In its first full quarter since the iPhone 7's release, Apple reported net sales of $78.4bn (62.3bn pounds), up 3% on the same period a year ago. 在iPhone 7发布第一个季度之后,苹果公司报告称,其净销售额达到了784亿美元(约

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

As the world's most expensive painting was carefully uncrated in New York.The new owner waited to see the work that literally cost him a fortune. I just absolutely adore it. Gustav Klimt's gilded mast

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Kobe Bryant, the former US National Basketball Association league star, launches a US$100 million venture capital fund known as Bryant Stibel at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. 本周一,前NBA超级巨星科比布莱恩特在纽约证券交易

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亚洲最大贫民区年产值超6亿美元 One of the world's largest slums is also a center of industrial production. A tour company is highlighting life in Dharavi, a mini-city within India's financial hub, Mumbai. 世界上最大的贫民区之一也

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Google and Facebook have confirmed that they were victims of a $100 million payment scam. 谷歌和脸书近日证实,他们在一桩诈骗案中被骗走1亿美元。 The criminal case drew public attention last month, when US Justice Department a

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The Powerball lightning bolt finally struck. Lucky ticket holders in three states California, Florida and Tennessee will split the record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot that lured millions of lottery hopefuls into a frenzied buying spree. 强力球头彩

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I agree that language learning is cool, but I challenge the assumption that its difficult. 我认同语言学习很酷,但我不认同语言学习不容易这一说法。 Languages cannot be taught, they can only be learned. Having someone or somet

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Blackstone is close to selling a large part of its residential property portfolio in Japan to Anbang Insurance of China, in a $2.3bn transaction that could come as early as the end of this week. 黑石(Blackstone)正接近将其在日本的很大一部

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Ant Financial, the digital payments arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is buying US-based MoneyGram for $880m (700m pounds). 电子商务巨头阿里巴巴的数字支付部门蚂蚁金服日前以8.80亿美元(折合7亿英镑)的价格收购了美国

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Uber has upended the transportation industry in the span of a few years. But the ride-hailing company has been losing a lot of money while doing so. 优步(Uber)在短短几年内颠覆了运输业。但这样做的同时,这家召车公司一直在大

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China's monthly trade surplus hit a record $60.6bn in February, as exports grew and imports slid back. 由于出口增长和进口减少,中国2月份的月度贸易顺差达到了破纪录的606亿美元。 Exports were up 48.3% year on year to $1

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Mark Zuckerberg is certainly generous, but he isn't alone. 马克扎克伯格确实非常慷慨,不过慷慨的富翁也并非仅他一人。 The Facebook chief executive said Tuesday that he will give away 99 percent of his family's stake in the s

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A billionaire Qatari sheikh dubbed the man who bought London was reportedly the anonymous bidder who snapped up a Pablo Picasso masterpiece that smashed the world auction sale record. 一个被冠以能买下伦敦的人称号的亿万富翁卡塔尔酋

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Microsoft jolted fixed income investors to life on Monday when it sold nearly $20bn of debt to fund its takeover of social network LinkedIn, the fifth largest corporate bond sale on record. 本周一,为了给收购社交网络领英(LinkedIn)提供资

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Consumers in China spent $116.8 billion on luxury goods abroad in 2015, according to China Daily. 据《中国日报》报道,2015年中国消费者在境外的奢饰品消费总计1168亿美元。 This translates to 46% of the global volume of hig

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Last month at the United Nations General Assembly, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to do more to help his country's 1.4 million indigenous people. He said there needed to be an effort to, quote, correct past injustices and bring about

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Twenty-six bilateral agreements were signed on Wednesday. As part of the deals, China will lend 500 million U.S. dollars to Eskom, South Africa's national power supplier, to help its operations. South African President Jacob Zuma hailed relations bet

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Melania Trump is suing a British newspaper and a US blogger for $150m over allegations she was a sex worker in the 1990s, her lawyer says. 据律师透露,梅拉尼亚特朗普正在起诉英国一家报社和美国一位美国博客作者,就其污

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A painting by Pablo Picasso has set a new world record for the most expensive artwork to be sold at auction after reaching $179m (?115m) in New York. 在纽约某拍卖会上,一幅毕加索画作以1.79亿美元天价创下纪录,成为史上最贵

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Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has replaced Apple as the world's most valuable listed company after the company's first set of results under its new structure beat expectations. 谷歌新重组后的母公司Alphabet在公布第一次财报后

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