读译纽约时报1.doc

《纽约时报》读译--砖块积累练习： 温馨提示： 鉴于上课时间关系，练习篇章不会逐句进行讲解，课下练习的主要目的是提高大家识别重点词组或句型的能力及能否学以致用；如果有同学对原文理解不清楚，可以在直播课上向韩老师提问或者也可以通过班主任老师把问题转交给韩老师！ 练习目的：提高同学们识别重点词组或句型的能力及能否学以致用； 练习内容是英文文章，不提供译文； 练习步骤： 先自行阅读如下英文，对篇章不需进行翻译； 从中识别重点词组或句型； 看课程视频，听老师讲解重点词组或句型，但是课堂不会讲解具体文章内容或对文章进行翻译，因为这不是该部分课程设置的目的，有关翻译讲解将在翻译技巧版块专门讲解，请大家知晓。 练习文章： 1. In unusually blunt criticism, a Chinese government agency on Wednesday took aim at the e-commerce giant Alibaba Group for what it said were unlicensed merchants, fake goods and other illegal practices on its hugely popular shopping websites. China’s main corporate regulator, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, released a report summarizing its findings of the deficiencies on Alibaba’s sites, including Taobao Marketplace and T. In a statement on its website, the regulator said that after a thorough review, it had discovered “the long-term existence of illegal problems regarding the management of transaction activity and other issues.” The agency said that it had presented the findings to unidentified top Alibaba executives in a July 17 meeting at the company’s headquarters in the eastern city of Hangzhou, but that it had kept the results confidential at the time so as “not to affect Alibaba’s preparations for a stock market listing.” Alibaba went on to raise a record $25 billion in September in an initial public offering in New York. The regulator’s report, first made public on Wednesday, said it had found 19 problems in five main areas on Alibaba’s sites. Those included a number of unlicensed or unregistered vendors selling items, including knockoffs and goods that were improperly imported or banned from sale in China. Such items included fake cigarettes, wine and mobile phones; knockoff handbags; gambling equipment; wiretapping devices; and restricted types of knives. Because of its failure to take action against these shortcomings, Alibaba “faces its biggest credibility crisis since it was founded,” according to the regulator’s Chinese-langua