1. 感恩节当天，沃尔玛、塔吉特（Target）和Kmart等美国大型零售商都开门营业，以便借假日购物旺季大赚一笔。今年，沃尔玛开始营业的时间甚至比去年早了两个小时。但好市多拒绝加入“黑色星期五狂欢”，感恩节并没有开门营业。首席执行官克雷格杰利内克认为，给员工放一天假比提高公司利润更加重要。

2. 惊慌随之而来，不过这名少年很快镇定下来，他决定把控局面，寻找逃生出路。

3. This ranking measures the quality and breadth of the schools’ postgraduate programmes. It is based on their performance in the four main rankings published by the FT each year: MBA, Executive MBA, Masters in Management and Executive Education. Only schools that take part in all four rankings are eligible for a full score.

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5. 健全激励机制和容错纠错机制，给干事者鼓劲，为担当者撑腰。广大干部要主动作为、动真碰硬，与人民群众同心协力，以实干推动发展，以实干赢得未来。

6. The Warriors are one of the best teams in NBA history, and you can put their championship run up against any team in NBA history for the best playoff performance ever. But there's also a legitimate question of what this means for the sport. If the best or second-best player of all time stands no chance against this team, what does it mean for the sport's competitiveness? It hasn't been a problem so far, thanks to an extremely wild offseason, but the question remains: what happens to a competitive sports league when it's not truly competitive at the highest level?

应用

1. 7．《大白鲨》

2. 我对事物持悲观态度

3. pol擦亮+ish表动词，“造成…”→擦亮

4. 换句话说，我们看到的只是气候变化方面的虚假黎明。

5. 在36,000位认证网红中，74%是女性，87.8%网红的年龄在17-33岁之间，且89%的人有大学文凭。粉丝也越来越年轻，受教育程度也越来越高，77.8%粉丝的年龄在17-33岁之间，75%的人受过高等教育。

6. Financial success and dazzling new technology alone might have been enough to earn Apple’s steely chief executive the FT’s vote as the 2014 Person of the Year, but Mr Cook’s brave exposition of his values also sets him apart.

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1. 2. Organize

2. Since 2005, the business book of the year award has gone to the book that provides “the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues”. The 2014 winner was Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.

3. It's time to make New Year resolutions for traveling! Backpacker bible Lonely Planet has published its annual list of best value destinations in 2017 for people looking for wallet-friendly sightseeing experiences. Take a look.