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
1-O-alkyI-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine
Agriochoerus
alsike
anaea
anaglyptic
anthroposcopy
Apoglossum
ashburn
barometric discharge pipe
be-edged
behind the schedule
bellows gas meter
biospherians
blow sth out of proportion
board around
bottle pump
bracies
brennande
bridging wiper
brown-greys
butane splitter
caiman crocodilus apaporiensis
carefully work out the budget for
Chengguang
Cinnamomum migao
colonialization
Comus
contrave
craniotomized
cultural pattern
double-ended severance
DSig
equation of time of abstracts
Eulerian intrinsic equation
exchange rate recovered
filament reinforced material
five animals exercise
gainor
gamboile
ganet
generous-minded
genetically-modified
globuliferous phagocyte
hawser elasticity
Heterophyllidae
high order language technology
Hoblyn
hot forming
hyper-model
information accumulation
interlocking director
isotope technique
jalfrezi
kaique
keep an eye open for
kirats
Kori Creek
Ku-ring-gai
kubeliks
lateral vein
leptophion maculipennis
Llan
locus diagram
Lyne, River
Lévézou
matrixmtalloproteinase
mentale
merontozone
mesocortical pathway
monologue copy
motor gunboat
neodyne
net operating income
overheard
paralogous
Pencarrow Hd.
polyglutamylate
potamogeton nodosuss
pressure anesthesia
pretend play
proin
quantum theory of money
re-ride
red-bed deposit
rse
Rychłocice
sciaenid fish
secret ballot
secret block
seismic channel
sulfisomezol
sympathetic string
syndrome of blood stasis due to lung heat
till all is blue
timber trolley
trachypodopsis serrulata crispatula
tubulously
unsteady state transfer of heat
upward welding in the inclined position
vicarious calibration
volt-ampere meter
wreak havoc with