1. There’s a (not so) quiet revolution going on under the hoods of today’s cars, trucks and crossovers if the latest list of best engines compiled by the experts at WardsAuto is any indication. Turbocharged, supercharged and diesel engines – and even one electric motor – dominate the 20th annual 10 Best Engines awards, which, according to Wards, “recognize outstanding powertrain achievement, world-class technologies and those rare engines or electric propulsion systems that are so compelling they help sell the vehicle.”

2. 国际货币基金组织(IMF)总裁克里斯蒂娜?拉加德(Christine Lagarde)表示，她除了今年的全球经济复苏(recovery)充满期待外，还对另外两个“R”感到担忧。第一个是“风险”(risk)，她认为，一些旧有的风险（例如完成金融业改革的必要性）与美国缩减定量宽松政策的相关风险一样重要，此外还有针对欧元区可能陷入通缩等问题所新产生的担忧。

3. 联邦、州和地方政府的裁员速度开始放缓。去年各级政府部门有逾25万人失去工作。今年截至目前，约有两万人找到了工作。经济学家说，美国的债务和赤字问题引发的担忧可能将限制政府支出和投资，但基础设施支出的任何反弹都会创造就业岗位。至少政府带来的拖累会减小。[qh]

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5. The Spring Festival Travel Rush, also known as Chunyun in Chinese, or Spring Festival Travel Season / Transportation Peak is considered to be the largest annual migration.It is the special period when China faces an extremely high traffic load, which results in great transportation problems, especially on the railway services.

6. 民主党最有可能的竞争对手、共和党参选人特朗普则对Fox新闻表示，希拉里这是在讨好女性选民。

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3. Airlines with operations based west of the Rockies boast the fewest flights that arrive late during the holidays, according to data compiled for Forbes.com by FlightAware.

4. Of the other teams, Germany have a fantastic team, with some great options all over the pitch. The Italians can never be discounted at tournaments, whilst Portugal, with Ronaldo in the team will be dangerous, and Belgium, with such an array of talent will be amongst everyone's list of dark horses.

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6. Though the Dutch financial markets then had none of today’s technology, they employed many of the same practices that traders use today. Investors bought securities, sometimes borrowing money with loans secured by the shares they were buying. In today's language, they bought shares on margin. Lenders protected themselves by demanding a “haircut” – collateral in cash or securities that exceeded the loan amount by a specified percentage. If the value of the securities dropped below that specified percentage, the lender would demand that the investor put up additional money to stay in line with the haircut. If the investor couldn’t come up with the added margin, the lender was entitled to liquidate the securities and recoup the loan amount.

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3. 2014年全年工业利润增长3.3%，为2008年以来最慢。