1. a time of peace and prosperity
和平繁荣的时代
2. 数字+fold表示几倍
tenfold 十倍 twofold 两倍
3. sb. years某人在位期间= during sb’s tenure
Obama years 奥巴马在位期间
tenure UK /ˈtenjə, ˈtenjʊə/ n. ①任期；②终身职位
Mr. Xiaohu is on his tenure track.小胡老师正在拿终身教职的路上。
4. strategic insight 战略洞见
5. early on在早期=at an early stage
6. make payroll cuts裁员
payroll UK /ˈpeɪrəʊl/ n. 工资表
7. pass us by错过
8. combative UK /ˈkɒmbətɪv/ adj. 争强好胜的，斗志昂扬的
combat v. 战斗，斗争
近义表达：aggressive，ambitious
9. blunt UK /blʌnt/ US /blʌnt/ adj. 直率的（frank）
10. powerhouse n.①强国②精力充沛的人
11. shed UK /ʃed/ US /ʃed/ vt. 摆脱，去除（get rid of）
12. Darwinian UK /dɑːˈwɪniən/ US /dɑːrˈwɪniən/ adj. 达尔文的
13. distill UK /dɪˈstɪl/ vt. 提炼
14. nugget UK /ˈnʌɡɪt/ n. 金句；金块 one-sentence nuggets 金句
①Jack Welch, who led General Electric through two decades of extraordinary corporate prosperity and became the most influential business manager of his generation, died at 84 on Sunday.
②Combative and blunt, Mr. Welch became the chief executive of General Electric in 1981. The company’s revenue jumped nearly fivefold, to $130 billion, during Mr. Welch’s tenure, while the value of its shares on the stock market soared from $14 billion to more than $410 billion.
③The Welch years at G.E. combined strategic insights with managerial innovations.He attacked bureaucracy and made sweeping payroll cuts, creating a more entrepreneurial, if more Darwinian, corporate culture. And he made G.E. far more dependent on finance, as banking and investment grew as a share of the American economy.
⑤Mr. Welch distilled his management concepts into one-sentence nuggets. “Bureaucrats must be ridiculed and removed.” “If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by.”
