时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:商业报道2006年


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As more and more of us begin to use health savings 1 accounts, there is a new website that’s coming online which will let you check to see how much a medical procedure truly costs. HealthGrades Incorporated Vice 2 President Scott Shapiro says lots of people have been asking for this type of service.

Scott Shapira: “It's not the health plans money any more, very often with high deductible plans people are spend(ing) their own money first, and so they have a heightened interest in finding not only a high quality healthcare provider, but one that is reasonably tight-priced as well.”

This site has cost from everything for cataract 3 surgery to gastric 4 bypass operations.

More competition for Apple's iPod and Sony's PSP, Microsoft says it's working on a handheld gaming device that will also play music and movies. The software giant’s new device will probably not hit the market for at least a year or possibly two, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

The major airlines appear(appears) to be taking a hint from discount carriers by taking away some standards and according to CNN’s Alina Cho, they’ve been charging for more traditional forms of ticket purchases.

Alina Cho: When you call and ticket by phone, uh it's a ten dollar extra charge and then when you do it at the airport, they charge you 15 dollars more. So there really are real benefits. And the airlines say that what that allows them to do is divert their workers so that they can deal with more complicated issues.
Part of the cuts from the six big airlines include no pillows, headphones or food.

Home furniture and craft stores are making some moves of their own.

Jane King: Wall Street Journal reports Michael’s Craft Stores is exploring a sale. The retailer 5 could command up to five and a half billion dollars. And William-Sonoma’s net income is up more than 6 percent in the recent quarter. The retailer also initiated 6 a dividend 7 of 10 cents a share. Jane King CNN, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Phillips Electronics is recalling eleven thousand eight hundred plasma 8 TVs due to faulty capacitors which can spark. The ambient light TVs were sold in the US from June 2005 to January 2006.
With CNN Radio Market Place, I'm Michelle Wright.

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WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS
deductible :A clause in an insurance policy that exempts 9 the insurer from paying an initial specified 10 amount in the event that the insured sustains a loss.
plasma TV: 等离子电视



n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
n.大瀑布,奔流,洪水,白内障
  • He is an elderly gentleman who had had a cataract operation.他是一位曾经动过白内障手术的老人。
  • The way is blocked by the tall cataract.高悬的大瀑布挡住了去路。
adj.胃的
  • Miners are a high risk group for certain types of gastric cancer.矿工是极易患某几种胃癌的高风险人群。
  • That was how I got my gastric trouble.我的胃病就是这么得的。
n.零售商(人)
  • What are the retailer requirements?零售商会有哪些要求呢?
  • The retailer has assembled a team in Shanghai to examine the question.这家零售商在上海组建了一支团队研究这个问题。
n.红利,股息;回报,效益
  • The company was forced to pass its dividend.该公司被迫到期不分红。
  • The first quarter dividend has been increased by nearly 4 per cent.第一季度的股息增长了近 4%。
n.血浆,细胞质,乳清
  • Keep some blood plasma back for the serious cases.留一些血浆给重病号。
  • The plasma is the liquid portion of blood that is free of cells .血浆是血液的液体部分,不包含各种细胞。
使免除[豁免]( exempt的第三人称单数 )
  • This privilege, however, exempts only predecisional documents. 然而,此特权只免除那些文件在作出决定之前的披露责任。
  • Function effectiveness: After then special-purpose, exempts the flushing formula. 功能效用:便后专用,免冲洗配方。
adj.特定的
  • The architect specified oak for the wood trim. 那位建筑师指定用橡木做木饰条。
  • It is generated by some specified means. 这是由某些未加说明的方法产生的。
学英语单词
afferent loop syndrome
Amaroni
antipacifists
arachno-
arm command
attali
Baitricinvial
bear walker
bearing of station
button-head
Circean poison
concentration ellipse
cooperating class
Corinaldo
corpus gl. sudorifer?
counting in
crocodylus intermedius
crook's cell
cross-subsidy
cytobiologists
data communication service
dependency school
differential income
diffusion brazing
discharge ashore
djukic
dl-limonene
dri-strip method
electric crab winch
electro-desalting
enchaunts
Environmental waste
external decimal item
eye strain with blurring of vision
faery
fatigue testing machine
faughnan
fine crumb
for very life
four point nose
gaming community
glans clitoridiss
growling
hagemans
Hemostatin
horizontal pneumatic conveying
hydro keel
image-frequency interference
inflection center
injection engine
Iouîk, Râs
janusian
Jehovahs
Kentrochona
labourer lodging
laser lever
load characteristics
lost or not lost
Mahometry
Marfan's disease
Metaplexis hemsleyana
nandy
navidad
Nizhneudinskiy Rayon
non-chromatic
officeholders
optimal channel mapping
output alarm
outsuffers
overreplacement
pehiosteal ossification
pellet technique
plantagonine
platelet release reaction
portal of entry
potamogeton crispus l.
powdered digitalis
pump screen retainer
Quercus blakei
relief arrangement
Reseda lutea
rosenhahnite
royal worcester
Sanyi Township
semicarbazido
serial binary coded decimal
shawy
single-phase bridge
slantendicular
special coverage approval name
spiradine a
spring gold
staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
sub-species
tea-head
toilet bowl
top-down parse
two-syllables
unbeleue
unreformation
up-dating
Zingiberaceae