夏说晨读2016年05月04日【Wednesday】
Britain’s opposition Labor Party suspended the ex-mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, for making a convoluted and much-criticised argumentabout Hitler’s Zionism; and Naz Shah MP, for a belatedly unearthed Facebook post saying that Israel should be moved to America.
Moderate Labour figures are furious with the party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, for dismissing the problem and pandering to left-wing anti-Semitism.
Convoluted: 错综复杂的
Zionism:犹太复国运动
Belated:迟来的
Unearth:发现
Moderate:温和派
Dismiss:不予理会
Pander to:迎合
Anti-Semitism:反犹主义
夏说晨读2016年05月05日【Thursday】
Addressing Berkshire Hathaway’s annual general meeting, Warren Buffett called hedge funds’ typical 20% slice of profits “a compensation scheme that is unbelievable”.
Hedge fund: 对冲基金
Slice:一部分
Compensation scheme: 补偿计划
夏说晨读2016年05月06日【Friday】
Apple disappointed investors by reporting its first year-on-year drop in quarterly revenues since 2003. In Asia sales dropped by almost a fifth; net profit fell by 22.5%, to $10.5 billion.
Amazon reported itsown surprise: revenues well above estimates, rising 28% to $29 billion, and its highest quarterly profit yet, $513m, helped most by its cloud-services division.
Net profit: 净利润
Estimates:估计
Cloud-service:云服务
正确的晨读复习姿势:首先我会先把单词念一次;其次再把单词组成的句子念一次。你需要做的就是:
1. 听我的单词,看是否能回忆地起它们的意思
2. 听我紧接着单词之后,念出来的句子,然后问自己是否能明白句子的意思。
3. 以上两步都没有问题的,说明本周的晨读你有认真在学习;如果以上两步有问题, 你则需要回到每天的晨读内容,再多复习几次。
这里有个小提示:千万不要平时不打卡,就只听周末的复习版本,因为我的音频只会覆盖一部分的句子。