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
acousto-optical modulator
adenomatous myosarcoma
adroyd
anti-submarine screening area
assembled template
automatic isochronous staining machine
baptizations
barberino
beta reduction
Carlina biebersteinii
central lacteal
charge paid
compound interest estimate
compound midpoint formula
crossed strain
DBQD
diazo coupler
diode modulator
distance-mark
effect of capital construction
elizur
embryonal carcinosarcoma of lung
excrutiate
feel sorry for oneself
ferric dimethyl dithiocarbamate
file servers
fjeld
FLP transformer for use in mine
forcipate, forcipated
frady
Green formula
Grozdimir
halamide
hoet
Homoiousion
ice stringer
international latitude service (ils)
jawbreakers
laser frequency standard
lavandulifolium
Leu-deltorphin
long range earth-current communication system
long-sweep
low interest rate
lower lid reconstruction
majorant series
make a monkey out of someone
manufacture from
mark-on
matarrese
meteorologic observation ship
MFN most favoured nation
micro hardness tester
minimum cost rule
Mustagh
NACD
nanophyton erinaceum (pall.) bunge
net present value model
nonextradition of political criminal
Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance
ofshame
one-way trunk line
organic quenched counter tube
out-of-business
paralomis dofleini
pavie
pinch-point temperature difference
poisson parameter
popescus
potash-felspar
power-driven ship
projection layout
quadrivalent anion
rapid determination
reactor oscillator measurement
reed international
reflector backup structure
rereplications
retread tire
scapular spine
sheet-roller chain
sphingomyelin lipidosis
spontaneous rupture
strip-lacquering line
sulfurized asphalt
symbol data
systematic deformation
tail-up on a rope
tectonic order
Temple of Artemis
theodor schwanns
thyroxins
tow address instruction format
Tragopogon sabulosus
ulmert
vacuum-tight furnace cover
velocity-measuring system
verge
volume electric charge density
weight of observation
xylochlore
zhoosh