1. GAINS AND LOSSES IN A CHANGING WORLD

2. 这里说的是2007年倒闭的那家巨型次贷公司吗?是2008年破产的雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)吗？

3. demo人民+-ic…的→民主的，民主主义的；民主政体的

4. 她笔下的人物们觉得自己为了登上“美国梦”的山巅，经历了漫长的排队等候，但是上山的队伍放慢了速度，甚至停顿下来了。而那些移民、黑人和其他“外来者”似乎还在插队。

5. At a minimum, it is impossible for most people to get to work in the city, which affects the locus of several industries, including finance, advertising, healthcare and the arts. The city's transportation lines, bridges, and tunnels were shut down for nearly two days, and at the latest report, the subways may be down well into next week.

6. Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have been working for a while on a drama about the 1967 police raid in Detroit, which led to one of the largest citizen uprisings in US history. Kaitlyn Dever, John Krasinski, Will Poulter, John Boyega and Jack Reynor star.

应用

1. 得益于网络游戏产业的快速增长，网易公司创始人丁磊的财富翻倍至960亿元，超越了百度公司董事长李彦宏，在IT富豪榜上排名第三。

2. 英国科学家本周一证实，莱斯特市的一个停车场地下挖出的遗骸为15世纪英格兰国王理查三世，这也解开了长达五百年的谜团。

3. 3. Elasticity of Demand.The cure for low prices is low prices. That cliché can be applied to both the supply and demand side of the equation. Will oil selling at fire sale prices spur renewed demand? In some countries where oil is more regulated, low prices may not trickle down to the retail level. Countries like Indonesia are scrapping subsidies, which will be a boon to state coffers but will diminish the benefits to consumers. However, in the U.S., gasoline prices are now below $2.40 per gallon, more than 35 percent down from mid-2014. That has led to an uptick in gasoline consumption. In the waning days of 2014, the U.S. consumed gasoline at the highest daily rate since 2007. Low prices could spark higher demand, which in turn could send oil prices back up.

4. 在NBA，很少人能防得住罗斯。那么，你可以想象，在罗斯的高中年代，有着和现在一样的NBA身板，要防住他更是天方夜谭。

5. China's 2016 office box sales are expected to exceed the 2015 total of 44 billion yuan (6.8 billion U.S. dollars), the country's film watchdog said.

6. 对专业投资者而言，2014年最令人沮丧的一点是，美国经济复苏时断时续。2014年1月，经济领域捷报频传。然而，在短短几周内，一场暴风雪席卷全美，各种经济数据似乎也因此停摆。

旧版特色

1. 一种全新的器官被归类了。研究人员同意为肠系膜归类，这种器官显然一直隐藏在我们的消化系统中。但这只是其中的一方面，因为我们还不确定它到底是什么。

2. Ironically the list comes out the same day that Trump is meeting with Bill Gates, who is the world's richest man for the fourth straight year.

3. 尽管欧洲工商管理学院与清华大学的合办项目重新跌至亚军位置，但欧洲工商管理学院自己的EMBA项目的排名却上升3个位置，排在第四位，该项目上次获得第4名是在2011年。