夏说英语新闻晨读 第427期:马云卸任

 本期内容：

One of China's richest men, Jack¹ Ma, is to step down as executive chairman of the Alibaba e-commerce empire on Monday, the New York Times reported. He will remain on Alibaba's board of directors but focus on philanthropy in education, the newspaper said. Mr Ma co-founded Alibaba in 1999 and has seen it become one of the world's biggest internet companies.

step down: 卸任；退位
empire: n. 帝国
board of directors: 董事会
philanthropy: n. 慈善
charity: n. 机构
anthropology²: n. 人类学

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 anthropology   

n.人类学

参考例句：

• I believe he has started reading up anthropology.我相信他已开始深入研究人类学。
• Social anthropology is centrally concerned with the diversity of culture.社会人类学主要关于文化多样性。