Fortune vol 158 V

到底在幹什麼啊？Bailout不通過，美國股市慘跌777點，真是恐怖哪．．．

perfunctory: 敷衍的,馬虎的;得過且過的, performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial

例句: He gives one the sense that his visit or call is not perfunctory. (出自Fortune Vol. 158, p78)

teeter: 蹣跚,搖晃;站不穩;動搖. To walk or move unsteadily or unsurely; totter

anathema: 被詛咒者;令人厭惡者, a person or thing detested or loathed, a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction

例句: The notion of bailing out borrowers who were teetering on the edge of default was anathema to Republicans. (出自Fortune Vol. 158, p78)

unprecedented: 無先例的,空前的, without previous instance; never before known or experienced

opacity: 不透明, 曖昧;難懂, obscurity of meaning

例句: It created a system that was unprecedented in its complexity and opacity. (出自Fortune Vol. 158, p80)

apogee: 最高點;頂點;極點, the highest or most distant point; climax

mesmerize: 對...施催眠術, 迷住;迷惑, to hypnotize, to spellbind; fascinate

例句: As for the Wall Street bankers who should have known better, they were mesmerized by the beauty of their creations. (出自Fortune Vol. 158, p80)

plausible: 貌似真實的,貌似有理的, having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable

例句: In the real world, not the mathematical one, a lot of those who never had any plausible chance of repaying them. (出自Fortune Vol. 158, p80)

dustup: 騷動;爭論;爭吵, a quarrel; argument

vengeance: 報復;報仇,復仇, Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution