本期内容: Hotel search firm Trivago has warned investors of weaker-than-expected revenue growth in 2017, due to lower spending from hotels and other travel companies. The company, which is headquartered in Germany, makes money by charging hotel

发表于:2019-02-10 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: Hotel search firm Trivago has warned investors of weaker-than-expected revenue growth in 2017, due to lower spending from hotels and other travel companies. The company, which is headquartered in Germany, makes money by charging hotel

发表于:2019-02-10 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: Powerful speeches and statements of unity have dominated the 75th Golden Globe awards. It was the first major Hollywood awards ceremony since the film industry was hit by sexual harassment scandals, with stars wearing black to honor v

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: A stolen bottle of vodka thought to be the world's most expensive at $1.3m has been found empty on a construction site, Danish police say.The bottle, made from gold and silver and with a diamond encrusted cap, was on loan to a Copenha

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本期内容: Dwayne Johnson has thanked fans for their support after he opened up about his battle with depression. The 45-year-old discussed his mother's suicide attempt and a period he described as the worst time of his life in an interview with

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本期内容: Cathay Pacific has said it will honour first-class and business-class tickets that it sold to some lucky passengers for a fraction of the usual price. The Hong Kong-based airline mistakenly sold business-class seats on August flights

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: There is little evidence screen use for children is harmful in itself, guidance from leading pediatricians says. It says there is no good evidence that time in front of a screen is toxic to health, as is sometimes claimed. While the g

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本期内容: Honeywell, an American engineering conglomerate, dropped its $90 billion takeover bid for United Technologies, which makes Pratt Whitney jet engines, Otis lifts, air-conditioning systems and more. Honeywell grumbled about UTCs unwilli

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: Facebook unveiled an upgraded Like button for responding to posts on its social network, adding options for love, haha ,yay, wow, sad and angry, each with its own icon. This will give the company more data with which to personalise it

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本期内容: A Russian court handed down a 22-year sentence to Nadia Savchenko, a Ukrainian military pilot accused of directing artillery fire which killed two Russian journalists. Asked if she understood the sentence, she stood on a bench and san

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: Bombs packed with nails terrorized Brussels on Tuesday in the deadliest assault on the European heartland since the Islamic States attacks on Paris four months ago, hitting the airport and subway system in coordinated strikes that wer

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本期内容: TheWorldHealthOrganisationdeclaredLiberiafreeofEbola,endinganoutbreakinwestAfricawhichhaskilledmorethan11,000people.TheWHOsaysthediseasecouldstillflareupagain.Scientistsannouncedencouragingnewsonanewtreatment.Novaccineyetexists,though

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本期内容: McDonalds served up appetising fourth-quarter results. Sales in America continued the recovery begun in the third quarter, rising by 5.7%. Steve Easterbrook, who became the fast-food giants boss last March, credited the introduction o

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本期内容: Egyptian prosecutors charged eight museum workers with the botched restoration of the burial mask of Tutankhamun. Having apparently broken the pharaohs beard through carelessness, the accused, including two museum directors, allegedly

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本期内容: Pearson, the worlds biggest educational publisher, issued its second profit warning in three months and said it would cut 4,000 jobs, about one-tenth of the total. The chief executive, John Fallon, blamed cyclical and policy-related c

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本期内容: TheFederalReservepublishedtheminutesofitsmeetinglastmonthatwhichitraisedAmericaninterestratesforthefirsttimesince2006.Althoughpolicymakersvotedunanimouslyfortheincrease,somesaidthedecisionwasaclosecall;theyexpressedconcernthatinflatio

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本期内容: Rescuers in Shenzhen, in southern China, continued to search for 85 people still missing after a landslide on Sunday. Seven were pulled from the rubble yesterday. A man-made mountain of earth and building debris collapsed, destroying

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本期内容: The 14-year-old Doha round of negotiations stalled, probably fatally, at a World Trade Organisation meeting in Nairobi. The WTO will focus instead on smaller-scale deals. Ministers reached agreement on banning export subsidies for agr

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: Netflix, which streams video, added 370,000 subscribers in America in the third quarter and 3.2 m elsewhere. Both results were far better than it had forecast (although the growth of its American subscriptions has slowed compared with

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(188) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: Colombia announced a new peace deal with the FARC, six weeks after the original agreement was rejected in a referendum. The changes include a commitment by the guerrillas to declare and hand over all their assets, which will be used t

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读