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每日新闻单词必背

digital heritage

数字遗产

blockbuster ['blkbst]

n. 轰动；巨型炸弹；一鸣惊人者

这是第天的【双语新闻播报】

1

'Avengers' blast past 'Titanic'

'复联4'票房成影史第二

Disney and Marvel's "Avengers: Endgame" has stormed into historic territory, earning $ billion worldwide in less than two weeks to become the No 2 film of all time, industry watcher "Exhibitor Relations" reported Sunday.

根据电影行业观测机构《北美院线联盟》5日发布的消息，迪士尼和漫威出品的超级英雄大片《复仇者联盟4：终局之战》创造了历史，上映不到两周其全球票房达亿美元，成为全球影史票房亚军。

That exalted number pushes the superhero blockbuster past "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", which netted $ billion, and even "Titanic" ($ billion). Only "Avatar" ($ billion) has done better. Yet "Avengers" hit its record total in just days, taking in a stunning $ million in China alone.

这一票房超越了《星球大战:原力觉醒》(总票房亿美元)和《泰坦尼克号》(亿美元)，目前仅次于《阿凡达》(亿美元)。《复联4》仅用天就创造了这一票房纪录，其中，中国市场贡献了惊人的亿美元票房。

重点词汇

1、storm into

横冲直撞进入; 强行冲入

2、territory

英 /'tert()r/ 美 /'trtri/

n. 领土，领域；范围；地域；版图

3、blockbuster

英 /'blkbst/ 美 /'blɑkbst/

n. 轰动；巨型炸弹；一鸣惊人者

4、stunning

英 /'stn/ 美 /'stn/

adj. 极好的；使人晕倒的；震耳欲聋的

v. 把…打昏；使震耳欲聋；使大吃一惊（stun的ing形式

2

Indonesia mulls new capital

印尼决定迁都新址未定

Indonesia's decades-long discussion about building a new capital has inched forward after President Joko Widodo on Monday approved a long-term plan for the government to abandon overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta.

数十年来，印度尼西亚关于迁都的讨论从未停止过，近日此事终于有了进展。印尼总统佐科o维多多日通过了一项迁都长期计划，政府将搬离过度拥挤、地面下沉且污染严重的雅加达。

Widodo decided at a special Cabinet meeting to move the capital outside of Indonesia's most populous island, Java, said Planning Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro.

印尼规划部长班邦o布洛佐尼格罗表示，维多多在内阁特别会议上决定将首都迁出爪哇岛这个国内人口稠密的岛屿。

It was one of three options discussed. The other alternatives were moving to a location near Jakarta or staying put and relocating all government buildings to a special zone around the presidential palace.

这是内阁讨论过的三种方案之一。另两种方案分别是迁都至雅加达附近的新址、以及保留雅加达首都地位，但在总统府周边选址新建政府大楼。

The site for a possible new capital hasn't been announced, but Palangkaraya on the island of Borneo has often been rumored as the location. Brodjonegoro, however, said eastern Indonesia is favored. "This is a big job. It could take up to years," he said.

新址的位置尚未宣布，但常有传言加里曼丹岛上的帕朗卡拉亚将会是首都新址。但布洛佐尼格罗表示首选印尼群岛东部。他说："迁都是一项巨大的工程，可能需要耗时十年以上。"

重点词汇

1、 cabinet

英 /'kaebnt/ 美 /'kaebnt/

n. 内阁；橱柜；展览艺术品的小陈列室

adj. 内阁的；私下的，秘密的

2、populous

英 /'ppjls/ 美 /'pɑpjls/

adj. 人口稠密的；人口多的

3、rumor

英 /'rum/ 美 /'rm/

n. 谣言；传闻

vt. 谣传；传说

3

FB graveyard draws attention

脸书离世用户将占多数?

New analysis by academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), part of the University of Oxford, predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within fifty years, a trend that will have grave implications for how we treat our digital heritage in the future.

牛津大学互联网研究中心(OII)学者进行的最新分析预测，年内脸书上的离世用户的数量或将超过在世用户的数量，这一趋势将对未来我们该如何对待我们的数字遗产有重大启示。

The analysis predicts that, based on user levels, at least billion members will die before . In this trend, the dead could outnumber the living by .

分析预测，根据年的用户状况，至少有亿用户会在年前死亡。按此趋势，到年，离世用户的数量可能会超过在世用户。

If the world's largest social network continues to expand at current rates, however, the number of deceased users could reach as high as billion before the end of the century. "These statistics give rise to new and difficult questions around who has the right to all this data, how should it be managed in the best interests of the families and friends of the deceased and its use by future historians to understand the past," said lead author Carl hman, a doctoral candidate at the OII.

如果世界上最大的社交网络继续以目前的速度持续扩张，本世纪末前，已故用户的数量就可能高达亿。OII博士研究生，第一作者Carl hman说："这些统计数据引出了全新的难题，即谁有权获得所有这些数据，应该如何管理这些数据才能保障死者家人和朋友的最大利益，以及如何供未来的历史学家使用以帮助他们理解过去。"

Co-author David Watson said: "Controlling this archive will, in a sense, be to control our history. It is therefore important that we ensure that access to these historical data is not limited to a single for-profit firm."

合著作者戴维o沃森表示，从某种意义上说，掌握了这批文档就意味着掌控了我们的过去，因此我们必须确保这些历史数据不会彻底落入某家营利性公司的手中。

重点词汇

1、digital heritage

数字遗产

2、outnumber

英 /at'nmb/ 美 /'at'nmb/

vt. 数目超过；比…多

3、give rise to

使发生，引起

4、doctoral candidate

博士研究生

5、for-profit

以盈利为目的的

4

Assange gets weeks in jail

阿桑奇被判处周监禁

A British judge sentenced WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange on Wednesday to weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy.

5月1日，英国法院判处维基解密联合创始人阿桑奇入狱周，罪名是他7年前在保释期间逃跑，进入厄瓜多尔驻英使馆。

He took refuge in the London embassy in to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.

年，阿桑奇进入厄瓜多尔驻英使馆避难，从而避免因为性侵指控被引渡到瑞典。

In a letter read to the court, Assange said he had found himself "struggling with difficult circumstances". "I did what I thought at the time was the best or perhaps the only thing I could have done," he said.

对于这项指控阿桑奇一直予以否认。阿桑奇在向法庭宣读的一封信中表示，自己当时"处境艰难"，选择寻求庇护是当时他自认为最好的选择，亦或是他唯一能做的事情。

重点词汇

1、sentenced

v. 判决；审判；宣判（sentence的过去式，过去分词）

2、bail

英 /bel/ 美 /bel/

n. 保释，保释人；保释金；杓

vt. 保释，帮助某人脱离困境；往外舀水

3、holing up

躲藏；把…监禁

4、sexual assault

性侵犯；性暴行

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