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Week 6 lecture notes Attributive clausesThe bank which sponsors the credit card is responsible for the goods and services illegally charged to its customers’ accounts.把商品和劳务的价款不合法地记入顾客账内，经办信用卡的银行对此是要负责的。“We are a nation that must beg to stay alive,” said a foreign economist.一位外国经济学家说道：“我们不是一个不乞讨就活不下去的国家”。An import quota is a limit on the amount of particular goods that may be imported into a country during a given period of time.进口配额是一个国家在某个特定时期对可能进口到本国的某个特定商品在数量上的限制。Let no one nurse the vain hope of exploiting that example tomorrow in the negotiations which the question of economic transformation will require.明天在就经济改革问题进行谈判时，希望不要援引那个例子，因为那将是徒劳的。译成单句We now live in a very new economy, a service economy, where relationships are becoming more important than physical products.现在我们正生活在一种全新的经济，即服务经济中，各种关系越来越比物质产品更重要。There will be cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend.将来会出现装有污染监视装置的汽车，当汽车排污超标时，这种监控器就会使汽车无法行驶。As I came in, John, who owned the taxi that used to stand at the corner of our street, waved to me from a table.我进去时，那个开出租车的约翰坐在一张桌子边向我招手，他的车子经常就停在我们的街角上。The WTO’s top-level decision-making body is the Ministerial Conference, which meets at least once every two years.世界贸易组织的最高决策权力机构是部长会议，至少每两年召开一次会议。We greatly regret the delay, which has been due to circumstances beyond our control. 由于无法克服的外因使得装运推迟，我们对此深表歉意。We are, quite naturally, paying great attention to developments in the financial sector of Asia, which are so instrumental to the maintenance of a sound economic order in our part of the world. 亚洲金融业的发展有助于维护我们这一地区良好的经济秩序，自然而然地我们对此就非常关心了。译成条件状语Business executives who hope to profit from their travel should learn about the history, culture, and customs of the countries they wish to visit.如果商务主管人员希望从他们的旅行中有所收获，就应该对他们即将到访的国家的历史、文化和习俗有所了解。No company can afford to keep employees who fail to create enough value for customers to more than cover their own compensation.倘若员工为顾客创造的价值不足以补偿自己的工资福利，那么就没有一家公司能雇得起他们了。We have to speed up the pace of th