1. In 2008, Janah talked to a call center worker from Dharavi, India, the largest slum in South Asia, while working as a consultant. The worker said there were millions of unemployed villagers as talented as he was. "I thought, 'What if outsourcing could generate a few dollars for billions of people, rather than billions of dollars for a wealthy few'" Janah says. She went on to launch Samasource, a tech platform that connects impoverished women and youth with large corporations like Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft to complete digital projects. To date, the non-profit has helped over 16,000 people rise above the poverty line and it recently launched SamaUSA, a domestic program for low-income students living in San Francisco.

2. “能被评为全球最国际化的大学之一，这个名单中的所有学校都是值得祝贺的。这标志着它们拥有巨大的潜力、竞争力和发展动力。”

3. 该研究的公布正值美国政界反中国言论日益增加之际，此外，今年夏天3起针对从中国进口的钢铁产品的政治敏感反倾销案件即将作出裁决，可能导致美方对中国企业施加高达500%的惩罚性关税。

4. The highest newly ranked school is Université Paris-Dauphine at 57.

5. 得益于均衡发展，广州和深圳在该榜单上分列前两位。而杭州则因其技术优势而排名第三。武汉则由于在发展和成本间的良好平衡排名第四，随后的南京则是由于文化和生活水平排名第五。

6. consistently

应用

1. In one example, Christie’s was offering the mid-18th-century canvas “Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well” by the Venetian artist Francesco Fontebasso at a low estimate of 120,000. The pleasant piece of rococo decoration had been bought at auction in 1990 for $286,000, according to Artnet. At the Dec. 8 sale it fell to a single telephone bid of 115,000, about $170,000, before fees. Investors do not expect to incur a loss of about 40 percent a quarter century after buying a Warhol or a Basquiat. Reselling an old master can be even harder when that painting has been languishing in a dealer’s gallery.

2. 我经常心情沮丧

3. Don't accept an Offer Accept Immediately

4. 再来看一下流失顾客的公司吧。

5. President Obama leads the pack. On top of the $400,000 a year, he gets a tax-free expense account worth $50,000. The salary was last raised by Congress in 2001.

6. ‘The Americans’ Set in the Reagan era, this FX series is nearly as deceptive as KGB agents posing as suburban American couple: In its second season, “The Americans” proved to be a drama about love, family, friendship and mistrust disguised as a Cold War thriller.

旧版特色

1. 坚决打好蓝天保卫战。

2. n. 饰带，花边，缎带

3. 根据北京市统计局发布的一份报告显示，2015年北京市社会消费品零售总额突破万亿元，达到了10338亿元，同比增长7.3%。