A long-anticipated legal battle over the country's health care law is now slated to unfold before the nation's highest court. The US Supreme Court decides next year whether Congress acted within its constitutional authority in passing a law that requ

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[00:-1.00]You are strapped into your seat,the massive jet engines roar, [00:-2.00]and you feel the pulse of the engine as you speed down the runway! [00:-3.00]Exotic places;lions and tigers and tropical rain forests. [00:-4.00]If you've planned your

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The United Nations Climate Summit takes place next week in Poland. About 20,000 people from 190 countries are expected to take part in the conference. There, world leaders will debate how to limit climate change -- the weather events linked to slowly

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UNIT 33 TOURIST ATTRACTION Lesson 65 Part Ⅰ UNIT 33 TOURIST ATTRACTION Lesson 65 Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises Numbers: Superlative World Geographical Statistics Score: _________ Lesson 65 Part Ⅱ

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The Wizard of Web Retailing: Jeff Bezos 电子商务教父杰夫贝佐斯 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1995 as an online bookstore. Due to customer demand the company later expanded and added other products to its inventories, including videos, D

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Amazon.com: The Early Years Amazon. Com:创业初期 Bezos had paid close attention to the rapid rise of the World Wide Web, noting in 1994 that it was growing at an annual rate of 2, 300 percent, and therein looked for a pure entrepreneurial outle

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Have you wanted to try an ebook? Would you like to keep ebooks handy to read on your phone or tablet? Has the cost of ebooks stopped you? Well, there are ebooks out there that you can download some books without spending any money at all. Several web

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Amazon Announced Choices for Possible Second Headquarters The online seller Amazon has announced a list of 20 possible places where the company might build a second headquarters. 在线购物网站亚马逊公司公布了该公司建造第二总部的选

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now the second richest man in the world after overtaking Amancio Ortega and Warren Buffett, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. 彭博亿万富翁指数显示,亚马逊首席执行官杰夫贝佐斯超越阿曼西奥

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Big tech groups are now working to cut out banks as the middlemen, threatening to turn legacy financial institutions into the dumb pipes that feed the back-end infrastructure of firms such as Amazon, Google or Facebook. 如今,大型科技集团正努

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Technology IPOs: 科技公司上市潮: Betting the farm 押宝开心农场(美版) Zynga may be a good business, but the tech bubble is expanding Zynga可能是一家好企业,但是科技泡沫却正愈演愈烈 Jun 30th 2011 | from the p

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Cloud computing's growing pains 云计算的发轫之困 Break-ins and breakdowns 侵入和故障 The lessons from Sony's big security lapse and Amazon's cloud-computing outage 从索尼的巨大安全漏洞和亚马逊的云计算中断中汲取的教

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NEW YORK - Amazon.com is working on a way to get customers their goods in 30 minutes or less by drone. The world's largest e-commerce company said it's working on the so-called Prime Air unmanned aircraft project in its research and development labs.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Only two weeks after its shipment, Amazon's Kindle Fire has already shown the momentum to grab the second place in global tablet computer market, research firm IHS predicted on Friday. Amazon is expected to ship 3.9

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Googles big bet on computers that can teach themselves is about to face its most significant examination. 谷歌(Google)押注计算机可以自主学习的赌局,即将面临最重大的考验。 Machine learning has brought artificial intelligenc

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

本期内容: Walmart, the US biggest retail chain, has been accused of trying to coerce its technology suppliers into shunning Amazon's cloud computing service. Amazon has accused its rival of attempting to bully the IT companies into picking a ri

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With the holiday season in full swing, Indians are flocking to the online marketplace in droves. But there's one unusual item flying off the virtual shelves: Online retailers say cow dung patties are selling like hot cakes. 随着假日季的到来, 印

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E-books read well, but readers prefer paper NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - The number of people subscribing to newspapers may be shrinking as they flock to the Internet, but electronic book readers won't shred the market for ink, paper, glue and binding

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重点词汇: Due to: 由于; 因为; 欠下债(账),应给予; 应归于; 1. Mistakes due to carelessness may have serious consequences. 由粗心大意造成的错误有可能带来严重的后果。 《汉英大词典》 2. The Amazon is one o

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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In the new book The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, my guest Brad Stone chronicles how Amazon became a, quote, innovative, disruptive and often polarizing technology powerhouse, the company that

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