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
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a. recurrens radialis
administratrixship
air defrosting
American set
Ammerland
atomic photodissociation laser
autonomic parthenocarpy
barbershoppers
beta reduced
Beta vulgaris L. var. saccharifera Aelf.
bilge rail
Bruce,Robert (the)
calcaneal rete
Caroni R.
chrome-mordant azo dye
clearing away
Clinton, James
closed harbour
comb-shaped
complete garment making equipment
corpsman
cutting orchard
degenharts
deterministic retrieval
devrait
dibranchiate mollusks
diesel-dynamo aggregate
dimethoxanate
dividences
ebright
emission characteristic curve
extreme ultraviolet radiation
facilitating
feature values
Ficus rubiginosa
file to file program
fire assembly
firesafety
frenchmans cap
Gascoyne, Mt.
Gibbs free energy,Gibbs function
giga-mole
have the day off
high-voltage switch gear
hot-pressure welding
inwardly
iron rib emery roll polisher
ishikawaite
jarjus
jejunoplasty
karpa
kphs
link-editing software
Little Phoebe
low-masses
malus baccata borkh.
marine micropaleontology
molten metal dip coating
normal rake angle
numerical analysis method
old fogy
paste shampoo
pea-green
placentotrophy
plaisted
plant-breedings
Pohnpei
popup
post-minimalism
postocular spot
potbellied pig
professionalizing
Pseudo-bombs
pyoderm(I)a
radiant heat
rainfed rice field
Risnjak
rock nest
rules of thumb
sail near to the wind
scraper hoist
secant modulus of elasticity
shetley
shg properties
spring casing
step displacement input
stirrup type pedal
stock controller
subsarcolemmal
sugar-beet
Talented Tenth
tetramine
third country national
to embarrassment
to support
uncontaminated water sampler
vaporizing combustion chamber
viruscan
vlj
wing-mounted engine
workest