香港影迷本周得到了一个难得的机会,在大银幕上观看了一部本土经典影片(1),这件事提醒人们,半个世纪前的功夫片仍继续影响着当今的电影制作者。
Hong Kong cinephiles seized a rare opportunity this week to see a hometown classic on the big screen, a reminder that martial-arts films dating back a half century continue to influence today's filmmakers.
cin·e·phile(sn-fl) n.
本周,苹果(Apple)首席执行官蒂姆库克(Tim Cook)造访了中国,其场面像极了一位颇受欢迎的国家元首的正式访问。
The tour of China by Apple chief executive Tim Cook this week had all the trappings of an official visit by a popular head of state.
▪ Despite its democratic trappings, the country's government was a dictatorship.— often + of▪ She had lots of money and enjoyed all the trappings of success/wealth.
库克毕竟是苹果的掌舵人。上个财年,苹果的销售收入为1080亿美元,与伊拉克全国的国内生产总值(GDP)相当。
Mr Cook is after all the head of a company whose $108bn in sales in its last fiscal year were equivalent to the GDP of an entire country in Iraq’s case.
汤普森(Mr. Thompson)在写给雅虎员工的信中说,我们的目标是重回核心业务,将用户和广告客户放在首位,我们正在积极实现这一目标。
'Our goal is to get back to our core purpose -- putting our users and advertisers first -- and we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal,' Mr. Thompson said in a message to Yahoo employees.
威尔认为,当员工被一个棘手问题难住时,走到办公室外办公能起到帮助作用,“有时候视野的变化能够促使你从不同的角度思考,那正是我们所希望的。”
When workers are stuck on a tough problem, working outside of the office can help, Mr. Ware says. 'Sometimes that change of scenery encourages you to think differently and that's what we want.'
一些老牌企业也借鉴初创公司的做法,选择与其他公司共用办公区域。
Taking a page from start-ups, some established companies are opting to share their workspaces.
borrow/take a page from someone or borrow/take a page from someone's book
US: to do the same thing that someone else has done
▪ You may want to borrow/take a page from his book and study harder for your finals.
established adjective
2: successful for a long period of time
▪ an established author/artist▪ an established law firm
plural start–ups
▪ They were looking for money to fund/launch a start-up.— often used before another noun ▪ small start-up businesses/companies▪ start-up funds/money