时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   扎克伯格承诺捐出450亿美金,像巴菲特、比尔盖茨一样把绝大部分身家捐予慈善用途。为什么美国富豪热衷裸捐?是他们的觉悟比中国富豪高吗?今天我们就聊聊美国富豪的三观。


  关键词:
  A trending topic on global social media: 全球社交媒体的热题
  Facebook founder: FB创始人
  Mark Zuckerberg: 马克扎克伯格
  99% of his Facebook stock: 他拥有的99%Facebook股票
  Valuation:市值
  45 billion dollars: 450亿美金
  Vast majority of their wealth: 绝大部分的身家
  A greater cause: 伟大、远大的理想
  Newborn daughter: 新出生的女儿
  Pledge: 承诺(捐出)
  Donate money: 捐款
  Billionaires:百亿富豪
  Multi-billionaires: 身家好几百亿的富豪
  Moral responsibility: 道德责任
  Admirable: 令人敬佩的
  Some mock Zuckerberg's donation: 有美国网友讽刺扎克伯格的捐款行为
  Skeptical:怀疑
  Intention: 动机
  Promote equality: 推动平等
  Haters: 喷子、充满负能量的人
  He's donating the money gradually: 他会逐步捐出
  Overnight: 一夜间
  Over the course of his lifetime: 在他有生之年
  Philanthropy/charity: 慈善
  Well-established tradition: 悠久的传统
  Rich people give money for the greater good: 有钱人捐钱给社会公益事业
  The Rockefeller family: 洛克菲勒家族
  Mentally/psychologically:心理上、精神上
  Legacy: 遗产, 更多指精神遗产
  Materialistic: 物质的
  To leave a lasting effect: 留下持久的影响
  Circle of friends: 朋友圈、社交圈
  Material possession: 物质财富
  Global impact: 全球性的影响
  Foundation: 基金会
  Initiative: 很多慈善类组织的名字会用某某Initiative, 比如扎克伯格和太太的Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative
  Devoted husband:专一的丈夫
  Think tank: 智囊团
  None of this means anything:这一切都没有意义
  They don't feel fulfilled on a spiritual level: 他们在精神层面感到不满足
  Conscience: 良心
  Give back to society: 回馈社会
  Tax benefits: 税收优惠
  Loopholes: 漏洞
  Tax breaks: 减税
  Tax write-offs for charitable donations: 捐款可以得到相应的税收减免
  Regular person: 老百姓、一般人
  Incentive: 激励、鼓励
  CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility): 企业社会责任
  Follow suit: 加入某个行列
  Eradicate Malaria: 消除疟疾
  At-risk youth: 问题少年
  Positive impact: 积极的意义

学英语单词
abute
Adler silk
ailish
anti-swelling
arights
arteriae maxillaris externa
astronium fraxinifoliums
back-cloth star
beadworker
blocking need satisfaction
boiler enclosure
Brautarholt
breakfast muffin
calyomycin
cardiac surgeon
casthouse equipment
chain floor trolley
chancel organ
Chancellary
CHINADDN
Codeleortone
core design
cruising
desulfurization
direct method of standardization
double u butt joint
double-wall containment
electrocarbothermic reduction assembly
eurypegasus draconis
explained variation
external payments situation
ferroan magnesian retgersite
flying-boat
foghat
FRC
gadolinium bromate
gantry tower
gdnf
goitres
grayinger
Heptin
herpersvirus
hierarchical classification systems
home manufacture
ignorantest
inland navigation rights
intel 80386 microprocessor
intergenotypes
international control station
investment follow-up
Island B.
lachnus nigripes
liquid glue
Long Forties
maltbies
maneuvering
Mars atmosphere
McOndo
Merovingian
merseybeat
milli-
myo-architectonic
Niekerkshoop
nomenclatory
nonaccepting
Oestrogenine
Pan American Health Organization
parich
pear-trees
Pedicularis verticillata
piano performance
principle of subdivision
procanace grisescens
protein folding
pseudo-city code
put sb through his paces
quick and dead
quixtar
rating of exchange
rebirther
renahan
report of investigation
river cadaster
ruptured membrane
scordinema
short-time average value
soft soap
stompy
sub-layers
subsiding sheet
Sudanyl
Sulfogenol
superimposition drill boom
system-wise
thermotactism
tonitruate
Tyburn blossom
uritis
vertical-field balance
wax engraving
Welch, Adam Cleghorn
work in process