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Economist 65438+February 2008

Not just any week.

Extraordinary figure Zhou Xiaochuan

China's emerging central bank governor is about to retire, but his influence will continue to exist.

The president who laid the foundation for the Bank of China is about to retire, but his influence will continue.

/kloc-When Zhou Xiaochuan took the helm of the Bank of China five years ago, the world was very different. China has just joined the World Trade Organization, and its economy is still smaller than that of Britain. Foreign investors have little interest in the new president of the People's Bank of China. It seems safe to ignore him: another official with black hair and glasses, whose talk is full of socialist bromide.

/kloc-When Zhou Xiaochuan took charge of the Bank of China 0/5 years ago, the world was very different from today. At that time, China had just joined the WTO, and its economic aggregate was still lower than that of Britain. Foreign investors didn't take the new governor of the Bank of China seriously. There seems to be no risk in ignoring him: this is just another official with dark hair and glasses, who is talking about socialist platitudes.

The first sentence: 15 years ago, when Zhou Xiaochuan took the helm of the Bank of China, the world was already very different.

/kloc-When Zhou Xiaochuan took charge of the Bank of China 0/5 years ago, the world was very different from today.

1. How are the characters in The Economist introduced?

The world is very different:

When The Economist introduces people, the first half of the sentence is generally "introducer+important event+time", and the second half is expressed by "the world was very different at that time" and "the world was a different place at that time". In ordinary English writing, we can learn from similar expressions to improve language tension. For example, when introducing Musk:

When elon musk founded Tesla in 2003, the world was a different place.

When Elon Musk founded Tesla in 2003, the world was very different.

How to say "responsible …" in English?

For example, the Financial Times said:

Guo Shuqing, who was in charge of the China Securities Regulatory Commission at the end of last year 10, said in his first public speech this month that he hoped to rectify the market.

/kloc-Guo Shuqing, who took charge of the CSRC at the end of 0/0, said in his first public speech this month that he wanted to rectify the market.

The second sentence: China has just joined the World Trade Organization, and its economy is still smaller than that of Britain.

At that time, China had just joined the WTO, and its economic aggregate was still lower than that of Britain.

1. How do you say "economic aggregate"?

Among economists, when we express "economic aggregate", we often use "economy" directly instead of "economic quantity" and "economic aggregate".

Second, the structure and usage of past perfect tense

The past perfect tense indicates an action or situation that was completed before a certain time in the past. The predicate form of a sentence consists of the past participle of the had+ verb, which is usually expressed as "past past". It can also be followed by adverbials of time, such as prepositions or conjunctions such as by and before.

"Just Joined": The idea expressed in the second sentence of the first sentence of the article is "15 years ago, when Zhou Xiaochuan took charge of the Bank of China, China just joined the WTO". The tense used in the first sentence is the simple past tense, indicating the action that happened in the past.

From the verb "China just joined at that time" in the second sentence, it can be judged that "joining the WTO" was before "Zhou Xiaochuan/Kloc took charge of the Bank of China 0/5 years ago", so the tense in this sentence should be "past", so the grammatical structure of past perfect tense is adopted.

3. Under what circumstances can "possessive nouns" be omitted?

Its economy is still smaller than Britain's;

Nouns modified by possessive cases can sometimes be omitted, mainly in the following situations:

(1), carry-over ellipsis: that is, the self-evident nouns contained in the following text are omitted according to the previous context.

Lily's book is more interesting than Lucy's.

Lily's book is more interesting than Lucy's.

(2) Habitual ellipsis: possessive nouns refer to churches, shops, clinics, someone's house, someone's office, etc. Nouns after the possessive case can sometimes be omitted. For example:

I have made an appointment with a dentist (dental clinic). The telephone number is 1 1: 15.

I have made an appointment to see a dentist on 1 15.

The third sentence: Foreign investors did not agree with the words of the new governor of the Bank of China.

Foreign investors didn't take the new governor of the Bank of China seriously.

First, how do you say "not serious"?

Rarely noticed: For example, the Financial Times said:

In the first eight years in India, M&, as the mainstay of British commercial streets, Americans paid little attention to it.

In the first eight years in India, Mark Spencer, as the pillar of British mass consumer market, paid little attention to this point.

Second, what does "President" say?

Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, recently called for an "open and informed debate" on this issue.

MervynKing, governor of the Bank of England, recently called for an "open discussion" on this issue.

Articles from The Economist 18.2. 1

Zhou Xiaochuan, an Extraordinary Character in Extraordinary Week

The fourth sentence: He is considered safe to ignore: another official with black hair and glasses, who rarely talks about socialist bromide.

There seems to be no risk in ignoring him: this is just another official with dark hair and glasses, who is talking about socialist platitudes.

1. In the structure of "s+v+ adj+to do", how to express the passive meaning in the active form of infinitive?

It seems safe to ignore him: there is no risk in ignoring him.

Two conditions need to be met: (1) The predicate is a qualitative adjective; (2) The subject is the logical object of to do.

Extension: This book is very interesting to read. This book is very interesting to read.

The second is the explanatory function of ":"

In this sentence, there are two independent sentences before and after ":". The previous sentence expresses the author's emotional attitude, that is, Zhou Xiaochuan is easily overlooked. And in ";" This paper further describes the image of Zhou Xiaochuan and explains in detail the reasons why he is easily overlooked.

Thirdly, ","is emphasized in complex sentences.

In English sentences, and is usually used to connect two coordinate components. In this sentence, it plays an important role to replace "harmony" with ","between "black hair" and "wearing glasses".

4. What do you mean by "official"?

"Our overall goal will be something beneficial to the system," the senior official said. "We want the system to have enough capital."

"Our big goal will be something beneficial to the whole system," the senior official said. "We hope that the whole system will have enough funds."

5. How do you say "full" and "everywhere"?

For example, the Financial Times said:

Moreover, even at the best of times, luxury goods are still an unpredictable industry, full of huge self-and family struggles.

In addition, even in the best of times, luxury goods are an unpredictable industry, full of extremely inflated self-awareness and family disputes.

History is full of conflicts. In retrospect, these conflicts seem puzzling, but at that time they seemed inevitable.

All kinds of seemingly inexplicable conflicts, which seemed inevitable at that time, abound in history.

6. How do you say "cliche"?

For example, the Financial Times said:

Besides feel-good bromide and political suture, what can replace it?

Then, after the bubble burst, what will be replaced by platitudes and political matchmaking?

Seven. Attributive clause guided by "whose"

Whose is a common relative pronoun in attributive clauses. It is the possessive case of the relative pronoun who and is used as an attribute in clauses. That is to say, when the antecedent is related to a noun in the clause and expresses the meaning of "…", the relative pronoun whose is used to guide the attributive clause, which can refer to both people and things, as well as restrictive attributive clauses and unrestricted attributive clauses.

For example, the Financial Times said:

There is a man in the court next to me whose company went bankrupt not long ago after borrowing billions of pounds.

There is a man playing ball in the stadium next door. Not long ago, his company went bankrupt because of a loan of 1 billion pounds.

This will only transfer the surplus to commodity exporting countries, which may have a very low tendency to use the extra export income for consumption.

This will only transfer the surplus to commodity exporting countries, and these countries may have a very low tendency to spend extra export income on consumption.