[E341]The world this week|经济学人
原文及音频节选自《经济学人》2016年第6期
The world this week版块
February 6th 2016
▷The World Health Organisation declared that a rise in birth defects in Brazil, thought to be caused by the mosquito-borne[蚊传播的;蚊传染] Zika virus, is a global emergency. The virus probably caused more than 4,000 cases of microcephaly[ˌmaɪkrəʊ'sefəlɪ][畸形小头] among newborn children in Brazil and has been found in more than 20 countries in the Americas. The WHO thinks the virus is spreading “explosively”. It is thought that a case detected in Texas[德克萨斯州] was probably transmitted through sex.
▷birth defects
出生缺陷胚胎发育紊乱引起的形态、结构、功能、代谢等方面的异常的统称;
先天畸型;出生缺陷;先天性缺陷
▷Police in China arrested 21 people for their involvement in[介入,参与] an alleged Ponzi scheme run by Ezubao[e租宝], an online firm. The company has been accused of defrauding[诈取,骗取] 900,000 investors of 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion).
▷Ponzi scheme
庞氏骗局(指骗人向虚设的企业投资，以后来投资者的钱作为快速盈利付给最初投资者以诱使更多人上当亦作Ponzi)
Business this week
▷In by far the largest foreign takeover bid by a Chinese company to date[至今,直到今天,到目前为止;迄今], ChemChina[中国化工] offered $43 billion to buy Syngenta[先正达], which is based in Switzerland and is one of the world’s biggest providers of agricultural chemicals and seeds. It is the second big acquisition[第二大收购] in the chemical industry[化学工业,化工] in recent months, after the merger announcement of Dow Chemical and DuPont. Syngenta’s board[董事会] recommended shareholders accept the bid from ChemChina, which is state-controlled. The deal will be scrutinised by antitrust regulators[反垄断监管机构] in several countries, especially America, which accounts for a quarter of Syngenta’s sales.
▷takeover bid
[注释] (Britain) An attempt to buy a controlling share in a business.
收购发盘,接管出价;
接管招标;购并出价;票据
▷scrutinise [skru:'tɪnɪs]
[注释] to examine something very carefully in order to discover information
细看,仔细审查
He scrutinized the men's faces carefully/closely, trying to work out who was lying.(他仔细端详这些男子的脸，想弄清谁在撒谎)
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