时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语生活新闻


英语课
The co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has launched what could be the world's largest ever book club. Zuckerberg announced last week that his New Year's resolution was to read a book every other week. He then invited his 30 million followers 1 to join him in his literary pursuit. He created his own Facebook page called A Year of Books, on which he will announce what his latest read is and ask people to discuss the book with him. He explained the rationale for his initiative in a post, saying: "I'm excited for my reading challenge. I've found reading books very intellectually fulfilling. Books allow you to fully 2 explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today."
 
Zuckerberg has already selected his first book, 'The End of Power' by Moises Naim. He explained: "It's a book that explores how the world is shifting to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, militaries and other organizations. The trend towards giving people more power is one I believe in deeply, and I'm looking forward to reading this book and exploring this in more detail." Zuckerberg takes on a challenge every year as a way to broaden his perspectives and learn more about the world, different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies. A previous task was to learn to speak Mandarin 3, which he has managed to do.

1 followers
追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件
  • the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
  • The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。
2 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
3 Mandarin
n.中国官话,国语,满清官吏;adj.华丽辞藻的
  • Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
  • Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。
学英语单词
academic system
accessory punishment
Agriophyllum lateriflorum
amphiploid
anhydrous trimethylamine
arranaga
autochton druse
autokinetic effect
AWACS,Awacs
bife
black chaster
bounded electron
bounded heuristic method
Brugnera
cellular moisture
christian lacroix
Chucha
computer duplex
contrarinesses
cooling of plate
curaao
D'Entrecasteaux Islands
damiani
day of snow
Dolomiaea forrestii
double doublet
drip-drip-drip
earhardt
epirock
ergotamine caffeine
etched circuit
external posterior seta
far from denmark
far-reaching headlamp
flusterations
give a hostage to time
heptomino
initial sensitivity
inlet unsubmerged culvert
inter-bank agreement
IUDs
ketourine
khabri
knapsack lever sprayer
laid - off workers
Largo Bay
laser coagulation
leppies
lifo list
lift the embargo
liklie
male menopause
Mazus fukienensis
mechanobiological
Melocalamus compactiflorus
methoxy-cyclopenteno-phenanthrene
mustelas
navigable water-way
Needham
nonlinear ring
notch ratio
oadc
oblique scarf with wedge
on one's tod
overbathing
parasympathetic
passive infrared range finder
plasmatomy
power driven system
price-performance
quadfurcations
re-reeled
recipent
Refluit
ring array
shibutani
soccerballs
soft-rock
sports-loving
SRP54
SSTH
stockbrokers
subcrustaceous
tabacco
tamper-proof package
tank anchor
taylor-perry
tcrna
the first among equals
theory of limited sovereignty
thermochemistry
tuned transformer
tuning inertia
Ubidea
unfoldment
unweathered mineral soil
varing
video filter
villalobos
Wolbrom
yellow-card
zeuxis comptus