时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语商业新闻


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 丹麦玩具制造商乐高周四表示不会与壳牌公司续签协议


Danish toy maker 1 Lego said on Thursday that it will not sign a new deal with the oil company Shell. They had a partnership 2 in which Lego made toys with the Shell logo on them. Shell sold the toys in its gas stations in 26 countries. The contract was worth $110 million. Lego made this decision after the environmental group Greenpeace made a video using Lego bricks that showed Shell in the Arctic 3 Ocean. It shows oil filling the water in the Arctic after an oil spill. Lego people and polar bears in the video become covered in oil. At the end of the video, oil has covered everything, except a Shell flag. The video has become Greenpeace's most-watched viral video in its history.


 


Greenpeace's video campaign ran for three months. Over a million people emailed Lego asking it to end its deal with Shell. Greenpeace was very happy that Lego will end the partnership. A statement on the Greenpeace website said: "Thanks a million, Lego". It added: "We're super happy Lego has finally decided 4 to do the right thing. It's a massive 5 victory." Lego's CEO said he made the decision because he didn't want the company to be part of the environmental campaign. He said Greenpeace should have spoken to Shell instead of making the video. Shell had plans to drill in the Arctic in 2013 or 2014 but stopped because of technical problems. It has not yet decided whether or not to start in 2015.


 



1 maker
n.制造者,制造商
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
2 partnership
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
3 Arctic
adj.北极的;n.北极
  • They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
  • The sort of animal lived in the Arctic Circle.这种动物生活在北极圈里。
4 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
5 massive
adj.巨大的,大规模的,大量的,大范围的
  • A massive sea search has failed to find any survivors.经过大规模的海上搜救仍未找到幸存者。
  • He drank a massive amount of alcohol.他喝了大量的烈酒。
学英语单词
-monger
.wab
a catastrophic flood
a moot point
ABEP
active lines
afdbs
affectionates
agreed formula
Aleurites fordii
Arcestes
as large again
Ashow
backblast
bearing of bow
Blake Ridge
breadth limited search
breaks away
bridge control internal combustion engine
Brussels carpet
canded
carcinoma of sweat gland
Castle Dale
chang-wen
characteristic factor
column of built channels laced
compaction by layers
curlily
de stress
deficiency payments
deformatter
deven
digit adsorbing selector
directional comparison system
disruption time
dust guard holder
enology
extra length for machining
faratsihite
go over the top
go to ... rest
have the pins and needles
heel shoe piece
heterogamy
hummeller
in the distance
input offset voltage
inscribed shares
KwaZulu-Natal(Natal)
lengthiness
leucocratite
load-lifting height
locking bar driver
Losers are always in the wrong.
ltcp
mbi
microseismic region
modifiable
Morr.
needlecords
neutron density
Nogedal
Nogueruelas
nonmagnetic watch
nuclear legislation
out-of-this
output programmability
pajtim
pantropical plants
parme
pell inlet
porocephalis disease
positive collector grid
program logic array
psalmograph
pure swap transaction
raft body
receptacle plug
Richard D'Oyly Carte
rost
sawtooth antenna
singing bread
spherical grain
sught
supracondylar process
tardy
token bus network
topaz rock
trixie
trolley-pole current collector
turnip radich
turret-hatch race lock
undullness
unforcedness
unit transistor
unprocessed information
victimise
vin mousseux
volume of stroke
window-blind
working position apparatus
zunana