一些比较有用的分析结论及难句分析、疑句讨论(持续更新中)

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Free exchange: The argument in the floor (Nov 24th 2012 )

由于时间原因，译文没空修改了。句子翻译会给出我自己的理解。

1、But even they are no longer blanket opponents.
难点：blanket的理解

2、In a 2011 paper they pointed out that a higher minimum wage along with the Earned Income Tax Credit (which tops up income for poor workers in America) boosted both employment and earnings for single women with children (though it cost less-skilled, minority men jobs).
难点：top up的理解

3、Not only has it pushed up pay for the bottom 5% of workers, but it also seems to have boosted earnings further up the income scale—and thus reduced wage inequality.
难点：boost earnings further up the income scale的理解与翻译
分析：这里further修饰up，up作介词。介宾短语up the income scale的意思是“提升了收入层级”，用来修饰boost

4、Britain’s small, regular changes may be easier for firms to absorb than America’s infrequent but hefty minimum-wage increases.
难点：absorb的理解
分析：这里有“消化、缓冲”的意思

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The idea of winter: Aching, shaking, crazy cold (Nov 24th 2012)

由于时间原因，译文没空修改了。句子翻译会给出我自己的理解。

1、Trawling through the 18th century to the present day, he explores man’s changing relationship to cold in the environment, how “winter started as this thing we had to get through; it has ended as this time to hold on to.”
难点：how “winter started as this thing we had to get through; it has ended as this time to hold on to.”的理解与翻译
分析：这里how之前的逗号改为长破折号更为合适，或者在how前面加上i.e.。这句话中this thing和this time都指代winter，get through有“度过、承受”的意思，hold on to表示“适应”

2、Divided into five parts, the book ranges over topics as various as the invention of central heating and Mr Gopnik’s love of ice-hockey (“I often go to sleep at night running through great goals I have seen”).
难点：I often go to sleep at night running through great goals I have seen.的理解
分析：running through great goals I have seen是现在分词短语，在时态上表示与go to sleep的同时进行，run through有repeat、look at something quickly的意思，这里可以译为“一遍遍地回想”，这句话的意思是“我看到精彩的冰球比赛以后，常会在一遍遍的回想中进入梦乡”

3、The second is Mr Gopnik’s apt turn of phrase.
难点： turn of phrase的理解

4、But his ability to talk about town planning, ice hockey and poetry with the same enthusiasm brings to his subjects, and to winter, a much-needed warmth.
难点：句子结构，subjects的理解
分析：bring的直接宾语是a much-needed warmth，间接宾语是to his subjects, and to winter。subject指代书中内容（话题）

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Lexington: The Obama doctrine (Dec 1st 2012)

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1、By cynical tradition “abroad” is where American presidents go to seek a legacy, after their domestic agendas have stalled.
难点：go to seek a legacy的理解与翻译

2、Mr Obama and his team believe that his outstanding task is to secure a domestic legacy.
难点：outstanding的理解，secure a domestic legacy的理解与翻译

3、It may help that he secured something of a global legacy on the day he was elected four years ago amid worldwide adulation, peaking with a Nobel peace prize awarded after less than a year in office, essentially for not being George W. Bush.
难点：句子结构，secure something of a global legacy的理解与翻译，adulation的翻译，essentially for not being George W. Bush的理解
句子结构：it是形式主语，指代that以后的所有内容。help省略宾语goal

4、Time for nation-building “right here at home”, he constantly declared, to cheers.
难点：句子结构
句子结构：he constantly declared是主谓结构，time for nation-building “right here at home” to cheers是declare的宾语

5、In a newspaper essay on November 23rd Mr Obama’s former White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, rammed the point home.
难点：ram ... home的理解与翻译

6、Republican senators led by John McCain, a former presidential rival in 2008, have zeroed in on briefings given by Obama aides after the September murder of America’s ambassador to Libya, in which the involvement of terrorists with al-Qaeda ties was played down, in favour of (erroneous) early reports linking the murder to protests over an anti-Islamic film.
难点：zero in on的理解，briefings的理解，play down的理解与翻译

7、On November 27th two senators threatened to hold up promotions for officials linked to the Libyan briefings, starting with America’s UN ambassador, Susan Rice, a front-runner to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.
难点：hold up的理解，promotion的理解

8、Whoever gets the job, Mr Obama risks expending political capital on the row.
难点：row的理解

9、Senior officials say that Mr Obama aims to be “present but not deeply involved” around the globe.
难点：present but not deeply involved的理解与翻译

10、They call America an “indispensable catalyst” and the cornerstone of a rules-based international order centred on economic competitiveness (deals on free trade and climate change may get a look-in on those grounds).
难点：indispensable catalyst的翻译，句子结构，get a look-in的理解
句子结构：deals on free trade and climate change是括号补充充分句的主语，其中free trade和climate change是并列成分

11、By winding down the Bush legacy of an all-consuming military response to the September 11th attacks, Mr Obama has freed up “national security bandwidth” to engage with the world in all its complexity.
难点：wind down的理解，all-consuming的理解，free up的理解，national security bandwidth的翻译，complexity的理解与翻译

12、It is an experiment: a macro-policy of engagement that shuns the micromanagement of intervention.
难点：micromanagemnt of intervention的翻译

13、On a political note, voices add that muscular action against al-Qaeda has bought Mr Obama space: Democrats are no longer so defensive about national security.
难点：on a ... note的理解，句子结构，defensive的理解与翻译
句子结构：voices是主语，add是谓语，that引导宾语从句

14、But there is immense caution about larger military commitments.
难点：caution的理解与翻译

15、Alas, the generals called the idea impractical.
难点：the generals的理解与翻译

16、Inside the government, there is debate as to whether Mr Obama’s arms-length foreign strategy will survive contact with a turbulent world.
难点：arms-length的理解与翻译

17、It was Madeleine Albright who coined the idea of America as the “world’s indispensable nation” on being named secretary of state in 1996, amid arguments over intervention in ex-Yugoslavia.
难点：句子结构，coin的理解
句子结构：It was ... who ...是强调句型

18、Yet the context for the debate is bleak and unfamiliar.
难点：context的理解与翻译，bleak and unfamiliar的理解与翻译

19、Today, broke and inward-looking, the EU cannot manage even that, offering significant help only on sanctions against Iran.
难点：broke and inward-looking的理解与翻译

20、The NATO alliance is in “terrible shape”, stretched beyond its financial, military and political limits, says Kurt Volker, a former American ambassador to NATO.
难点：in ... shape的理解，stetch的理解

21、Fresh crises will come.
难点：句意在语境中的理解与翻译

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Schumpeter: Lincoln and leadership (Dec 1st 2012)

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1、In May 1860 the Republican National Convention met in Chicago, in the teeth of the worst crisis since the revolution, to choose a presidential candidate—or, rather, a president, since the Democratic Party had split asunder.
难点：in the teeth of的理解

2、He made a series of bold moves—such as sending ships to supply Fort Sumter, thereby forcing the South to fire the first shot of the civil war—that his more experienced rivals might not have made.
难点：supply的理解

3、Nor is it surprising that Steven Spielberg’s film, “Lincoln”, is boosting the lessons-from-Lincoln trade.
难点：trade的理解与翻译

4、Executives are once again practising the Gettysburg address before their mirrors and reading the book that gave Mr Spielberg his inspiration, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals”.
难点：address的理解

5、“Towering genius disdains a beaten path,” Lincoln once said, which limits what can be learned from his example.
难点：beaten path的理解

6、The unfiltered are enigmas: outsiders like Lincoln who have never been tested by high office; insiders like Winston Churchill who have fallen out of favour; or transplants like Mr Carney who have made their reputations in alien organisations.
难点：transplant的理解与翻译

7、Al Dunlap leapt from company to company, cutting jobs and boosting short-term profits as he went, until the Securities and Exchange Commission forced him to put his chainsaw away.
难点：chainsaw的理解与翻译

8、This suggests that it is best to avoid outsiders if things are humming along fine.
难点hum along fine的理解

9、Mukunda suggests that you take informal soundings from any prospective hire’s colleagues rather than rely on formal interviews.
难点：soundings的理解

10、The reason why companies tend to bet on insiders is not that they think they might be “clothed in immense power” but that they know what they look like in their underwear.
难点：they know what look like in one's underwear的理解与翻译

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Free exchange: Savers’ lament (Dec 1st 2012)

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1、With rates stuck near zero, the protests now come from the opposite direction.
难点：句意在语境中的理解与翻译

2、Since 2008, personal interest income has plunged 30%, or $432 billion at an annual rate, more than 4% of disposable income.
难点：句子结构
句子结构：more than 4% of disposable income是状语，修饰30%

3、Raghuram Rajan, a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund, describes the Fed’s policy as “expropriating responsible savers in favour of irresponsible banks”, and thinks it should raise rates modestly.
难点：expropriating responsible savers in favour of irresponsible banks的理解与翻译

4、In Britain, the Bank of England reckons that between September 2008 and April 2012 lower rates cost households £70 billion of foregone income, but saved them around £100 billion in interest expense.
难点：foregone income的理解与翻译

5、As with a bond, the cost of that promise rises as interest rates fall.
难点：句意在语境中的理解

6、Since such deficits must be closed over ten years, sponsors may have to divert cash from investment to their pensions.
难点：close over的理解

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RNA-only genes: The origin of species? (Dec 1st 2012)
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1、The old saying that where there’s muck, there’s brass has never proved more true than in genetics.
难点：where there’s muck, there’s brass的理解与翻译，never prove more true的理解

2、Once, and not so long ago, received wisdom was that most of the human genome—perhaps as much as 99% of it—was “junk”.
难点：received wisdom的理解

3、That, it now seems, was about as far from the truth as it is possible to be.
难点：far from the truth的理解

4、This suggested that almost two-thirds of human DNA, rather than just 1% of it, is being copied into molecules of RNA, the chemical that carries protein-making instructions to the sub-cellular factories which turn those proteins out, and that as a consequence, rather than there being just 23,000 genes (namely, the bits of DNA that encode proteins), there may be millions of them.
难点：句子结构
句子结构：that almost two-thirds of human DNA, rather than just 1% of it, is being copied into molecules of RNA, the chemical that carries protein-making instructions to the sub-cellular factories which turn those proteins out和that as a consequence, rather than there being just 23,000 genes (namely, the bits of DNA that encode proteins), there may be millions of them是and连接的并列宾语成分。在第一并列宾语从句中，almost two-thirds of human DNA是主语，rather than just 1% of it是比较状语，is being copied into molecules of RNA是动宾结构，the chemical that carries protein-making instructions to the sub-cellular factories which turn those proteins out是RNA的同位语。在该同位语中，that引导的限定性定语从句that carries protein-making instructions to the sub-cellular factories which turn those proteins out修饰chemical。在该定语从句中，先行词充当逻辑主语，carry A to B是主干动宾结构，which引导的限定性定语从句which turn those proteins out修饰sub-cellular factories。在第二并列宾语从句中，there may be millions of them是主系表结构，as a consequence是句首状语，rather than there being just 23,000 genes (namely, the bits of DNA that encode proteins)是比较状语。在该比较状语中，namely, the bits of DNA that encode proteins是括号修饰成分，修饰genes，其中that引导的定语从句that encode proteins修饰the bits of DNA

5、The task now is to work out what all these extra genes are up to.
难点：up to (what)的理解与翻译

6、It often contains members of a second class of weird genetic object.
难点：a second class的理解

7、Transposable elements come in several varieties, but one group of particular interest are known as endogenous retroviruses.
难点：one group of particular interest的理解与翻译

8、Given that their principal job is regulating the activities of other genes, this makes sense.
难点：given that的翻译

9、Even more intriguingly, studies of lincRNA genes from species as diverse as people, fruit flies and nematode worms, have found they differ far more from one species to another than do protein-coding genes.
难点：as diverse as people, fruit flies and nematode worms的理解

10、Mostly, that will—in evolutionary terms—be either harmless or bad.
难点：either harmless or bad的翻译

11、This is a long chain of speculation, but it looks a fruitful one.
难点：speculation的理解

12、Work like this suggests one reason for this ignorance may be that they have been looking in the wrong place.
难点：work like this的翻译

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Brian Cobby (Dec 1st 2012)
译文见365楼

1、But for many people in Britain for much of the 20th century, indulging the national weakness for exact timekeeping, Time spoke from the other end of a telephone line.
难点：indulging the national weakness for exact timekeeping的理解与翻译，Time spoke from the other end of a telephone line的理解与翻译

2、His number could be dialled; and from a room presumed full of chittering and whirring timepieces, Time would inform them that “At the third stroke, the time, sponsored by Accurist, will be ten twenty-seven and fifty seconds.”
难点：his的指代

3、But he was the only male, and thus the closest to Time personified.
难点：personified的理解与翻译

4、That “Accurist” part was rather a shame, like Jove in a Nike T-shirt; but he wore it well.
难点：Jove in a Nike T-shirt的理解，he wore it well的理解与翻译

5、The voice was educated but not prissy, to quote himself.
难点：educated but not prissy的理解与翻译

6、He had not been the night switchboard operator at Withdean telephone exchange for 16 years for nothing.
难点：句意在语境中的理解

7、Authority was expected of him, but only “sometimes”.
难点：authority was expected of him的理解

8、He recorded the speaking clock’s 86 separate words in a single take of 50 minutes; though someone forgot to include “o’clock”, obliging him to drive up again to London the next day.
难点：take的理解，oblige的理解与翻译

9、At New Year he would dial himself, put himself on the speakerphone, and toast himself in champagne.
难点：虚拟的理解

10、Not so the 1985 runner-up, a lady from Lowestoft, whose prize was to be the voice that said, “The number you have dialled has not been recognised.”
难点：whose prize was to be the voice的理解

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Britain and Europe: Making the break (Dec 8th 2012)
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1、Britain has never been too keen on tying the knot with Europe.
难点：tie the knot的理解

2、It sat aside in the 1950s as Germany, France, Italy and the Benelux countries forged a single market in coal and steel, which became a broader common market.
难点：sit aside的理解

3、Britons have come to associate the EU with the uncontrolled immigration of Poles and other east Europeans, seemingly to every village.
难点：associate the EU with the uncontrolled immigration的理解与翻译

4、Other Tories want one to spike the guns of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which campaigns for an exit.
难点：spike the guns的理解与翻译

5、In September the prime minister hinted that Britons might have an opportunity to give “fresh consent” to their country’s place in a looser union—a rather fuzzy suggestion that is unlikely to dampen calls for a starker question.
难点：have an opportunity to give “fresh consent” to their country’s place in a looser union的理解与翻译，dampen的理解与翻译，starker的理解与翻译

6、Passed by the coalition, this dictates that a referendum must be held on any new EU treaty that shifts power from Westminster to Brussels.
难点：the coalition的理解

7、But the EU’s creeping claim on its constituents’ sovereign powers suggests that this “referendum lock” could be activated.
难点：creeping的理解与翻译，its constituents’ sovereign powers的理解

8、There is a fourth scenario: simple diplomatic miscalculation.
难点：simple的理解与翻译

9、That will not be repeated. Britain’s two biggest-selling dailies, the Daily Mail and the Sun—combined circulation, 4.5m—are deeply Eurosceptic.
难点：circulation的理解

10、The biggest group of respondents, 46%, would accept those looser terms.
难点：those looser terms在语境中的理解

11、In the run-up to a promised referendum, Mr Cameron could win only trifling concessions.
难点：run-up的理解与翻译

12、This limits how long people can be at work without a break or a holiday and caps the working week at 48 hours.
难点：cap的理解

13、Britain would be free to set itself a less exacting target for green-power generation than it is bound to under the EU’s renewable-energy directive.
难点：exacting的理解

14、Outside the club, it would be freer to market itself as a freewheeling hub for emerging-market finance—a sort of Singapore on steroids.
难点：market itself的理解与翻译，on steroids的理解与翻译

15、And EU regulations bite less hard than is commonly supposed.
难点：bite的理解与翻译

16、Similarly, a minimum standard of food safety stops a race to the bottom by competing firms.
难点：race to the bottom的理解与翻译

17、A separate set of regulations tailored for the home market would only add to red tape.
难点：red tape的理解

18、They are a noisy lobby group, and it is unlikely that the government would hang on to all that cash.
难点：hang on to的理解

19、The farming lobby would also try to stand in the way of lowering tariffs on food imported from beyond Europe, potentially depriving the government of a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with big emerging markets such as Brazil and India.
难点：stand in the way的理解与翻译，chip的理解

20、Exporters routinely have to absorb cost increases of this size caused by a surge in the oil price or a jump in the exchange rate.
难点：this size在语境中的理解

21、Cheddar cheese would face a tariff of €167 per 100kg; the mark-up on Stilton would be €141.
难点：mark-up在语境中的理解

22、Factories owned by carmakers with plants and supply chains in other parts of the EU would be most at risk.
难点：factories owned by carmakers with plants and supply chains in other parts of the EU的理解与翻译

23、A cheap pound and a flexible workforce may not be enough to keep GM in Britain, for instance, even though it sells many cars there.
难点：cheap pound的理解与翻译

24、The calculation would be slightly different for other carmakers.
难点：calculation在语境中的理解与翻译

25、Much of what distinguishes a Jaguar from a Mercedes is that it is designed and made in Britain (as are lots of components).
难点：it的指代

26、Financiers from today’s rising economic powers, in Asia and Latin America, are keener on access to a European market of 500m than on the light regulation that drew American banks to London in the 1950s and 1960s.
难点：句意在语境中的理解

27、Britain has the world’s largest industry outside America, but it would lose ground to France.
难点：lose ground to的理解

28、These reallocations of fixed capital would take years or decades.
难点：reallocations的理解与翻译

29、By contrast, Britain and its erstwhile EU partners would have to decide quickly how people on the wrong side of newly erected barriers to the free movement of labour should be treated.
难点：句子结构
句子结构：how people on the wrong side of newly erected barriers to the free movement of labour should be treated充当decide的宾语从句。在该从句中，people on the wrong side of newly erected barriers to the free movement of labour是主语，其中，介宾短语on the wrong side of newly erected barriers to the free movement of labour作定语修饰people。在该介宾短语中，介宾短语of newly erected barriers to the free movement of labour作定语修饰the wrong side。在该介宾短语中，介宾短语to the free movement of labour作定语修饰newly erected barriers

30、The simplest solution would be to offer citizenship to all those resident in Britain at a particular date, in return for a similar offer to Britons living in other parts of Europe.
难点：resident的理解（后置形容词形容指示代词those）

31、For NATO, a Britain that is semi-detached from Europe would weaken the ties that bind the continent and its defence to the United States at a time when those ties are already under strain because of slashed defence budgets and America’s strategic “rebalancing” towards Asia.
难点：句子结构
句子结构：介宾短语for NATO作状语表对象，a Britain that is semi-detached from Europe是主语，其中that引导的限定性定语从句that is semi-detached from Europe修饰Britain，谓语would weaken，宾语the ties that bind the continent and its defence to the United States，其中that引导的限定性定语从句that bind the continent and its defence to the United States修饰ties。在该定语从句中，主干结构是bind A and B to C。介宾短语at a time when those ties are already under strain because of slashed defence budgets and America’s strategic “rebalancing” towards Asia作时间状语，修饰整个句子。在介宾短语中，when引导的定语从句when those ties are already under strain because of slashed defence budgets and America’s strategic “rebalancing” towards Asia修饰time。在该定语从句中，those ties are already under strain是主系表结构，介宾短语because of slashed defence budgets and America’s strategic “rebalancing” towards Asia作原因状语，修饰该定语从句

32、Another likely casualty would be the budding Anglo-French defence treaty, seen by both countries as a way to help themselves continue to punch above their weight.
难点：casualty的理解与翻译，punch above their weight的理解与翻译

33、They view the common market as a pearl surrounded by a dismal encrustation of European bureaucracy and regulation.
难点：a pearl surrounded by a dismal encrustation of European bureaucracy and regulation的理解与翻译

34、The subsidiary handles customs clearance for the European boutiques that carry Moods of Norway’s clothes.
难点：customs clearance的理解

25、It would be consulted by the European Commission but would have no voice in the increasingly powerful European Parliament, and no vote.
难点：be consulted在语境中的理解

26、“We take our Scandinavian colleagues out to lunch and ask them what happened,” explains Petter Brubakk of NHO, Norway’s main business lobby.
难点：take ... out to lunch的理解

27、It would depend on other countries to fight its corner, as Norway now relies on Britain to resist proposed EU legislation on offshore oil-drilling.
难点：fight its corner的理解

28、The Norwegian option could well fail for domestic reasons.
难点：句意在语境中的理解与翻译

29、It could steer clear of the EEA but join EFTA, which it helped to set up in 1960.
难点：steer clear的理解

30、It could also move to co-operate more, and trade more freely, in some areas than in others.
难点：areas在语境中的理解

31、The EU is already trying to muscle Switzerland out of its special niche and into an arrangement more like Norway’s, where EU legislation would be speedily taken up by the country.
难点：muscle的理解与翻译，niche的理解与翻译

32、There is little chance that Britain, a far bigger country with a history of being difficult, would be allowed to squeeze in alongside Switzerland.
难点：being difficult的理解，squeeze in的理解

33、Europe might well be more of a fortress with Britain outside.
难点：more of a fortress的理解

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Cyber-warfare: Hype and fear (Dec 8th 2012)
译文见378楼

1、Even as anxiety about jihadi terrorist threats has eased, thanks to the efforts of intelligence agencies and drone attacks’ disruption of the militants’ sanctuaries, fears over Western societies’ vulnerability to cyber-assaults have grown.
难点：句子逻辑层次的理解

2、A senior official says privately that a cyber-attack on America that “would make 9/11 look like a tea party” is only a matter of time.
难点：look like a tea party的理解与翻译

3、Some experts believe that such thefts have cost hundreds of billions of dollars in stolen R&D.
难点：thefts have cost hundreds of billions of dollars in stolen R&D的理解

4、But the most sophisticated are more often the work of states, carried out either directly or by proxies.
难点：work of states的理解

5、Republican senators argue that it imposes too great a regulatory burden on industry, which is already obliged to disclose when it is subject to a cyber-attack.
难点：句子逻辑层次的理解

6、The Pentagon is also working on more permissive rules of engagement for offensive cyber-warfare, for example to close down a foreign server from which an attack was thought to be emanating.
难点：engagement的理解

7、Often the weakest link is their professional advisers, such as law firms or bankers who have access to sensitive data.
难点：link的理解与翻译

8、Almost all (roughly 98%) of the vulnerabilities in commonly used computer programmes that hackers exploit are in software created in America.
难点：句子结构，exploit在语境中的理解
句子结构：commonly used作定语修饰computer programmes

9、China has long regarded the network-centric warfare that was developed by America in the late-1980s and copied by its allies as a weakness it might target, particularly as military networks share many of the same underpinnings as their civilian equivalents.
难点：句子结构
句子结构：主干结构regard A as B，其中A是the network-centric warfare that was developed by America in the late-1980s and copied by its allies，B是a weakness it might target。A中，that引导的定语从句that was developed by America in the late-1980s and copied by its allies修饰the network-centric warfare，其中developed by America in the late-1980s和copied by its allies是and连接的并列成分（共用was）。B中，定语从句it might target修饰weakness。particularly as military networks share many of the same underpinnings as their civilian equivalents是as引导的时间状语从句

10、China’s planning assumes an opening salvo of attacks on the enemy’s information centres by cyber, electronic and kinetic means to create blind spots that its armed forces would then be able to exploit.
难点：exploit在语境中的的理解

11、Martin Libicki of the RAND Corporation, a think-tank, argues that with some exceptions cyber-warfare neither directly harms people nor destroys equipment.
难点：with some exceptions的理解与翻译

12、Besides the cyber element of physical warfare, four other worries are: strategic cyberwar (direct attacks on an enemy’s civilian infrastructure); cyber-espionage; cyber-disruption, such as the distributed denial-of-service attacks that briefly overwhelmed Estonian state, banking and media websites in 2007; and cyber-terrorism.
难点：denial-of-service attack的理解

13、Mr Limnell calls for a “triad” of capabilities: resilience under severe attack; reasonable assurance of attribution so that attackers cannot assume anonymity; and the means to hit back hard enough to deter an unprovoked attack.
难点：unprovoked的理解与翻译

14、If that is the best that two first-rate cyber-powers can do against a third-rate industrial power, notes Mr Libicki, it puts into perspective the more alarmist predictions of impending cyber-attacks on infrastructure in the West.
难点：第一个that的指代（指代two first-rate cyber-powers can do against a third-rate industrial power这件事情，但并非向后指代），句子结构，put into perspective的理解与翻译
句子结构：that two first-rate cyber-powers can do against a third-rate industrial power是that引导的the best的同位语。the more alarmist predictions of impending cyber-attacks on infrastructure in the West是put的宾语

15、Nigel Inkster, a former British intelligence officer now at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, highlights the huge risk to the perpetrator of carrying out an infrastructure attack given the consequences if it is detected.
难点：given the consequences的理解与翻译

16、That is one reason why countries on the receiving end of cyber attacks want to respond in kind—ambiguity cuts both ways.
难点：respond in kind的理解，ambiguity cuts both ways的理解

17、The other way round offers thinner pickings.
难点：the other way round在句意中的理解，pickings的理解

18、In 2009 hackers from an unnamed “foreign intelligence agency” made off with some 24,000 confidential files from Lockheed Martin, a big American defence contractor.
难点：make off with的理解，confidential的理解

19、But the massive theft of data and the speed with which it can be exploited is something new.
难点：句子结构，exploit在句意中的理解
句子结构：限定性定语从句with which it can be exploited修饰the speed

20、But America and China have many other big items on their agenda, while trade is a very blunt instrument.
你那点：blunt instrument的理解与翻译

21、It may be possible to identify products that China exports which compete only because of stolen data, but it would be hard and could risk a trade war that would damage both sides.
难点：句子结构
句子结构：that引导的限定性定语从句that China exports which compete only because of stolen data修饰products。在该从句中，主语China，谓语exports，which (products) compete only because of stolen data是which引导的宾语从句

22、Cyber-disruption has nuisance value and may be costly to repair, but it can be mitigated by decent defences.
难点：nuisance value的理解

23、Mr Libicki is more sceptical.
难点：句意在语境中的理解

24、Also, the larger the team that is needed, the more likely it is to be penetrated.
难点：it的指代（指代the team）

25、The Obama administration’s attempt to develop a more coherent—and perhaps less secret—doctrine of cyber-warfare is sensible so long as it is not just an excuse for hyping something that, as far as is known, has yet to kill anybody.
难点：coherent在语境中的理解，doctrine在语境中的理解与翻译，an excuse for hyping something that, as far as is known, has yet to kill anybody的理解与翻译

26、The idea that offence beats defence is also suspect.
难点：句意在语境中的理解

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Psychosomatic medicine: Think yourself well (Dec 8th 2012)
译文见380楼

1、The link between mind and body is terrain into which many medical researchers, fearing ridicule, dare not tread.
难点：句子结构
句子结构：限定性定语从句into which many medical researchers, fearing ridicule, dare not tread修饰terrain。在该从句中，现在分词短语fearing ridicule作定语修饰many medical researchers，先行词(into) terrain充当tread的地点状语

2、More recently, respectable research has demonstrated that those who frequently experience positive emotions live longer and healthier lives.
难点：respectable的理解

3、That is both literally and metaphorically a positive feedback loop.
难点：literally and metaphorically的理解与翻译

4、This might allow even those with a negative outlook on life to “bootstrap” their way to a mental state from which they could then advance to the more powerful technique of meditation.
难点：句子结构
句子结构：主干结构allow sombody + infinitive。其中，sombody是those with a negative outlook on life。限定性定语从句from which they could then advance to the more powerful technique of meditation修饰a mental state