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夏说英语新闻晨读 第257期:加泰罗尼亚的生活
本期内容: Catalonia has moved a step closer to abandoning the long working hours and protracted lunch breaks that have tested Spaniards'powers of endurance for more than seven decades, by adopting an initiative intended to reset people's work-l
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第258期:高盛银行两头跑
本期内容: A significant Brexit transitional deal should be agreed as soon as possible, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs International has said. This is to stop jobs being moved from the UK to Europe, Richard Gnodde told the BBC. At the mome
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第259期:Adobe将于2020年停止更新
本期内容: Adobe Flash, a once ubiquitous technology used to power most of the media content found online, will be retired at the end of 2020, the software company announced Tuesday. Adobe along with Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Mozill
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第260期:麦当劳新汉堡
本期内容: McDonald's,facingpressurefromincreasedcompetition,saysithasfoundarecipeforsuccessin$1drinksandanewlineofhigh-endhamburgers.ThefastfoodpioneerhaditshighestquarterlysalesatestablishedstoresinfiveyearsinthethreemonthstotheendofJune.Thefi
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第261期:拖延症治疗新方法
本期内容: Close your eyes. Imagine yourself finishing that tedious months-long project you have been dreading. Think about the papers you are preparing on your desk, documents you need to print, the conversations you will need to have to finish
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第262期:酒吧高处不胜寒
本期内容: Britain's highest pub, which regularly gets snowed in at its isolated location in the Yorkshire Dales, is up for sale. The 17th Century Tan Hill Inn has panoramic views and is on sale for 900,000 euros. The pub, 1,700 feet above sea l
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第263期:肯德基
本期内容: KFC transformed its latest London restaurant into a nightclub for its grand opening this weekend. The brand new Mornington Crescent KFC launched with blacked-out windows and high-tech lighting as it became a hip hop club for the night
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第264期:在线音乐风云起
本期内容: Streaming services continue to revive fortunes of music industry as new albums from top artists drive sales to record high. The popularity of Ed Sheeran and his latest album, Divide, helped drive a 58% increase in streaming revenue fo
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第265期:石黑一雄获得诺贝尔文学奖
本期内容: British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novelist was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of conn
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第266期:荷兰房价高企
本期内容: Responses in Amsterdam, where property prices have been rocketing due to a crippling housing shortage, have ranged from astonished indignation to wry resignation. An estate agent has been caught offering for rent a 35 square meter apa
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第267期:PISA考试有意思
本期内容: In the most recent round of international Pisa tests, Canada was one of a handful of countries to appear in the top 10 for maths, science and reading. The tests, run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第268期:reddit大变身
本期内容: NewsandcommunitywebsiteReddithaslaunchedanewvideoplayerthatallowsuserstodirectlyuploadvideos. Theplayerhassofarbeentestedinmorethan200ofthesite'scommunitygroups,knownassubreddits. With48millionannualvisitors,Redditistheeighthmostvisit
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第269期:哈维飓风
本期内容: Catastrophic flooding in the US state of Texas is only expected to worsen in coming days as waters rise following a storm of historic proportions. A record 30 inches of rain has already fallen on the city of Houston in the wake of Hur
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第270期:鼠脑电脑
本期内容: Nigerian Oshi Agabi has unveiled a computer based not on silicon but on mice neurons at the TEDGlobal conference in Tanzania. The system has been trained to recognize the smell of explosives and could be used to replace traditional ai
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第271期:Uber新帅上任
本期内容: UberhaschosenDaraKhosrowshahi,thechiefexecutiveoftravelcompanyExpedia,tobeitsnewboss,endingacontentioussearchthathasbeenmarredbyboardroomspatsandleaks.Theannouncement,madeonSunday,comesastheride-hailingservicefightsallegationsofsexism