7月18日午间双语新闻：推特遭大规模黑客入侵

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1 / GDP expands 3.2 pct in Q2 

二季度GDP同比增3.2%

China's gross domestic product expanded 3.2% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2020, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Thursday. In the first half of this year, the country's GDP stood at 45.66 trillion yuan amid the COVID-19 impact, down 1.6% year-on-year, according to NBS data. 

国家统计局7月16日发布的数据显示，我国第二季度国内生产总值(GDP)同比增长3.2%。受新冠肺炎疫情影响，上半年国内生产总值45.66万亿元，同比下降1.6%。

A breakdown of the data showed output of the primary industry rose 0.9% year-on-year, while the service sector and the secondary industry saw a decline of 1.6% and 1.9%, respectively. 

分产业看，第一产业同比增长0.9%，第二产业下降1.9%，第三产业下降1.6%。

Thursday's data showed China's job market improved slightly in June, with the surveyed unemployment rate in urban areas standing at 5.7%, down 0.2 percentage points from the previous month.

数据显示，6月份我国就业市场有所回暖，全国城镇调查失业率为5.7%，比5月份下降0.2个百分点。

重点词汇：

output

英 /ˈaʊtpʊt/ 美 /ˈaʊtpʊt/

n. 输出，输出量；产量；出产

vt. 输出

respectively

英 /rɪˈspektɪvli/ 美 /rɪˈspektɪvli/

adv. 分别地；各自地，独自地

2 / Colleges fake job contracts

部分高校就业数据造假

The Ministry of Education said it will investigate any falsified employment information for graduates after the ministry found some colleges faking employment contracts for graduates to enhance their reputations. 

教育部表示，近日发现部分高校为提高声誉伪造毕业生就业合同，将对伪造毕业生就业信息的行为展开调查。

The ministry opposes any form of fabricating employment information for college graduates and will hold colleges and local education authorities that have falsified employment information accountable, it said in a notice on Tuesday evening. 

教育部在7月14日晚发布的一则通知中指出，反对任何形式的就业数据弄虚作假，对伪造就业信息的高校和地方教育部门将严查追责。

Graduates can check their employment status at the China Higher-education Student Information website and local education authorities and colleges should strictly verify employment information of all graduates, especially those who have registered under flexible employment, it said. 

通知称，毕业生可在中国高等教育学生信息网上对本人的就业状态进行核实。地方教育部门和高校应严格审核毕业生的就业信息，重点核实登记灵活就业的毕业生的信息。

The ministry also has opened a hotline and email account to receive reports on employment information fabrication, it said.

教育部还开通了热线电话和电子邮件账号接收有关伪造就业信息的举报。

重点词汇：

falsify

英 /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/ 美 /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/

vt. 伪造；篡改；歪曲；证明...虚假

vi. 撒谎

3 / China Eastern to add flights

两国际航线获奖励班次

China's aviation regulator said on Tuesday that it would allow China Eastern Airlines to increase flights on its Kunming-Vientiane route and Shanghai-Tokyo route due to its effective epidemic control measures. 

中国民航局7月14日表示，由于东方航空公司采取了有效的疫情防控措施，将允许该航司增加昆明-万象航线和上海-东京航线的航班数量。

The Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement that no passengers have tested positive for novel coronavirus on flights from Laos' capital to the provincial capital of Southwest China’s Yunnan province for three consecutive weeks between June 15 and July 5, as well as from Japan's capital to Shanghai, meeting the condition to add one extra weekly flight on each route. 

民航局在一份声明中指出，6月15日至7月5日，东航从老挝首都万象飞往云南省会城市昆明的航班，以及从日本首都东京飞往上海的航班上连续三周无乘客新冠病毒检测呈阳性，两条航线均已符合每周增加一个班次的条件。

In keeping with an international flights' adjustment policy announced on June 4, the administration issued its first flight award directive. The flight increase took effect on Tuesday and will last until Oct 24.

按照6月4日发布的有关国际客运航班调整政策的要求，民航局发布了首批客运航班奖励指令。航班增加奖励自7月14日起生效，将持续至10月24日。

4 / Twitter accounts hacked

推特遭大规模黑客入侵

Twitter accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, among other high-profile celebrities, were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers to spread a cryptocurrency scam. 

7月15日，乔·拜登、比尔·盖茨、埃隆·马斯克等名人的推特账户同时遭遇黑客攻击，被用来散播数字加密货币骗局。

The accounts, along with those of Barack Obama, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg, posted similar tweets soliciting donations via Bitcoin on Wednesday. 

当日，上述账户和奥巴马、坎耶·韦斯特、金·卡戴珊·韦斯特、沃伦·巴菲特、杰夫·贝佐斯和迈克·布隆伯格的账户都发布了类似的募集比特币捐款的推文。此次受到影响的名人政要账号数量众多，堪称推特史上最大的安全事件。

Security researchers found that the attackers had fully taken over the victims' accounts, and also changed the email address associated with the account to make it harder for the real user to regain access. 

安全专家发现，黑客完全控制了这些账户，并且更改了与账户关联的电邮地址，从而增加了真正的用户重新拿回账户的难度。

Twitter said in a statement that the company detected what they believed to be "a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools." 

推特在一则声明中称，他们发现这是一次协同式社交工程攻击，发动者成功锁定了一些具有访问内部系统和工具权限的推特员工。

重点词汇：

simultaneously

英 /ˌsɪmlˈteɪniəsli/ 美 /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪniəsli/

adv. 同时地

cryptocurrency

英 /ˈkrɪptəʊkʌrənsi/ 美 /ˈkrɪptoʊkɜːrənsi/

n. 加密货币

solicit

英 /səˈlɪsɪt/ 美 /səˈlɪsɪt/

vt. 征求；招揽；请求；乞求

vi. 征求；招揽；恳求；请求

重点单词怎么读？

Hi everyone, here are words you should know from today's news.

No.1 falsify

The Ministry of Education said it will investigate any falsified employment information for graduates after the ministry found some colleges faking employment contracts for graduates to enhance their reputations. 

No.2 simultaneously

No.3 cryptocurrency

Twitter accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, among other high-profile celebrities, were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers to spread a cryptocurrency scam. 

No.4 solicit

The accounts, along with those of Barack Obama, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg, posted similar tweets soliciting donations via Bitcoin on Wednesday.