wù jià shàng zhăng
物价上涨
Rising prices

tōng huò péng zhàng
通货膨胀
Inflation

liáng shi ān quán
粮食安全
Grain security

jīn róng fēng bào
金融风暴
Financial crisis; financial turmoil

cì dài wēi jī
次贷危机
Subprime lending crisis

gŭ shì dī mí
股市低迷
Sluggish stock market

jīn róng fēng huì
金融峰会
Financial summit

Study by the light of snow: it refers to studying hard in very poor conditions.

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To celebrate the holiday, various activities, including an evening gala, singing contests and congratulatory speeches will be organized, an official with the Ministry of Education said at a press conference Thursday.

Guan Peijun, the chief of the initial teacher training department of the ministry, said that local education departments should help teachers resolve practical problems and listen to their complaints and demands.

To encourage and reward teachers who serve in grassroots rural areas, the ministry has collected more than 36,000 educational books as presents for them.

The ministry will also award organizations and individuals who had given outstanding performances in quake-relief within the educational system following the Yushu earthquake this year.

Further, officials from the Education Ministry will visit those teachers who had been injured in the Wenchuan and Yushu quakes and invite them to participate in Beijing’s celebration gala and Shanghai Expo.

The evening gala, entitled “Seeding the Future”, whose chief director is the president of Art School of the People’s Liberation Army, will be staged in Beijing on Sept. 9. More than 700 teachers and students from 9 provinces, cities and municipalities will take part in the gala.

Elvin:  She is, like, ¹⁾ mega-intense, isn’t she?

艾文：  她整个人热力四射，对吧？

Mary:  Ha, she is unstoppable. I’m learning so much from her.

玛莉：  没有事情能挡得住她。我跟她学了好多。

Elvin:  What’s it like to work with her?

艾文：           跟她共事是啥感觉？

Mary:  She’s ²⁾ demanding. But I like that. I mean, I know our timeline is tight.

玛莉：  她的要求很高。但我喜欢那样。我是说，我知道我们的时间很紧。

Elvin:  Tell me about it.

艾文：  这还用说。

Mary:   You guys are working around the clock, I know. That guy Dave next to Zina never leaves.

玛莉：  我知道你们都在二十四小时赶工。那个坐在吉娜隔壁叫戴夫的人从没离开过。

Elvin:   Vince wants us to have everything ³⁾ debugged and ready to go by the end of the month.

艾文：  文斯要我们把程序错误全部修正，准备在月底前上线。

语言详解

A: Your mother is so demanding!

你妈妈的要求真高！

B: That’s what my dad always says.

我爸爸也总是这么说。

【around the clock 日以继夜】

由clock 组成的成语除了around the clock 之外，另有一个against the clock“赶时间”。

A: Frank, why does your factory have to work around the clock this month?

佛兰克，为什么你们工厂这个月要日以继夜地赶货？

B: Well, we have got quite a lot of orders for shipment this quarter.

我们最近收到相当多订单，都要这一季出货。

A: In other words, you are all working against the clock now.

换句话说，你们现在全都在赶时间。

B: You’re right.

你说对了。

1) mega-intense  intense是指“紧张的、一触即发的”，字首(prefix) mega是“非常，相当多”的意思，亦指 “百万的”，如  megabyte“百万位元组”。

2) demanding (a.) 要求很高的

3) debug (v.) （电脑）除虫，指修正电脑程序中的错误。

度假归来
A：嗨，吉姆。什么时候回来的？
B：昨天，非常遗憾结束了。滑雪真是太好玩了。
A：真让我忌妒。我起码三四个月内没时间休息。
B：那太遗憾了。不过我绝对建议你去这个地方。

例句与用法：

法院已经发布了禁止他们罢工一个月的禁令。

The court has issued an injunction forbidding them to strike for a month.

罢工的失败使公司恢复了正常的公共汽车营业。

The collapse of the strike enabled the company to resume normal bus services.

＂老板威胁说要解雇所有同情罢工的员工，但是这不过是恐吓而已。＂

“The boss threatened to dismiss all the employees who had expressed their sympathy for the strike, but it’s all bluff.”

雇主解雇工人导致了罢工事件。

The dismissals led to a strike.

罢工者受到威胁说，如果他们不复工，就会被解雇。

The strikers were threatened with dismissal if they did not return to work.

罢-简介

罢

(会意。从网,从能。表示用网捕住有贤能的人。“网”在字的上部楷书多写作“罒”。本义:罢官;免去;解除)

同本义 dismiss from office

可以罢官之无事者,去器之无用者。――《吕氏春秋·仲冬》

窦太后大怒,乃罢逐赵绾、王臧等。――《史记·魏其武安侯列传》

闻君罢官意,我抱汉川湄。――李白《赠汉阳辅录事二首》

徐阶罢相里居。――《明史·海瑞传》

复请之,吾辈无生理,而主谳者亦各罢去。――清·方苞《狱中杂记》

又如:罢谢(辞官去职);罢归(辞职或免官归里)

遣返,遣归 send back。如:罢散(遣散);罢遣(遣散;放遣)

停止 [1]

罢-罢 bà     ①中止某种活动：～课、～工。

②免去；解除：～免。

【罢黜】

①贬低并排斥：～百家。

②免除（职务）。

【罢黜百家 独尊儒术】汉代实行的以儒家思想为正统，借以维护统治的政策。汉武帝建元元年（前140），董仲舒为统一思想，巩固专制主义的中央集权制度而提出。武帝采纳其主张。此后，儒家学说成为历代封建统治者维护封建统治的正统思想。

【罢论】不必再论说；不必再论说的事：此事已成～。

【罢免】撤销、免去（官职）。

罢pí 1.疲劳;衰弱。  2.疲敝;惫乏。  3.慰劳。  4.弱;无能。  5.无行。参见”罢士”﹑”罢女”。  6.败，失败。

罢bǐ 1.离散;分散;散开。

罢pì 1.见”罢辜”。

罢bǎi 1.见”郎罢”。

罢ba 1.语气词。同”吧”。

dĕng gōng jī xià dàn – méi zhĭ wang
等公鸡下蛋 – 没指望
Never expect a rooster to lay an egg. – There is no hope for something.

hán xìn jiàng bīng – duō duō yì shàn
韩信将兵 – 多多益善
Han Xin (strategist in the Qin and Han dynasties) commanding troops – The more, the better.

zhāng fēi chuān zhēn – cū zhōng yŏu xì
张飞穿针 – 粗中有细
Zhang Fei (general of Shu of the Three Kingdoms, known for his sometimes rash bravery) threading a needle – There’s subtlety in what seems to be crudeness.

sūn hóu zi de liăn – shuō biàn jiù biàn
孙猴子的脸 – 说变就变
The Monkey King’s face – unpredictable changes

lăo hǔ dài fó zhū – jiă cí bēi
老虎戴佛珠 – 假慈悲
A tiger wearing a monk’s beads – A vicious person pretending to be benevolent

luó bo qīng cài – gè yŏu suŏ ài
萝卜青菜 – 各有所爱
No dish suits all tastes; one man’s meat is another man’s poison; every Jack has his Jill.

căo shang de lù shui – nán cháng jiǔ
草上的露水 – 难长久
Dew on the grass – can’t last long

鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利: 比喻双方相争两败俱伤，使第三者从中获利。

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鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利[yù bàng xiāng zhēng，yú wēng dé lì]

When the snipe and the clam grapple, it’s the fisherman who stands to benefit; two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it benefit; two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

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Slovenian Elizabeth Skuber Ostermaw says mass tourist visits are threatening Wudang.

In the kungfu world there is a saying: “In the North, Shaolin holds sway; in the South, Wudang rules”.

In recent years, however, Shaolin Temple and its kungfu have become better known thanks to superior marketing by its abbot Shi Yongxin.

“Shaolin kungfu is extremely popular in Australia and New Zealand,” Jackie Sheargold, a massage therapist from New Zealand, says, mainly because it has had plenty of movie exposure and troupes of Shaolin warriors have performed all over the world.

Meanwhile the soft, poetic, internal kungfu style of Wudang has been relatively overlooked.

Slovenian Elizabeth Skuber Ostermaw says mass tourist visits are threatening Wudang.

“Shaolin has become the place to go for Chinese kungfu enthusiasts from around the world,” says Norwegian Bjarte Simon Hiley, who intends to restore the balance a little by establishing a Wudang kungfu society in Norway.

He says he was disappointed to find on a recent trip to Shaolin Temple that the cradle for Zen Buddhism was excessively commercial and “only superficial skills were taught”.

The city of Dengfeng, where Shaolin Temple is located, has become the largest training base for Chinese kungfu, with about 80 training schools and about 50,000 domestic and international students per year.

In contrast, Mount Wudang has less than 20 training schools, according to senior Wudang kungfu tutor Guan Yongxing.

Li Wei, a senior manager with the Wudang Taoist Kungfu Academy says they receive less than 1,000 students a year, although the academy is one of the largest and most influential training centers on Mount Wudang.

“Personally, I like it quiet,” Sheargold says.

The local government and the Wudang Taoist Association say they are not planning to organize a Shaolin-style marketing campaign, though there have been changes, such as transforming the traditional academy building into a modern hotel.

In 1997, the Wudang Special Economic Zone was set up, combing the hillside town with the scenic Mount Wudang.

Last year, an expressway linking Mount Wudang and Xi’an was built so that it takes just two-and-a-half hours for visitors to get there after a visit to the Terracotta Warriors. Additionally, an airport is under construction and will be operating in two years, local officials say.

Meanwhile, more business facilities and hotels are being built around the mountains, a cable car going to the Golden Palace on the summit of Mount Wudang is being refurbished; new movies featuring Wudang warriors are being produced; and Wudang kungfu festivals such as the upcoming one in October have been held since 2008.

Also, Wudang kungfu, tai chi and Taoist shows are being staged daily from July to September at the Group Level Squares of the Shanghai Expo site, in the hope of attracting more visitors to Mount Wudang.

Slovenian Chinese studies expert Elizabeta Skuber Osterman, however, believes “cheap mass tourist visits to Wudang are threatening the century-old cultural heritage site”.

She says visitors speaking loudly to each other and on their mobile phones, drinking alcohol, smoking and littering at the Taoist holy site should be discouraged.

“The culture of which you are so proud will soon decline, if these cheap mass tours to Wudang are to continue,” Osterman says.

“It is important to develop tourist trips to Wudang where people come to be serious and humble …” she adds.