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夏说英语新闻晨读 第287期:无现金日活动
本期内容： With QR codes becoming a popular payment option, Alipay and Wechat Pay, two major third-party mobile payment tools in China, will run campaigns in August to bring more merchants and customers into the cashless world. Wechat Pay's Cash
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第288期:小行星近距离划过
本期内容： A house-sized asteroid will shave past our planet on 12 October, far inside the Moon's orbit but without posing any threat, astronomers have said. The space rock will zoom by harmlessly at a distance of about 44,000km, an eighth of th
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第289期:新型汽油发动机
本期内容： One of the world's largest automotive firms has hailed a technological breakthrough for the petrol engine, in an engineering twist for an industry racing to embrace the electric car. Japanese car manufacturer Mazda claims to have desi
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第290期:工作过劳死
本期内容： Japanese advertising firm Dentsu has been fined for making employees work excessive overtime, a practice that is widespread in the country. On Friday, a Tokyo court ordered the company to pay 500,000 yen for violating labor laws. Dent
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第291期:世界农业大会
本期内容： Can farming and food production be made less damaging to the planet? A big meeting in London will look at how reforms could help halt species extinction, meet climate goals, limit the spread of antibiotic resistance and improve animal
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第292期:不臭的榴莲吃不吃
本期内容： Oneofnature'ssmelliestsecretsmayhavebeenrevealed,thankstoadedicatedteamofdurian-lovingscientistsinSingapore.Researchershavefoundanodorgenewhichgivesthethornyfruititsnotoriouslypungentscent.Thediscoverymeantthepossibilityofcreatingodor
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第293期:白宫甄嬛传
本期内容： AspokeswomanforUSFirstLadyMelaniaTrumphasdescribedcommentsbyherhusband'sex-wifeIvanaasattentionseekingandself-servingnoise.IvanaTrumptoldABC'sGoodMorningAmericashewasbasicallyfirstTrumpwife,I'mfirstlady.ThefirstMrsTrumpispromotingherb
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第294期:诺贝尔经济学奖
本期内容： USeconomistRichardThaler,oneofthefoundingfathersofbehavioraleconomics,haswonthisyear'sNobelPrizeforEconomics.ProfThaler,ofChicagoBoothbusinessschool,co-wrotetheglobalbestsellerNudge,whichlookedathowpeoplemakebadorirrationalchoices.Jud
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第295期:硬盘容量与微波炉
本期内容： The data-storing abilities of hard drives could soon swell to 40 terabytes and beyond, says Western Digital. Currently the largest hard disk drive that stores data on spinning disks can hold about 14TB of information. Western Digital
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第296期:圣诞节广告
本期内容： A giant snoring monster called Moz has split critics online, after it was revealed as the star of this year's John Lewis Christmas advert. The eagerly anticipated ad from the high street store tells the story of a little boy and his f
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第297期:量子计算机
本期内容： Quantum computers that can solve problems much quicker than machines today are being developed in laboratories around the world. But scientists have already taken the next step, and are thinking about a light-based quantum internet th
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第298期: 灯红酒绿背后的斗争
本期内容： The UK producer of the Paddington films is seeking to scrap the Weinstein Companys lucrative deal to distribute the upcoming sequel in the US, in the wake of the sexual harassment and assault allegations against its co-founder. A sour
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第299期:海洋酸化
本期内容： Iftheoutlookformarinelifewasalreadylookingbleak,torrentsofplasticthatcansuffocateandstarvefish, overfishing,diverseformsofhumanpollutionthatcreatedeadzones, theeffectsofglobalwarmingwhichisbleachingcoralreefsandthreateningcold watersp
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第300期:现代鲁滨逊
本期内容： Two women and their dogs have been rescued after being lost at sea for five months while trying to sail from Hawaii to Tahiti. The US navy rescued the women on Wednesday after a Taiwanese fishing vessel spotted them about 900 miles so
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第301期:金拱门背后的故事
本期内容： McDonald's Corp's iconic logo has gone viral on the Chinese internet after the fast food chain restaurant changed its name to the Mandarin translation of the Golden Arches: Jin Gong Men. The change will remain on the license level and
