1. the lockdown of Sjz?is easing

2. zero-covid campaign

3. More than 200m people have been living under restrictions

4. the economy is reeling/staggered/stunned

5. bow out after two = retire

6. Omicron is highly transmissible

7. ideological zeal – racial paranoia

8. to ensure that China is fortified against Western sanctions

9. Some fear that the financial upside（上行空間） for any business will be capped by a party that is suspicious of private wealth and power.

10. This?ideological economy has big implications for the world.

11. Though stimulus could gin up (work things up) demand, more lockdowns are likely to imperil a global economy flirting with recession. = a sputtering economy

12. the easy availability of guns made it deadlier than it might have been

13. stringent background checks

14. single-issue voter 單一議題選民 – the gun lobby 槍支游說(shuō)團(tuán)體

15. with minimal hassle

16. though guns will always flow illicitly from lax（寬松） jurisdictions to stringent ones

17. the more Ukraine’s economy will be ravaged / devastated / scourged

18. the more perilously the supply of grain to the world will be interrupted

19. At the market’s close 收盤(pán) on May 25th, the s&p 500 index of leading American shares looked on course to break a seven-week losing streak.

19. Its share price plunged by 43%.

20. growth of China’s GDP per capita averaged more than 8% a year from 2001 to 2020

21. Foreign capital and expertise have therefore been courted and rewarded, but also circumscribed and often resented.

22. to ward off such perils → ward off the cold with heavy cloths

23. a Japan less shackled to its post-war past = fettered by

24. in the wake of the invasion

25. boosted China’s global clout（political or business influence）

26. shed new light on …

27. contracted by over 6% = shrank

28. a bleak season has already arrived for …(double-reduction policy)