1. More than 40 percent of consumer goods exported to China last year through e-commerce platforms fell short of standards, China's top quality watchdog said.

2. adj.

3. China is spending heavily on renewable and nuclear energy as it tries to slow the growth of coal, but despite those efforts it has become by far the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its emissions of 10 billion tons a year of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacturing are almost twice those of the United States, though emissions per person are still far higher in the United States.

4. v. 弄短，变短

5. After decades of promise, new gene therapies are starting to deliver real results. Like all new therapies, communicating accurately how and where it works will prove as challenging as the treatment itself.

6. 高中版的霍华德不像NBA版的霍华德那样令人生畏。如此看来，成为一个NBA巨星，霍华德付出了十倍的努力。

1. Put succinctly, there was no way to describe or explain the crosscurrents of 2014. And I’m not convinced that the benefit of hindsight will make what happened this year any clearer years from now.

2. 三严三实：既严以修身、严以用权、严以律己，又谋事要实、创业要实、做人要实

3. ['limitid]

4. 单词predecessor 联想记忆：

5. 欧洲工商管理学院的出类拔萃不仅表现在一年期MBA课程上，还体现于强大的国际文化（基于两个校区）以及覆盖面最广和最多样化的校友网络之一。该课程在校友国际流动性指标上排名第三，在国际课程体验指标上排名第六。

6. 替代燃料：自从柴油车于上世纪50年代从欧洲进入美国以来，人们对柴油车的热情首次冷却殆尽，取而代之的是马力高得吓人的雪佛兰CamaroZL1（580匹马力），和707匹马力的道奇挑战者SRT地狱火等车型。另外，续航里程更长的燃料电池汽车也开始登上舞台，从电池动力汽车那里抢走了不少风头。

旧版特色

1. James Gorman, a Times reporter, accompanied scientists who are trying to understand the genes that distinguish dogs from wolves. Humans who raise wolf puppies must spend 24 hours a day, seven days a week with them in order to socialize these puppies for scientific study. And while the pups may seem cute, they will grow to be predatory wolves, not humanity’s faithful companions. The researchers hope their work will help reveal the trigger that made some ancient wolves into the dogs we know today.

2. Another love ballad for Bond, but if Nancy Sinatra's song from You Only Live Twice was playing at your orthodontist's office, it would be the sexiest orthodontist's office in town. There's a mysterious quality to the string section, and a playfulness to the declining notes. They combine to make something rather magical. From here on out all of the Bond songs on this list are bona fide classics.

3. Snap, however, has sunk to about $15 after initially rallying from its IPO price of $17 in March, damping some expectation of further activity involving so-called decacorns, tech companies that have achieved valuations of $10bn or more through private funding.