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Trump Administration Turns Up Pressure on China on Several Fronts
川普政府在幾個方面對中國施加更大的壓力。

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is intensifying U.S. pressure on China, piling on visa bans, sanctions and other restrictions that are battering already unsettled ties between the world’s two largest economies.

📌 文章第一段就以這個主題為切入點，施壓的領域包括簽證禁令、制裁和其他限制。

🖋 intensify pressure on 的意思就是 turn up pressure on。pile on (堆積)，在修辭學裡有「轉化」的作用(將虛擬實)。ban (禁令)、sanction (制裁) 和 restriction (限制)常於國際新聞出現的詞語。

Attorney General William Barr, in a speech Thursday, warned U.S. businesses that they are at risk of collaborating with a Chinese government that ultimately seeks to supplant them in its expanding state-run economy. Administration officials are also discussing banning travel by China’s Communist Party members and their families to the U.S., people familiar with the matter said.

📌 文章第二段引述美國司法部長在一篇演說中對企業家的警告：中國政府最終或許取締他們！這段也提到美國官員考慮禁止中國共產黨員和家屬去美國。

🖋 Attorney General (司法部長)是美國高級官員，他想美國企業發出嚴厲的警告，用at risk of + noun phrase 來表達。administration official 是常用的片語，指政府官員。

Discussions are in early stages, with no timeline for being put into effect, the people said. If put into policy, advisers and policy analysts said the ban would strike at the legitimacy of the increasingly powerful party.

📌文章第三段補充說，有關考慮處於初步階段，如果被實施回打擊共產黨的合法性。

🖋 timeline (時間表)是常用用語，其他常見的用語包括 policy、adviser、policy analyst。legitimacy (合法性)是個高階字，在有關政治的文章常常出現。

The administration has amped up a broader confrontation with Beijing in recent weeks by imposing sanctions on a member of the Communist Party leadership, signing legislation that targets other Chinese officials and holding full-scale military exercises in the South China Sea.

📌文章第四段講述美國在最近幾個星期跟中國的對抗：制裁一位共產黨高層人員、簽署針對其他中國官員的法例和在南中國海舉行軍事演習。

🖋amp up (放大) 是個轉化的修辭片語，impose(施加)跟sanction搭配的，legislation是law的同義詞，target在這裡是及物動詞，千萬別加at。

All this has come after President Trump for months has blamed China for covering up the initial corona virus outbreak that his administration has struggled to contain in the U.S.

📌文章第五段為這一切提供背景：川普幾個月來責怪中國隱瞞疫情。

🖋 blame 是基本的動詞，要記住它的用法，cover up (掩飾) 很常用，另外，contain在這裡的意思不是包括，而是遏制。

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🏦 In China, banks and internet lenders trying to collect on a growing pile of overdue credit-card bills and personal loans are resorting to sometimes aggressive tactics to get borrowers to repay.在中國，銀行和網路貸款機構正試圖收回愈來愈多的逾期信用卡欠款和個人貸款，這些機構有時會採取激進手段讓借款人償還債務。

-overdue: 逾期未付的
-resort to: 訴諸某種手段、採取
-aggressive: 激進的


⚒Since January, when the coronavirus began spreading across China, the country’s lenders have been grappling with rising volumes of delinquent consumer loans after many people were confined to their homes for months, suffered pay cuts or lost their jobs.
今年1月新冠病毒疫情開始在中國蔓延，許多人被困家中數月，遭遇減薪或失業，消費貸款拖欠數量不斷增加，從那時起中國貸款機構一直努力應對這種狀況。

-grapple with: 設法解決、努力應對
-delinquent: 拖欠的、逾期未付的
-be confined to: 被困於…、受限
-pay cuts: 減薪


🔎Some banks and online lenders were also hamstrung in their debt collection efforts during a more than 10-week lockdown of the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where many call centers are located.
在武漢長達10幾個星期的封鎖期間，有些銀行和在線貸款機構的追債業務也無法進行——武漢是許多呼叫中心的所在地。

-hamstring: 令人受挫、使人無法施展
-debt collecting: 討債、追債
-lockdown: 封鎖


🌊Before the downturn, the country’s consumers racked up record volumes of credit-card debt and short-term loans, as well as mortgages and auto loans as banks and online lenders jockeyed for business while the economy was booming.
在這波經濟低迷期前，隨著銀行和線上貸款機構在經濟繁榮期間競相爭取業務，中國消費者的信用卡債務、短期貸款以及抵押貸款和汽車貸款規模達到創紀錄的水準。

-economic downturn 景氣低迷
-rack up 累計、累加
-jockey for sth: 謀取、爭取某事
✍常見搭配：jockey with sb 和…競爭，用法同 compete with



🌿The proliferation of smartphones and mobile apps in recent years also gave millions of people greater access to loans from online lenders. Many borrowers provided the contact details for their family members and friends when applying for loans.
近年來，智慧型手機和行動應用程式的普及也讓數以百萬計的人更容易從線上貸款機構獲得貸款。許多借款人在申請貸款時提供了家人和朋友的聯繫方式。

-proliferation: 快速增長、急速擴張、普及
-give access to: 給予…的管道、得以取得


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"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

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The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. (在我看來，生命中充滿了好事與壞事。)