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UK retailer Arcadia is seeking protection from creditors as it scrambles to save 13,000 jobs and brands such as Topshop after clothing sales collapsed during the pandemic.

The company, which also owns Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins, has entered administration, which is roughly equivalent to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, according to a statement from Deloitte, which will oversee the process.

语言点

1. scramble v. 争夺，抢夺；攀爬

· scramble to do sth. 仓促做很难的事(do sth difficult quickly)

2. collapse v. (商业领域)暴跌；(建筑物的)倒塌，崩塌

· The castle/roof collapsed.

城堡/房顶倒塌了。

· The property market collapsed.

房地产市场崩溃。

· Share prices collapsed.

=Share prices became lower suddenly.

股价暴跌。

3. administration n. (本节)英国破产程序中的申请管理令程序

4. roughly adv. 大致，大约(approximately)

· We had roughly two kilometers to go.

我们大约还要走两公里。

5. be equivalent to 相当于

· Facebook is equivalent to Wechat.

Facebook（国外社交媒体）就相当于中国的微信。

· One US Dollars in cash is roughly equivalent to 7 Yuan.

一美元大致就相当于7元人民币。

6. oversee v. 监督，监管

· 构词：前缀over-在上的 词根see-看

· overhead adj. 在头顶上方的

· oversee children to do homework 监督孩子写作业

· oversee the project 监督项目

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