英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0418-怎样能瞒天过海娶四个老婆

Topic 1-Database of marriages suggested

 

A Beijing court has convicted a man of bigamy or 重婚罪, after it was found that he had 4 wives over the course of 8 years. There were years when he was enjoying the life being so-called married to two women at the same time! How could this happen and what can we do to prevent such thing from happening again?

 

Topic 2-Prime office buildings in Beijing close doors to “P2P ”companies

 

Beijing Youth Daily reports that some of the best office buildings in Beijing's central business district are closing their doors to companies in the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sector¹. This is after the sector plagued by a string of investment scandals.

 

Topic 3-Is it time to get rid of the public transport cards deposit?

 

Swiping your travel card as you get on a bus or on the subway is what commuters do every day. To get the travel card though, requires you to pay a fee of deposit 公交卡押金beforehand. Is this charge of deposit reasonable? Further, where did this money go?

 

Topic 4-Stephen Hawking²'s many Chinese fans are over the moon as he joins them on weibo

 

Stephen Hawking had a cosmically good week in China. The 74-year-old British astrophysicist joined Sina Weibo, China’s biggest microblogging service, last week. With his 2 weibo posts, he’s attracted more than 3.3 million followers³ already.

1 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

2 hawking   

利用鹰行猎

参考例句：

• He is hawking his goods everywhere. 他在到处兜售他的货物。
• We obtain the event horizon and the Hawking spectrumformula. 得到了黑洞的局部事件视界位置和Hawking温度以及Klein—Gordon粒子的Hawking辐射谱。

3 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。