英语听力精选进阶版 16715

 

Business Matters: Is Pay-To-Comment the Future?

Tue, 10 Feb 15

An online magazine in the US is introducing pay-to-comment on its articles. Yair Rosenberg is a journalist at Tablet and says they hope the move will help improve the quality of the discussions. Fancy a home made from straw? In England you can now get a mortgage to pay for it. Ben Law is a woodsman and eco-builder and tells us how his own straw home is holding up, a decade after he built it. Samsung warns some of its televisions are compromising the privacy of your living room - but could your car's electronics be hacked¹ for personal information too? Will Knight² from MIT Technology Review in Boston discusses the rise of 'Orwellian' technologies. The BBC's Rahul Tandon joins us from Kolkata to round up the stories making the news in India. Joining Fergus Nicoll are David Kuo of the Motley Fool in Singapore and Jessica Beinecke founder³ of Crazy Fresh Chinese in New York.

1 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

2 knight   

n.骑士，武士；爵士

参考例句：

• He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
• A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。

3 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。