独立核算工业企业 independent accounting enterprise

　　独立自主自办的原则 principle of independence and self-governance

　　杜鲁门主义 Truman Doctrine

　　毒骡 drug mule (More Chinese women duped to bedrug mules--Foreign drug traffickers are duping an increasing number of Chinese women, especially young victims, into carrying drugs into China, the General Administration of

　　Customs (GAC) has said. 更多的中国妇女受骗成“毒骡”——海关总署表示，越来越多的中国妇女，特别是年轻女子，受外国毒贩的诱骗后将毒品带进中国。)

　　独苗 the only son or daughter; the only child

　　独生子女 the only child in one's family

　　毒枭 drug trafficker

　　独资经营 single-investor enterprise; sole proprietorship enterprise; sole investment enterprise

　　断档 severed shelf; sold out

　　断电 power outage (Unusually cold weather and the result ing soaring energy consumption for heating have caused power outages and shortages of natural gas in parts of central and eastern China. 异常寒冷的天气和随之而来热能消耗的剧增导致华中和华东部分地区断电和天然气的短缺 。)

断 交信 Dear John letter (from woman to man)

　　断码 short in size

　　短期放款 money at call and short notice

　　短期债务 floating debt

　　端午节 the Dragon Boat Festival

　　短线产品 products in short supply; goods in short supply

　　短信 short messages; text messages

　　短 信 博士 texting PhD (A postgraduate in the UK has been awarded what is thought to be the country's first texting PhD . Dr Caro line Tagg, 33, spent three-and-a-half years tapping out an 80000-word thesis about SMS texts and its language at Birmingham University. 英国一名女研究生因研究手机短信日前被授予博士学位，她被认为是该国第一位"短信博士"。此人名叫卡洛琳·塔格，今年 33 岁，她花了 3 年半时间在伯明翰大学做短信研究，并写出了 8 万字的论文。)

　　断章取义 quote one's words out of context

　　短期工作实习 internship

　　短 租 房　short-term housing, 　short-term apart ment(Despitethe　quickly-approaching Olympic Games, the cost for short-term housing near the Bird's Nest during the Games has plummeted as much as 50%, with room for negotiation, according to statistics. An oversupply of short-term apartments and the red-hot hotel reservation service are the major reasons for the sharp decrease, a real estate agent said. 数据显示，随着奥运会的临近，"鸟巢"附近的奥运短租房月租价格不但没有上升，反而大幅度下降，跌幅普遍达到 50%，且价格还可以再商量。房产中介称，目前这种短租房的租金价格大幅下跌是因为供大于求，而酒店预订则相对火热。)