英語角-圓桌會議 RoundTable - 北京的七環(huán)

Topic1 Tencent Wealth Management
In China, over 800 million netizens use the instant messaging tool QQ to talk to their families and friends. Now, they can make some money while enjoying the chatting.

Last week, internet company Tencent Holdings Ltd has entered a new realm of Internet finance by co-developing a wealth management platform based on its popular QQ service, targeting securities firms and stock investors.

What is it? What's the difference between Caifutong, and Yongjinbao, both of which are Tencent products?

Topic2 Beijing's 7th Ring to unify mega-region
Beijing seems to be dedicated to building ring roads. Now we are talking about the seventh ring road.

Transport authorities say Beijing's seventh ring expressway will sprawl well beyond the city limits.

Plans have been finalized for the Seventh Ring Road which is a 940-kilometer highway to connect the capital with neighboring Hebei Province.

Beijing's "7th ring road" not in Beijing? Should Beijing care at all?

Topic3 Online judicial auctions
A gas station in central China's Henan province sold at an online judicial auction Tuesday for 6.89 million yuan ($1.1 million).

The auction of the station, located in Gongyi city near the No. 310 State Road, started with a starting price of 1.65 million yuan.

The online auction attracted 22 bidders. After 26 hours, the gas station sold for more than three times its starting bid, the highest rate ever for an online judicial auction in Henan.

Is there a need for online judicial auctions?

Topic4 Ghost writers for civil servants
民主生活會, literally translated as democratic life meetings, refer to the regular meetings of CPC leaders and cadres where people exchange opinions and conduct criticism and self-criticism. Recently, some of these democratic life meetings attract common people's attention, as a reporter found that some ghost writers on Taobao are making money from such meetings. They charge the civil servants 100 yuan for one article about things learned from the democratic life meetings.

Is this a problem?

Topic5 Female-only parking spaces
A shopping mall in Northeast China's Dalian city has rolled out wider and bigger parking spaces for their female customers.

The spaces, outlined in hot pink with a sign saying, "Women only," are located by the road and close to the mall's entrances.

Is it thoughtful or thoughtless to set up female-only parking?

Is it sexist?

1 investors

n.投資者，出資者( investor的名詞復數(shù) )

參考例句：

a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 詐取投資者幾百萬元的騙子

a cash bonanza for investors 投資者的賺錢機會

2 unify

vt.使聯(lián)合，統(tǒng)一;使相同，使一致

參考例句：

How can we unify such scattered islands into a nation?我們怎么才能把如此分散的島嶼統(tǒng)一成一個國家呢?

It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula.很難想象南北雙方在統(tǒng)一半島的方案上究竟怎樣才能達成一致。

3 dedicated

adj.一心一意的;獻身的;熱誠的

參考例句：

He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他獻身于教育事業(yè)。

His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改進這項設(shè)計上了。

4 sprawl

vi.躺臥，擴張，蔓延;vt.使蔓延;n.躺臥，蔓延

參考例句：

In our garden,bushes are allowed to sprawl as they will.在我們園子里，灌木叢愛怎么蔓延就怎么蔓延。

He is lying in a sprawl on the bed.他伸開四肢躺在床上。

5 finalized

vt.完成(finalize的過去式與過去分詞形式)

參考例句：

The draft of this article has been finalized [done]. 這篇文章已經(jīng)定稿。 來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

The draft was revised several times before it was finalized. 稿子幾經(jīng)刪改才定下來。 來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

6 judicial

adj.司法的，法庭的，審判的，明斷的，公正的

參考例句：

He is a man with a judicial mind.他是個公正的人。

Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.湯姆對他的父親正式提出訴訟。

7 auction

n.拍賣;拍賣會;vt.拍賣

參考例句：

They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他們把房子里的東西全都拿去拍賣了。

They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他們用拍賣得來的錢買了一輛新面包車。

8 auctions

n.拍賣，拍賣方式( auction的名詞復數(shù) )

參考例句：

They picked up most of the furniture at auctions in country towns. 他們大部分的家具都是在鄉(xiāng)村鎮(zhèn)上的拍賣處買的。 來自辭典例句

Our dealers didn't want these cars, so we had to dump them at auctions. 我們的承銷商都不要這些車子，因此我們只好賤價拍賣。 來自辭典例句

9 bidders

n.出價者，投標人( bidder的名詞復數(shù) )

參考例句：

Bidders should proceed only if they intend on using a PayPal account to complete payment. Bidders的唯一形式，應(yīng)繼續(xù)只當他們在使用貝寶帳戶，以完成付款打算。 來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)

The other bidders for the contract complained that it had not been a fair contest. 其他競標人抱怨說該合同的競標不公平。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

10 literally

adv.照字面意義，逐字地;確實

參考例句：

He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻譯這段文字。

Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有時候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，決不肯坐下來。