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
acrossocheilus paradoxus
activistly
Akatonoesis
Alboitic
assimilated phoneme
auxiliary live steam admission
axial flow turbo machine
bailing air rate
birational mapping
bursew
butyl ether
canada falls l.
candidate list
cantilevered steps
cardiodiosis
chisel fracture
chromosome tetrad
complementary divisor
compound sill
corrosion target
creasable
crown to back
cut-open view
cyto-inhibition
dead key
developmental research
diadelphous
dot character impact printing technique
double-armed
dynamited
earthier
empty file
eolian plain
eudiometric, eudiometrical
extrasensorial
filons
flux-mmf loop
german capitals
graph type
gravity purity
hamonic generator
head receiver
Hemiboea rubribracteata
higher transcendental function
horridly
hylotheism
hysteric stigma
in full power
increased rate of fire
kaleb
kan wu
kinderkin
large sapling forest
lemonizing
levomethamphetamine
lich-stone
man-made sabotage
mirrorimage switch
motor inns
Mwombezhi
nominatives
nonprime attribute
not in session
noticeboards
order hypocrealess
overriding control
ovulational age
patriotic medley
pendulousness
playright
poke bonnet
powerboatings
quartz crystal unit
radiant tube
radiating cable
SAAC
scramble into
Sheeler, Charles
single-propeller planes
slave labor act
small fishing vessel
spindle-bush
state controllability
step gating system
storage heater
stovepiped
sutura sphenosquamalis
syma
theory of moduli
thermal spraying coating
tons gross
truxillo wool
unconditional estimator
unniggard
updive
variation of level of supports
Vicovu de Jos
vocables
wakelate
wax crayon
zungite
zymogen granula