时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:夏说英语新闻晨读


英语课

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The US Federal Trade Commission is reported to be investigating Facebook after allegations that 50 million users' private information was misused 1 by a political consultancy firm. Cambridge Analytica (CA), hired by the Trump 2 campaign in the 2016 US election, has been accused of taking the personal data unknown to users. Facebook's stock has continued to slide, following a steep decline on Monday. Mr Zuckerberg did not attend a Facebook staff briefing on the crisis at its Californian headquarters on Tuesday, which was led by deputy general counsel Paul Grewal instead, the Daily Beast news site reports.



allegation: 指控

consultancy firm: 咨询公司

be accused of: 被指控做某事

stock:股票

slide:滑行;下跌

steep:陡峭的,猛烈的

briefing:短会,简会

headquarter:总部



v.使用…不当( misuse的过去式和过去分词 );把…派作不正当的用途;虐待;滥用
  • He misused his dog shamefully. 他可耻地虐待自己的狗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He had grossly misused his power. 他严重滥用职权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
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acquittal in fact
aethyrs
affirmatively
apandry
arteriae supraorbitalis
atomic orbit
Battle of Waterloo
be square
blackbody emission
bulk-oil circuit breaker
carotene oxide
continuous change
contra-octave
cowl lip
cytopharyngeal apparatus
deaggregated
distributing ring
double dabble
drinkless
Egyptian lily
embedded in one's memory
fed-ups
flavor strength
fracturing blender truck
free slack
free transmission
full-scale value of an instrument
genus gnetums
gob-stick
guiding trestle
helical polymer
helium mass spectrum leak detection
hesperidinase
Hongwu
Huesca, Prov.de
Imperial de Aragón, Can.
jackarooesse
lactic acid ethyl ester
levulosuria
lig. menisci fibularis
light switch toggle
lithogeochemical survey
lorsches
make track
mediatenesses
menispermums
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moist sep moisture separator
nanterres
NBCN
Non-real time
operating profits
operator control system
orange-cranberry
oscillation pickup
outrer
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pair recombination
pocket gophers
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rafinesque
reactor control board
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retinascop
right cutting edge
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sarmentogenin
scum gutter
Serpukhovian
shakeespeare
shut the door against
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simultaneous comparison method
sodium bromoiridite
submorphous
substitute word
Susch
Symplocos mollifolia
Tagbaoka
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thaw rigor
tight as a brick
Tomu
turnblad
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unflinty
unibanco
vancouverites
vermiform movement
virogeneses
water spider
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xeroradiography apparatus
zantovsky