英语听力精选进阶版 14316

Twitter shares jump

Summary

8 November 2013

Shares in the microblogging site, Twitter, have nearly doubled in value in the first few hours of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The share price rose above $45, valuing the company at more than $25bn.

Reporter:

Mark Gregory

Report

It will go down as one of the most spectacular debuts¹ in the history of financial markets. 

Twitter has only been around seven years, has never made a profit and has modest sources of income - yet its shares rose 80% in value the moment it joined the stock market, and then briefly² soared even higher than that. 

Measured by the stock price in relation to revenues, Twitter's shares are now rated as among the most expensive of any new share issue ever. 

It's a big bet that popularity - Twitter already has 230 million users - will eventually lead to massive profits.

1 debuts   

演员首次演出( debut的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He never really debuts the idea of taking money from his parents any longer. 他从此就再也没有认真起过向父母要钱的念头。
• This young soprano debuts next month at the metropolitan opera. 这位年轻的女高音歌唱家下个月将在纽约大都会歌剧院举行首演。

2 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。