'Jurassic World' Sells $1 Billion Worth of Tickets 《侏罗纪世界》全球票房破10亿美元创纪录 In just two weeks, Jurassic World has earned more than one billion dollars in ticket sales around the world. It is already the second most pop

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(六)月

President Donald Trump is the nation's first billionaire president -- but he's not as rich as he used to be, according to the Forbes 2017 Billionaires List published last Monday. 唐纳德特朗普总统是美国第一位亿万富豪总统,不过,根

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The United Nations announced new pledges to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria at its Global Fund Conference in New York on Tuesday. Public and private donors of the fund made commitments worth 11.5 billion US dollars over the next three years. UN

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All ten miners trapped underground after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have died. The local safety watchdog says rescuers have retrieved all 10 bodies from the Xingyun Colliery in Jidong County. The explosi

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援助机构寻求10亿美元救助萨赫勒饥民 Humanitarian agencies say at least one billion dollars is needed to prevent many people from going hungry in Africas Sahel region. They say about 15 million people are affected by a deepening food cr

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Jeff Bezos: the World's First 100-Billion-Dollar-Man Over the past 12 months, an American businessman became the worlds first 100-billion-dollar man. But Donald Trumps wealth sank during his first year as president of the United States. 在过去的一

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(三)月

Many insiders commented that Apple had made a great deal, which is to invest $1 billion in Didi Chuxing, Uber's rival in China. Apple's massive funding contribution is the largest single investment Didi has received, reports Reuters. 许多业内人士

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True or false? A new nuclear power station in the south-west of the UK will be the most expensive object on Earth. That's the claim about the proposed plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset - but has anything else ever cost so much to build? 真的还是假

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Otelo Vizcaino got this surprise of his life when every penny to his name and every bit of credit he had was suddenly frozen. On the way to work, I stopped to put gas in my car and my card didn't work. Vizcaino was the webmaster for Ripley's Believe

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西班牙公共行政改革节省了10亿美元 MADRID, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Monday that so far the reform in public administration sector has saved the country 7.384 billion euros (10.072 billion U.S. doll

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

AS IT IS 2016-07-26 Verizon Buys Yahoo for $5 Billion 威讯通信以50亿美元收购雅虎 This is Whats Trending Today. 这里是《正在发生》节目。 Many Americans are reacting to news that Verizon Communications will buy Yahoo, one of the

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According to data compiled by Wealth-X, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, are the world's wealthiest couple, with a combined net worth of $85.7 billion. 根据研究公司Wealth-X提供的数据显示,微软公司的联合创始人

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Asia's millennials rich list, compiled by wealth research firm Wealth-X, reveals the 10 wealthiest individuals in the region aged between 18 and 34. The term millennials refers to 80s and 90s babies, or to be exact, those born between 1981 to 1997, a

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Google and Amazon were quick to put drones to use delivering orders. 谷歌和亚马逊已经开始用无人机送货,反应神速。 But new research suggests delivery is just one small way drones are going to replace humans. The tiny airborne ves

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China's Dalian Wanda has pulled out of a $1bn bid for the owner of the Golden Globe TV and film awards, according to the US firm's parent company. 据美国金球奖颁奖典礼制作公司的母公司日前表示,中国大连万达集团已经撤销

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BBC News Online news site Gawker has filed for bankruptcy after losing a $140m (£97m) privacy case earlier this year. The company filed for bankruptcy protection, which could allow it to avoid paying the damages. BBC新闻 新闻网站掴客输掉今

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The forecast for David Ayer's Suicide Squad is looking good. 由大卫阿耶执导的《自杀小队》目前看来钱景一片光明。 If early tracking is any indication, the Warner Bros. and DC superhero movie could open to an enormous 125 millio

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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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Online retailer Alibaba says it sold $2bn of goods in the first hour of China's annual Singles' Day. 电商巨头阿里巴巴今日宣布,在今年双十一的头1个小时里,其交易额就达到了20亿美元。 也有分析师认为这一数字

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- The White House said Monday it will propose to invest 1 billion U.S. dollars over the next two years to support what President Barack Obama called a cancer moonshot to fight the dreaded disease. Obama will ask Congress

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