2011年5月4日 星期三

2011/4/27 You and Yours Listening Notes (BBC 英文筆記)

C1: Buying a Mobile: 根據 Which? 調查,超市是購買手機的最佳地點:
Which? has found that the best place to buy a mobile phone is from the supermarket. 8000 customers rated their experience in terms of value for money and customer service.
(1) walk away with a happy contract 輕易獲得....
(2) Mobile phones have become commodities almost in the same way as you pick up your groceries.
(3) sign up to a contract
(4) Talktalk scores the worst for landline customers. 陸線


C2: U-turn on anaerobic digesters: 厭氧消化槽政策180度大轉彎
Farmers fear government enthusiasm is waning for digesters which use rotting waste to create gas and generate electricity. Returns are so attractive some farmers are growing crops just for digesters.
(1) measure sth out: 取出所需的量
(2) to deposit its waste 做堆肥
(3) government premium
(4) carbon footprints 碳足跡
(5) porridge= oatmeal 麥片粥
(6) perverse economics 顛倒曲解的經濟學
(7) to square with sth = be consistent with sth : 與...一致

C3: Helping by Phone: 新的智慧型手機應用程式也能幫你做善事
Mobile company Orange has developed a Smartphone app called "Do Some Good" which allows users to help charities.
(1) small bite size task
(2) tap into the crowd 利用開發...

C4: Coastguard Service Changes: 海岸警衛隊部署將被刪減
The government has extended the consultation period on controversial plans to reduce 18 coastguard stations to eight.
(1) put ... on hold 延期 中斷
(2) seafaring (a.) 海上航行的
(3) to sign the petition against the downsizing of the coastguard 簽署請願書...
(4) take sth on board : 接納採納....

C5: Social worker crisis: 社工職業急需改革
Former Labour Cabinet Minister Lord Adonis says the social work profession is in need of urgent reform.
(1) to recruit the best and the brightest

C6: Playstation Network Data Breach: 索尼Playstation 遭駭客入侵 客戶資料外洩
Over 70 million users of Sony's online gaming network are being warned that their personal details, including credit card information may have been stolen.

C7: Ryanair ads: 廉價航空瑞安廣告遭禁播:
The Advertising Standards Authority bans ads featuring a bikini-clad model and the promise of Spring sun because some of the featured destinations - which included Glasgow - were not warm enough.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010mryz#-

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