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Ezra Vogel, a towering China academic with Harvard University, has died, his home institute announced. He was 90 years old.

Vogel was one of the most prominent China experts in the United States, and had studied China's elite politics and society since the Mao Zedong era.

He is best known in China for Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, a landmark biography of China's supreme leader who kicked off the country's long-needed market reform in the 1980s.

語言點

1. towering adj. 杰出的，頂尖的(top)

2. prominent adj. 很重要的，非常知名的(important or well known)

· She was prominent in the fashion industry.

她曾在時裝界名噪一時。

3. elite adj. 精英的；n. 精英

4. be best known for 最為人熟知的是……

5. landmark adj. 標志性的，具有里程碑意義的； n. 地標，地標性建筑物

· landmark event 標志性事件

6. kick off 開始做某事；開球，發球

kick 踢，off 離開

· The show kicked off on October 24th.

這場演出是10月24日開始的。

7. long-needed adj. 長期以來被需要的；急需的

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