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阅读笔记写作借鉴
英语写作借鉴词、句、段
Preventable Deaths
The New York Times Editorial May 29, 2009
首段：表明观点
These are hard times everywhere. But developed countries must not overlook the particular vulnerability of the world’s poor. A new report by the World Health Organization shows that far too many people are still dying of preventable causes in the poorest countries.
尾段：重述观点
Wealthy countries promised nearly a decade ago to help the world’s poorest to emerge from the deepest poverty. This is the wrong time to stop.
比1990年减少了350万人 下降了百分之二十七 减少到千分之六十七
The good news is that in 2007, only nine million children died before their fifth birthday — 3.5 million fewer than in 1990. The under-5 mortality rate has fallen 27 percent since then, to 67 deaths per 1,000 live births.
rise by ---, to ---
In Congo, the child mortality rate rose by about 25 percent, to 125 deaths per 1,000 live births.
产妇死亡率为--- 与1990年相比几乎没有改变 似乎
Maternal mortality remains at around 400 deaths per 100,000 live births, virtually unchanged from its level in 1990. Globally, the proportion of undernourished children under 5 has fallen to 20 percent from 27 percent, seemingly on track to meet the goal of halving the prevalence of malnutrition by 2015. But many countries — from Armenia to Morocco to Burkina Faso — have seen no improvement at all.

Forests and the Planet
The New York Times Editorial May 28, 2009
为那个巨大的错误付出代价
The planet has been paying for that colossal blunder ever since.
据估计 现在分词短语作状语，表示结果
An estimated 30 million acres of rain forest disappear every year, destroying biodiversity and pouring billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

North Korea Tests
The New York Times Editorial May 27, 2009
使北朝鲜从边缘走回来
Diplomacy — backed by stiff sanctions — is the only hope for walking North Korea back from the brink.
影响力
As the North’s main oil and food supplier, it has more leverage than any other country.
// took maternity leaves / pregnancy leaves产假

No Crisis for North Korea
Washington Post Editorial May 26, 2009
令人严重关切
NORTH KOREA's detonation of a nuclear warhead in an underground test yesterday is, of course, cause for serious concern -- particularly as the blast appears to have been considerably larger than the regime's first test nearly three years ago.

Testing the Tests
Washington Post Editorial May 26, 2009
毕业考试
State education officials have had to fight hard to implement high school exit exams; while some undesirable compromises were made, the officials should be credited for taking an important first step in making a high school diploma more than a piece of paper.
在我们看来是不明智的 判断错误的
The board offered those alternatives, ill-advised in our minds, as the tests came under increasing attack from those who made the wrongheaded argument that large numbers of students, particularly African Americans and Latinos, wouldn't be able to pass.

Swine Flu Lessons
Gaps were exposed in pandemic preparedness.
Washington Post Editorial May 25, 2009
形容词短语作状语，表示原因
But the Obama administration, mindful of the debilitating effects and deaths attributed to the rushed 1976 swine flu vaccine, is wise to proceed cautiously to get a vaccine in place if it's needed for the coming winter flu season.

The Glass Ceiling's Math Problem
By Carlos Lozada Washington Post May 31, 2009
Women are 37 percent less likely than men to earn science-related bachelor's degrees, and they hold only a quarter of the jobs in the field.
这种变化更为明显
The change is more dramatic for women who arrived at the Air Force Academy with high aptitude in math; when their professors are women, the gap in their performance disappears altogether.
//
As we have observed, 正如我们所看到的，
protecting gays and lesbians against workplace discrimination
//倒装句
Lost amid the international condemnation is the good news to be found in North Korea's nuclear test.
//
The heavy burden of war, shouldered by the few
By DeWayne Wickham USA Today May 26, 2009
Near the end of his University of Notre Dame commencement address, President Obama urged graduates to make public service a way of life. "Because when you serve, it doesn't just improve your community," he said, "it makes you a part of your community." 引言法开头

Don't text and drive 不要一边开车一边发短信
USA Today Editorial May 22, 2009
发短信
Text-messaging is the new scourge of the roads — overtaking the long-running debate over whether to restrict drivers' cellphone use.
研究越来越证实 开车时发短信
Studies increasingly confirm what is in plain sight on too many roads. Texting while driving is distracting (far more so than cellphones) and potentially deadly.

Why Obama can't be soft on North Korea
Japan and South Korea already see him as eroding the US military posture in Asia.
The Christian Science Monitor Editorial May 28, 2009
现在分词短语作状语，表示结果
That worry stems from Beijing's recent success in luring Taipei's leaders toward closer ties with the mainland, thus weakening US support for Taiwan's sovereignty and its military strength.
With引导的独立主个结构作状语，表示原因
With North Korea soon able to place a nuclear weapon on a missile, they prefer the US keep its hand on a military response.

Legalize marijuana? Not so fast.
Backers serve up a timely batch of arguments, but their latest reasons are half-baked.
The Christian Science Monitor Editorial May 22, 2009 考虑不周全的
with引导的独立主个结构
Research results over the past decade link frequent marijuana use to several serious mental health problems, with youth particularly at risk.
今天的大麻比往日嬉皮士时代的大麻效力更强
Today's marijuana is also much more potent than in the hippie days of yesteryear.
一般人喜欢指出
Normal likes to point out that marijuana accounts for the majority of illicit drug traffic from Mexico. End the illicit trafficking, and you end the violence.
生造词：合法的东西 疑问句表示反对
Why legalize a third substance that produces ill effects, when the US has such a poor record in dealing with the two big "licits" – alcohol and tobacco?
以及 发现一处语法错误are
Disapproval, along with information on risk, are the most important factors in discouraging marijuana and cocaine use among high school seniors.
不管，表示让步
And they need to teach the life lesson that marijuana does not really solve personal challenges, be they stress, relationships, or discouragement.
结尾段：提出解决问题的倡议
Today's youth are tomorrow's world problem solvers – and the ones most likely to be affected if marijuana is legalized. Future generations need to be clear thinkers. For their sakes, those who oppose legalizing marijuana must become vocal, well-funded, and mainstream – before it's too late.

Was a cop protected?
Chicago Daily Tribune Editorial May 30, 2009
首段：分词短语作状语，表示伴随动作
For the second time in just over a month, an off-duty Chicago cop has been arrested in a fatal crash involving alcohol, raising troubling questions again about the treatment of cops who drink too much and drive.

Equality is inevitable
Boston Globe Editorial May 28, 2009
---的前景仍然是光明的
And yet the prospects for equality still seem bright.
投票 一种极其糟糕的方式
We also believe ballot measures are a dreadful way to decide most public policy questions.
最终，平等会胜利。
Eventually, equality will prevail.

India ascending
Boston Globe Editorial May 26, 2009
仓促的判断
BECAUSE OF India's size and its complexities of caste, class, and regional differences, snap judgments about Indian politics run the risk of being right and wrong at the same time.
grail n圣杯；努力追求但永远不可能实现的目标或理想 迷恋 fixation on/ with对---异常依恋；癖 一些印度人迷恋与成为超级大国的理想
Some Indians have become obsessed with the grail of superpower status. Symptomatic of this ambition is a fixation on countering, containing, or besting China.
a mother fixation 恋母情节 He’s got a fixation with cleanliness.他有洁癖。
best vt [usu. passive ] to defeat pr be more successful than sb胜过
symptomatic of ---的征兆

Line in the sand
Baltimore Sun Editorial May 20, 2009
自己教育孩子 是必不可少的最后的一招
That may seem harsh, especially for parents hard put to home-school their children or afford private-school tuition. But as a means of dealing with potentially serious troublemakers, it's an essential last resort if schools are to fulfill their mission.
有那个家长想冒险将孩子送到一个可能失火或爆炸的地方呢
What parent wants to risk sending their kid to a place that might catch fire or blow up as a result of some classmate's misguided idea of a joke?

No more bribes for North Korea
Kansas City Star Editorial May. 26, 2009
用空洞的诺言换取妥协
Engage in threatening behavior to gain Washington’s attention, then trade empty promises for concessions.
with + 独立主格结构
The administration should quickly appoint a full-time envoy and be ready to resume the six-party talks — with Russia, Japan, China and both Koreas participating.
掉进 --- 的陷阱
But Washington should not again fall into the trap of bribing the North Koreans.

Some ‘recession graduates’ will have to invent their own future
Kansas City Star Editorial May. 23, 2009
进入最严峻的就业市场
They are the recession graduates, entering the toughest job market in at least 25 years.
找工作的毕业生 找好了工作
Only one in five graduating job-seekers had lined up jobs by the end of last month. Two years ago, half of the students who sought jobs had one in hand by graduation day.
那些幸运地拿到工作机会的学生 最近在华尔街日报上被引用的专家预测说
More bad news: Students fortunate enough to land offers are accepting low wages. Experts quoted in a recent Wall Street Journal article predicted it will take a decade or more for this year’s graduates to catch up in pay to more fortunate classes of recent years.
提供了一些喘息的空间
That should provide some breathing room for graduates, who will leave college with an average of $22,000 in debt.
更酷
Frugality suddenly is cooler than a spending spree.

Quick Justice: A critical partner for treatment programs in producing success for hard core criminal addicts
Newark Star-Ledger By David H. Kerr April 04, 2009
According to --- : "1 in 31 adults in this country is either behind bars or on probation or parole. It's the highest incarceration rate in the nation's history."

现在舆论转到另一边。
The pendulum is now swinging in the other direction.
乐队花车
The bandwagon in moving addicts from prison to treatment has started though, like it or not.

It's a crime what happens in jail
Newark Star-Ledger Editorial May 27, 2009
勒索同狱犯
The independent watchdog agency reported to the Legislature last week that gang members serving time in state prisons freely sell drugs, launder money, extort fellow inmates and their families and corrupt staff.
倒装
Particularly disturbing is the SCI report's finding that some corrections officers have participated in smuggling cell phones and drugs and engaged in other crimes inside and outside of jails.

Kids' stuff: State brings the obesity battle to middle schools
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editoria, May 30, 2009
in the vanguard of处在 --- 的先锋地位
Dozens of Pennsylvania middle schools are on the vanguard of a health and nutrition revolution that could dramatically reduce the body mass index of teenagers.
在全州范围内 正在
Statewide, 40 schools will be chosen to receive the Active Schools grant. These schools are on the road to reversing the grim health statistics that prompted the grants in the first place.

Secession crushed: Sri Lanka puts down a battling minority
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial May 20, 2009
真正采取措施使政府和社会不再歧视泰米尔人 他们寻求独立的根源
That duty is to take real steps to remove from government and society the discrimination against the Tamils that served as the wellspring of their secession attempt.
达到一个不再想从斯里兰卡独立出去的点
The Tamils should reach a point where they will no longer want to secede from Sri Lanka.

Group riding in cabs could ease traffic and cure loneliness 拼车
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial, May 29th 2009
增加司机的收入
The Taxi and Limousine Commission believes that it has found ways to increase the availability of cabs while making rides cheaper and upping driver income. And maybe, just maybe, this pig will fly.
The concept is shared rides of the kind that New Yorkers found useful during the subway strike.
//But we, too, are susceptible to the bias trap.

Climate Trap
The New York Times Editorial June 15, 2009
蜂拥而至
Officials from the Obama administration have been beating a steady path to China’s door to talk about climate change.
美国是最大的人均温室气体排放最多的国家
The United States is the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases; China is the biggest overall emitter.
合理的担心 限制其排放
It’s a legitimate fear. to cap its emissions

A Bad Call on Gay Rights
The New York Times Editorial June 10, 2009
可以理解，这些类比使同性恋者耿耿于怀。
These are comparisons that understandably rankle many gay people.
结尾段 忙于应付 政治上的权宜之计 不是 --- 的接口
The administration has had its hands full with the financial crisis, health care, Guantánamo Bay and other pressing matters. In times like these, issues like repealing the marriage act can seem like a distraction — or a political liability. But busy calendars and political expediency are no excuse for making one group of Americans wait any longer for equal rights.
//新政时代的遗迹
The exclusion is a relic of the New Deal, when labor protections like overtime pay were written specifically to exclude domestic and farm labor.

China’s Computer Folly
The New York Times Editorial June 11, 2009
有理由担心这种新的软件可能有更加不道德的用途
Chinese bloggers, dissidents and even some state news media outlets are right to worry that the new software could be used even more nefariously: to collect personal data and spy on consumer Web habits.
建造得糟糕的学校
That would feed new resentment against a government already accused of gross incompetence after thousands of children died in the collapse of shoddily constructed schools in the 2008 earthquake.
荒谬可笑的声称 farce闹剧
the farcical claim that its intention really was to improve parental control.
重新考虑这个鲁莽的决定
If Beijing does not reconsider its foolhardy decision, the new rules would take effect on July 1.

Tobacco Regulation, at Last
The New York Times Editorial June 11, 2009
beyond a shadow of doubt = with no doubt at all毫无疑问的，清楚地
It has now been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that cigarette makers have spent decades making false statements, suppressing evidence of harm, and manipulating the design of cigarettes to increase their addictiveness.

The Ban on Gays in the Military
The New York Times Editorial June 9, 2009
愚昧无知的政策
and another lawsuit still moving through the courts may be a better vehicle for challenging the benighted policy.
令人遗憾的是，无论是奥巴马总统还是国会都没有兴趣提议解除一项禁令，这项禁令不但对男女同性恋者不公平，而且还损害美国军队。
Unfortunately, neither President Obama nor Congress shows much appetite for moving to end a ban that is not only unfair to gay men and lesbians but damaging to the military as well.
制定出来
The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy was hatched in 1993 as a compromise after President Bill Clinton failed in an attempt to overturn an existing ban on gay service members.
表面上的原因
The ostensible rationale was that the known presence of gay men and lesbians would undermin