1. With both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq returning over 14% while the Dow and MidCap 400 each kicking in close to 10%, you would assume that passive investors would have an awful lot to celebrate this year. And indeed, they would have, if it weren’t for those pesky overseas stocks that did nothing but drag on the performance of any diversified portfolio.

2. adj. 快的，迅速的

3. 我们要咬定青山不放松，持之以恒为群众办实事、解难事，促进社会公平正义，把发展硬道理更多体现在增进人民福祉上。

4. 不过，对韩国和东盟(Asean)国家的出口都下滑了约3%，而对香港的转口贸易下滑幅度逾16%。

5. 2. 邻客音（LinkedIn）。品牌喜爱度：47%/排名：309

6. 房地产经纪公司莱坊(Knight Frank)的数据显示，今年第一季度，香港豪宅租金同比下跌5.2%，跌幅超过内罗毕以外的任何其他城市。就在去年9月价格下跌之后，运动品牌阿迪达斯(Adidas)在香港租入了一间1.3万平方英尺的店铺，租金相比上一个租户、配饰品牌蔻驰(Coach)低了22%。

应用

1. First there was SARS, then the global spread of H5N1 flu and now the H1N1 flu. Globalization is not helping, either. The earth now is truly a village, making it easy for a virus to travel from Beijing to Boston in a matter of hours. Will another epidemic arrive in 2010?

2. extend

3. Alumni from Edhec have the 11th highest average salary, at $105,000, behind the alumni from Sloan at $143,600. They also enjoyed theseventh-highest salary increase, at 79 per cent.

4. 10月中国出口同比下降6.9%，较上月3.7%的降幅有所恶化。疲弱的全球需求和中国成本上涨导致过去10年期间从中国大量流向世界的廉价商品减少。

5. Simply put, bladeless fans are fans without blades. They work by sucking in air at their base and then blowing them out through several holes in their ring. The fan is reported to have been invented by James Dyson, who calls it the "Air Multiplier." Just like the flying jetpack, it earned a spot in Time's list of notable inventions of 2009. And just like the jetpack, it was not the first of its kind. The first bladeless fan was actually patented in 1981 by a Japanese company called Tokyo Shiba Electric. Although Tokyo Shiba's bladeless fan was never manufactured, James Dyson's initial design of a bladeless fan design looked so similar to that of Tokyo Shiba Electric that the patent office refused to grant him a patent. The patent granted to Tokyo Shiba had already expired, but the patent office still required something substantially different before it could grant a new patent to James Dyson. Dyson's patent manager, Gill Smith, did not deny the similarities between both bladeless fans but said the difference between them was the "technology."

6. Insead is top of the 2017 Financial Times global ranking of the best 100 MBA programmes. It is the second year that the multi-campus international business school has taken the number one spot, after claiming it for the first time last year.

旧版特色

1. 约28000枚炸弹和其他弹药在只有俄亥俄大小的南斯拉夫境内爆炸。时任国防部长的威廉·科恩将联军描述为“史上最精确的空中力量运用”。500余名平民在消耗巨量弹药的轰炸中丧生，这一数字出乎意料的低。北约在自己的作战报告中着重强调：所有目标都经过“仔细甄别”，并且“付出了巨大努力以将空袭行动对塞尔维亚平民的影响降到最低”。

2. "A total of 297 projects will be carried out in Tongzhou, such as building new subway lines and expressways, and improving ecologies," Lu Yan, director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, said at a news conference on Wednesday.

3. “我们现在从中国看到的情况不仅仅是巴西一国的现象，我们在整个拉美都看到了同样的情况，中国对所有市场的出口都在下降，”负责马士基航运在巴西、巴拉圭、乌拉圭和阿根廷业务的执行董事安东尼奥?多明格斯(Antonio Dominguez)表示，“已经连续几个季度出现这种情况，但随着我们进入（2016）年，这种局面变得越来越明显了。”