Day2
1.Britain’s Trades Union Congress英国工会大会
2.gauntlet中世纪骑士戴的金属手套（扔到脚下，代表挑战）
throw down gauntlet下战书
eg.The company has threw down gauntlet to his competitor.
pick/take up gauntlet接受应战
3.work week（美）
working week（英）工作周
4.unprecedented前所未有的，空前的
unprecedented ecnomic growth
5.be lengthened延长
区别：
extend事件、空间延长，适用范围扩大
lengthen长度、期限延长
leap at朝某个方向跳过去（欣然接受）
eg.He leap at it
6.toiling（长时间地）努力工作,与labor差不多
搭配：toil for /at
7.reduce a to b 把a减少到b
8.threshold界限
eg.My earnings are just above tax threshold.
9.pocket 把洞穴钢筋口袋
eg.Last year，he pocketed over 100million dolors.
10.higher productivity
=more productive
11.someone advocate that 某人倡导
=Advocates of shv/ei/.n读音不同
12.boost（n&v）提高
eg.Lower interests rates will give tremendous boost to economy.
13.wrote of把xx当作写作题材
wrote of adventures历险记
14.to live abundance生活富裕
abundance of food/an abundance of food充足食物
富裕的（不可数n）
大量，充足（可数/不可数）
15.jump the gun.（赛跑时抢跑）抢先行动，过早下定论
16.angling for谋求，博取
angle for promotion谋求升职
angle for sympathy谋求同情
17.be pessimistic in=
take pessimistic view of sth对某事感到悲观
18.timescale for a project计划所需时间
what’s timescale for this？
需要花多长时间
