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开场白：

Hello my listeners, welcome back.

Today is February 7th, 2022. 今天是2022年2月7日。

Hope you all had a great lunar new year celebration. Let’s begin our first episode for the year of Tiger.

祝所有的听友新年快乐。让我们开始虎年的第一期节目。

Since we were off to the holidays, a lot of interesting news stories have happened in the global capital market.  Today’s episode will focus on some global leading tech companies.

第一部分：英语新闻朗读（0:13")

• Mark Zuckerberg’s Net Worth Drops by $31 Billion. He’s Now the 10th Richest Person in the World.
• Amazon Breaks Record for One-Day Gain in Market Cap.
• Netflix, hoping to keep viewers at home, reveals its 2022 film lineup.
• Snap shares soar more than 58% after earnings show it’s weathering Apple’s privacy changes.
• Ford to suspend or cut output at 8 of its factories due to chip shortage.

第二部分：中英文新闻讲解（2:55")

第三部分：重要单词回顾（4:42")

• Shed: (of a mammal) lose (hair) as a result of molting, disease, or age; 失去
• Whiplash:injury caused by a severe jerk to the head, typically in a motor-vehicle accident; 严重的后果
• chock-full: filled to overflowing; 装满了，充满
• Soar: fly or rise high in the air; 向上升起
• Shortage: a state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts; 短缺