英语写作借鉴词、句、段
Preventable Deaths
The New York Times Editorial May 29, 2009
首段：表明观点
These are hard times everywhere. But developed countries must not overlook the particular vulnerability of the world’s poor. A new report by the World Health Organization shows that far too many people are still dying of preventable causes in the poorest countries.
尾段：重述观点
Wealthy countries promised nearly a decade ago to help the world’s poorest to emerge from the deepest poverty. This is the wrong time to stop.
比1990年减少了350万人 下降了百分之二十七  减少到千分之六十七
The good news is that in 2007, only nine million children died before their fifth birthday — 3.5 million fewer than in 1990. The under-5 mortality rate has fallen 27 percent since then, to 67 deaths per 1,000 live births.
rise by ---, to ---
In Congo, the child mortality rate rose by about 25 percent, to 125 deaths per 1,000 live births.
产妇死亡率为--- 与1990年相比几乎没有改变 似乎
Maternal mortality remains at around 400 deaths per 100,000 live births, virtually unchanged from its level in 1990. Globally, the proportion of undernourished children under 5 has fallen to 20 percent from 27 percent, seemingly on track to meet the goal of halving the prevalence of malnutrition by 2015. But many countries — from Armenia to Morocco to Burkina Faso — have seen no improvement at all. 
Forests and the Planet
The New York Times Editorial May 28, 2009
为那个巨大的错误付出代价
The planet has been paying for that colossal blunder ever since.
据估计 现在分词短语作状语，表示结果
An estimated 30 million acres of rain forest disappear every year, destroying biodiversity and pouring billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. 
North Korea Tests
The New York Times Editorial May 27, 2009
使北朝鲜从边缘走回来
Diplomacy — backed by stiff sanctions — is the only hope for walking North Korea back from the brink.
影响力
As the North’s main oil and food supplier, it has more leverage than any other country.
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No Crisis for North Korea
Washington Post Editorial May 26, 2009 
令人严重关切
NORTH KOREA's detonation of a nuclear warhead in an underground test yesterday is, of course, cause for serious concern -- particularly as the blast appears to have been considerably larger than the regime's first test nearly three years ago.
Testing the Tests
Washington Post Editorial May 26, 2009
毕业考试
State education officials have had to fight hard to implement high school exit exams; while some undesirable compromises were made, the officials should be credited for taking an important first step in making a high school diploma more than a piece of paper.
在我们看来是不明智的 判断错误的
The board offered those alternatives, ill-advised in our minds, as the tests came under increasing attack from those who made the wrongheaded argument that large numbers of students, particularly African Americans and Latinos, wouldn't be able to pass.
Swine Flu Lessons
Gaps were exposed in pandemic preparedness.
Washington Post Editorial May 25, 2009
形容词短语作状语，表示原因
But the Obama administration, mindful of the debilitating eff

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