1. Hailed as one of the greatest films of all time, Taxi Driver tells the story of a depressed ex-Marine who attempts to assassinate a senator after being rejected by a woman he admires. While the titular taxi driver, Travis Bickle, lives a chaotic life filled with drug dealers and prostitutes, his story was never meant to be an unrealistic fantasy. Rather, it meant to expose the very real warning signs of a would-be gunman.

2. The ranking of 95 schools, up from 90 last year, includes nine institutions, from seven countries, that were ranked for the first time. Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in 41st place is the year’s highest new entrant. The German school has one of the most gender-balanced programmes, with women accounting for 49 per cent of students.

3. 但是航空公司在冬季假日期间的经营更加困难。2012年，大约有30%的冬季假日航班延误，高于2011年和2010年的航班延误率。你可以通过美国交通运输部的网站查看假日航班的统计数据。

4. A New Year greeting to cheer you, my good friend.希望新年祝福给你带来欢乐，我的好朋友。

5. Baoneng is believed to have borrowed heavily to fund its share purchases in Vanke and is now the developer’s largest single shareholder with a 25 per cent stake.

6. 如果你已经为人父母，我能够理解，这是不太可能的。你会将孩子放在更重要的位置。但是，如果你没有在课堂上展示自己，那么你也就没有做到我们在第一点里讨论的内容。

应用

1. 上赛季的封王对勇士队球迷来说是一种缓解，毕竟他们前一年经历了总决赛史上最严重的崩盘。尽管如此，但整个系列赛的感觉还是“是的，这是应该发生的。”。几乎没有什么戏剧性的事情，也没有什么争论，最后，大家都预料到会发生什么。不会引起太多谈话或兴趣，它就是这样的。

2. 从一开始，社交网络就被有效地隔离在互联网之外。比如，Facebook的海量内容通常不会显示在谷歌( Google )搜索结果之中。但是否非得是这种情形？比方说，Twitter搜索结果自动出现在一个标准的谷歌搜索显示页面，岂不是更方便？再比如，当你搜索Yelp时，为什么关于某家餐厅的最新Twitter消息没有显现出来呢？由于利益相悖，不同社交网络往往把各自的内容封锁在专利保护墙之内，但也有不少工具致力于创造性地弥合这道鸿沟。需要说明的是，本文作者的公司已经开发出了这样一种工具。

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4. Since the establishment of Avic 1 and Avic 2 in 1999, which really marked the beginning of China’s push into the commercial aerospace market, there has been no doubt about China’s intent and the direction it wants its industry to take. But the pace at which it would achieve this ambition was less uncertain. Almost 20 years on, things have become much more clear, and there is now little doubt that China is well on its way to succeeding where several other countries have failed in becoming a full-fledged player in the large commercial aircraft manufacturing sector, with the potential to disrupt the long-standing duopoly of Airbus and Boeing.

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6. n. 非法移民

旧版特色

1. “我们一直用很高的标准要求自己”，库里赛后表示。“我们在第三节没有给他们防守端施加压力，草率地结束了我们的进攻并且给了他们机会。有很多需要我们继续提高的地方，当然，每个人都愿意在赢球的同时接受教训。”

2. Accelerating price growth for new housing in cities across China lost more steam in November amid a flurry of purchasing curbs in major cities, though price gains from a year earlier remained comfortably in double-digit territory.

3. 国家卫生健康委员会补充称，其中81.8%的新病例是同性恋行为造成的，这是由于学生“尽管对疾病有很高的认识，但对保护的意识不强”。