听美文故事记6级单词03-06
时间：2018-11-30 作者：英语课 分类：听美文故事记6级单词
6. Yahoo Celebrates a Decates Online
Yahoo, one of the net's most iconic companies, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week.
The web portal has undergone remarkable 1 changes since it was set up by Stanford University students David Filo and Jerry Yang in a campus trailer.
The students wanted a way of keeping track of their web-based interests.
The categories lists they devised soon became popular to hundreds of people and the two saw business potential in their idea.
Originally dubbed 2 "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", the firm adopted the moniker Yahoo because the founders 3 liked the dictionary definition of a yahoo as a rude, unsophisticated, uncouth 4 person.
The term was popularised by the 18th Century satirist 5 Jonathan Swift in his classic novel, Gulliver's Travels.
"We were certainly not sophisticated or civilised," Mr Yang told reporters ahead of the anniversary, which will be officially recognised on 2 March.
They did have business brains however, and in April 1995 persuaded venture capitalists Sequoia 6 Capital, which also invested in Apple Computer and Cisco Systems, to fund Yahoo to the tune 7 of $2m (￡1.04m).
A second round of funding followed in the autumn and the company floated in April 1996 with fewer than 50 employees.
Now the firm employs 7,600 workers and insists its dot-com culture of "work hard, play hard" still remains 8.
It is one of just a handful of survivors 9 of the dot-com crash although it now faces intense rivalry 10 from firms such as Google, MSN and AOL.
Jerry Yang, who remains the firm's "Chief Yahoo", is proud of what the company has achieved.
"In just one decade, the internet has changed the way consumers do just about everything - and it's been a remarkable and wonderful experience," he said.
Through it all, we wanted to build products that satisfied our users wants and needs, but it's even more than that - it's to help every one of us to discover, get more done, share and interact."
- She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
- These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
- Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
- Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty. 他是该大学医学院的创建人之一。 来自辞典例句
- The founders of our religion made this a cornerstone of morality. 我们宗教的创始人把这看作是道德的基石。 来自辞典例句
- She may embarrass you with her uncouth behavior.她的粗野行为可能会让你尴尬。
- His nephew is an uncouth young man.他的侄子是一个粗野的年轻人。
- Voltaire was a famous French satirist.伏尔泰是法国一位著名的讽刺作家。
- Perhaps the first to chronicle this dream was the Greek satirist Lucian.也许第一个记述这一梦想的要算是希腊的讽刺作家露西安了。
- The sequoia national forest is at the southern end of the sierra nevada range.红杉国家公园位于内华达山脉南端尽头处。
- The photo shows the enormous general Sherman tree in California's sequoia national park.照片显示的是加利福尼亚州红杉国家公园内巨大的谢尔曼将军树。
- He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
- The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。