本期内容: Taylor Swift's music video for her latest single, Look What You Made Me Do, includes a scene where she is shown raiding the bank vault of a music streaming company. Having smashed records on UTube and Spotify and notched up her first

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本期内容: Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years. Scientists found fossilized butterfly scales the size of a speck of dust inside ancient rock from Germany. Butterflies an

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本期内容: An app that rewards students for time spent away from their phones is being released in the UK. Hold was developed by three students who met at Copenhagen Business School and wanted to develop something to help with the issue of devic

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本期内容: A collection of rare Rolls-Royces, including vehicles used by Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana, is to be auctioned off in the UK. The eight cars are expected to attract combined bids of up to $6.4 million (4.9 million pounds) whe

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本期内容: A law in France banning the use of unhealthily thin fashion models has come into effect. Models will need to provide a doctor's certificate attesting to their overall physical health, with special regard to their body mass index (BMI)

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本期内容: Two likely future British kings were there, along with one of the world's most photographed women, the often-adorable Prince Harry, a multilingual tennis legend and a brash TV reality star. But all eyes were on Pippa Middleton on Satu

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本期内容: An American judge ruled that the buyout in 2013 of Dell by Michael Dell and Silver Lake was 22% below the fair value. Dozens of stockholders who had opposed the $24.9 billion deal, and who filed the suit in Delaware to elicit a fair v

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本期内容: The worlds biggest tech companies agreed to a European Union code of conduct curbing hate speech and terrorist propaganda. Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft promised to review most complaints within 24 hours, removing the offend

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本期内容: Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, denounced as absurd comments by the pro-Brexit Boris Johnson. The former mayor of London likened the European Union to Hitlers Third Reich. Mr Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, s

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本期内容: Ralph Lauren said it would cut 1,000 jobs and close 50 stores to lower costs and boost sales. The luxury fashion brand faces competition from cheaper clothes retailers such as HM and Zara and wants to reduce the time it takes products

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本期内容: A report by Indonesian investigators into last Decembers crash of AirAsia Flight 8501, in which 162 people died, blamed failures of equipment and communication. The Airbus A320s rudder-control system malfunctioned; attempting a fix, t

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本期内容: TheFlemishtouristboardhasissuedacomplainttosocialmedianetworkFacebook,afteritremovedanumberofpostsfeaturingpaintingsbyFlemishartistPeterPaulRubensfornudity. Rubenswasoneofthemostinfluentialartistsofthe17thcentury,andwasfamousforhisBar

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本期内容: 13 female cyclists completed the 2018 Tour de France over the same mountains on the same 3,351-kilometer (2,082-mile) route before the men do. What these amateur female cyclists hope for, instead of winning the trophy, is recognition,

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本期内容: Emperor Akihito plans to abdicate in favour of Crown Prince Naruhito, Japanese media reported. He would be the first monarch to step down from the Chrysanthemum Throne in 200 years. The timing was not specified. Akihito, who has reign

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: Hillary Clinton won New Yorks Democratic presidential primary with 58% of the vote, ending a run of losses to Bernie Sanders. She remains the firm favorite to capture the nomination. Donald Trump scooped 60% of Republican votes and al

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: TwitterwonabiddingbattleagainstanumberoftechfirmsvyingtobroadcastAmericanfootballgamesonline.TheNationalFootballLeague,whichrunstheprofessionalsport,wantstospreaditsinfluencebeyondcouch-basedtelevisionviewing.TwitterwillstreamtenThurs

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本期内容: In an unusual avowal of its offensive digital capability, Americas secretary of defence, Ashton Carter, said the Pentagons Cyber Command was attacking Islamic State: really its first wartime assignment. Lawmakers and military chiefs a

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本期内容: The governor of Chinas central bank said that Chinese companies debts were too high, relative to GDP. Zhou Xiaochuan said high leverage made firms prone to macroeconomic risk. He told a conference of officials and international busine

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本期内容: The European Union finalized plans to preserve the existing legal regime for asylum-seekers by fining countries $290,000 for each refugee they refuse to accept from their allotted quotas. Member states and the European Parliament will

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本期内容: Britains opposition Labor Party suspended the ex-mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, for making a convoluted and much-criticised argument about Hitlers Zionism; and Naz Shah MP, for a belatedly unearthed Facebook post saying that Israel

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(139) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读