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
'Arad
a man and a brother
agent of carrier
alarm signal
all weather liquefied petroleum gas
annihilation gamma quantum
anuerobic respiration
arteria frontalis medialis
ascent rate
beat frequency meter
bloodthirsties
blower sprayer
body scoring
body searches
central oscillating cylinder linkage
chante
Cheneyville
cherry gum
chrysops flavescens
circular behavior
cold junciton
composition of conductor
converted journal entry
coshocton
digit significant
dishabituations
distillation with steam
Dolgaya Kosa
dotted crotchet
enthalpy of desalting
equilibrium reflux boiling point
extensive operations in farming
factory-worker
fast feathering
fiber bush
file allocation tables
film studio
float wheel
floating point base
gorge-walking
grandmozzer
gravity brake
haemoglobinopathy
hot-head
hydraulic-controlled bulldozer
Ifergane
insect endocrinology
intermediate speed pinion
iron(ii) metavanadate
joint effort
Ladies' Gallery
lakhdars
late release
line controller
mahanta
maukish
monodictys putredinis
motor repair
multipath signal
munchy
N star N
new-metal
newley
nickel(ii) nitrate ammoniated
nonprison
oblique speech
Oil Sample
oppressors
papier
peer entity authentication
personal liability policy
promotion activities
protection setting
radio telemetering
rated d.c. output current
red lead anticorrosive primer
red-mouth
reference stress
repine
revolver loan
ride easy
Ring of the Nibelung, The
rood-lofts
Sales Oliveira
schemies
screenings wrapping
seerhand
shirt dress
Sinemurian Stage
spasmodic cholera
spreadsheet package
stagnation line
storage utilization
style book
superkids
syndrome of stirring wind due to blood deficiency
Teeswaters
Tottori
turn our back on
urocyclid
VLAP
world legal order