一 句子
1.?last thursday, the french senate passed a digital service tax, which would?impose an entirely new tax on large multinationals that provide digital services to consumers or users in france. 上周四，法国参议院通过了一项数字服务说。该税收的主要征收对象，是为消费者或用户提供服务的大想跨国公司。
2.?rather than just focusing on gdp,over 40 different sets of criteria，from health ,education and civil society engagement ,have been measured to get a rounded assessment of how countries are performing ?这项研究不仅关注gdp,为了能更全面地衡量一个国家的表现，从健康、教育、公众社会参角度采用了40余种不同的标准进行测量。
3.?at a time when jim and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing?power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealth aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states 在吉姆和其他经济学家提醒人民继承财富将给王室带来越来越多的权力以及越来越严重的不平等现象时，富有的贵族家庭仍然被作为现代民主国家的核心象征，很令人奇怪。
4.?what motivated him，we were to understand ,was his zeal for fundamental fairness—— protecting the taxpayer, controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits 但是，我们要明白，是他对基本公平的的热情促使他这么做——保护纳税人的利益，控制支出，确保只有最值得的申请人才能获得救济。
5.?as jim notes, “in the 10years ending in 2009, factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70years; roughly, one out of every three manufacturing jobs — about 6 million in total——disappeared” 正如吉姆说的。2009年前的十年之间，工厂辞退工人的速度很快。被裁减的人数几乎相当于过去70年招工人数的总和。粗略估计，每三个制造业岗位中，就有一个消失。总共消失的岗位，有大约600万个。
6.?online culture thinks highly of the notion that the information flowing onto the screen comes there by specific request 网络文化推崇这样一种理念：出现在屏幕上的信息，应该是特别要求的结果。
7.?the court did suggest accepting favors in return for opening doors is distasteful and nasty 法院的确提出：为贿赂者开路并收取好处，是令人厌恶和肮脏的。
8.?in particular ，they called for forging closer collaborations with western state government ,which are often uneasy with federal action,and with the landowners . 特别之处在于，他们要求去西部的州政府建立更加密切的合作关系。而这些州，经常对联邦行为感到不安。与地主打交道，也会让他们感到不安。
9.?even the very phrase job seeker’s allowance is about redefining the unemployed as a job seeker who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions 甚至，求职者津贴这个短语，就已经将失业者重新定义成求职者了。他们没有领取救济金这个基本的权利，而这个

权利是他们通过缴纳国民保险应得的。
10.?it has sparked significant controversy with the usa trade representative ,opening an investigation into whether the tax discriminates against american companies,which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against france 但是，这已经引发了巨大的争议。美国代表开始检查这项税收是否歧视美国公司。这可能会导致对法国的贸易制裁。
二 单词
1.?impose 征收
2.?senate 参议院
3.?multinational 大跨国公司
4.?criteria 标准
5.?civil 公众的
6.?assess 测量
7.?bizarre 奇怪的
8.?aristocratic 贵族的
9.?inherit 继承
10.?symbolic 象征的
11.?democratic 民主的
12.?zeal 热情
13.?await 等待
14.?signature 签名
15.?reality 现实
16.?access 通道
17.?restrict 限制
18.?substance 物质
19.?nasty 肮脏的
20.?distasteful 令人厌恶的
21.?favor 好处
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