Abide means to be able to live with, or stand. If you can’t abide with something, it means you can’t stand it. If you can abide it, it means you can live with it.
Example: Voters, perfectly reasonably, cannot abide chaos; governments must set and enforce the rules for who comes.
经济学人关于移民的一篇文章最后一段: Today’s anti-migrant mood makes all this seem unlikely. Far from opening the door, many Western governments are double-locking it. Yet this creates an opportunity for others to snaffle the best brains repelled by chauvinism, to lure the most enterprising migrants, and once again to become lands of opportunity.
注意连词,far from, yet
文章结构上,以一个比喻开头,将难民入境比喻成进入一个锁着的门引出现状描述。然后分析原因,主要是民众不满。然后重点提出4点解决办法,加强秩序,鼓励难免自食其力,对难民进行筛选,加强人才引入以证明引导难民。最后总结。 比较典型的what-why-how结构文章。穿插比喻,总分结构。