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夏说英语新闻晨读 第422期:可口可乐收购Costa咖啡
本期内容: Coca-Cola is to buy the Costa coffee chain from owner Whitbread in a deal worth 3.9 billion pounds. Whitbread had intended to spin off the chain as a separate firm, but said a straight sale was more profitable. Chief executive Alison
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第423期:阿里向饿了么狂砸30亿美金
本期内容: Alibaba shares rose on Thursday as it reported a 61 per cent surge in revenues in the quarter to the end of June, but profits failed to keep pace, squeezing margins. The Chinese ecommerce group also announced that together with SoftBa
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第424期:巴西国家博物馆大火
本期内容: A fire has gutted the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, the oldest scientific institution in the country. Most of the 20 million items it contained, including the oldest human remains ever found in the Americas, are believe
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第425期:英法大战再启 竟是因为扇贝?!
本期内容: French and British fishermen have clashed in a fight over scallops. The crew of a number of French boats have been accused of throwing stones and smoke bombs in a dispute about the shellfish of the French coast. French law says its fi
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第426期:无人机侵扰野生动物
本期内容: Police and wildlife experts are becoming increasingly concerned at the number of cases of protected wildlife being disturbed by drones. They say some drones are being flown dangerously close to breeding birds and animals at sites in S
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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, Jack 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,
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第428期:意大利旧剧院挖出古罗马金币
本期内容: ArchaeologistsarestudyingavaluabletroveofoldRomancoinsfoundonthesiteofaformertheaterinnorthernItaly. Thecoins,atleast300ofthem,datebacktothelateRomanimperialeraandwerefoundinasoapstonejar unearthedinthebasementoftheCressoniTheaterinCo
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第429期:马斯克直播惹祸
本期内容: Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has smoked marijuana live on the web during a podcast with comedian Joe Rogan. Mr Rogan offered his guest the drug, which is legal in California, as the pair discussed tech innovation and the public's perce
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第430期:空气污染如何影响胎儿
本期内容: Scientists have found the first evidence that particles of air pollution travel through pregnant women's lungs and lodge in their placentas. Toxic air is already strongly linked to harm in foetuses but how the damage is done is unknow
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第431期:星巴克意大利开店
本期内容: It has taken more than two years to build, but on Friday, Starbucks will open its first Italian outlet. The company's Milan roastery goes far beyond the usual latte production line. The marble-floored store will offer a theatre of cof
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第432期:甲壳虫停产
本期内容: It has taken more than two years to build, but on Friday, Starbucks will open its first Italian outlet. The company's Milan roastery goes far beyond the usual latte production line. The marble-floored store will offer a theatre of cof
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第433期:自行车骑过动车
本期内容: Denise Mueller-Korenek brings a whole new meaning to pedal to the metal. The US woman, 45, smashed a world record this week by averaging an eye-watering speed of 183.9 miles per hour on a bicycle. For most people, the idea of travelin
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第434期:亚马逊慈善基金
本期内容: Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is putting $2bn into a charitable fund he has established to help the homeless and set up a new network of schools. The world's richest man announced the move in a tweet, saying the charity would be called the
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第435期:喝咖啡多多益善
本期内容: Inanewobservationalstudyinvolvingcloseto20,000individuals, peoplewhoconsumedatleastfourcupsofcoffeedailyhada64%lowerriskofearlydeathcomparedtothoseneverorrarelyconsumedcoffee. Thereductioninriskwasmoresignificantoncepeoplereachedtheag
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第436期:儿歌300首
本期内容: One of the most popular YouTube channels in the world, which features animated nursery rhymes, has been sold. Little Baby Bum was founded by a London-based couple in 2011 and has racked up 17.5 billion views in its time. It was bought