阅读经典，速记单词
"We've been gambling up to this point," says Tim Bardole, a soyabean farmer from Iowa.
After the price of soyabeans crashed last summer, he held on to most of his harvest and waited for the market to recover.
But seven months later, and with large loans to repay, he sold up. "We decided we'd better take what we have," he says.
The cause of the crash was a 25% tariff on American soyabeans imposed by China, the world's biggest importer, as one shot in the trade war between the two countries. Yet peace is supposedly in the offing.
The two countries are locked in negotiations over a deal, ahead of a deadline of March 1st that has been imposed by America, though on February 19th President Donald Trump declared the timing to be flexible.
That Mr Bardole cut his losses despite those talks is not that surprising.
Even if the tariff is lifted—which is far from certain—the past year's disruption will probably leave a permanent scar.（句意：即使关税取消——目前可以远不能确定——去年的打击也很可能会留下永久的伤疤。）
单词速记
① gamble [ˈgæmbl] 赌博
速记：一种game
② crash [kræʃ] v. & n. 坠毁，撞碎
速记：与clash一样，都是撞击声
③ take what we have 拿好拥有的东西→见好就收
④ supposedly adv. 据信，被认为
速记：写作常用简约型副词
⑤ offing [ˈɒfɪŋ] n. 即将发生
速记：off(离开) + ing → 本义：即将离开→ 发生
⑥ lift [lɪft] v. 抬高；(云雾)消散
速记：天高云淡
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