1. 大银行已经或多或少地放弃了用高薪留住人才的尝试。自金融危机以来，有一件事很清楚：如果你想暴富，就得去硅谷。露丝波拉特(Ruth Porat)在2015年树立了一个标杆，她放弃了摩根士丹利(Morgan Stanley)首席财务官约1300万美元的年薪，跳槽谷歌（如今的Alphabet）获得五倍于此的薪酬。

2. n. 青少年

3. 在第二轮（重新）谈判不久前结束后，我们真正进入了贸易谈判的技术官僚阶段。

4. Put succinctly, there was no way to describe or explain the crosscurrents of 2014. And I’m not convinced that the benefit of hindsight will make what happened this year any clearer years from now.

5. 注册营养师艾利克斯?图鲁夫称：“糖屑中含有糖分，而金片与此不同，它不含碳水化合物、脂肪或蛋白质，所以不能提供热量，没有味道，主要用于装饰。”

6. Average years of work experience: 12 years

应用

1. 在解释他如何改动小说时，赫洛维兹说：“我想答案是在书中忠实于邦德的全部特征。”

2. 伦敦商学院(LBS)连续三年蝉联欧洲商学院排行榜桂冠，但其在欧洲大陆的竞争对手在用于编制榜单的单项排名中领先。

3. To Rouslan Krechetnikov and Hans Mayer for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks while carrying a cup of coffee. I'll give you a hint: it happens between step 7 and 10.

4. 德系三巨头：由于奔驰的几款低价产品不可避免地会损害它“要么最好，要么什么都不是”(the best or nothing)的商誉，该公司也开始陷入低迷。而即将推出的新7系轿车则会进一步巩固宝马在美国富人圈中的地位。另外，起价30,795美元的奥迪A3，很可能会使奥迪的销量较2014年增长15%，新款Q7也将进一步提高奥迪的利润。

5. 宏伟壮丽的教堂、随处可见的博物馆、日益丰富的现代艺术以及伴随夏季节日到来而热情洋溢的大街小巷等，该城市总能带给你意想不到的惊喜和兴奋。

6. “The key thing about Friends is that it’s about people working out how they are going to live their lives — what kind of relationships are they going to have, what kind of job, and the difficulties of settling down,” says Mills to the Daily Mail. “You’re engaged in all those questions about escaping from your family, becoming an adult and working out what you want to be.”And that’s one of the key issues in the youth culture of the 1990s.

旧版特色

1. 外部事件的影响。《消费者报告》（Consumer Reports）杂志曾经对Model S大加吹捧，但最近该杂志也报道了它的一些常见故障，包括门把手失效，中控触屏白屏，导致车内大部分功能不能使用等等。汽车网站Edmunds.com也找了Model S的麻烦。更多此类报告无疑会影响特斯拉到目前为止非常正面的声誉。

2. 问：你有觉得自己的哪部作品被低估了，或者希望它能够更火一点吗？

3. Yes, even if real GDP growth does not. Speculation over the true GDP growth rate in China, as opposed to the official one, has spawned a cottage industry of specialist economists. The official figures are deceptively stable and serene thanks to suspected “smoothing” by the Chinese authorities, as they bend the figures to fit growth targets. So even if growth does stumble in 2018, the official growth rate is almost certain to come in above the preordained 6.5 per cent.