In Search of Lost Times: BRICS Summit
"We can get back what time took away," says the protagonist of "Revive", one of five short films from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa shown at the BRICS film festival earlier this year. The sentimentseems appropriate as leaders from the five countries gather in Xiamen, China, for their annual summit. Time has robbed their economies of some of the momentumthey enjoyed when the group began. But growth is starting to revive: upcoming data will probably confirm that all five economies expanded in the second quarter, their first synchronised growth since 2014. China and India must also work to get back the "strategic mutual trust" they have lost in Doklam, a Himalayan plateauwhere their soldiers have scuffled in recent months. The two sides agreed to a stand-down this week so as not to ruin the summit. That indirect consequence of the BRICS forum may be the group's biggest accomplishment yet.
protagonist /prəˈtaɡ(ə)nɪst/: n. 主人公
revive /rɪˈvʌɪv/: vi. 复兴
sentiment /ˈsɛntɪm(ə)nt/: n. 情感；情愫
rob /rɒb/…of…: 从......夺走...... (常用搭配: rob sb. of sth.)
momentum /məˈmɛntəm/: n. 势头
upcoming /ʌpˈkʌmɪŋ/: adj. 即将到来的
synchronised /ˈsɪŋkrənʌɪzd/: adj. 同步的
plateau /ˈplatəʊ/: n. 高原
scuffle /ˈskʌf(ə)l/: vi. 推搡
stand-down: 结束对峙
Some take us back; they're called
memories. Some take us forward;
they're called dreams."
