考研英语时事阅读

2017.2.16

a blank slate新的开始

At $3.6bn, Facebook’s fourth-quarter profit was more than twice that of the year before, though an accounting-rule change was responsible for almost $1bn of that. It lost a $500m lawsuit brought by ZeniMax,which accused Facebook’s Oculus of stealing virtual-reality technology. Apple again became the world’s biggest smartphone seller, announcing record quarterly revenue of $78bn and sales of over 78m phones.

WORDS

Accounting-rule：会计准则

Lawsuit：官司

Virtual reality: 虚拟现实

脸书第四季的利润为36亿美元，是以前同期的两倍，尽管这其中有10亿是由于会计准则的改变所致，ZeniMax指责脸书的Oculus偷窃其虚拟现实技术 并提起上诉要求索赔，这使脸书公司损失了5亿美元。苹果又一次成为世界上最大的智能手机销售商，季度财务报告显示：780亿美元的收入，卖出超过了7800万部手机。