In its 103-year history, Ford Motor Company has never needed to pledge its plants, equipment, or other property as collateral to secure loans, but they're doing it now. As they slipped to the number four position in the US auto market, they announce

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 商务英语基础

Ukrainian lawmakers are giving presidential powers to the speaker of the parliament, seemingly ousting president Viktor Yanukovych, though he has not seeded power. NPR's Nathan Rott reports the US is pledging its support to the Ukrainian people. Spea

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Lesson 9 The Speech and the Vote 演讲与表决 Words: amalgamate v. 混合,合并 amass vt. 收集,积聚 amateur adj. 业余的 n. 业余爱好者 amaze vt. 使吃惊,使惊叹 ambience n. 周围环境,气氛 ambition n. 雄心,抱负 ambitious adj. 有雄心的,渴望成功的 ambival

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 胡敏托福词汇记单词

This Business English Podcast episode on relationship building is part of an ongoing series on negotiation skills. In negotiation, establishing a good relationship based on trust makes it possible to jointly search for creative solutions, to overcome

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 商务英语谈判课程

This is the second in a two-part Business English Podcast lesson that follows some of the internal discussions that take place in a company going through a merger. Todays episode focuses on casual office conversation and gossip. Office gossip is a ty

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 商务英语社交课

A drunk driver speeding along in his SUV on the 60 freeway last night killed three of four people in a sedan. The sedan had slowed to a crawl because of construction work on the 60. Four lanes were merged into two. The Department of Transportation cr

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英文小故事

In business. The Australian Securities Exchange went into an unexpected trading halt yesterday afternoon, as rumors swirled about a possible takeover bid. The trading halts have renewed market speculation of a possible merger with the Singapore Stock

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年

The ASX says it must consolidate with other stock exchanges after the Federal Government rejected its deal with Singapore. The treasurer, Wayne Swan, rejected the proposed 8-million-dollar merger of the two. He says protecting jobs was a key reason f

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SF Express, founded in 1993 in Guangdong Province, is one of the largest private express logistics firms in China. [Photo: sina.com.cn] Chinese delivery giant SF Holdings has posted a full-year profit increase of 112.5 percent through this past year.

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2017CRI中国国际广播电台

A trial is going on right now that's closely being watched by companies and legal experts around America. ATT is trying to buy Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, for more than $85 billion.Today, ATT is a large wireless company and satellite TV d

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年6月

LESSON EIGHT Listen to this part of the conversation between Jake Seltzer and Abbott Larkin. Are you in town for the computer meeting? Yes,I am.I'm glad you're here.I think this meeting will be very important. I hope you'll do a story about it.That's

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Mark在公司门口看见同事Robert. Mark: Hey Robert...going on vacation? Lookslike you're planning on doing some golfing. Robert: Yes, I will be playing golf, butI'm not going on vacation. I'm meeting up our New York office's seniormanagement tea

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 商务礼节美语

Facing Business Challenges at Hallmark Cards Sending the Right Message to Employees One of Hallmark's sympathy cards reads

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

script: Well this does seem like it was too long ago that the Dow Industrials crossed the 13,000 mark for the first time. Well today, the Dow flirted with 14,000. Stephanie Elam joins us from New York to tell us just how close we came. Hey there, St

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2007年

India's leader has used part of his Independence Day address to call for an end to violence in Kashmir. The appeal for an end to the ongoing street protests in Kashmir by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came one day after two more protestors were kille

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Federal and state antitrust officials are suing to block America and US Airways for merging into what it said to be the worlds largest airlines by passenger miles. Attorney general Eric Holder argues that if the $11billion deal goes through, air trav

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

Secretary of State John Kerry began talks with his Russian counterpart in Geneva today, saying the world is watching to see if two major powers can work together to rid Syria of chemical weapons. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports Kerry is testing how ser

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

Good morning everyone. Leading finance news this morning. Australian share market participants and regulators, I ask you questions about the 24% surge in Fortescue Metals Group's share price. That took place the day before it announced a possible joi

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Shareholders of the London-based brewing giant SABMiller have approved a takeover by its rival Anheuser-Busch InBev in a deal worth more than 100 billion dollars. The merger already approved by AB InBev shareholders will create the worlds biggest bre

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

今天我们要学的词是Bollywood。 Bollywood, 是Bombay孟买和Hollywood好莱坞两个字拼在一起的,范指印度电影界,简称宝莱坞。在印度摄制的影片《贫民百万富翁》在星期天晚上的奥斯卡颁奖典礼上赢

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