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UNIT 4/5

4/5．1 Embedding

1）The Court shall be composed of a body of independent judges, elected regardless of their nationality from among persons of high moral character, who possess the qualifications required in their respective countries for appointment to the highest judicial office, or are jurisconsults of recognized competence in international law.

2）Congress has made laws requiring most pressure groups to give information about how much they spend and how they spend it, the amount and sources of funds, membership, and names and salaries of their representatives.

3）This is no class war, but a war in which the whole British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations is engaged, without distinction of race, creed, or party.

4) Buying Hedge -- A transaction that commodities investors undertake to hedge against possible increases in the prices of the actuals underlying the futures contracts.

5）Money Laundering -- The process by which large amounts of money illegally obtained from drug trafficking, terrorist activity, or other serious crimes, is given the appearance of having originated from a legitimate source.

6）Markdown -- The difference between the highest current bid price among broker-dealers in the market and the lower price that a dealer charges a customer.

7）“Letter of Credit” means an irrevocable letter of credit in a form substantially in the form set out in Schedule “D” hereto and drawn on a bank acceptable to Seller, as more particularly described in Subsection 4.01 (b) hereof;

8）“Competitor” means any company or entity that is involved or is an affiliate of a company engaged in the speciality cinema business (except Seller), which for these purposes means the provision of motion picture technologies utilizing greater than 35mm standard academy aperture film format or the technical equivalent (commonly referred to as “large format”); the term “engaged” means any involvement or participation in the manufacture, production, marketing, sale, leasing, distribution or licensing of specialty cinema equipment, speciality cinema technology for specialty cinema films;

9) A LAN （local area networks）is a system of computers and associated peripherals such as Printers that are physically connected by cable within a limited geographical area -- typically in an office building or on a college campus．

10) Considered the first and last line of defense, a firewall is a software program or piece of hardware that prevents unauthorized Internet traffic from entering or leaving your computer, particularly computers that are always left connected to the Internet (typically, Internet users who connect over DSL or cable modems fit this category).

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4/5．2 Cutting

1）His delegation agreed with the Executive Director / that the fund should continue working / for a better understanding of the interrelationship between economic, social and demographic factors.

2）Each usually has a political head - political in the sense that the appointment is by the President and subject to Senate confirmation.

3）As the West sleepwalks into a decade in which moral confidence and steadfastness will be increasingly needed and decreasingly found, and as a cry for “leadership” issues from millions who probably would not recognize it if they saw it, and probably reject it if they did, John Paul II becomes more fascinating. （Newsweek）

4）There are so many activities adding up to the simple word ‘learning’ that although some of the processes become less efficient with ageing of the brain, our actual experience of learning helps us in learning new materials.

5） Serious examination of the extent and quality of pre-college science teaching made recently has led to programs of reform and improvement that already have had profound impact on all aspects of elementary and secondary science education.

6）The invisible hand of the market would guide individual choices so that each individual pursuing his own self-interest would simultaneously help society and create the greatest wealth for the greatest number of people in a society.

7）I believe we are now moving into a period similar to that after the last war, where there is a general acceptance of the need for a mixed economy, that is, a capitalist economy combined with a substantial degree of government intervention.

8）Many investment banks, increasingly dependent on risking their own money to make profits, are pouring capital into Asia, especially China's fast-growing economy, at times reaping big rewards.

9）The current era offers a parallel. Although policy has since shifted to reflect supply-side economics and real business-cycle theory, the new reigning paradigm’s builders and promoters display the same antipathy to checking data for serious error.

10）By unethical behaviour we're not referring to porn, free music files, cyber-squatting, viruses or even spam. ［We're talking about what goes on in the world away from your modem -- the oppressive regimes your bank might be funding, the cosmetic testing on animals which could be linked to the medical website you use, the cancer cases possibly caused by chemicals leaking from discarded computers languishing in the landfill site...］

4/5．3 Reversing

1）His delegation welcomed the fact that UNDP was prepared to respond to emergency needs as they rose, despite the basically long-term operations that characterized those programmes.

2）Surely it were a foolish attempt to pretend ‘explaining’, in this place, or in any place, such a phenomenon as that far-distant distracted cloudy imbroglio of Paganism.

3）Since World War II, the American economy has been on a “throwaway” basis, making shoddy products that break or wear out quickly on the theory that the sooner a product wears out, the sooner the need for repurchase.

4）No longer are ‘separate but equal’ school regarded as being permitted under the ‘equal protection of the laws’ provision of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

5）With a view to successfully maintaining a balanced system implemented by a basically even distribution of Federal resources, Federal financial aid is given only if a state has acceptable standards of administration.

6）A great number of graduate students were driven into the intellectual slum when in the United States the intellectual poor became the classic poor, the poor under the rather romantic guise of the Beat Generation, a real phenomenon in the late fifties.

7）Such is human nature in the West that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white collar workers.

8） Then, most Americans had little interest in ‘1,500,000 square kilometres of icebergs and polar bears’ – beyond Canada’s western borders, far from the settled areas of the United States.

9) Its beginning obscured by unemployment caused by the world economic slowdown, the new technological unemployment may emerge as the great socio-economic challenge of the end of the 20th century.

10) The agency's news conference was part of efforts in recent years to be more transparent about the scope of China's environmental degradation. The government has so far fought a largely losing battle to curb pollution, which has worsened significantly with the country's rapid economic growth.

4/5．4 Splitting

1）Flying from Australia to HK, the tourist group then travelled thousands of interest-filled miles through China by train.

2）All members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.

3）The Congressman tends to be very interested in public works - such as new government buildings, water projects, military bases - that will bring money to the area or improve living conditions.

4) Efforts to strike a global free-trade deal aimed at boosting economic growth and reducing poverty in the developing world broke down, falling victim to flawed negotiating strategies and overblown promises made when the talks were launched in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S.

5）The greenhouse effect results when CO2 and certain other gases in the atmosphere allow the sun’s ultraviolet rays to penetrate and warm the earth, but then absorb the infrared energy the earth radiates back into space – much as glass in a greenhouse does – forming a kind of ‘thermal blanket’ around the planet.

6）This land, which once barred the way of weary travellers, now has become a land for winter and summer vacations, a land of magic and wonder.

7) The Reaganites are treating the decision to remove the four tigers from a trade program for developing economies called the General System of Preferences as a plus for all.

8) The new environment calls for a new breed of phone company executive who moves fast and is willing to take risks, unlike traditional telcos, most of which until recently have not had to report to shareholders.

9）So the wage pressures at the top of the work force aren’t being translated into price increases partly because employers compensated by driving wages lower at other levels. However brutal that may be for workers who are displaced or paid less well, that flexibility means old theories about the labor force moving in lockstep are antiquated.

10）A significant portion of the meeting, which is notable for its absence of grandstanding, is taken up by a Staples buyer providing an update on when a popular variety of white-washed office furniture will be available in the stores.

4/5．5 Inserting 插入

1）There is in fact a strong likelihood that the Administration will preside over a $100-billion-plus budget deficit in the current fiscal year, putting its promise to balance the budget by fiscal 1993 - which begins in only twenty months - firmly out of reach.

2) The suspension of the Doha talks takes steam out of a move to overhaul the way the U.S subsidizes farmers. Many farm-state legislators have been dreading next year's debate of legislation that dictates which crops are subsidized and by how much. It would have pitted their loyalty to Mr. Bush's free-trade agenda -- with the administration's offer to slash subsidies by 60% to win a trade agreement -- against short-term interests of politically well-connected farmers.

3) Their elegant and occasionally simplistic premise is that companies become market leaders by delivering superior customer value in one of three disciplines -- operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership -- while meeting industry standards on the other two.

4) For most of us, such wonderful alignments of money and freedom never quite happen. In professions that charge by the project -- such as advertising, law, accounting or medicine -- the highest-paying opportunities are likely to gouge deepest into people's hopes of enjoying a balanced life.

5) Ironically, while arts advocates in the United States have long argued for adoption of the “European model” – which has produced a rich and varied artistic life for Europeans – Europe is being forced to change its system of support to one that depends more on private money and the box office.

6）Japan may have lagged behind in the technology of the moment, the Internet. But the country's traditional strength -- designing and producing gadgets that are chic, convenient and comically small -- will likely become more and more important as consumers harness the Net's power with devices other than the stodgy personal computer.

Special signals are also placed directly over traffic lanes to control traffic. These signals are designed to indicate how special lanes of a street or highway can be used. A steady downward green arrow over a traffic lane is used to show that you are allowed to use the lane. A steady yellow “X” over a traffic lane is put up to indicate that a lane control change is ahead. A flashing yellow “X” over a traffic lane is meant that you are permitted to use the lane to make left turns.

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