夏说英语新闻晨读 第99期:苹果公司收入首次下降

 本期内容:

Apple disappointed investors¹ 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 its own surprise: revenues well above estimates, rising 28% to $29 billion, and its highest quarterly profit yet, $513m, helped most by its cloud-services division.

 

词汇讲解：

Net profit: 净利润
Estimates：估计
Cloud-service：云服务
Division：部门

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n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会