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
achime
actual flow of heat-supply network
adjustable hand wheel
aerial photographicsurvey
all-purpose controller
anticipatory water level signal
antiproteinase
Arteria radialis indicis
Atalantas
attractest
auctionary
back patching
back tell
banana problem
baseliner
Better an open enemy than a false friend.
black meat
Blue Division
boldoin
buffered input/output channel
carbon-dioxide moulding
ceelen-gellerstedt(syndrome)
ceruloderma
chorioideal tumor
coarse grass cloth
consistence regulator
cooled type valve
crismore
cyclopropanation
Czech capital
Debrrcin
double length word
ear hustle
equilibrium of sales and purchases
experiment-wise error rate
external resistor
family raphidiidaes
far leading dynamo
fat embolism syndrome
Ferrette
filiformpapillae
fusion mixture
gas register
haemograms
hand stop valve
hartsdale
have no denial
Hearst, William Randolph
hemispatial
heterogenic mating
high creep strength steel
holonomic
inter-quartile
inventory flow
Jeffersonia diphylla
krustev
lianne
lindgrens
loped
lupois
mash preparation
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
narutomaki
Nectriella
Nova Scotian
numinal
Onoto
Oreoi
popliteal web syndrome
Private Network-to-Network Interface
protec-tion
raster overlay
repeated compression tester
rheodichroism
roll pressure adjusting mechanism
satin bowerbirds
schiotz
Seguin's sign
serologicals
sinoatrial node
skill-fulness
statistical tolerance
steel refrigerator
stinks up
strictly pseudoconvex
superior aperture of tympanic canaliculus
toggle breakpoint
train composition
transit hall
trihydroxymethylaminomethane
trimethyl tin oxide
truing course
typo., typog.
units of satisfaction
valvotomy
verification scale
warpeth
WBC white corpuscles
whene
wide range monitor system
zdanovich
zinc-