英语时文泛读 第三册 Unit 3 B.pptVIP

Meanwhile, officials play with numbers ___E___. The Chongqing leadership’s obsession with urbanisation targets encourages their underlings to fiddle the figures. The official media have said that efforts to reform the rural/urban citizenship system, known as hukou, could encourage officials simply to reclassify farmers as city residents. Urbanisation targets, some critics say, smack of Maoist economics. “The market should decide,” says Cui Chuanyi, a rural-labour specialist at a government think-tank in Beijing. To Chongqing’s ambitious leaders, that sounds too simple. fiddle 1 [intransitive]to keep moving and touching something, especially because you are bored or nervous: Stop fiddling, will you! I sat and fiddled at the computer for a while. fiddle with She was at her desk in the living room, fiddling with a deck of cards. 2 [transitive] British English informal to give false information about something, in order to avoid paying money or to get extra money: Bert had been fiddling his income tax for years. fiddle the books (=give false figures in a companys financial records) 3 [intransitive] to play a violin smack [transitive] 1to hit someone, especially a child, with your open hand in order to punish them [? slap]: the debate about whether parents should smack their children 2 [always + adverb/preposition] to hit something hard against something else so that it makes a short loud noise: He smacked the money down on the table and walked out. 3 smack your lips to make a short loud noise with your lips before or after you eat or drink something to show that it is good: He drained his glass and smacked his lips appreciatively. smack of something if a situation smacks of something unpleasant, it seems to involve that thing: To me, the whole thing smacks of a cover-up. This arrangement smacks of dishonest dealing wreathe literary 1 be wreathed in something to be covered in something: The mountains were wreathed in mist. 2 be wreathed in smiles