1794.diploma mill 文凭公司，最新的丑闻是一个小学老师一年发表了八篇全国一等奖的论文，一问，都是网上花80元买来的。这些卖文凭的公司英文就是diploma mill. That so-called college is fake, and a diploma mill. 那个大学是个假的，是个文凭公司。diploma mill 也叫degree mill 学位公司。 （1792-1794）
1795.我们天天写电子邮件，有个栏目为BCC 和CC，CC 是carbon-copy, 复写，复写本，副本，Jane wears the same T-shirt as her classmate. She is trying to carbon copy her. 简妮穿了件班上同学一模一样的T衫，她就是想模仿她。He is a carbon-copy of his brother. 他长得跟他哥哥像，简直就是一个模子里出来的。Be yourself, don’t just be a carbon copy of another person. 活出真我，不要一味去模仿别人。blind carbon-copy 隐蔽群发，简写为BCC, 如果是CC，收到邮件的人会知道还有谁在群发单上。Please CC me on any replies. 请将所有的回复都给我送一个抄本。
1796.copy-cat, 一个小孩学着另一个小孩说话，就叫copy-cat.Don’t be a copy-cat. 不要去抄袭别人的东西。香港尖沙咀很多印度人手拿一个表喊着说，Copy, Rolex. 劳力士，复制表。
1797.赝品可以说是fake, 也可以说是replica，又译为复制品。西安卖的兵马俑都是replica. 如果你花了大价钱买了replica，就是买了赝品，如果你只花了一点点钱，就是买了复制品，得看上下文。
1798.The Olympic Games are a force for good. They are a catalyst for change, not a panacea for all ills. 奥林匹克运动会是一股推动善的力量，是改革的催化剂，而不是解决一切社会问题的万能药。
1799.You don’t need to take him too seriously. 你大可不必把他当回事。
1800.You never, ever want to do that again.绝对、绝对不要再干这事了。将never, ever 一起连用，表示强调。You should never, ever use these passwords. 这些密码你绝对不能用（例如生日等数字）。
1801. How do we weather today’s financial storm and avoid the the mistakes most traders make? 我们如何躲避金融风暴及避开那些大部分行家都会犯的错误？weather 作动词，意思是躲避风暴。It is not easy to weather a downturn. 要想躲避下滑很不容易。They adopted a new approach designed to allow the company to weather a period of slow growth in the computer industry. 他们采取了一个新的路线，可以让公司避开电脑行业一段时期的缓慢增长。
1802 The state-run companies tend to fancy themselves as immune to broader economic turmoil. 国营企业总是幻想着自己对更深更大的经济困境有免疫力。immune to 对。。。有免疫力
1803 There are numerous pitfalls in your life and achieving success requires avoiding them. 你人生中充满了陷阱，要想成功就得避开陷阱。
1804 How is your portfolio in this rocky market? 你的投资策略在这险恶的市场表现如何？rockey 又可用shaky来替代。
1805 Bear with bear markets. 在熊市中坚持下去。第一个bear是忍受，第二个bear是熊，bear market 熊市，相反是bull market。
1806 Bear markets usually occur when the economy is in a recession and unemployment is high, or when inflation is rising quickly. 熊市通常在这几个状况下发生：经济衰退；失业率严重以及通货膨胀迅速攀升。
1807 A bear market is when the stock market falls for a prolonged period of time, usually by twenty percent or more. It is the opposite of the bull market. 熊市的特征是股票市场长时期下跌，通常跌过了20%或更多。是牛市的反义词。for a prolonged period of time, 很长一段时间（prolonged 是 longer than long）
1808 prolonged的一个同义词是extended, Bull market is an extended period of rising prices for stockes. 牛市就是股市价格在较长的一段时间里不断上扬。
1809 Wall Street has fallen on its side,and stocks have gone sideways for well over two years now. 华尔街摔得都起不来了，股票也一蹶不振。 fall on its side, 摔倒了，go sideways, 搞砸了，我们学过的一些同义词有：belly-up, go bust, go haywire, all botched up,还有一个词：tits-up，等等。
1810 The market is going south. 市场一路看跌。“向南”在地图上就是向下的方向，也就是跌。也可以说 go down the tubes。
1811.At the airport checkpoints, they are asked to show their ID. 在飞机场安检处，他们被要求出示身份证。checkpoint 安检，也可以说：inspection booth。整个的案件区域为Inspection Area. No Photo In Inspection Area. 安检区内禁止拍照。
1812.is a kind of a wait-and-see game.除开等着瞧也别无他法。There has been exponential increase in wait times. 大家得花更多的时间去排队等候了。wait times 等候的时间，Wait times for the appointments typically exceed 3 to 4 weeks. 预约一般得提前三到四周的时间。这里的wait times 也可以换成waiting times。
1813.I can sell it for anywhere between 200 Yuan and 500 Yuan. 这个产品我至少可以在200元到500元间卖了。anywhere between在。。。之间。It costs anything between 100 Yuan and 200 Yuan.
1814.The state-run companies have the unfair edge over the private companies. 国有企业比私营企业有着很不公平的优势。unfair edge 不公平的竞争优势
1815.He tackles this problem head-on. 他正积极着手处理这个问题。The two cars collided head-on.那两辆小车迎头相撞。head-on迎头。
1816.These companies are in big trouble. 注意，trouble 是不可数名词，所以不用a 或者 the；a lot of/ much trouble。
1817.These problems have serious ramifications for investors. 这些问题会对投资者产生严重的后果。You will find it useful to understand the ramifications of this problem. 了解这个问题所引发的潜在后果会对你有很大的帮助。ramification 本意是，分流，分支。
1818.Even tap water invariably contains a variety of poisons such as chlorine, chloramine, asbestos, pesticides, fluoride, copper, mercury, and lead. The best way to remove all these contaminants is by distilling. 就是自来水也必定含有各种有害物质，如氯、氯胺、石棉、杀虫剂、氟化物、铜、铅等。消除这些有毒物质的最佳方法就是把水进行蒸馏。
1819.It has fewer calories, and fat, along with much less sodium. 这道菜只有少许卡路里、脂肪，钠也不多。
1820.This food/ This restaurant has zero grams of trans fat per serving.这食品/餐厅每一道菜都没有任何反式脂肪。
1821.course, 课，轨迹
a)When we do things well we say we are "on course." 如果我们干得不错，我们就说我们“上正轨”了。on course, 走上正轨。British rowers are on course to win World Cup hat-trick. 英国划船选手迈向了第三次夺得世界杯的道路。hat-trick帽子戏法，第三次。
b)steer a course，
c) stay the course保持原方向，实行原政策，
d)change the course,改变方向