Same-store sales: 同店銷售額

2005-07-04 11:03
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. raised its forecast for June same-store sales, citing demand for seasonal and general merchandise.

Threshold: 上限，極限

2005-06-28 09:29
With $60 no longer a threshold - and with continued concerns about refining capacities - prices appeared set to go even higher, analysts said.

Big-ticket: 高價的，昂貴的

2005-06-27 09:12
Entrepreneurs grumble that executives pander to big-ticket electronics vendors and industrial manufacturers - not the teddy bear enthusiasts and numismatists who were faithful a decade ago, when eBay was founded and enjoyed a kitschy obscurity. They complain about shoddy customer service, including site crashes and anti-fraud software that too often mistakes a legitimate business for a huckster.

Cartel: 同業聯盟，卡特爾

2005-06-14 11:29
The anticipated increase would bring the official quota to 28 million barrels per day - a symbolic gesture, analysts said, since the cartel is already pumping that much. Including Iraq, which is not bound by the official quota, OPEC's daily output was 29.3 million barrels a day in May, according to the International Energy Agency.

Newswire: 新聞專線

2005-05-31 10:43
The April figure was also better than the 4.5 percent forecast by economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires.

Happy Hour: 歡樂時光

2005-05-24 10:14
Beer-swilling Britons face a sobering prospect: an unhappy hour. A group representing about half the country's pubs and bars said Monday it is curbing Happy Hour offers and other deals that encourage irresponsible drinking, a British pastime that has come under increasing attack from the government.

Ratification: 批準，承認

2005-05-09 09:51
Bahrain has its own agreement awaiting U.S. Congress ratification. Two other members of the six-state Gulf Cooperation Council -- Oman and the United Arab Emirates -- have started talks on free trade deals with the U.S.

Thriller: 驚悚片

2005-04-26 09:51
Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn's "The Interpreter" translated into solid box-office as the United Nations thriller debuted with $22.8 million to top the weekend for Hollywood.

Peck: 啄，輕吻

2005-04-15 09:12
The "MareNostrum," built by IBM Corp., boasts 40 teraflops of speed. It can make more calculations in one second than a human pecking at a calculator could make in 10 million years.

Buyout: 全部買下

2005-04-01 10:43
Shares in Lenovo Group, the largest Chinese maker of personal computers, rose Thursday after three buyout funds bought a stake in the company for $350 million.

Oust: 驅逐，罷黜

2005-03-31 10:53
Mr Hurd, currently head of smaller US computer services group NCR, will replace Carly Fiorina, who was ousted from HP in February. HP's shares closed up 8.1% in Tuesday trading in New York, following initial speculation of Mr Hurd's appointment.

Realism: 真實性，逼真度

2005-03-29 10:35
A judge has ordered Sony Corp. to pay $90.7 million to a company that develops technology that enhances video game realism but immediately stayed an order that would halt U.S. sales of Sony's popular PlayStation consoles.

Epizootic: 家畜流行病

2005-03-28 11:04
The report said the State Emergency Veterinary and Anti-Epizootic Committee was working on the problem, reporting outbreaks in "a few" locations, including the Hadang Chicken Farm, one of Pyongyang's largest.

Capsize: 傾覆

2005-03-16 09:49
Bernard Ebbers, the once-swaggering CEO of WorldCom, was convicted Tuesday of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history - an $11 billion accounting scandal that capsized the big telecom company three years ago.

Clearance: 官方證明書

2005-03-11 09:05
Lenovo Group has obtained U.S. government clearance for the purchase of IBM's PC unit.

Fish out of water: 如魚離水

2005-03-07 10:47
"'Pacifier' did better than anyone expected, but you can't underestimate the family audience," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations Co., which tracks box-office figures. "I think people like to see a fish-out-of-water story, an action star in a very unexpected role."

Distillate fuel: 餾出燃料

2005-03-03 10:10
On Wednesday, a US government report showed that inventories of distillate fuel, a category that include heating oil and diesel, fell 1.7 million barrels to 110 million. Analysts had expected a 1.2-million-barrel decline.

PSP: 便攜式游戲機

2005-02-04 10:08
The PSP machine, a challenger to Nintendo Co.'s long-standing grip on the handheld video gaming market, will be sold as a "value pack" for $250 in the United States and for $300 Canadian dollars. It will include numerous accessories and - for the first million sold - a copy of the "Spider-Man 2" movie on the new Universal Media Disc format that Sony designed for the PSP.

Shoot up: 暴漲，迅速生長

2005-02-02 09:04
Shares in Google jumped 9 percent to a record high after the company reported net income shot up more than seven times from a year earlier, beating estimates by a wide margin.

Holidaymaker: 度假者

2005-01-26 10:01
The devastating tsunami that wiped out cities, seaside communities and holiday resorts in southern Asia has not put holidaymakers off visiting the region, a survey has found.