11/12 Daily Reading

◆譯言堂

"In East Asia, if you start to get a strong rebound in growth, and you've got a lot of liquidity, there is the question of whether one could start to face asset bubbles in particular markets." -- Robert Zoellick

「在東亞，經濟成長若出現強勁的復甦現象，會有許多流動性，就會產生一個問題：特定市場是否會產生資產泡沫。」

世界銀行總裁佐立克11日在新加坡的亞太經濟合作會議（APEC）座談會上表示，他憂心某些市場將有潛在的資產泡沫，尤其亞洲是全球經濟起飛最迅速的地區，政府應謹慎處理資金過熱的問題。

rebound：彈回，復甦。liquidity：流動性，流動資產。


◆Word of the Day | pacify

By THE LEARNING NETWORK

pacify verb 平息,撫慰;平息戰爭

1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
2: fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location)

The word pacify has appeared in 21 Times articles over the past year, including in an Op-Ed by Victor Sebestyen, “Transcripts of Defeat”:

Much of the fighting during the Soviet war in Afghanistan was in places that have grown familiar to us now, like Kandahar and Helmand Provinces. The Soviets’ main base of operations was Bagram, which is now the United States Army headquarters. Over the years, the Soviets changed their tactics (戰略) frequently, but much of the time they were trying and failing to pacify the country’s problematic south and east, often conducting armed sweeps along the border with Pakistan, through which many of the guerrillas (游擊隊) moved, as the Taliban do now.