1. 当年的荷兰金融市场固然没有今天的任何科技，但他们的很多做法都和今天的交易员一样。投资者们买入证券，有时会用买入的股票质押获得贷款。用今天的话说，他们基于保证金买入股票。贷款机构为了自身安全，会要求一个超出贷款金额一定百分比的“折幅”，质押现金或证券。如果证券价格下跌超过一定幅度，贷款机构会要求投资者交出更多资金，与“折幅”保持一致。如果投资者拿不出追加保证金，贷款机构有权将证券平仓，收回贷款额。

2. 克普克表示，就1994-95年墨西哥汇率危机而言，三个因素都起了作用，当时美联储开始以25、50甚至75个基点（1994年11月）的加息幅度进入紧缩周期。

3. For all of these films, Ms. Swinton used the same tooth-designing specialist, Chris Lyons of the company Fangs F/X in London. His work has led him to designing all manner of teeth, including gold fangs fitted for a Doberman used in a Kanye West music video.

4. In 1995 Dutch troops serving as UN peacekeepers failed to prevent Bosnian Serb forces murdering 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia.

5. The list has four British universities, which are Cambridge, Oxford and London's University College and Imperial College. The University of Tokyo is also included in top 20.

6. 美国的排放量一直在降低，这是因为发电过程中燃烧天然气的比例增加了；与煤炭相比，燃气发电每单位能量所产生的二氧化碳更少。但美国通报称，2013年的排放量有所增加，因为煤炭重新获得了一些市场份额。如果这种趋势持续下去，它可能会成为奥巴马政府的一个挑战，因为奥巴马政府正试图制定更严格的温室气体政策。

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1. Market watchers were forced to digest the reality of negative 2.9% GDP for the first quarter of the year. All of a sudden, everyone’s forecasts seemed too rosy—or at least too smooth—compared to the lumpy reality. This led to a raft of second-guessing on the timing of the Fed’s eventual exit from its bond-buying stimulus program. We went from confidence to WTF? in a space of a few weeks, with all the asset class rotations and market corrections that come along with a fresh bout of uncertainty.

2. The lending conditions were not limited to nude pictures. Also leaked were a number of screenshots of supposed dialogues between the borrowers and lenders, with one lender demanding that the female students deliver a video of herself masturbating.

3. 新加坡樟宜国际机场已经连续五年在每年一度的Skytrax世界机场大奖评选中获得世界最佳机场。

4. adj. 有营养的，滋养的

5. “…called the interviewer by the wrong name.”

6. 5.英国人喜欢冷幽默：这就是为什么所有出租的自行车都刻着同一家银行的名字，而这家银行正因为固定利率而在被调查阶段。他们也许觉得这很有趣吧。

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2. 福特是硅谷一家软件开发公司的创始人，他认为“或许需要从根本上重建我们的经济规则”，以减轻机器人和自动化的进步带来的冲击。他提出建立保底的基本收入，即“公民红利”，作为一项根本性的补救措施。

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