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1.in power/ assume power 掌权
2.Donald Trump's term stands to be one of those moments.
stand to 表示有可能会
3.the biggest shake-up (组织或体制的)重大调整，整顿
4. on an epoch-changing scale 形容场面极其混乱，难以控制，甚至可能改朝换代。
5. the West Wig 西方法职人员佩戴的假发
6. it is simply too soon to tell.
判断，评判 If you can tell what is happening or what is true, you are able to judge correctly what is happening or what is true.
7. you must always shut out what the president says and wait to see what he does.
shut out means preventing yourself from thinking something. 表示摒弃某种想法或情感，将...抛诸脑后
8.the almost boundless Trumpian optimism on display among American business people 美国商界人士所表现出来的无限“川普热”。
9. ...deserves to be tempered by fears and ...
temper means to make it less extreme 使缓和，使温和
10.investment in infrastructure and a programme of deregulation
Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade. 撤销管制规定;解除控制
11. Done well, tax reform would confer lasting benefits
confer means to give 授予，使获得
12. there is the risk of a sugar-rush as capital chases opportunities that do little to enhance the productive potential of the economy.
sugar rush 意为（糖分）刺激，此处可理解为投机资金流
13. The dollar will soar and countries that have amassed large dollar debts, many of them emerging markets, may well buckle.
amass 意为积累大量（财物，债券等）
dollar debts 为美元债务（外国欠美国的钱），bond 才是美国债券 - - |||
may well 表示很有可能，有理由地
buckle 本意为因受热或受力而弯曲变形，此处暂可理解为承受压力，不堪重负（跪了）
14. Should Mr. Trump ( right from the start ) set out to engage foreign exporters from countries such as China, Germany and Mexico in a conflict over trade, he would do grave harm to the global regime that America itself created after the second world war.
此处为虚拟语气，engage 意为与xx陷入纠纷，或者交战。
15. . Even before taking office, Mr Trump has hacked away at the decades old, largely bipartisan cloth of American foreign policy.
hack away at 意为猛烈抨击。cloth 意为做特殊用途的布料，此处怎么理解暂时还不知道~
16.He has casually disparaged the value of the European Union, which his predecessors always nurtured as a source of stability.
disparage 贬低，轻视
nurture means help sb to develop 栽培，抚育
17.savage means criticizes sb severely 猛烈批评
18. he has begun to pull apart America’s carefully stitched dealings with the rising superpower, China—imperilling the most important bilateral relationship of all.
imperil 使陷入困境，危及
19. Doubts that have been sown cannot be uprooted, as if the game had all along been a harmless exercise in price discovery.
price discovery 价格发现（Price Discovery）是指买卖双方在给定的时间和地方对一种商品的质量和数量达成交易价格的过程。
这句话没看懂。。。。。
20. Dealings between sovereign states tend towards anarchy — because, ultimately, there is no global government to impose order and no means of coercion but war.
anarchy 无政府状态，无法无天
coercion 强迫;胁迫;逼迫
21. Mr.Trump is unravelling the order that America created
unravel 解开；拆散；（使）松开
22. party stalwarts (尤指某个政党的)忠实拥护者，坚定分子
23. insurgency 起义;暴动;叛乱
