1. Besides exploring the overall ranking, prospective international students can narrow their search by browsing regional and country rankings. These rankings were determined solely by how schools performed in the overall list.

2. Forget giving at least two weeks notice, finessing an exit interview, and tactfully networking your way out the door. Some people are in too big a hurry for any of that.

3. n. 游艇，快艇 vi. 驾快艇

4. 《帕丁顿熊2》

5. 有趣的是，一项调查发现，31.8%的受访者认为北京是中国最拥堵的城市，而8.8%的人则认为郑州是中国最拥堵的城市。

6. Of course, these same new forces may also trigger a backlash and a reversion to old command-and-control ways of leading. The politicians who dominate the world stage are, depressingly, mostly cut from the old cloth, and the leadership challenges they face, from Brexit to North Korea, are particularly complex.

应用

1. 昨日发布的央行数据显示，中国外汇储备上月出现有记录以来第三大单月降幅。这重燃了人们对于中国遭遇资本外流的担忧，此前中国外汇储备似乎企稳。

2. A minimum of 70 per cent of the con-tent must be delivered online in order for programmes to be eligible for the online ranking. Nine out of the 15 ranked schools had no requirement to study on campus at all. The remaining six schools insisted their students attend weekend or week-long residential classes.

3. 杨燕绥说道，为确保该计划顺利进行，中央政府必须夯实统筹基础养老金，做大职业年金，管好个人账户。

4. The Magic are the single-most mystifying team in this entire exercise. They make little sense on paper or on the court.

5. 11月份以人民币计算的出口也同样上升了，同比上升5.9%。不过，若以美元计算，同比增幅则只有0.1%，达到1968亿美元。不过，这仍然大大超过了下滑5%的预期。在之前的10月份，出口同比跌幅曾为7.3%，跌势有所缓和。

6. Regulators clamped down on outbound deals following an unprecedented flood of offshore acquisitions in 2016 that drained China’s foreign exchange reserves. In August this year, China’s cabinet formalised a new framework that encourages deals that fit Beijing’s strategic priorities and discourages deals in entertainment, sports and luxury real estate

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1. 但国家统计局认为，CPI上涨的主要原因是去年同期对比基数相对偏低。

2. 2016年全球创新指数排名靠前的经济体中，日本、美国、英国、德国在创新质量方面表现突出。

3. UPON HEARING, IN MARCH of this year, reports that a 17-year-old schoolboy had sold a piece of software to Yahoo! for $30 million, you might well have entertained a few preconceived notions about what sort of child this must be. A geeky specimen, no doubt. A savant with zero interests outside writing lines of code. A twitchy creature, prone to mumbling, averse to eye contact.