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Business Matters: Search for flight 370 21 Mar¹ 14

Fri, 21 Mar 14

Chris McLaughlin of Inmarsat and David L Mearns from deep sea operations company, Blue Water Recoveries, join Roger Hearing in the studio to discuss the search for and potential recovery of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Ben Gilbert, senior editor with Engadget, talks about Morpeus, the newly-developed virtual reality system from Sony. And Raghavendra Rau, professor of finance at Cambridge University's Judge Business School explains why it is that paying someone a high salary or offering them a large bonus does not always mean that they will perform well at their job. In fact, says Professor Rau, big money can often have the opposite effect. In our Beijing bureau, Time magazine's China correspondent, Emily Rauhala; joining us from Los Angeles, California, Doctor Anthony F Smith, author of The Taboos² of Leadership.

1 mar   

vt.破坏，毁坏，弄糟

参考例句：

• It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
• Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。

2 taboos   

禁忌( taboo的名词复数 )； 忌讳； 戒律； 禁忌的事物（或行为）

参考例句：

• She was unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos. 她被藩蓠、法律及外来的戒律赶下了马。
• His mind was charged with taboos. 他头脑里忌讳很多。