英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0603 - 儿童节 or 儿童劫？

 Topic1 Kids get sick after International Children's Day"Just after celebrating the Children's Day, my child gets sick." Yesterday, a Changchun citizen Mr. Zhu brought his daughter to the hospital. To his surprise, there were more than 20 kids waiting in the queue. Dr. Meng Fanzheng from the pediatric department also found that more children than usual were ill after the Children's day.

Why?

Topic2 Chengguan most unpopular officials due to perception of violence: CASSA report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences shows urban management officers, known as chengguan, are ranked the most unpopular officials in China.

Chengguan, management staff of schools and hospitals are the top three groups of administrative¹ authorities with the worst public image in China in that report.

Is there anything they could do to change it?

Topic3 Smartphone Cleaner reportA smart phone cleaning app recently released a report on how people delete their smart phone contents. Cheetah² Mobile recently collected 60,000 questionnaires from Android smart phone users to study how often people delete waste information from their phones, which province's users have the most waste in their phones, what kind of information people would like to delete as soon as possible, and even the correlation³ between cleansing⁴ frequency and divorce rate.

What can it tell us?

Topic4 China Should Consider Raising Tobacco TaxWe all know that people respond to incentives⁶. Change the incentive⁵ for buying a product by making it more expensive, and people will change their behavior by buying less of it.

This is why recently the World Health Organization recommends that China need to increase its tobacco taxes to 70% of the retail⁷ price. Will it be an effective tobacco control method?

Topic5 Lecture Officials' WivesRecently, Shiyan of Hubei province develops a new method for anti-corruption campaign, which is to lecture the wives of the local officials, and let them be the inspectors⁸ of their spouses⁹.

Will this pillow talk strategy work?

Topic6 Celebrity¹⁰ and Public RelationAccording to an interview published on Southern People Weekly magazine, singer Ling Hua of Phoenix¹¹ Legend, one of the most popular duos in Chinese mainland, commented after watching Taiwan band Mayday's concert as saying "sing like dog s**t". Ling Hua immediately received waves of complaints and criticism from fans of Mayday after the story was published.

On May 28th, Ling Hua wrote a long article on her Sina microblog which magically turned enemy into friends and battle into laugh.

How did Ling Hua do it?

1 administrative   

adj.行政的，管理的

参考例句：

• The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
• He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。

2 cheetah   

n.(动物)猎豹

参考例句：

• The cheetah is generally credited as the world's fastest animal.猎豹被公认是世界上跑得最快的动物。
• The distribution of the cheetah ranges from Africa to Central Asia.印度豹的足迹遍及从非洲到中亚的广大地区。

3 correlation   

n.相互关系，相关，关连

参考例句：

• The second group of measurements had a high correlation with the first.第二组测量数据与第一组高度相关。
• A high correlation exists in America between education and economic position.教育和经济地位在美国有极密切的关系。

4 cleansing   

n. 净化(垃圾) adj. 清洁用的 动词cleanse的现在分词

参考例句：

• medicated cleansing pads for sensitive skin 敏感皮肤药物清洗棉
• Soap is not the only cleansing agent. 肥皂并不是唯一的清洁剂。

5 incentive   

n.刺激；动力；鼓励；诱因；动机

参考例句：

• Money is still a major incentive in most occupations.在许多职业中，钱仍是主要的鼓励因素。
• He hasn't much incentive to work hard.他没有努力工作的动机。

6 incentives   

激励某人做某事的事物( incentive的名词复数 )； 刺激； 诱因； 动机

参考例句：

• tax incentives to encourage savings 鼓励储蓄的税收措施
• Furthermore, subsidies provide incentives only for investments in equipment. 更有甚者，提供津贴仅是为鼓励增添设备的投资。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

7 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

8 inspectors   

n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 )；（英国公共汽车或火车上的）查票员；（警察）巡官；检阅官

参考例句：

• They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过，通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 spouses   

n.配偶，夫或妻( spouse的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Jobs are available for spouses on campus and in the community. 校园里和社区里有配偶可做的工作。 来自辞典例句
• An astonishing number of spouses-most particularly in the upper-income brackets-have no close notion of their husbands'paychecks. 相当大一部分妇女——特别在高收入阶层——并不很了解他们丈夫的薪金。 来自辞典例句

10 celebrity   

n.名人，名流；著名，名声，名望

参考例句：

• Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
• He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。

11 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。