英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0703 - 2015上半年网络热词，你知道几个？

 Topic1 "Upgrading" Chinese PassportsFrench Prime Minister Manuel Valls has announced that France decided¹ to offer the 5-year multiple-entry visas to more Chinese passport holders², during Chinese Premier³ Li Keqiang's French tour.

How many countries have provided such policies to Chinese tourists? Will these policies promote a large number of Chinese tourists to go abroad?

Topic2 2015 Internet BuzzwordsMany phrases and sentences have gone viral online in the first six months of 2015. Now that it's the mid-point of the year, Chinese netizens have already summed up a list of Internet buzzwords.

Do you know the meaning of all these buzzwords? Where did they come from?

Topic3 Getting Pregnant According to ScheduleA company in Jiaozuo of Henan Province recently released a regulation, ordering all its female workers to get pregnant according to schedule. Anyone who gets pregnant outside of this schedule will be fined at 1,000 yuan and lose her chances of promotion⁴.

Is it ridiculous?

Topic4 Are you RICH?

Details in life tell how rich you are! Do you feel rich? Check out the 25 details of being rich. If you meet some of them, congratulations! You're on the way to being rich. Or if you fail to meet any of them, congrats to you still: you're normal.

Topic5 Chinese Don't Like to Take Showers?

Taking showers, one of the most common things in our daily life, may also spark discussions in directions that you cannot imagine.

Recently, a report indicates that Chinese take showers once every two days on average, listing on the last place of all investigated countries.

What does the report say?

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 holders   

支持物( holder的名词复数 )； 持有者； （支票等）持有人； 支托（或握持）…之物

参考例句：

• Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders. 奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫。
• It is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up-holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识，才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事，同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者。

3 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

4 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。