economics:经济学
nonprofit group:非盈利机构
Areas of knowledge 就是知识领域的意思
Increasingly意同more and more…这里要说一下,在学校的时候,老师们强调的可能是more and more.但是如果是经常听外国新闻的人可能会觉得,increasingly比较常用.
increasingly difficult/important/popular
越来越困难╱重要╱普及
It is becoming increasingly clear that this problem will not be easily solved.
越来越明显的是,这个问题不会轻易解决。
drop:停止,终止,放弃
The police decided to drop the charges against her.
警方决定撤回对她的指控。
I dropped German(= stopped studying it)when I was 14.
我 14 岁后就没再学德语。
Drop everything and come at once!
放下所有事情赶快来吧!
Water down 意同dilute, 削弱;降低;使降低效果
The teacher had to water down the course for a slowlearning class.
老师不得不降低课程的要求来迁就慢班的学生.
The story has been watered down.
故事的生动性被冲淡了.
Large classes dilute the quality of education that children receive. 大班上课会降低孩子所受教育的质量。