时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(九)月


英语课

Speakers at the conference on alternative investments said Monday that an increasing number of shareholders 1 want assurances that their investments are environmentally friendly. And they want them return a healthy yield.




One of the speakers is Mary Buffett, an author, business woman and investor 2. Her books include several on the investment techniques of her former father-in-law, Warren Buffett, one of the world's wealthiest individuals.


She says that clean energy and the ability to produce alternative sources of fuel will play an increasingly important role in financial markets. That is particularly so in Asia where large populations in China, India and in Southeast Asia must compete for scarce resources.


"I believe that shareholders, especially younger shareholders, are going to be putting pressure on the companies and the investments that they own to make sure the companies put their feet to the fire and hold them to standards that they previously 3 may not have had from an environmental standpoint," Buffett said.


She says investors 4 today are very aware of the environmental and social costs tied to corporate 5 activity.


She, herself, refuses to buy tobacco stocks. Tobacco use is linked to a number of potentially fatal diseases.


Her sentiments were echoed by another speaker, Michael North, president of Greenstar Corporation, a technology company that focuses on solar power, wireless 6 communications and media development. He says the planet can expect to suffer a number of environmental crises over the next 10 years as the climate warms.


"The pattern is going to be sustained for some time, and those events when they take place, as tragic 7 as they are, they are needed wake-up calls for the investor and for the entrepreneur, for the people building businesses," North said. "They will see opportunities in those crises – the little Warren Buffetts will be going green."


Both Buffett and North say they think the worst of the global financial crisis is over, although the next two years will remain tough, and will be followed by a period of low but steady growth.


The investment conference ends Tuesday.

 



n.股东( shareholder的名词复数 )
  • The meeting was attended by 90% of shareholders. 90%的股东出席了会议。
  • the company's fiduciary duty to its shareholders 公司对股东负有的受托责任
n.投资者,投资人
  • My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
  • The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
adj.无线的;n.无线电
  • There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
  • Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。
adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的
  • The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
  • Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
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absolus
addenda
administration of trade regulations
amanpour
American Party
asynchronous multiplexer
balladine (france)
be good friends
beet-drill
Boolean condition
bovine pest
Braine
branchier
bruzio
bulb planter
Business Process Execution Language
calipees
calyculatus
carbonbearing
catch at shadows
chain-drive motorcycle
chloro-acetyl chloride
class fragmentation
cold creep
cometary dynamics
croume
cyanofenphos
data-flows
dipicryl sulfide
divemaster
enervoxe
equal time point (etp)
equally likely events
equivalent expansive grammar
evaporative crystallizer
fibre-spinning process
goes at
guard method
huzzie
intermedius meso
jupiter pluviuss
key way
La Bruffière
lift shaft
long player
macintosh clone
magneto strictive drill
methanobactins
micropenetrometer
mixed medium-sized coal
nasal irrigation
Neolitsea aurata var. undulatula
niederland
nonrepayable
nonrunner
nordihydrocodeinone
nqb
one's money's-worth
Orhaneli
over-trusty
parasitic chain
Pater, Walter Horatio
pernick'etiness
phonemes-voice synthesizer
pneumonic plagues
procurement card
propeller-jet engine
pseudovector
put into practice freezing method
railroad through
Randia racemosa
reader code
refining steel
registering (wind) vane
remasticated
rheophiles
ring throstle
root pain
saddle-trees
satellite technical and operational committee
say uncle
scaph-
self working
shell expansion plan
specification pointer
spray line nozzle
steppin' out
subordinationism
sweetishly
system elements
systems software
three dimensional fundamental form
timed separation
trautenau
true sparrows
tuffaceous shale
universal starching and drying machine
up-and-down indicator
wade through sth
warm runner mould
xyluketose-1-phosphate
yearly weather