【CNN】Thailand's economy races ahead

http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/18/news/economy/thailand-gdp/index.html?hpt=ibu_c2

• eye-popping
• pop : (Vi.) to go somewhere quickly, suddenly, or in a way that you did not expect
• crippling : (adj.) causing so much damage or harm that something no longer works or is no longer effective
  - the crippling effects of war on the economy
  - as Thailand experienced crippling floods in late 2011 that depressed production and consumption
• consensus : (U. singular) an opinion that everyone in a group agrees with or accepts
  - a lack of consensus about the aims of the project
  - a consensus that now appears conservative
• advocate : (Vt.) to publicly say that something should be done
  - Extremists were openly advocated violence.
  - a strategy that some government officials have advocated in a bid to boost the economy

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點評：不容小覷的泰國