夏说英语新闻晨读 第86期:推特将转播美国橄榄球比赛

本期内容： TwitterwonabiddingbattleagainstanumberoftechfirmsvyingtobroadcastAmericanfootballgamesonline.TheNationalFootballLeague,whichrunstheprofessionalsport,wantstospreaditsinfluencebeyondcouch-basedtelevisionviewing.TwitterwillstreamtenThurs

夏说英语新闻晨读 第87期:迪士尼千年二当家不干了

本期内容： Tom Staggs, long seen as the heir apparent to Disneys boss Bob Iger, said he would step down, evidently disappointed at not being guaranteed the succession. Mr Iger, who has run the entertainment conglomerate for 15 years, is due to d

夏说英语新闻晨读 第88期:日本和厄瓜多尔地震

本期内容： Earthquakes wrought havoc in Ecuador, killing more than 200, and Japan, where at least 41 died and 11 were missing. Hundreds were injured in both countries. In Japan, 180,000 people are in temporary shelters and 300,000 homes are with

夏说英语新闻晨读 第89期:网飞公司股价下挫

本期内容： Netflixs share price plunged by more than 10% after the video-streaming company forecast much lower subscriber growth for the second quarter than analysts had predicted. First-quarter earnings were better than expected ($28m, up by $4

夏说英语新闻晨读 第90期:奥巴马访英

本期内容： On a visit to London, Barack Obama decried Brexit, sayingwith the candor of a friendthat European Union membership magnified Britains global influence. The leave camp reacted furiously: Boris Johnson said that Americans would never to

夏说英语新闻晨读 第91期:川普前路荆棘重重

本期内容： Hillary Clinton won New Yorks Democratic presidential primary with 58% of the vote, ending a run of losses to Bernie Sanders. She remains the firm favorite to capture the nomination. Donald Trump scooped 60% of Republican votes and al

夏说英语新闻晨读 第92期:太阳能飞机环球之旅

本期内容： Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane, completed the longest, transpacific leg of its round-the-world journey. The 72-metre-wide craft, powered by 17,000 photovoltaic cells on its wings and fuselage, has broken several solo- and long-f

夏说英语新闻晨读 第78期:喜达屋花落谁家

本期内容： Starwood Hotels Resorts Worldwide accepted an improved takeover offer, worth $13.6 billion in cash and shares, from Marriott, reviving a deal to create the worlds largest hotel group. Last week Starwood, owner of St Regis, Westin and

夏说英语新闻晨读 第109期:寨卡病毒疫苗进入关键阶段

本期内容： American scientists announced that they had cloned the Zika virus. This is an important stage in producing a safe version of the pathogen to be used in a vaccine against the mosquito-borne illness, which has been linked to brain defor

夏说英语新闻晨读 第108期:巴菲特在苹果投资折损

本期内容： Berkshire Hathaway said in a quarterly filing that it paid $1.1 billion earlier this year for a stake in Apple. Shares in the technology giant have since dropped by nearly a fifth. Warren Buffetts investment conglomerate has long shun

夏说英语新闻晨读 第142期:弹劾总统办奥运

本期内容： In a 15-hour session Brazils Senate voted 59-21 in favour of an impeachment trial for Dilma Rousseff, the countrys embattled president. In May Ms Rousseff was suspended, ostensibly for dodgy accounting practices, after a similarly dra

夏说英语新闻晨读 第145期:奥运门票黄牛党

本期内容： Patrick Hickey, Europes most senior official on the International Olympic Committee, was arrested on suspicion of ticket touting. Police said the raid on Mr Hickeys hotel room in Rio de Janeiro was connected to the arrest on August 5t

夏说英语新闻晨读 第146期:关停关塔那摩监狱

本期内容： The United Arab Emirates agreed to take in 15 inmates from Guantnamo Bay, reducing the number held at Americas c**troversial offshore prison to 61. Barack Obama wants to close the facility, which has housed almost 800 suspected terror

夏说英语新闻晨读 第147期:吉利汽车与优步联手

本期内容： Uber, a ride-hailing service, and Volvo, * carmaker owned by Geely of China, announced a non-exclusive alliance to develop self-driving cars. Uber plans to deploy around 100 autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh in the coming months. Ford

夏说英语新闻晨读 第148期:另一个地球

本期内容： A multinational team of astronomers working at the European Southern Observatory in Chile discovered an Earth-sized planet in orbit around a star four light-years away. Proxima Centauri b is a bit bigger than Earth and orbits within i

夏说英语新闻晨读 第149期:巴西总统恐遭弹劾

本期内容： Brazils senate opened the trial of Dilma Rousseff, the countrys suspended president, following her impeachment for allegedly cooking the books to hide the real state of the economy. If 54 senators vote against Ms Rousseff, interim pre

夏说英语新闻晨读 第150期:初心不复

本期内容： WhatsApp, a popular messaging service, said it would relax its stance on privacy and start sharing its users phone numbers with Facebook, its parent. The change, which WhatsApp had vowed not to make when the social-media giant bought

夏说英语新闻晨读 第151期:空箭折戟

本期内容： A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on its launch pad in Cape Canaveral during pre-flight tests. The satellite it was due to carry into orbit on Saturday (which Facebook had planned to use to provide internet access in developing countr

夏说英语新闻晨读 第152期:特朗普

本期内容： Donald Trump doubled down on his pledges to deport undocumented immigrants and to build a great border wall, just hours after meeting Mexicos president. Enrique Pe?a Nieto had insisted that Mexicans would pay for no such thing. Yet Mr

夏说英语新闻晨读 第143期:特斯拉北京撞车

本期内容： Tesla said one of its cars had been involved in a crash in Beijing while in Autopilot mode, the first known incident of its kind in China. The cars owner, who was uninjured, said sales staff had overstated the extent to which the car