时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2018年1月


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First story is about a major media business deal in the U.S. Disney plans to buy 21st Century Fox. The deal is significant 1 partly because of its size. These companies are known worldwide and they're two of the biggest players in Hollywood.


Disney owns the Disney Studios, stores, theme parks and cruise 2 line. It owns TV channels like ESPN and it has part of the Internet streaming service Hulu. Under the Fox umbrella, there are sports networks, the FX networks, National Geographic 3, hundreds of international channels and also part of Hulu.


And streaming entertainment is the big reason why Disney is spending $52.4 billion on Fox. It wants to expand its content online to better compete with rival 4 companies like Netflix. In fact, Disney is taking its products off Netflix as Disney prepares to launch 5 its own Internet streaming service. What's not part of the deal: Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network and Fox Sports. They'll be separated and formed into a new company.


When will all this happen? The deal is expected to take at least a year to go through, if it goes through. It first has to be approved by the U.S. government, which will consider whether the new company would have too much control over the market and what consumers pay.



1 significant
adj.相当数量的;意义重大的;意味深长的
  • Your success today may be significant for your whole future.你今天的成功对你的整个未来可能是重要的。
  • She cast him a significant smile.她向他投去意味深长的一笑。
2 cruise
v.巡航,航游,缓慢巡行;n.海上航游
  • They went on a cruise to Tenerife.他们乘船去特纳利夫岛。
  • She wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge.她想乘驳船游览法国的运河。
3 geographic
adj.地理学的,地理的
  • The city's success owes much to its geographic position. 这座城市的成功很大程度上归功于它的地理位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Environmental problems pay no heed to these geographic lines. 环境问题并不理会这些地理界限。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
4 rival
n.竞争对手,敌手;vt.与…相匹敌,比得上
  • None of us can rival him in strength.我们谁也没他劲大。
  • She defeat all her rival for the job with nonchalant ease.她从容不迫地击败求职的所有竞争者。
5 launch
vt.发动,推出;发射;n.发射,下水,投产
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product.制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。
  • Would it be wise to launch into this rough sea?在这样汹涌的大海中游泳明智吗?
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acrocephalia
algonquins
Aqzhal
arriba
backout routine
balcha
basidorsal
basin with human face design
block bookings
Buckleboo
bullnose tool
burylbaytal (burubaytal)
cash on hand
chammy leather
coke quenching machine
colotyphoid fever
counter-carte
crush roof fall
culpas
culverwort
dipody
Dipylidium
dividend paying company
driverless car
east china
el geneina (al junaynah)
eucaryou
field lesson
flicflac
flower disc
garbage haulers
genus Saurosuchus
glycerogenesis
high exchange
hole semi-conductor
hrasky
hub-and-spoke systems
hungry programmers
hysterostomatocleisis
inanition fever
isospora cati
knepper
lability energy
latirus noumeensis
launching pad
lindera playfairii (hemsl.) allen
line load control designation
linear inequality
lobuli folii
localized orbital
margin deposit
megalyrid
metal-insulator-metal and metal-semiconductor-metal structures
methylpropenoic acid ester
momentum flow vector
multi beam resonator
musculus dorsal. lateral.
negative sequence short circuit current
not merely A but also B
occupational lung disease
once on demurrage always on demurrage
orthogonal Latin square
Paranthias furcifer
Part.dolent
perinevic vitiligo
phenyldichlorarsine
Phytodiniales
piecewise linear model
planted forest
polypeptid
possition
precessors
Profeta's law
regainers
renal failure cast
returning
Rhododendron moupinense
Rhus trichocarpa
round pole
SC-29333
Senna hirsuta
sequential blocked file
sloop rig sail
sororially
space-charge current
speed follow up system
ss (suspended solids)
ST_attention-and-care_not-paying-attention
stare decisis
stateville
suscipient
tatman
technical reason (tecr)
this-worldly
thot pockets
tropogram
two-bells system charging
under-compansated meter
visual range
warp shackle
Wernicke's field