化石燃料

Technically, negotiation occurs between people who are interdependent, ______ that the actions of one patty affect those of the other party and vice versa.

非诚勿扰

The committee members resented ______ them of the meeting.

CFO(Chief Financial Officer)财务

On Leadership What is leadership? Its qualities are difficult to define. But they are not so difficult to identify. Leaders don't force other people to go along with them. They bring them along. Leaders get commitment from others by giving it themselves, by building an environment that encourages creativity, and by operating with honesty and fairness. Good leaders aren't 'lone rangers.' They recognize that an organization's strategies for success require the combined talents and efforts of many people. Leadership is the catalyst for transforming those talents into results. Leaders know that when there are two opinions on an issue, one is not bound to be wrong. They recognize that hustle and rush are the allies of superficiality. They are open to new ideas, but they explore their ramifications thoroughly. Successful leaders are emotionally and intellectually oriented to the future—not wedded to the past. They have a hunger to take responsibility, to innovate, and to initiate. They are not content with merely taking care of what's already there. They want to move forward to create something new. Leaders provide answers as well as direction, offer strength as well as dedication, and speak from experience as well as understanding of the problems they face and the people they work with. Leaders are flexible rather than dogmatic. They believe in unity rather than conformity. And they strive to achieve agreements out of conflict. Leadership is all about getting people consistently to give their best, helping them to grow to their fullest potential, and motivating them to work toward a common goal. Leaders make the right things happen when they're supposed to. A good leader, an effective leader, is one who has respect. Respect is something you have to have in order to get. A leader who has respect for other people at all levels of an organization, for the work they do, and for their abilities, aspirations and needs, will find that respect is returned. And all concerned will be motivated to work together.

There has been a great deal of ______ surrounding the closure of the hospital.

NAFTA

小道消息

pseudotranslation

核电站

There ______ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an end hall an hour earlier.

non-tariff barrier

Neon light is utilized in airport because it can permeate fog.

As it turned out to be a small house party, we ______ so formally.

There is only time to ______ the plan and we will discuss it in detail next week.

Sake wa ten no biroku, goes the Japanese saying: Sake is heaven's reward. For more than a thousand years, the Japanese have relished the delicacy of their fermented rice brew and built their social lives around it. On ceremonial occasions they break open a cedar cask, and the exchange of ritual sake toasts seals wedding vows. In a less formal tradition, workers ease the day's stress at red lantern-lighted watering holes that collectively offer thousands of variations of the beverage. Says Tokyo management consultant Masataka Takada: 'Sitting at the bar, sipping sake sake side by side with a colleague lets the conversation flow.' At least that is how it used to be. Nowadays fewer and fewer drinkers seem to agree with Takada. A growing preference for just 15% of Japan's alcohol market, while beer makes up 70%; as recently as 1970 sake had a 30% share. That trend plus high land and labor costs are pushing smaller sake brewers out of business. Among the 2, 000 companies still brewing, about half are losing money. For the Koyama Brewery, the sake crisis threatens a family business that began in 1885. The sole remaining sake producer in the city of Tokyo, it is tucked into four ancient vine-covered warehouses near a local highway and sits over an abundant underground water supply. A large ball made of cedar needles, once a sign to the public that the year's brew was ready, now hangs year round near the company entrance next to a sake vending machine. Fourth-generation President Kozo Koyama is struggling to combine mechanization and tradition in a bid to survive. From the winter months of October through April, five kurabito, or brewers, and their toji, or leader, hole themselves up in the Koyama warehouses. Farmers from the Niigata prefecture, north of Tokyo, they work in the breweries while snow covers their rice paddies. From large paper sacks, the kurabito pour out special large-grained varieties of rice that have been polished down to 70% or less of their original size to get rid of fat and increase solubility. They wash and steam the rice, mix it with yeast, malted rice and water pumped up from 13 m. underground. The pasty white mixture is left to gurgle and ferment in 8,000-L green vats for 25 days, after which the brew is pressed, filtered and pasteurized. The toil, Isaburo Koyama (no relation to the founding family), free-tunes the process, deciding when to stir the brew and how much to adjust its fermentation temperature. During and after World War Ⅱ, sake makers mixed their brew with large amounts of alcohol to increase volume. That proved popular, but it dulled the subtle aroma of various regional flavors of sake and killed conoisseurship. Desensitized by the alcohol- reeking concoctions, many Japanese knew little beyond the genetic term sake and its traditional container, the 1.8 L brown glass bottle called an issho-bin. When producers realized they were brewing up a calamity, many decided to revive sake's distinct tastes, further polishing the constituent rice to bring out a fruity aroma and adding alcohol only to adjust the flavor. The process became costlier, but sake could now be marketed as a higher-grade drink. The industry then came up with promotional campaigns to make sake more fashionable, such as serving it chilled like white wine or offering limited editions. Sleeker, smaller bottles or convenient paper cartons are replacing the issho-bin. Qualifications have even been established for sake sommeliers to guide gourmet drinkers through the 5,000 available brands. In the past few years, these image efforts have started to pay off. The designer brews currently make up close to 20% of the sake market. To improve their return, some firms have turned to computers. Gekkeikan, Japan's largest brewer, with about 6% of the market, make nine-tenths of its sake with machinery using 'fuzzy logic' chips rather than the experienced judgment of a toji.'Our technology will even improve on tradition,' says Yukio Matsumoto, deputy director of the Tokyo branch. Gekkeikan and other large producers also brew sake in the U.S. for the local market; they can capitalize on rice that is about one-fifth as expensive as that at home. But so far, none have announced plans to export from their California breweries back to Japan, partly for fear of antagonizing the powerful rice lobby. Though he has sought to be more efficient and now manufactures a variety of upscale brews, Kozo Koyama doesn't think his brewery will be among the lucky survivors. He complains that real estate taxes take away 8% of his revenues and fears that in a tight labor market it will be difficult to find an eventual replacement for his long time toji, now 69.'I can't continue in the city even if I want to,' say Koyama. In a conflict that he views as prophetic, his neighbors last year complained about the leaves falling from the towering trees that grace the small plot of ground at the brewery dedicated to sake gods; Koyama was forced to clip the trees. Such a lack of respect does not augur well for an embattled tradition, however heavenly.

odd number

汉语是中国各民族共同使用的语言、联合国正式语言和工作语言之一，又是世界上历史最悠久、发展水平最高的语言之一，有文字可考的历史不少于6000年。无论过去或现在，汉语在国内外都有很大的影响，具有很重要的地位。当今世界出现汉语热，一是因为中华民族历史悠久，有着光辉灿烂的文化，对人类进步做出过巨大贡献；更是因为30年来中国实行改革开放，综合国力大大提升，与中国打交道、对中国文化感兴趣的国家、国际组织和人员日益增多。学习汉语也就成为深入了解中国的必由之路。 任何语言都与经济和文化分不开。经济和文化发展的国家，其语言所起的作用十分重要。在过去20年里，中国的国内生产总值年均增长9.7%，未来的中国经济还将持续增长。“汉语热”的兴起，表明世界对中国未来发展的预期越来越好。可以预言，随着中国经济的进一步发展和国际地位的日益提高，世界上学习汉语和中国文化的人数还会不断增加。

A Midsummer Night's Dream