1. boring

2. “An employee packed up her belongings and walked out without a word.”

3. 鉴于之前许多邦女郎在007电影中如昙花般一现，随后便星途黯淡，玛尔洛和经纪人正努力确保她与众多一流演员合作，正如邦德电影是用来为她的国际演艺生涯铺路一样。

4. [ni'glekt]

5. Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto both won for their startlingly gaunt performances in the Texas HIV drama 'Dallas Buyers Club.' Leonardo DiCaprio, a nine-time Golden Globe nominee, won his second Globe for best actor in a comedy for his uninhibited work in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' He thanked director Martin Scorsese for his mentorship ('Wolf' is their fifth film together) and for 'allowing me to stalk you to make this movie.'

6. 彭博(Bloomberg)软性大宗商品指数上涨21%，工业金属和能源指数则分别上涨24%和1.5%。

应用

1. You might want to hope that people shared these articles as a joke. I want to hope that. But we can’t: the analysis points to a recent BuzzFeed and Ipsos Public Affairs poll which found that 75 percent of Americans (84 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of Democrats) were easily tricked by fake headlines. What a fantastic year for fact-checking and rational thought and Mark Zuckerberg’s self-awareness.

2. According to the index, tourists are "spending overwhelmingly" to shop -- and not to dine -- in the top 20 destinations outside of Europe, despite many of them being world-famous cuisine capitals.

3. 荷兰合作银行(Rabobank)大宗农产品市场主管斯特凡.沃热尔(Stefan Vogel)表示，中国是推动农产品市场的最引人注目的变数。

4. The programme entered the ranking in second place in 2006 and was ranked top in 2008.

5. 然而，3月份以17美元的发行价上市的Snap，在最初上涨后下跌至约15美元，打击了市场对于所谓“十角兽”企业（通过私人筹资达到100亿美元或更高估值的公司）会有更多IPO活动的预期。

6. adj. 反对的，敌对的 v. 和 ... 起冲突，反抗

旧版特色

1. 至于说比特币进入主流银行体系？卢德温表示：“据我们估计，现在距离知名金融服务公司采用比特币，还有很长的路要走。但是用不了10年那么久。而且一旦出现萌芽，其推广的速度之快将令人震惊。”（财富中文网）

2. DIHK's foreign business chief Volker Treier said the volume of goods exported to China from Germany grew rapidly in the latter part of 2016, Chinanews.com reported.

3. The other finalists, each of which will receive 10,000, were: Losing the Signal , by Jacque McNish and Sean Silcoff, who look at how BlackBerry went off course; Digital Gold , Nathaniel Popper’s examination of the rise of bitcoin, the virtual currency; How Music Got Free , Stephen Witt’s history of the way piracy and peer-to-peer sharing have disrupted the recorded music industry; Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new book Unfinished Business , about the challenge of achieving gender balance; and Misbehaving , in which Richard Thaler traces the development of behavioural economics.