表数量

　　a large number of

　　overwelming number of

　　a fraction of ...a small part of

　　enormous proportion of

　　the majority ..the minority.

　　Widows make up the bulk of the group but their proportion is declining,

　　好的影响

　　There's a flourishing trade in second-hand video machines.

　　His business thrived in the years before the war

　　a thriving economy

　　The leisure industry is booming (= is very successful) .

　　Newspaper stands is growing briskly

　　其它

　　its phenomenally fast growth can be sustained only at the expense of other economies, both developed and developing。

　　labour-intensive textile and clothing sector

　　Shoes, semiconductors and televisions are expected to follow

　　Inevitably, as China grows, some countries will find their competitive position altered

　　Moreover, the raw numbers exaggerate the picture

　　By contrast, when it comes to computers, cars or semiconductors-capital-intensive goods, in other words-China may increasingly be producing

　　are aiming at the booming demand

　　surplus labour

　　state-owned enterprises must lay off millions of workers

　　But with a rising budget deficit, China is not inclined to devote more resources to the health sector　Privatisation, or at least greater private involvement, may therefore have a lot to be said for it.

　　corruption, poverty, inefficient state enterprises, unemployment and non-performing loans as among his, and China's, “many problems”.

　　impoverished province of Gansu

　　But while acknowledging the mountain of bad loans in China's banking system and the slow development of the rural economy

　　The search for sustainable tropical forestry has become bogged down in a welter of disagreement about what “sustainability” is meant to achieve and who should foot the bill.Iwokrama illustrates the problem.

　　workforce

　　Play a primary/active/marginal role,

　　Seems disinclined(unwilling) to excert influence (china's reluctance to put pressure )

　　Eighty percent of North Korea's wherewithal, with respect to energy and economic activity, comes from China

　　optimist/pessimist

　　But the days of mass car ownership may still be a long way off

　　wealth minority/majority.

　　MANY of the students who applied for admission to Sakata Junior College were from

　　china .Sakata accepted their tuition fees and turned a blind eye when

　　Although Sakata's conduct was inexcusable,it has to be said that neglect of serious study is a feature of other Japanese universities

　　companies need to shoulder some of the blame for falling standards

　　Morohoshi reckons that as many as one in four universities may not survive the forthcoming era of fierce competition

　　it seems to be having a fair degree of success.

　　But a declaration of a “war on drugs” is turning out to have particularly ferocious effects

　　Any admissions system is bound to be contentious. At stake is a scarce good,