Vocabulary9

comprehensive
globalization
High on the agenda will be the decision whether to launch a new "millennium" round of comprehensive trade negotiations.

alien to
  e.g. There principles are alien to our religion.

seize the opportunity and face the challenges

be like a speeding train

mega-city 

power n. 强国

comparative

specific

If one has refused to budge through the midlife transition,the sense of staleness will calcify into resignation.

accolade   n.
agitation   n.
alibi    n.
altar   n.
catapult  n.
celebrated
chaperon
cohabitation
confetti
connive
consummate
convent
courtship
default
eligible
elopement
emancipated
enmesh
equipage
etiquette
flout
gallantry
hypocrisy                 hypothesis
indestructible
linen
obscenity
onus
panacea
pervasive
pornography
precocious
prelude
premarital
prescribe
recede
relentless
rift
stake
suppliant
swap
unimpaired
virginity

 

eligible for a position
合格担当某职

That girl eloped with her lover.
那个姑娘与她的情人私奔了。