1.2 名词短语用作定语

1. The management consultancy Mckinsey has predicted that the luxury business

could be worth $27 billion annually within four years, almost triple the current

estimated figure.

麦肯锡管理咨询公司预测在四年内奢侈品行业规模可能会达到 270 亿美元，几乎是目前市

场估值的三倍。

2. American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour 美国 Vogue 杂志主编安娜·温图尔

3. A Map of the World author Jane Hamilton 《世界地图》作者简·哈密尔顿

4. at twenty metres distance 在 20 米距离

5. our next door neighbour 我们的隔壁邻居

6. It was all phony: the accent, the $ 10,000 a year salary he was supposed to be

earning, the contracts in the United States and Britain.

一切都是假的：口音，他可以挣到的 1 万美元年薪，以及在美国和英国的合约。

7. Many philanthropic activists are propelled in their work by what authors Cheryl and

Jim Keen and wife/husband Sharon Daloz Parks and Larry Parks Daloz describe in

their book, Common Fire: Lives of Commitment, as “experience of the other”.

《共同的激情：奉献的人生》是谢丽尔和吉姆·基恩以及莎伦·达罗茨·帕克斯和拉里·帕

克斯·达罗茨夫妇所写的一本书，书中描述的“另一种体验”是很多慈善活动家从事慈善

事业的动力。

8. cradle to grave system 终身制度

9. first-time readers of Paradise Lost 第一次阅读《失乐园》的读者

10. hand-to-hand combat 贴身搏斗

11. In his recent book Satisfaction, Emory University psychiatrist Gregory Berns points

to extreme endurance athletes who push themselves to their physical limits for days

at a time.

埃莫利大学精神病学家格雷戈里·伯恩斯在他的近作《满足》中指出，极限耐力运动员每

次训练都要使自己的身体连续数天处于极限状态。

12. Prada director David Frankel《普拉达》的导演大卫·弗兰科尔

13. The 2008 Berlin International Film Festival awards have been announced.

2008 年柏林国际电影节各个奖项的归属已尘埃落定。

14. That Economist review called Goodman’s latest book, Intuition,“exciting”

“exotic”.

《经济学家》所刊登的那篇书评称赞古德曼的新作《直觉》“激动人心”“充满异国情调”。