1. A defense official says the US has unleashed a barrage of cruise missiles at Libyan targets yesterday and today. However, the Libyan government says its tanks and rockets have driven back rebels who attempted an assault on Muammar Gaddafis hometow

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2011(四月)

Alibaba Faces Criticism From Regulators 阿里巴巴面临监管机构的批评 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. Recently, a Chinese regulatory agency said that most of the goods sold on the Chinese website Alibaba are counter

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AS IT IS 2015-11-14 Alibaba Sets Sales Record on Singles' Day E-commerce giant Alibaba broke records with sales of $14.3 billion on Chinas Singles Day. 电子商务巨头阿里巴巴在中国光棍节当天创下143亿美元的销售记录。 It is t

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AS IT IS 2014-12-16 Plastic Bags: To Ban or Not to Ban? 塑料袋禁止还是不禁? This is the holiday season in the United States. People are buying gifts and carrying them home, usually in plastic shopping bags. They are only a small amount of th

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In the last couple of years, I have produced what I call The Dead Mall Series, 32 short films and counting about dead malls. 在过去的几年里,我制作了所谓的废弃的商场系列。32部关于废弃商场的短片,数量还在增加。

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲商业篇

After a dozen assembled boards had been approved by Wozniak, 12块组装好的主板经过沃兹尼亚克检验合格后, Jobs drove them over to the Byte Shop. 被乔布斯送到了Byte Shop。 Terrell was a bit taken aback. 特雷尔有点儿吃惊

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- E-commerce and online payment giant eBay announced on Monday that it has acquired New York-based technology startup Hunch, an online platform that delivers customized recommendations to users based on their individu

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(182) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Business this week. 一周商业要闻 America's big banks reported earnings for the third quarter. 美国各家大型银行报告了第三季度的收入情况。 Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo posted solid profits, though the mortgage l

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人要闻

Internet economies 互联网经济 Going local 变得地方性 The internet is not that global after all 互联网根本不那么具有全球性 Jul 14th 2011 | from The Economist print edition THE internet is flattening the world. Or so they say. Ye

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New stats show China's e-commerce trading volume topped 13 trillion yuan, or some 2 trillion U.S. dollars in 2014, up almost 30 percent from the previous year. With a year-on-year increase of half a percent, the online retail transaction mark hit alm

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

HARI SREENIVASAN: Ever since oil prices started plunging, we've heard experts predict that consumers would use the money they're saving on gas to spend more on Christmas gifts. Did it turn out that way? For more about the Christmas shopping season, w

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Online retail giant Amazon is working on a smartphone scheduled to be released in the fourth quarter of 2012, U.S. media reported Thursday. A note from Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney obtained by technology news site

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

India's richest man is rolling out a $20 billion mobile network that could bring lightning-fast Internet to hundreds of millions of people. 印度首富正斥资200亿美元建设移动网络,或可使十亿人高速连接互联网。 Indian consum

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

With HSBC threatening to move its headquarters out of London, one city comes to mind as its potential new home: Hong Kong, the H in its name. 就在汇丰银行威胁要将总部搬离伦敦之际,一座城市被人们认为可能会成为它的新家

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

High-end cosmetic brands, including Estee Lauder and Amorepacific, have announced price cuts in the Chinese market in the new year in response to lowered consumption tax. 近日,作为对消费税下调的响应,雅诗兰黛和爱茉莉太平洋等

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- China's farm produce prices continued to rise last week in the wake of strong rainfall across the country, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Wednesday. The wholesale prices of 18 types of vegetables in 36 cities rose for

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The Mario Testino image of young Prince George released to mark his second birthday could melt a thousand hearts but is the young royal already being eclipsed by his younger sibling in the popularity stakes? 为庆祝小王子乔治两周岁生日,王

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Nobody likes waking up in the morning to the nagging, electronic bleep of regular alarm clocks or smartphones, but the smell of just-baked croissants and freshly roasted coffee? Now you're talking. 没有人喜欢早晨普通闹钟或智能手机里闹

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Whether you are attending a job fair, a career networking event or meeting a contact one-on-one, it's a good idea to have a job search focused business card, so it's easy for people you meet to follow up with you. 无论你参加的是招聘会,职业

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LOS ANGELES/SHANGHAI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Daily-deals website Groupon goes live in China on Monday, bringing its popular brand of Internet retail to the world's most populous nation. GaoPeng.com, funded by Groupon, the Tencent (0700.HK) Collaboration(合

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻