#英语 #英语学习 #学英语 #Recession #国际新闻
开场白：
Good morning! Hope you had a great weekend!
Today is Monday, August 8th.
In today’s episode, let’s review some latest business news.
But as usual, we will begin with today’s language trivia question.
新闻摘要：
- (0’40”) Buffett’s Berkshire Pounces on Market Slump to Buy Equities (Bloomberg)
- (2’03”)The iRobot Deal Would Give Amazon Maps Inside Millions of Homes (Wired)
- (3’00”)AMTD Digital: How a small Hong Kong firm's shares soared (BBC)
- (4’29”)Musk challenges Twitter CEO to public debate on bots (Reuters)
Word of the Day (WoD):
- Pounce: spring or swoop suddenly so as to catch prey. 猛扑
- Adage: a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth. 谚语
- Wellspring:an original and bountiful source of something. 源泉
- Meteoric: relating to meteors or meteorites. 流星
- Hoodwink: deceive or trick (someone). 蒙蔽
