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Apple’s market capitalisation rose to over $800bn for the first time.
蘋果公司的市值首次突破8000億美元。
The company’s share price is up by 32% since the start of the year,
本年初，公司的股價增長了32%，
buoyed in part by renewed investor interest in the tech industry amid doubts that boosts to the banking and manufacturing sectors promised by Donald Trump will come to fruition.
維持利潤高水平的部分原因在于投資者重新對技術行業產生興趣，并且對唐納德·特朗普促進銀行業和制造業的發展的承諾將很快得以實現感到質疑。
The tech-heavy NASDAQ stockmarket index reached another high this week.
以技術股票為主的NASDAQ股指本周將達到新的高度。
The first quarterly earnings report from Snap since it became a publicly listed company failed to impress.
Snap的報道稱，自從成為上市公司以來蘋果公司第一季度的收益并沒有給人留下太多印象。
The social network made a net loss of $2.2bn, but investors homed in on signs that the rate at which new users sign up is slowing:
社交網絡凈損失22億美元，但投資者注意到了新用戶注冊率正在緩慢上升的跡象：
it had 166m daily users in the first quarter, up by 5% from the previous quarter.
第一季度中平均每天有1.66億用戶，比前一季度增長了5%。
In a deal that consolidates its already tight grip on local broadcasting in America, Sinclair, which owns 173 television stations, agreed to buy Tribune Media,
為鞏固手里已有的美國本土廣播公司，坐擁173個電視臺的Sinclair同意購買Tribune Media
which owns 42, including WGN America, a national network based in Chicago.
（該公司旗下有42個電視臺，包括總部位于芝加哥的國家網絡電視臺美國WGN）。
The Federal Communications Commission recently relaxed the rules on the ownership of local stations.
近期，聯邦通信委員會放寬了地方臺所有權的法律規則。
Some think the $3.9bn deal will concentrate too much power in one broadcaster.
有人認為39億的交易額會將過多的權力集中在一個廣播公司手中。
Bill Clinton is to make a foray into fiction by writing a novel with the help of James Patterson, a bestselling author.
在暢銷書作者詹姆斯·帕特森的幫助下，比爾·克林頓嘗試著寫了一本小說。
Unusually, the book will be sold by the two publishers that represent Messrs Clinton and Patterson.
不同尋常的是，這本書由代表克林頓和帕特森的兩家出版商共同銷售。
Titled “The President is Missing” it is due in the shops next year.
該書的書名為《總統消失了》，預計下年會在各商店中銷售。
Whether it will be as wild as the real-life intrigue in the White House remains to be seen.
這本書是否會像白宮里的現實生活中那樣波橘云詭？是否會十分有趣？值得期待。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
