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Business Weekend

Techs trucked【交易】higher, the blue chips did falter(1), bonds plunged(2) oil on the downside, closing at about 28 in New York. Semiconductors【半導體】 were fat but defensive, such as drugs and tobaccos【煙草】, which are often sought as safe havens in times of economic uncertainty(3) , suffered at the expense of the high tech buying spree(4). Yahoo the Internet media heavyweight【重量級人物】reported a small first quarter profit that was quite a bit weaker than a year ago, saying it’ll lop 12 % of its work force【勞動力】as Yahoo struggles with declining advertising revenues(5).

Yahoo closing down 16 cents to 15.86. Motorola the No. 2 mobile phone maker forecasting(6) a second quarter loss a few cents more than the first quarter signaling(7) the slowdown in the tech sector may not be over. EMC the most active stock on the big board fell 2.19 to 32.21 saying it expects to miss earnings by about 10%. Dow Jones Industrial down 89 points to close at 10.013, the Nasdaq composite up 47, the S&P 500 down 2. For Business Week, I’m Gary Nunn, ABC News.


聽音瓶頸詞匯

1. falter[]v.蹣跚；動搖
2. plunge []v.暴跌
3. uncertainty []n.不穩(wěn)定性
4. spree []n.狂購
5. revenue []n.收入
6. forecast [] v.預測
7. signal [] v.暗示；發(fā)出信號

聽音高級短語

blue chip 藍籌股；績優(yōu)股
at the expense of 在損害…的情況下； 以…為代價
lop 砍，刪剪
big board 紐約證券交易所；紐約證券交易所行情牌

聽音超級句型

…will lay off 12 % of its work force as Yahoo struggles with…
由于雅虎面臨…難關…準備削減12 %的員工。