英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable1202 - 优酷，少年不可欺

 Topic1 China deposit insuranceOn Nov. 30th, the Legislative¹ Affairs Office of China's State Council published a set of draft regulations to adopt a deposit insurance scheme to better protect depositors and free up interest rates.

What do you think of the deposit insurance scheme? Is it highly necessary?

Topic2 IP Protection of Creative IdeasOver the weekend, a post titled 少年不可欺 or "The Youth will not Be Bullied²" swept through several social media platforms including Weibo and WeChat. The post claimed that video website YouKu and social website Momo stole their idea and experience. The 19-year-old writer and his team used a weather balloon to take aerial photos of the earth, and he claimed youku recreated an advertising³ video for Momo using the same name, story, and aerial photos with the content of the students' project, without getting authorization⁴ from the team.

Yesterday, YouKu released the inspection⁵ result to the public, admitting that the story adopted by the adverting⁶ video is similar to the students' experience and apologized to those students publicly. The advertising video is removed from YouKu website.

But the discussion online did not quiet down. What happened exactly? Was Youku guilty of stealing?

Topic3 Ghost towns to be home for low-income residentsThe Ministry⁷ of Housing and Urban-Rural Development is reportedly planning to buy unsold commercial housing units and convert them to government-subsidized affordable⁸ apartments for low-income families.

Insiders have revealed that a plan is in the making for the government to pay market rates for such units and make up the price difference no matter if the apartments are to be rented or sold to low-income households.

Is there a problem?

Topic4 Beijing, Shanghai among the World's Best Student CitiesHong Kong has been named the best Asian city in which to study and the fifth best in the world.

According to the 2015 Quacquarelli Symonds World's Best Student Cities list, Paris topped the list for the third year running, Beijing and Shanghai rank 26th and 32nd respectively.

What makes a good student city? Does location matter for university students?

Topic5 Government Pay for Books Citizens Want to ReadA pilot project that encourages citizens to recommend and nominate books they want to read is launched in Minghang District in Shanghai. The government would allocate⁹ a fund to buy those books and place them in several community book bars for citizens to borrow for free.

Is it a good idea?

1 legislative   

n.立法机构，立法权；adj.立法的，有立法权的

参考例句：

• Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
• Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。

2 bullied   

adj.被欺负了v.恐吓，威逼( bully的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• My son is being bullied at school. 我儿子在学校里受欺负。
• The boy bullied the small girl into giving him all her money. 那男孩威逼那个小女孩把所有的钱都给他。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

4 authorization   

n.授权，委任状

参考例句：

• Anglers are required to obtain prior authorization from the park keeper.垂钓者必须事先得到公园管理者的许可。
• You cannot take a day off without authorization.未经批准你不得休假。

5 inspection   

n.检查，审查，检阅

参考例句：

• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。
• The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。

6 adverting   

引起注意（advert的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• He set up several adverting consultancy business in the UK. 他在英国建立了好几家广告咨询公司。
• NOTES: 1. The trust unit must be responsible for the adverting content of legalization and authenticity. 附注：1。刊户对所刊登广告内容的合法性、真实性负责。

7 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

8 affordable   

adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的

参考例句：

• The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
• There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。

9 allocate   

vt.分配，分派；把…拨给；把…划归

参考例句：

• You must allocate the money carefully.你们必须谨慎地分配钱。
• They will allocate fund for housing.他们将拨出经费建房。