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2017/02/16

今日打卡英语俚语：a knock out（需翻译和早起任务一并摘录）

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Toshiba announced a $6.3bn write-down and a $3.4bn loss in 2016. The news prompted Shigenori Shiga, the firm’s chairman, to resign. The troubled Japanese conglomerate has suffered from cost overruns at Westinghouse, its American nuclear-power subsidiary, and a glum outlook for its other nuclear businesses abroad; it may shutter its nuclear projects in Britain and India.

WORDS

Write down: 减记
Prompt：导致
Resign：辞职
Conglomerate：大型集团公司
Overrun：超额
Subsidiary：所属子公司
Glum：忧郁的
Shutter：停止营业

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