2020年经济学人 一周要闻 亚马逊拟收购Zoox 股市回暖 华纳音乐计划上市

Amazon was reportedly in talks to buy Zoox, a startup that is developing electric-powered robotaxis. Amazon’s interest in autonomous-vehicle technology so far has focused on how it might enhance the delivery of its goods.

据报道，亚马逊正在洽谈收购一家开发电动出租车的初创公司Zoox。到目前为止，亚马逊对自动驾驶汽车技术的兴趣主要集中在如何提高商品交付能力方面。

Latin America’s largest airline and its affiliates¹ in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru filed for bankruptcy² protection because of covid-19. Latam has its headquarters in Santiago, Chile’s capital, and also operates subsidiaries in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. It filed for bankruptcy protection in New York, where it has a listing.

拉丁美洲最大的航空公司及其位于智利、哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔和秘鲁的子公司因新冠肺炎疫情申请破产保护。拉塔姆公司总部设在智利首都圣地亚哥，在阿根廷、巴西和巴拉圭也设有子公司。它在纽约申请破产保护，此前该公司在纽约上市。

Buoyed³ by the further easing of lockdowns and an unexpected rise in American consumer confidence, stockmarkets retained their fizz of the past few weeks. The s&p 500 closed above the 3,000 mark for the first time since early March. Share prices in American banks have started to recover. JPMorgan Chase’s stock is up by 21% since mid-March, Bank of America’s by 25% and Citigroup’s by 43%.

受进一步放松管制和美国消费者信心意外上升的影响，股市在过去几周保持了活跃。标普500指数自3月初以来首次收在3,000点上方。美国银行的股价已经开始回升。自3月中旬以来，摩根大通(JPMorgan Chase)的股价上涨了21%，美国银行上涨了25%，花旗集团上涨了43%。

Back to work

复工

The New York Stock Exchange partially⁴ reopened its floors to traders. Around 100 were allowed to return if they promised not to use public transport to get there and not to sue the exchange if they contract covid-19. The traders were allocated⁵ desks behind screens and given strict instructions on social distancing.

纽约证券交易所向交易员重新开放了部分交易大厅。大约有100人获准返岗，前提是他们承诺不乘坐公共交通上下班，而且如果感染了新冠肺炎，也不会起诉交易所。交易员们被安置到大屏幕后方的桌子上，并被严格要求须保持社交距离。

Retail⁶ sales in Britain plunged⁷ by 18.1% in April from March, the largest drop on record since the data began in 1988. Sales of alcohol continued to rise.

英国4月份的零售额比3月份下跌了18.1%，这是自1988年数据发布以来的最大跌幅。酒精类销售继续攀升。

Warner Music launched plans for an ipo on the Nasdaq exchange. The music company’s vast stable of artists includes Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars. It used to be part of what is now WarnerMedia until it was bought out by Sir Leonard Blavatnik’s Access Industries in 2011. If it is in tune⁸ with market sentiment, the listing could value the company at up to $13bn, well above the $3.3bn that Sir Leonard paid for it.

华纳音乐计划在纳斯达克上市。这家音乐公司的艺人包括艾德·希兰和布鲁诺·马尔斯。该公司曾是现在的华纳传媒(WarnerMedia)的一部分，直到2011年被伦纳德·布拉瓦特尼克爵士旗下的Access Industries收购。如果符合市场情绪，此次上市对该公司的估值可能高达130亿美元，远高于伦纳德爵士收购该公司时给出的33亿美元。

1 affiliates   

附属企业( affiliate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She affiliates with an academic society. 她是某学术团体的成员。
• For example, these security affiliates participated in the floating of 19,000,000,000 of issues in 1927. 例如，这些证券发行机构在1927年的流通证券中，就提供了一百九十亿美元的证券。

2 bankruptcy   

n.破产；无偿付能力

参考例句：

• You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
• His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。

3 buoyed   

v.使浮起( buoy的过去式和过去分词 )；支持；为…设浮标；振奋…的精神

参考例句：

• Buoyed by their win yesterday the team feel confident of further success. 在昨天胜利的鼓舞下，该队有信心再次获胜。
• His encouragement buoyed her up during that difficult period. 他的鼓励使她在那段困难时期恢复了乐观的情绪。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

5 allocated   

adj. 分配的 动词allocate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The Ford Foundation allocated millions of dollars for cancer research. 福特基金会拨款数百万美元用于癌症研究。
• More funds will now be allocated to charitable organizations. 现在会拨更多的资金给慈善组织。

6 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

7 plunged   

v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
• She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳，从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。

8 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。