1.Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era(5.30)
1.In the 1990s, the term “digital divide” emerged to describe technology’s haves and have-nots.
? If you refer to two groups of people as haves and have-nots, you
mean that the first group are very wealthy and the second group are very poor. You can also refer generally to poor people as have-nots.
2.who has long doubted the value of putting a computer in every home without proper oversight. oversight
? n (a) [U] unintentional failure to notice sth 疏忽; 失察: Many
errors are caused by oversight. 有很多错误都是因疏忽造成的. (b) [C] example of this 疏忽; 失察: Through an unfortunate oversight your letter was left unanswered. 因不慎疏忽未能给你覆信.
3.trainers would fan out to schools and libraries to teach productive uses of computers for parents, students and job seekers.
? fan out phr v
if a group of people fan out, they walk forwards while spreading over a wide area
4.“We failed to account for this ahead of the curve,” she said. ? ahead of (or behind) the curve, at the forefront of (or lagging
behind) recent developments, trends, etc.
5.Policy makers and researchers say the challenges are heightened for parents and children with fewer resources ? heighten (sb's) awareness (of sth)
(=make people realize something more clearly)
The case has heightened public awareness of the problem of sexual harassment.
6.Many lower-income families take great pains to manage how their children use their devices.
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? take/go to (great) pains to do sth also take pains with/over sth
to make a special effort to do something
He's taken great pains to improve his image.
? go to/take great pains to do sth to make a lot of effort to do
something:
I went to great pains to select the best staff available.
? If you take pains to do something or go to great pains to do
something, you try hard to do it, because you think it is important to do it.
Social workers went to great pains to acknowledge men's domestic rights...
I had taken great pains with my appearance.
2. Before Leaping, Listen to a Giant(5.28)
1.Not putting your eggs in one basket is ancient wisdom. ? put all one's ,eggs in/into one `basket risk everything one has on the
success of one plan, eg by putting all one's money into one business 孤注一掷（如将所有的钱投入一项生意 ? put all your eggs in one basket
to depend completely on one thing or one course of action in order to get success, so that you have no other plans if this fails
When planning your investments, it's unwise to put all your eggs in one basket.
2.Allocate them in a proportion that gives you a level of volatility with which you are comfortable.
? comfortable with
She's never felt very comfortable with men.
In our business, we need people who are comfortable in an unstructured environment.
? If you are comfortable with a situation, you do not have any worries about
it:
I'm not comfortable with the idea of leaving her on her own.
3.But you can use a rational process” to incorporate those beliefs into your portfolio.
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? / ?n?k??p?re?t; ?nˋk?rp?ret/ v ~ sth (in/into sth) make sth part of a whole;
include 将某事物包括进去; 包含: Many of your suggestions have been incorporated in the new plan. 你的建议多已纳入新计画中.
? incorporate sth into/in sth
We've incorporated many environmentally-friendly features into the design of the building.
Our original proposals were not incorporated in the new legislation. ? VN]~ sth (in / into / within sth) to include sth so that it forms a part of sth:
Many of your suggestions have been incorporated in the plan. ◆ The new car design incorporates all the latest safety features. ◆ We have incorporated all the latest safety features into the design.
4.In fact, his 1952 insight that people respond to changes in wealth — as opposed to states of wealth — provided one of the main building blocks of behavioral economics,
5. The rich continued to live far better than the poor, but over the next 50 years the gap between them narrowed substantially. ? substantially [s?b'st?n??li]
ad. 实质上, 本质上, 大体上 ? very much or a lot
= considerably
substantially higher prices
The deer population has increased substantially in recent years.
used to say that in many ways something is true, the same, different etc = essentially
There are one or two minor differences, but they're substantially the same text.
? narrow v [I, Tn] (cause sth to) become narrower （使某物）变窄: The road narrows here. 路到这里变窄了.* Her eyes narrowed (ie She partly closed them) menacingly.她威胁地眯起眼睛. * The gap between the two parties has narrowed considerably. 双方的隔阂已明显缩小.
6.the American economist (and future Nobel laureate) Simon Kuznets extrapolated into the indefinite future this newer trend toward more equal incomes and living standards
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? / ?k?str?p?le?t; ?kˋstr?p??let/ estimate (sth unknown) from facts that are
already known 由已知事实估计（未知事物）; 推断; 推知: One can extrapolate the size of the building from the measurements of an average room.从一间屋子的量度可以推断出整座建筑物的大小
? to use facts about the present or about one thing or group to make a guess
about the future or about other things or groups extrapolate (sth) from sth
It is possible to extrapolate future developments from current trends. You're extrapolating from your own feelings to mine. extrapolate (sth) to sth
These results cannot, however, be extrapolated to other patient groups.
7.As a result, his book resonates more with the recent focus on “the 1 percent” than with more traditional concerns about poverty.
? if something such as an event or a message resonates, it seems important
or good to people, or continues to do this resonate with
an idea that resonates with many voters
to make a deep loud clear sound that continues for a long time →resound
The music resonated through the streets.
to make a sound that is produced as a reaction to another sound resonate with [resonate with sth] phr v
formal to be full of a particular meaning or quality literature that resonates with biblical imagery to be full of a particular sound a hall resonating with laughter
8. which inadvertently brings in more unskilled than skilled immigrants and thereby subjects already lower-income workers to greater competition for jobs;
? / s?b?d?ekt; s?bˋd??kt/ v [Tn, Tn.pr] ~ sb/sth (to sth) bring (a country,
etc or a person) under one's control 使（国家等或人）臣服或顺从; 征服; 制伏: Ancient Rome subjected most of Europe (to its rule). 古罗马帝国征服了欧洲大部分.
[Tn.pr] ~ sb/sth to sth cause sb/sth to experience or undergo sth 使
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