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开场白：

Good morning! Hope you had a great weekend!

Today is Monday, August 8th.

In today’s episode, let’s review some latest business news.

But as usual, we will begin with today’s language trivia question.

新闻摘要：

• (0’40”) Buffett’s Berkshire Pounces on Market Slump to Buy Equities (Bloomberg)
• (2’03”)The iRobot Deal Would Give Amazon Maps Inside Millions of Homes (Wired)
• (3’00”)AMTD Digital: How a small Hong Kong firm's shares soared (BBC)
• (4’29”)Musk challenges Twitter CEO to public debate on bots (Reuters)

Word of the Day (WoD):

• Pounce: spring or swoop suddenly so as to catch prey. 猛扑
• Adage: a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth. 谚语
• Wellspring:an original and bountiful source of something. 源泉
• Meteoric: relating to meteors or meteorites. 流星
• Hoodwink: deceive or trick (someone). 蒙蔽