时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语生活新闻


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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。
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acupoints on Du channel
agendum call card
ambulante
amino-toluene
avocado extract
B.N.O.C.
biosphere protection area
boldhearted
boron metasomatism
Buryatiya, Respublika
cancellariate
carrier sense protocols
cincotti
coil heat exchanger
commutator lengths
conditioning of goods
cooking battery
corporate action reminder
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Danaea
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deep-sea salvage tug
deplant
drivepipe
driving pinion adjusting sleeve
dummy array name
essential extension
executable trace
faust ballet
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Fitzgerald, Francis Scott (Key)
flanconnade
floine
floppy disc formatting
forced mode
graveyard poetry
guide vane pump
gypper
H-pattern shift
handkerchief lawn
heat ageing
hueder
hui p'o y?eh
Hutchinson's triad
hydrodynamic equation
imposition of export ban
isothene
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lasioderma formosanum
laverie
machine workshop
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metal
model-ship correlation allowance
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naval communications area
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Norfolk Basin
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orientalidine
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pea-greens
photo-conductive cell
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prune cake
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sale of wood
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shochetim
singular focus
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take an instrument for value
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what is your phone number
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