1. 去年12月初，中国有关部门宣布将于今年1月1日起实施股市熔断机制，以限制股市再出现去年6月夏季大抛售时的波动。当股票、期权和期货下跌逾5%，将触发熔断机制，交易将暂停15分钟。今天是熔断机制启用的第一天，下午刚一开盘，于当地时间下午1:14分，A股市场就突破了第一道阈值，触发停盘15分钟。当交易恢复后，5分钟内大盘继续下跌了2%，二度触发熔断机制。

2. People have been predicting consolidation in this very fragmented sector for years and there have indeed been big mergers recently. But there is little doubt that price pressures on City law firms are intensifying.

3. The fruit is placed into the mold when it's young and undeveloped.

4. 最近的一个例子是：当格温o史蒂芬尼发布新专辑《 Spark the Fire》时，Swyft公司即时设计了一个免费贴纸包，在自己的几个短信应用中推出。它被下载了近一百万次，并在用户中传送了七百万次，最后在10天内被观看了4100万次。雷表示，对任何品牌来说，要在其他渠道达到这样的广告效果，需要花上5万到25万美元。

5. v. 抢劫，掠夺

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2. Agents and investment institutions are now flooding the sector, causing additional changes to content and platforms in the world's second-largest economy, the report said. A number of Internet gurus, including Lei Jun, investor and founder of tech firm Xiaomi, Zhou Hongyi, CEO of Qihoo 360 Technology, and China's richest man Wang Jianlin have all directly supported live video-streaming websites, a strong indication of the growing interest from capital investment.

3. 单词enterprise 联想记忆：

4. Yao Zhenhua, the chairman of Baoneng Group and the biggest riser since 2015, saw his wealth shoot up 820 percent to $17.2 billion, elevating him to fourth in the overall list.

5. 通常冷静的分析师们早已习惯了汽车行业的缓慢增长，但是遇到特斯拉，他们就丢掉了一贯的谨慎。德意志银行（Deutsche Bank）的分析师罗德o拉切给该股设定了310美元的目标价格。无独有偶，摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）的分析师亚当o乔纳斯也将特斯拉的目标股价定为320美元，并称它是“世界上最重要的汽车公司”。

6. 两间卧室位于二楼，其中包括主卧，该卧室是一个大套间的一部分，这个套间里还有一座壁炉、一间步入式衣帽间和一座可俯瞰海湾的阳台。走廊边的一间办公室也通往这座阳台。其他的卧室都在三楼。其中有一间可通过山墙上的扇骨半圆窗俯瞰海湾。

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2. This elegant, informative and borderline beautiful sentence is a reminder that despite the horrific nature of the entries below, clarity remains attainable.

3. Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei filed a notable 2,390 patents, which was the second-largest filing by a company globally, after Philips with 2,568 patents.