20190801-这是第26篇-95
Armed with incentives, Singapore has been increasing its efforts to get technology businesses and investors interested in the country.
在激励措施的前提下，新加坡一直在加大力度，吸引科技企业和投资者。
- armed with用……武装。转意：在……的前提下
- incentives可变名词刺激;激励;奖励
- disincentive可变名词制止因素;阻碍因素
- increase efforts to do
Companies and government officials say the goal of the campaign is to make Singapore into a high-tech center.
企业和政府官员表示，这项活动的目标是把新加坡打造成一个高科技中心。
- government officials政府官员
- campaign 活动；竞选。
- 目标 goal-target- aim
- make^into把……变成/
- change into
- high-tech 高科技(adj)
But now, the city-state is turning its attention to finding skilled workers, and even the government says its work is not done.
但现在，这个国家正将注意力转向寻找经验丰富的工人，甚至政府也表示，这项工作尚未完成。
- city-state 国家an independent state consisting of a city and the area around it (for example, Athens in ancient times)
- turn attention to sth/doing sth将注意力转向……
- skilled workers经验丰富的工人
- skilled需要熟练技术的;需要专门技能的
- skilful能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词有技巧的;熟练的;巧妙的
- not done未完成
U.S.-based investor Paul Bragiel said he had to be asked three or four times before he accepted an invitation from Singapore to come see its tech industry.
美国投资者保罗・布拉吉尔(Paul Bragiel)表示，在受邀三四次后才决定接受新加坡的邀请，参观该国的高新技术产业。
- investor n投资者
- investment投资n
- invest投资 v
- accepted an invitation from接受邀请
- recieve an invitation 接受
- send an invitation发出邀请
- come see参观
Bragiel made the nearly 13,000-kilometer trip from the United States in 2010.
布拉吉尔于2010年从美国出发，行程近1.3万公里。
- 旅行 make a trip
Back then, he said, the city-state's chances of becoming a leading Asian tech center were "bleak, to say the least."
他说，当时的新加坡成为亚洲领先科技中心的机会“至少可以说是渺茫的”。
- Back then当时
- chances of 可变名词可能(性);机会
- on the off-chance心存侥幸地；怀着渺茫希望地
- by chance 偶然;碰巧
- stand a chance of +doing有可能;有机会
- take a chance冒险;碰运气
- a smart chance [美俚]很大的可能性a smart chance of 大量的,很多的as chance would...
- has a fifty-fifty chance of success.一半机会
- a dog's chance 极微小的一点儿机会
- a fat chance [口]良机 [讽]很少希望,可能性很小
- an outside chance (= a very small one)
- leave nothing to chance. 不留一点漏洞
- leading 形容词（在比赛或行列中）首位的，居前的
- chief, principal, main, major, leading, capital, foremost, primary 这些形容词均含有“首要的，主要的”之意。
- chief → 表人时，表同类中职位最高，权力最大；指物时，表同类中最重要，价值最高。
- principal → 用于人时，指地位优于其它人；用于物时，指该物在大小、重要性等方面优于他物。
- main → 通常只用于物。指在一定范围内，某物的重要性、体积或力量等超过其它物。
- major → 指同其他人或其它物、问题等相比较，显得更加重要和突出。
- leading → 侧重指具有影响力或凝聚力。从而有主导和引导的作用。
- capital → 着重指因重要性、意义、优越或重大而名列同类之首。
- foremost → 侧重指在行进或发展过程中居首位。
- primary → 通常不用于人。用于物时，指在重要性方面占第一位。基本的
- bleak 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词（情形）没有希望的，前景暗淡的
- 反义promising有前景的
- to say the least至少-at the very least
- without exaggerating at all
But he saw some promise, and like many other investors and tech companies since then, he was attracted by generous terms from government agencies.
但他看到了一些希望，像之后的许多其他投资者和科技公司一样，他被政府部门的优惠条款深深吸引。
- attract引起…的注意（或兴趣、赞赏等）；诱惑
- be attracted by 受到吸引
- generous 慷慨的
- general全体的；总的；普遍的
- a genenration（尤指经历或观点相同的）一代人，同代人，同辈人
- generative能生产的；有生产能力的；促使…生成
- terms条款；术语
"They gave us a very aggressive deal. Very few countries would have matched it," added Bragiel.
布拉吉尔表示，“政府提供给我们一份非常激进的协议。很少有国家能做到这一点。”
- aggressive 激进的
- matched达到，做到
- few没几个+可数n 很少有
- a few几个+可数，eg+apples
- little+不可数 几乎没有 water
- a little+不可数 一点
He also considered Hong Kong and Tokyo for an Asian expansion before helping to set up Golden Gate Ventures in Singapore in 2011.
他还考虑过在香港和东京进行亚洲扩张，然后在2011年帮助在新加坡成立了金门创投公司。
- for Asian expansion 进行亚洲扩张
- set up 建立
- consider for sth
- consideration---take sth into consideration
- considerable相当多的;相当大
- ventures可数名词风险项目（或活动);冒险事业 创投
The Reuters news agency reported that he would not say what the terms of his deal were.
路透社(Reuters)报道称，他不愿透露协议条款。
- 路透社The Reuters news agency
- travel agency 旅行社
- government agencies政府机构
- agency中介公司