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On the property market: |
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Asking price |
要价，开价 |
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Frenzy demand (of the property market) |
（房产市场的）过热需求，非理性需求 |
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The housing bonanza |
楼市金矿 |
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To flip properties almost overnight |
房产几乎转眼就被转手 |
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Home prices will rust but not bust for the next few years. |
今后几年房价涨势将趋缓，但不会崩盘。 |
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First-time home buyers |
初次购房者 |
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To look at sth. as a birth-right |
把…看作是理所当然的权利 |
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To price local Shanghai citizens out of the housing market |
用价格把上海本地居民挤出了房产市场 |
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To make lemonade out of lemons
e.g. If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade out of it. |
苦中作乐 |
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Sterilization (of accounts, etc.) |
清理（账目等） |
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Scale and scope |
深度和广度 |
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Fallacy |
误区 |
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Deflator |
（扣除货币变动因素的）平减指数 |
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Curb market |
场外交易市场，OTC市场 |
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Diamond in the rough |
未经雕琢的钻石，可造之材 |
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To be obsessive with |
执著，痴迷 |
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Make sure you finish speaking before the audience finishes listening. |
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To make good on
e.g. To make good on their investment in China. |
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To put … at the service of … |
让…为…服务 |
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To fault sb. with |
怪罪 |
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To pit A against B |
让A与B相争 |
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A saggy stock market |
疲软的股市 |
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Knock-offs |
假货，冒牌货 |
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Government-blessed Chinese companies |
政府扶持的中国企业 |
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To appropriate (others’ IP without permission) |
（未经许可）擅自使用（他人的知识产权） |
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To tear down |
削弱 |
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Sought-after
e.g. much sought-after luxury products |
受追捧的 |
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Negative-sum market |
恶性竞争的市场 |
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Terri Schiavo |
特里·夏娃 |
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Under vegetative state |
处于植物人状态 |
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The relationship soured over money. |
这段关系染上了铜臭味。 |
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(the case) To gain a national profile |
（事件）受到了举国上下的关注 |
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To overplay
e.g. The Republicans may have overplayed their hand. |
To overestimate the strength of (one’s holding or position) with resulting defeat (American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition) |
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Cerebral cortex |
大脑皮层 |
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Life is defined not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift, but whether the spirit is there and whether the music box plays. |
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Segway |
一种在人行道上行驶的两轮电动车 |
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To be high on one’s agenda |
重视 |
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Sprinkler |
自动喷淋装置 |
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Gaming |
钻空子，捣浆糊 |
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To have political (business, etc.) savvy |
有政治（商业）头脑 |
来源：上海市外事翻译工作者协会
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