Apple is to set up two more research and development centers in Shanghai and Suzhou, following Beijing and Shenzhen, Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the China Development Forum in Beijing. 苹果首席执行官蒂姆库克近日在北京举行的中国发展

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Americas most expensive home is for sale in Los Angeles, California for $250 million. The new 12,000-square-meter home has 12 bedrooms and 21 bathrooms. The home also has three kitchens, a 25-meter swimming pool, a 40-seat movie theater, spa and bowl

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(二)月

A senior family planning official said last Saturday that due to the introduction of the two-child policy, China's population is predicted to peak at about 1.45 billion by the end of 2028, three years later than expected. 一名计划生育部门高级

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Royal Dutch Shell PLCs $70 billion deal to buy BG Group PLC marks the most aggressive step yet in the competition to be the worlds dominant supplier of liquefied natural gasa fuel with a fast-growing and increasingly global market. 荷兰皇家壳牌公

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Michael Jackson's infamous Neverland Ranch has hit the market for the first time since the late singer's death. 自迈克尔杰克逊过世之后,这座名声狼藉的梦幻乐园首次上市。 The firm who bought the singer's debt and then restor

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

China is quickly becoming a country of singles, with its unmarried population reaching 200 million in 2015. 中国正在快速成为一个单身国家,在2015年,中国未婚人口达到了2个亿。 Though media outlets and government bodies are

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

Bill Gates said his three children understand why he has pledged to leave his ?70billion fortune to charity when he dies. 比尔盖茨称,他的三个孩子理解他在死后将700亿英镑财产捐给基金会的决定。 In a revealing insight in

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, the darling of the country's top operator China Railway Corp, earned 23.4 billion yuan ($3.5 billion) last year, with a net profit of nearly 6.6 billion yuan, the National Business Daily reported. 据《每日经

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(149) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

More than 800 million men living today are descended from just eleven men, including the ruthless Mongolian leader Genghis Khan, according to new research. 最新研究表明,残酷的蒙古首领成吉思汗等11人在今天有8亿后代。 Geneti

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

China's Internet celebrities are estimated to create a whopping 58 billion market in 2016, far surpassing the 44 billion yuan in box office sales generated last year, according to an industry report. 日前一份行业报告显示,2016年中国网红

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A British woman has baked the world's most expensive cake which has so many precious gems it is worth ?48.5 million. 英国一女子烤出了世界上最贵的蛋糕,价值4850万英镑,因为蛋糕上有许多贵重的宝石。 It is made up of

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

He forecasts the economy will shrink by 3.5% this year, and to put it into context that is a big downward revision from his prediction in November of a shrinkage of 1.25%. But he did say the economy will start to recover by the end of this year. And

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

US tech giant Hewlett-Packard is selling a 51% stake in its Chinese server business for $2.3bn to Tsinghua Holdings. 美国科技巨头惠普将把在华服务器业务的51%股份出售给清华控股,作价23亿美元。 The deal brings together

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

At present, about 2b people around the world are suffering from 'hidden hunger,' and the number in China is 300m, said Wan Jianmin, an academic with the Chinese Academy of Engineering. 中国工程院院士万建民近日指出,目前,全球约有

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), together with Internet Society of China, has jointly issued the 2016 Statistical Report on Internet Development in China. 近日,中国互联网络信息中心和中国互联网协会联合发布

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Yahoo acknowledged on Thursday that data for at least 500m user accounts was stolen from the companys network in late 2014 by what it believes was a state-sponsored actor. 雅虎(Yahoo)周四承认,2014年末,至少5亿用户的账户数据被据信

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Topic 1-Chinese Actors Vastly Overpaid to the Tune of 100m Yuan, or 15m USD CCTV has called out some of China's most high-profile actors and actresses for being paid too much money, receiving up to 100 million Yuan or 15 million USD for a single movi

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

Recently celebrated their ninth wedding anniversary, royal couple Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall is allegedly going to have a divorce by the Queen's order. Prince Charles was told by Queen Elizabeth to go ahead with the divorce a

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Business 商业报道 Cable television 有线电视 The 61 billion proposal 耗资610亿的提案 The latest plot twists in a continuing television drama 电视连续剧中最新的情节突转 SPURNED suitors usually nurse the wounds of rejection qu

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm has agreed to pay a fine of nearly a billion U.S. dollars to Chinese authorities and has agreed to modify its practices. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) says the U.S. firm was found to have abused its mar

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(196) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻