-课程导读
今天在“法制”栏目中,我们来聊聊“商业欺诈”,Let's talk about “Business Deception”in today’s program.
近日,美国加州一名法官判处血液检测公司Theranos创始人Elizabeth Holmes11年零3个月的监禁,罪名是利用公司欺诈投资者。在听证会上,她哭着说被自己的失败“摧毁了”。如果有机会,她会做很多不同的事情。她说:“我对人们所经历的一切感到羞耻不已,我辜负了他们。” 今天我就带你走进关于商业欺诈的新闻。
-课程内容
词汇积累:Word Bank
1、血液测试:blood testing
2、辍学:drop out
3、斯坦福大学:Stanford University
4、梦想:dream
5、创建:create
6、革命:revolutionize
7、创业公司:startup
8、科技:technology
9、针孔:pinprick
10、自夸:boast
【初级水平】基本对话:Conversation
场景:
小波在周末的“围炉夜话”中和大家谈到了创业路上的思考,并给大家举了个例子——独角兽Theranos的商业欺诈案(The Theranos Deception)
Xiaobo:Have you guys heard of the recent news about a fallen unicorn called Theranos?
小波:你们最近有听说一家独角兽Theranos倒下的新闻了吗?
Xiaohua's Boyfriend:I’ve heard of it. It's a business deception.
小华男友:我听说了。事关商业欺诈啊。
Xiaohua:You mean the company cheated?
小华:你意思是公司欺骗或作弊?
Xiaohong:Of course. According to NewYorkTimes, the founder Elizabeth Holmes failed blood-testing start-up Theranos and was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding investors about her company's technology and business dealings.
小红:当然了。据《纽约时报》称,血液测试初创公司Theranos的创始人伊丽莎白·霍姆斯因在公司科技和商业交易上欺骗投资者被判处11年以上的监禁。
Xiaobo:She was considered as the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world.
小波:她可被认为是世界上最年轻的白手起家的女亿万富翁啊。
Xiaohua:Wow, what exactly did she do?
小华:哇,她都干些啥了?
Xiaobo:To make a long story short, she was just 19 years old when she dropped out of Stanford University with a dream of creating a company that would revolutionize blood testing. She founded the startup Theranos. It boasted her technology could take a pinprick worth of blood from the finger and perform hundreds of laboratory tests.
小波:长话短说,她从斯坦福大学辍学时只有19岁,她的梦想是创建一家彻底改变血液检测的公司。她创建了初创公司Theranos,该公司夸耀地称,它的技术可以从手指上抽取一针血,并进行数百项实验室测试。
Xiaohong: Later as the Wall Street Journal uncovered, she was at the center of a massive multi-year fraud.
小红:后来《华尔街日报》发现她是一桩持续多年的大规模欺诈案的中心人物。
Xiaohua's boyfriend:The name of the company sounds like Thanos. That's why.
小华男友:这公司名字听起来很“灭霸”,所以“灭”了。
【完美发音】Perfect Pronunciation
目标句子:She called her invention the iPod of healthcare.
目标音:击穿音(Dropped H)called her,the /?i/ iPod
断句:She called her invention |the iPod of healthcare.
中速/快速:She called her invention the iPod of healthcare.
参考翻译:她称自己的发明为保健界的iPod.
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