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Ezra Vogel, a towering China academic with Harvard University, has died, his home institute announced. He was 90 years old.

Vogel was one of the most prominent China experts in the United States, and had studied China's elite politics and society since the Mao Zedong era.

He is best known in China for Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, a landmark biography of China's supreme leader who kicked off the country's long-needed market reform in the 1980s.

语言点

1. towering adj. 杰出的，顶尖的(top)

2. prominent adj. 很重要的，非常知名的(important or well known)

· She was prominent in the fashion industry.

她曾在时装界名噪一时。

3. elite adj. 精英的；n. 精英

4. be best known for 最为人熟知的是……

5. landmark adj. 标志性的，具有里程碑意义的； n. 地标，地标性建筑物

· landmark event 标志性事件

6. kick off 开始做某事；开球，发球

kick 踢，off 离开

· The show kicked off on October 24th.

这场演出是10月24日开始的。

7. long-needed adj. 长期以来被需要的；急需的

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