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Cirque du Soleil Files for Bankruptcy Protection

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🎪Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada on Monday, in an effort to salvage a circus business that’s ground to a halt because of the coronavirus pandemic.
太陽劇團娛樂集團於週一（6/29）在加拿大申請破產保護，試圖挽救因新冠疫情而停滯不前的馬戲事業。

-salvage: 打撈、搶救，形容從沉船或即將全毀的事物中進行救援
-halt: 停下、中止


🎭The company said it would lay off almost 3,500 employees who have been furloughed since March, leaving it with a core team of 213 people. The company is seeking to restructure its business and re-emerge with government support and less debt.
太陽劇團表示將解僱近3500名從三月起便被迫休假的員工，留下213人的核心團隊，該公司在尋求靠政府支持與減少債務以重建事業及復出。

-lay off: 解僱、遣散
-furlough: 休假、放假
-re-emerge: 重新出現


🤹‍♀️Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil has been forced to shut 44 shows world-wide this year as the Covid-19 pandemic spread, causing virtually its entire income stream to dry up. It currently has one show back running China, and hopes to have a dinner show resume in Mexico in July.
總部位於蒙特婁的太陽劇團今年因新冠肺炎疫情蔓延而被迫中止全球的44場表演，導致幾乎所有收入來源枯竭。他們目前在中國重開一齣劇目，並希望7月在墨西哥恢復一齣晚宴秀。

-virtually: 幾乎、實際上
-dry up: 乾涸、中斷
-resume: 恢復、重新開始，當名詞的用法可指「履歷」


🎟With shows like The Beatles Love, Michael Jackson One and Blue Man Group on indefinite hold, the company was forced in March to defer interest payments on some of its roughly $1.5 billion of outstanding debt shortly after hiring investment bank Greenhill & Co. Inc. to restructure its balance sheet.
由於《LOVE披頭四音樂秀》、《麥可傑克森ONE》、《藍人樂團》等劇目無限期停演，太陽劇團在三月聘請投資銀行格林希爾公司重組資產負債表不久後，便被迫延後支付其15億美金未償債務的部分利息。

-indefinite: 不確定的、無限期的
-defer: 推遲、延緩
-restructure: 重組、重建，重新架構（structure）


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❓❓多益模擬題❓:
Due to COVID-19, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games had been ＿＿ ＿＿.
因新冠疫情的影響，東京2020奧林匹克運動會無限期中止。
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A. halting / indefinite
B. cancelled / indefinitely
C. halted / indefinitely
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⏳Coronavirus Vaccine Front-Runners Emerge, Rollouts Weighed
新冠疫苗領航員浮現，藥廠與政府如何規劃生產分配？

-front-runner 領先者、領跑者
-emerge 出現、浮出水面，同 come out
-roll out 當動詞時有「開展、啟動、推出」的意思，此處作為名詞 rollout，指「生產分配（計畫）」

💉 Governments and drugmakers are weighing how to roll out coronavirus vaccines, including reserving the first batches for health-care workers, as several shots race to early leads.
在新冠疫苗競賽湧現出若干潛在領航員之際，一些政府部門和製藥商正謀劃如何推出新冠疫苗，包括為醫護人員預留第一批疫苗。

-weigh 字面意思為「秤重」，衍生為「謀劃、權衡、斟酌」的意思
✍️常見用法：weigh in on sth 提出對（某事）的看法
-batch 一批
-leads 領先者、領跑者
✍️常見用法： in the lead 指「處於領先地位」；在商業語境中 lead 還有「機遇、機會、潛在客戶」的意思

🧪 A safe and effective vaccine is the best way to prevent Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, and to curb its transmission, public-health officials say. Drugmakers say they are developing potential coronavirus vaccines at remarkably fast speeds.
Yet there isn’t a guarantee that any of the most advanced vaccine candidates will prove to work safely on such a short timetable. Some, like vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, are based on relatively new technologies that haven’t been approved previously.
公共衛生官員稱，安全有效的疫苗是預防新冠肺炎以及遏制新冠疫情擴散的最佳手段。新冠肺炎是新冠病毒引起的呼吸道疾病。製藥商表示正以驚人速度開發疫苗。然而，在這麼短的周期內，任何一種最先進的候選疫苗都不能保證可以證明是安全的。與輝瑞（Pfizer）和Moderna的疫苗相同，有些疫苗是採用之前未被批準的、相對比較新的技術所研發而成。

-curb 遏制、抑制，同 limit, restrict
✍️常見用法: put a curb on sth 限制、約束某事
-guarantee 保證、擔保
-timetable 計畫週期、時間表

🎖Several drugmakers that have been building up their capabilities to make coronavirus vaccines, have promised to make hundreds of millions of doses this year. Yet a fuller supply to vaccinate the general population might not become available until well into 2021, according to company projections and estimates by vaccine experts. Public-health officials and vaccine experts hope more than one vaccine will cross the finish line, to boost the total number of doses available.
幾家已經在提升新冠疫苗生產能力的製藥企業承諾，今年生產的疫苗劑量將以百萬支來計算。但根據藥廠和疫苗專家的估測，可能要到2021年才能為一般民眾提供更充足的疫苗供應。公共衛生部門的官員和疫苗專家希望，可以同時有多種疫苗獲得批准，這樣就能增加可使用的疫苗總劑量。
-build up 提升、構築
-capacity 生產能力
-full supply 充分供給
-cross the finish line 字面意思是「通過終點線」，在此表示「（疫苗）獲得批准」

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Johnson & Johnson expects to have some batches of its vaccine ready ___ early 2021, which Chief Scientific Officer Paul Stoffels said should be _______ to vaccinate health-care workers globally. The company expects to eventually make more than a billion doses.
嬌生公司預計在2021年初之前可望生產數批疫苗。該公司首席科學總監史多福（Paul Stoffels）表示，這些疫苗應該足夠全球醫護工作者接種。該公司預計最終將生產超過10億支疫苗。
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A. on / efficient
B. by / sufficient
C. in / effective
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🔥 Coronavirus Ravages China’s Economy—and It’s Just Getting Started
病毒重創中國經濟 但災難才正要開始？

-ravage 嚴重破壞

🧐 Since the Cultural Revolution ended in the mid-1970s, China’s economy, fueled by market reforms, has notched up more than four decades of unbroken gains, enlarging the domestic economy by roughly a hundredfold and transforming the world.
自1970年代中期文化大革命結束以來，在市場改革的推動下，中國經濟40多年來持續增長，國內經濟規模擴大了近100倍，也改變了世界。

-fuel 當名詞時是燃料，這裡則是動詞的「為⋯所刺激、推動」之意
-notch up 取得、獲得
-enlarge 使⋯增大/擴大
-hundredfold 一百倍的

😯That winning streak is over. China on Friday reported a 6.8% year-over-year contraction in its economy for the first three months of the year—the first quarterly decline in gross domestic product since official record-keeping began in 1992 and likely the first since Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, economists said.
這種不間斷的增長勢頭已經結束，中國17日公布，今年前三個月國內生產總值（GDP）較上年同期收縮6.8%。經濟學家表示，這是自1992年有官方記錄以來季度GDP首次下滑，可能也是自1976年毛澤東去世以來首次下降。

-streak 一陣好運，在這指的是經濟的不斷增長
-contraction 收縮
✍️通貨「緊縮」是deflation，不一樣喔
-gross domestic product 國內生產總值 (GDP)

🙈The fall was even steeper compared with the previous quarter: a 9.8% pullback as the coronavirus that first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan spread across the country and around the world, delivering an economic blow unprecedented in modern times.
第一季度GDP環比降幅則更大，達到9.8%，最初出現在武漢的冠狀病毒在中國乃至世界各地蔓延，為經濟帶來近代前所未有的打擊。

-emerge 出現，浮現
-blow 重擊
-unprecedented 史無前例、前所未有的

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❓Quiz: Allen Luo, an exporter of floor tiles in southern Guangdong province, said he wasn’t too affected by the ＿＿ domestic shutdown, but the global spread of the coronavirus “is a death ＿＿ to us.”
廣東省的地磚出口商Allen Luo表示，國內前所未有的停工並沒有讓他受到太大影響，但疫情的全球傳播卻帶來致命打擊。

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A. unprepared/block
B. uber/ bubble tea
C. unprecedented/ blow
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