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2011年阅读真题讲解 Passage One 生词释义 1. Goldman Sachs board: 高盛公司的董事会 2. outside director: 外部董事 3. to manage: （成功地）设法做到 与fail to do 正好相反 # manage to do sth: 设法做到sth # manage sth: 设法（做到） sth * How do you manage to stay so slim? 你是如何做到保持这么苗条的？ * We somehow managed to persuade him。 我们设法说动了他。 * Tom managed two goals in the last ten minutes. Tom在最后十分钟之内设法进了两个球。 * I dont know how Ill manage it, but Ill be there. 我不知道如何应对， 但是我会到达那里的。 * to manage two roles: 设法应对好两个角色 criticism: （名词）批评 to criticize: (动词） be under fire for sth : 因为sth受到谴责= be criticized for to sit on/in: 在（ 机构中） 担任成员 * He was the first journalist to sit in parliament. 他是第一个在国会中任职的记者。 * to sit on the committee: 在委员会中任职 compensation: (名词） 1) 补偿 2）（文中含义） 薪酬 committee: 委员会 bonus: 奖金 payout: 付出的巨款 to remark: 说， 评论 *This house must be very old, he remarked. # remark that *Anderson left the table, remarking that he had some work to do.安德森离开桌子， 说他有些事情要做。 #remark on/upon 评论 *He remarked on the difference in security measures at the two airports. 他对两个机场的安检措施的差异做了评论 * let sth pass unremarked: （文中短语） 对sth不做评论， 就任它了事了 Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs’s board as an outside director in January 2000: a year later she became president of Brown University. For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much criticism. But by the end of 2009 Ms. Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman’s compensation committee; how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked? By February the next year Ms. Simmons had left the board. The position was just taking up too much time, she said. Ruth Simmons于2000年1月加入高盛公司董事会， 成为一名外部董事。 一年后， 她成为布朗大学的校长。 此后近十年时间里， 她很明显扮演着两个角色， 但并未引起多少责难。 但是在2009年年底， Simmons 女士却由于担任高盛公司薪酬委员会委员， 而收到抨击； 她怎可能让巨额奖金得以发放而不加以评论呢？ 到第二年的2月份, Simmons便离开了高盛公司董事会。 她说， 该职位占用了她太多的时间。 be supposed to do sth: 应该做sth= be meant to do * Were supposed to check out of the hotel by 11 oclock. 我们应该在11点之前结账离开酒店。 * Im not supposed