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Royal Mail, 11 Jul 14

Fri, 11 Jul 14

Taxpayers¹ have lost one billion pounds in the privatisation of Royal Mail according a group of influential² MPs. The Business Select Committee said the government underestimated demand for shares in its report examining and concluded that ministers received poor quality information from the investment banks that advised on the deal. Also, concerns over a major bank in Portugal have hit stock markets across the globe. Plus a new trading platform has opened for the virtual currency Bitcoin. Is the electronic form of money about to enter the mainstream³?

1 taxpayers   

纳税人，纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
• She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。

2 influential   

adj.有影响的，有权势的

参考例句：

• He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
• He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。

3 mainstream   

n.（思想或行为的）主流；adj.主流的

参考例句：

• Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
• Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。