夏说晨读2016年06月08日【Wednesday】
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 valuation by the court, may now be owed tens of millions of dollars.
Buyout:收购
Fair value:公价
File:起诉
Elicit:引出
夏说晨读2016年06月09日【Thursday】
The UN Security Council unanimously backedan American-Chinese resolution imposing harsh sanctions on North Korea,
following the communist state’s recent missile and nuclear tests.
The measures include banning trade in armaments, intrusive
inspection of other cargo, and curtailing luxury imports such as snowmobiles and watches—a move aimed at the regime’s insiders.
Unanimously: 一致地
Back:支持
Resolution:决议
Impose:施加
Harsh:严厉的
Sanction:制裁
Armaments:武器
Intrusive inspection:侵入性检查
Cargo:货物
Curtail:禁运
Snowmobile:雪地摩托车
夏说晨读2016年06月10日【Friday】
More than one-third of the coral in the northern and central parts of the Great Barrier Reef is dead or dying, scientists said.
The chief culprit for the mass bleaching of the past two months is high water temperatures—partly from the El Niño weather phenomenon, but aggravated by global warming.
A cyclone lowered temperatures in the reef’s southern part.
Coral: 珊瑚
Great Barrier Reef: 大堡礁
Culprit:问题根源
Bleaching:大清洗
Aggravate:恶化
Cyclone:气旋
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。