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。
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accompanying vessel
action-comedy
admiral anchor
air heating
allemande sauces
allocate node
alzinox
amplitude half adder
Aragon
arteria reccurens ulnaris
assembly language listing
assembly part
asymphylodorasis
austenitic chrome nickel steel
automatic transfer
backsiphonage
berberinum
birational module
buttressed wall
cable overhead
cardiopneumatic
castelfiorentinoes
central station system
channel wall
claig
Coleochaetaceae
conceptless
connexin
continued from
cortical region
cutting-speed
dilute solution
donnelley
double metal relay
enkolpion
entomophthoraless
explosive box
eyeletting and riveting machine
floodplains
florche
genus Sciaenops
girdle ring
give someone a fit
global mobile personal communications system
gotten someone off
groundeles
Guadisu
harsh image
HRLSD
initial management
ion sensitive electrode
Kinpō-zan
knocks-on
larink
least bittern
levator glandulae thyroideae
Mahavelona
management science and engineering
Mandeville, Sir John
midsagittal section
minsks
National Research Council
noncombative
order due date sequence
parasagittal
performances
point slope form
post-pay station
press-subzero
pressure transmitter
private cause of action
regularity problem
rehydration aid
relieving
rocker-arm push-rod
rounded phrase
Rébénacq
sarcophaga concreata
sawing mark
screw-topped
single channel down converter
staking tool
stibinico-
stud tube water wall
subport buffer
supply-sider
swage set
swirl flow
syriana
tackle fall
tea oil plant
tilia chinensis maxim.
transporting vessel
tunica propria testis
Tutcheria spectabilis
ultra violet photomicrography
unit ideal
unsupplicated
waves in plasma
wear away
welter in
wooden image