China has developed a bullet train that can convert its sleeping berths to seats to meet demand for around-the-clock operations, a train maker said last Monday. 一家列车生产商与上周一宣称,我国已研制出一种具有座卧转换功能的

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The takeover battle over troubled electronics maker Sharp has intensified after Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Taiwans Hon Hai Precision Industry, made a personal appeal to the Japanese government and bank officials to take its $5.1bn offer serio

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

China approves 25 urban rail projects to boost economy BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's top economic planning agency has approved 25 urban rail projects that could be worth more than 800 billion yuan (126.98 billion U.S. dollars). The National De

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Warcraft: The Beginning, the film of the hit computer game, opened in China last week, taking $156m in five days and topping box offices. 改编自热门电脑游戏的电影《魔兽:起源》于上周登陆中国影院,在五天之内就席卷了

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Never mind the credit crunch, if you're feeling sick then don't come to work, with employees in the banking sector particularly reluctant to stay at home, British bosses say. Almost three-quarters of employers said staff should stay at home if they f

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(325) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

China created the country's largest chip maker last week, taking a giant step forward towards Beijing's plan of becoming less reliant on foreign technology. 上周,中国境内最大的芯片制造商诞生了,这使得中国政府距离减少对国

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

It has barely taken any time at all for Chinese counterfeiters to rip-off Apple's latest creation. 对中国的仿冒者们来说,山寨苹果的最新产品似乎不需要任何准备时间。 Fake versions of the Apple Watch can be bought for as

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Gan Xiaochen, 22, an international journalism major graduate, got a bit uneasy during job hunting this year. 22岁的甘晓晨(音译)毕业于国际新闻专业,她在今年的求职过程中感到些许不轻松。 She found herself surrounde

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers announced on Friday that passenger car sales totaled 2.2 million units in January, 9.3 percent more than a year earlier, and the production of new-energy vehicles surged by 144 percent. 上周五,中国

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Business 商业 Mobile Phones: The new old thing 手机:全新的旧事物 Conformity, nostalgia and 5G were on show at the Mobile World Congress. 在世界移动通行大会上的惯例、怀旧以及5G。 A Sea of sameness. A veteran of the Mobil

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

The World This Week - Business 本周 - 商业 AkzoNobel, a Dutch maker of paints and coatings, rejected a third informal takeover offer, worth 26.9bn euros ($28.8bn), from PPG, an American rival. 荷兰油漆涂料公司AkzoNobel拒绝了美国对手

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Business 商业报道 Italian fashion 意大利时尚 French invasion 法国的入侵 Galling as it is, it makes sense for Italian brands to sell to big French firms 如此难堪,意大利品牌卖给法国大公司是有道理的 Italian style, Fr

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Italian payment practices 意大利的支付习惯 Unhealthy delays 有害的延误 Late payments are an Italian specialityparticularly in health care 延迟支付是意大利的特色尤其在医药保健领域 IN MEDICINE speed is of the essence. 在

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Americans get the best new handsets from Apple first. But in China, there are ways of living your life through a smartphone that left us jealous. China has even figured out a business model to legitimately stream the current season Game of Thrones on

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

NEW DELHI Foreign investment in India has slowed down in recent months, but a recent United Nations survey says Asia's third largest economy continues to be an attractive investment destination for global companies. Official data show that in April a

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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(197) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He was the largest individual shareholder in Walt Disney. Jobs name is associated with innovative products like the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and iPad. He was a

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my name's Tommy Franks, an' my Daddy's name was Ray. Ray was a farm boy, a cowboy an' a banker. A clerk, a roughneck, a driller, A long-haul driver, a soldier an' a mechanic. He was also a friend to everybody he ever met. Ray taught me the value of F

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Brent Schlender, Fortune's well-sourced technology reporter, knew Jobs and was familiar with his thinking, 《财富》杂志消息灵通的科技记者布伦特施伦德认识乔布斯并且熟悉他的想法, and in March he came out with a story

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Science and technology 科学技术 3D printing 3D打印 A new brick in the Great Wall 构筑长城的新砖石 Additive manufacturing is growing apace in China 中国的叠层制造正在飞速发展 ALTHOUGH it is the weekend, a small factory in th

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