The writer is a professor at Cornell, senior fellow at Brookings and author of the forthcoming ‘The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder’ China’s trade surplushit $1tn in ...

That, whatever “that” is, is trivial. Pointless. Meaningless. Not worth mentioning. Not worth our time and energy. In our discussion, however, “first world complaint” is not so trivial that it isn’t ...

同意反对类的题目，一般有是三种回答。1）完全同意；2）完全反对；3）折中（部分同意和反对）。我们一般是建议同学采用折中的策略，这样正文的主体段可以采用双边讨论，写作的内容选择就更多； 题目所给出的观点，其表述一般都是抽象和较模糊的，就是 ...

problem=问题，"What's the problem?" 很容易被理解成“有什么问题吗？” 然而它却有另外一层不为人知的含义... "What's the problem"除了用来表达“怎么了；什么事；有什么问题”，在口语中，它还能用在与人发生歧义或者矛盾时用，意思是“你有什么毛病”。你也可以用 ...

把困扰世界的问题，简单归咎于经济全球化，既不符合事实，也无助于问题解决。 CGTN· “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 2017 World Economic Forum. The speech, identifying progress ...

当你为头发缺少光泽而苦恼时，非洲贫困国家的人却在忍饥挨饿，为明天的粮食发愁，相比之下，你的烦恼是那么无足轻重，这种琐碎的小问题就叫first-world problem（第一世界问题）。 First-world problem refers to a trivial frustration or petty concern, particularly one that contrasts ...