1. 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。

2. 第一种是把亚洲视作一个被证明为排斥快速发展的市场，在起飞之前需要重大结构和监管改变。第二种是看到突然出现上行惊喜的可能性。

3. 叙利亚五年内战使国家分裂，造成20多万人死亡，数百万人流离失所。叙利亚难民就占了报告清点人数的一半，接下来难民人数最多的是同样为战争所困扰的国家阿富汗和伊拉克。

4. 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.

5. Traders heading for the exits: 'Unsustainable trends can survive much longer than most people anticipate, but they do end when their 'time is up, at the culmination of their time cycles.' They analyzed more than 20 cycles: 'Nearly unanimously point to tectonic shifts in the months and years ahead.'

6. 考虑到达拉斯多年来一直拒绝摆滥，当德克-诺维茨基的职业生涯进入倒计时阶段，他们并没有囤积足够多的潜力新秀，这时换来22岁的诺埃尔而且没有对常规轮换造成大的损伤是个相当高明的举动。

应用

1. 《怪奇物语2》

2. 华盛顿暂时的“停战”能否持续？

3. Phil Baty, editor of THE rankings, said: "China has introduced powerful policy drives, backed with serious funding, to produce world-class universities. In 2015, the country announced its excellence initiative, which aims to establish six of its universities in the leading group of global institutions by 2020."

4. For as long as the show has been running — ever since its debut in 2007 — we have been, it seems, suffering from what Hadley Freeman in The Guardian newspaper dubbed “madmenalaria.”

5. Talking about wanting to kill your boss may not be that uncommon, but it does put a damper on things when said boss actually ends up murdered. When the police came to ask questions, they ended up learning that the Cranston brothers had recently resigned to ride their motorcycles cross-country. Until they could be cleared, the two men were both suspects.

6. Perhaps my favorite profile this year was Kiki Zhao’s stirring depiction of the remarkable Yu Xiuhua, now one of China’s most read poets, a woman with cerebral palsy who lived most of her 41 years on a farm, writing at a low table. She never finished high school, and says she “could write before she could read.” Now, she is invited to places like Stanford University and fends off comparisons to Emily Dickinson.

旧版特色

1. impresario

2. 根据中国海关总署(General Administration of Customs)发布的数据，12月份以美元计的出口额同比减少6.1%至2094.2亿美元。这一跌幅比经济学家预期的中数多了2.1个百分点，也大于11月份修正后1.6%的跌幅（修正前该数字为增长0.1%）。

3. 6. “Taxi”(Jafar Panahi)