英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0626 - 文科生最"败家"?

 Topic 1: China Telecom lost 4 million subscribers in 5 monthsChina's third largest mobile phone player has seen a sharp decrease in users as its two competitors record consistent growth.

China Telecom has reported a subscriber¹ loss of 950,000 in May, while China Mobile added 3.3 million 4G users and 4.3 million 3G users, and China Unicom gained another 2.7 million subscribers to its services during the same month.

What should China Telecom do?

Topic 2: Set-top box regulationStarting from this April, the Chinese government has commenced a campaign called "clean up the Internet". Now, this campaign has reached our TVs.

China's top media supervisor² recently ordered two Internet television set-top box providers to cut off downloading channels for some streaming videos which are suspected to contain forbidden content.

What is the regulation?

Topic 3:: Chinese college students spending habitsA report on the consumption patterns of Chinese college students shows half of the students surveyed spend 1,000 to 2,500 yuan per month and they spend most of their discretionary income on food.

The report was released by the Shanghai Jiaotong University. It also indicates that students of liberal arts majors spend more than their science and engineering peers.

How much are they spending every month?

Topic 4:  How to be a good traditional wifeAs China's economy progresses apace, more and more people are looking back to ancient China for advice on relationships.  This trend has even gone so far that now classes are being offered to women on how to be a good, traditional wife.  However, many are questioning how these patriarchal ideas square with modern society.

Do we need these types of classes?

Topic 5:  Girls who like boy-love fantasiesFujoshi, literally³ rotten or helpless girl in Japanese, has come from the fringes of Chinese culture and just recently officially entered into mainstream⁴ online culture.  Users on weibo have issued a standard by which a girl can be considered fujoshi, or in Chinese funv.  This, of course, has gathered quite a bit of attention.

But, for people like myself, totally out of loop, this raises the question, what in the heck is funv?

1 subscriber   

n.用户，订户；（慈善机关等的）定期捐款者；预约者；签署者

参考例句：

• The subscriber to a government loan has got higher interest than savings. 公债认购者获得高于储蓄的利息。 来自辞典例句
• Who is the subscriber of that motto? 谁是那条座右铭的签字者？ 来自辞典例句

2 supervisor   

n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师

参考例句：

• Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
• He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。

3 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

4 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。