某件事情付出的努力时可以用上

Much has been made of the fact that in August I plan to extract the classical framwork of sentences from the Economist.

今日总结：

【1】more of an oligopoly than a cut-throat battle for business

【2】In chasing ..., .... are pursuing ... 

【3】When something arrives on the scene

         What might seem faddish could in fact be ...

         pull previously unanswerable questions within reach

【4】more of ... than ...

【5】Much has been made of the fact that ...

如有错误，感谢指出。

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