今天我們要學(xué)的詞是 capitulation. capitulation 的意思是投降，讓步，被迫接受。As China's yuan sank to a 10-year low against the dollar, many speculate that Chinese authorities are likely to take measures to prevent a capitulation beyond the 7 level. 隨著人民幣對美元匯率跌至10年來的最低點，許多人猜測當局可能會采取措施防止匯率跌破1比7。Rights activists describe Google's secretive plan to build a search engine that would comply with Chinese censorship as "an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights." 維權(quán)人士形容谷歌迎合中國審查標準建立一個搜索引擎的秘密計劃是“谷歌在人權(quán)問題上令人擔(dān)憂的讓步”。