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
.ae
Adler test
airtight steel shell
alkali resisting cellulose
assay bar
astronomic parallel
atake
Bagridae
bald wheat
bioreduce
black-eyed bean
blc.
bonferronis
bromochloroethane
ceasars
Cheju-haehyop
cod line
coercive remoulding
collecting company
communication terminal module controller
complement on ten
crater-face
customs union
d'aquila
data independence access model
defrost pan
Dithane M45
Eriocranioidea
ethluke
european championship
fixing bolt
fly-wheel diode
fringed fibril
get over
giveoff
Ha Giao, Song
hazes over
hearing loop
heterocyclic radical
Hollywoodite
hysteresis heat
immediate-action fuze
immunoluminometric
in closure
indriya
integration unit
intermediate angle
Keemun
kikuchi envelope
Kuurne
leefe
libbert
line sweep circuit
Marshall facies
melanosity
methyl isobutyrate
moreau rivers
muckerish
multiple-feed network
national standard reference data system (nsrds)
nil dicit
nitrogenous hormones
nonobsessive
nuclear magnetic alignment
oil products
operations function
panisidine
Petern's diet
phase preequalization
play-
preferential trading agreement
pteropodids
puccinelli
radiometric reflectance
reconjoined
reconnoiterers
reproachingly
reticulaphis fici
rheophytes
rivkind
Saraktashskiy Rayon
scroll painting
scum blow-off cock
self verification
sensation of tone
shin-kicking
skokholm
slot opening
spearshafts
standard 2
straight hair
syntacticising
thorium decay series
trafficability map
transcuprein
transparent liquid level gauge
verb group structure
VOLMET broadcast
wailzeant
well-executed
winings
zettaampere