夏说英语新闻晨读 第121期:奢侈品日子不好过

本期内容： Ralph Lauren said it would cut 1,000 jobs and close 50 stores to lower costs and boost sales. The luxury fashion brand faces competition from cheaper clothes retailers such as HM and Zara and wants to reduce the time it takes products

夏说英语新闻晨读 第111期: 埃及航空空难

本期内容： Rescuers searched for wreckage from an EgyptAir Paris-Cairo flight which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. The Airbus A320, carrying 66 passengers and crew, disappeared from the radar shortly after entering Egyptian airspace. Greece

夏说英语新闻晨读 第112期: 英国退盟口水仗

本期内容： Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, denounced as absurd comments by the pro-Brexit Boris Johnson. The former mayor of London likened the European Union to Hitlers Third Reich. Mr Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, s

夏说英语新闻晨读 第113期:川普锁定党内提名

本期内容： Donald Trump gained the 1,237 delegates needed for the Republican presidential nomination, as a small group of unbound delegates told the Associated Press they would support him at the partys convention in Cleveland in July. The tycoo

夏说英语新闻晨读 第114期:七国会谈

本期内容： G7 leaders meeting in Japan warned that Brexit could harm the world economy and promised more forceful (but unspecified) measures to boost growth. Barack Obama laid a wreath at Hiroshima and decried nuclear weapons, without apologizin

夏说英语新闻晨读 第115期:汽车厂商与打车应用

本期内容： Toyota formed a partnership with Uber, the biggest ride-sharing app, to develop mobility services. And Volkswagen invested $300m in Gett, the Israeli outfit behind the largest taxi-hailing app in Europe. Unlike Uber, Gett signs up onl

夏说英语新闻晨读 第116期:欧盟网络行为准则

本期内容： The worlds biggest tech companies agreed to a European Union code of conduct curbing hate speech and terrorist propaganda. Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft promised to review most complaints within 24 hours, removing the offend

夏说英语新闻晨读 第117期:戴尔收购案补刀

本期内容： An American judge ruled that the buyout in 2013 of Dell by Michael Dell and Silver Lake was 22% below the fair value. Dozens of stockholders who had opposed the $24.9 billion deal, and who filed the suit in Delaware to elicit a fair v

夏说英语新闻晨读 第118期:大堡礁正在消亡

本期内容： More than one-third of the coral in the northern and central parts of the Great Barrier Reef is dead or dying, scientists said. The chief culprit for the mass bleaching of the past two months is high water temperaturespartly from the

夏说英语新闻晨读 第119期:拳王阿里逝世

本期内容： Preparations started for Muhammad Alis funeral on Friday: an interfaith service, led by an imam, in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky, with Bill Clinton among those speaking. In one of many tributes to the champion boxer, whose de

夏说英语新闻晨读 第120期:桑德斯死磕希拉里

本期内容： Hillary Clinton declared a historic victory with a decisive win in the California primary. But her rival for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders, said he would remain in the contest until the party convention in Philadelphia in

夏说英语新闻晨读 第122期:奥兰多枪击案

本期内容： In Americas deadliest-ever shooting, a gunmanwith Is**mist sympathies, police saidkilled 50 people and injured 53 in an attack on Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old American citizen of Afghan origin

夏说英语新闻晨读 第123期:微软收购linkedin

本期内容： In its largest-ever deal, Microsoft bought LinkedIn, an ailing professional-networking and job-hunting site, for $26.2 billion. Shares in the software giant dipped 3% on the ****; LinkedIns stock soared by 47%. It has 100m active mont

夏说英语新闻晨读 第124期:欧洲杯足球流氓大战

本期内容： Violence marred the start of the Euro 2016 soccer championship in France. Police used tear gas and water cannon against rioting English and Russian fans in Marseilles. UEFA is to investigate Russia for an attack by its fans on England

夏说英语新闻晨读 第125期:伊朗与波音的交易

本期内容： Irans civil-aviation authorities said they had agreed to buy 100 planes from Boeing, pending final permission from the American Treasury Department. The deal could be worth $17 billion. Pro-Israel lawmakers in Washington complained. A

夏说英语新闻晨读 第126期:英国脱欧

本期内容： The Leave camp won a narrow victory51.9% of the votein Britains Brexit referendum. David Cameron, who led the Remain campaign, resigned as Conservative leaderbut wont step down as prime minister until the party elects his successor. M

夏说英语新闻晨读 第127期:大众丑闻第二暴击

本期内容： Volkswagen will pay more than $10 billion in compensation to settle American claims arising from its emissions-test fiddlings; its former boss, Martin Winterkorn, is also under investigation for concealing an inquiry in order to manip

夏说英语新闻晨读 第128期:特斯拉车主

本期内容： For the third quarter in a row, Tesla missed its delivery targets. The electric-carmaker delivered 14,370 cars in its second quarter, against a planned 17,000. The firm has struggled with producing its SUV-style Model X, blaming an am

夏说英语新闻晨读 第129期:希拉里邮件门

本期内容： FBI officials interviewed Hillary Clinton as part of an investigation into her use of a private email server. The question of whether her side-stepping of official computers constituted mishandling of classified information has haunte

夏说英语新闻晨读 第233期:苏富比拍卖行

本期内容： A 1982 artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby's auction of contemporary art Thursday night. Sotheby's said the sale of Untitled was an auction record for the artist. It also set a record price for