特斯拉不再接受比特币购车

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SoftBank reported net income of 5trn yen ($46bn) for the year ending March 31st, a record annual profit for a Japanese company.
在截至3月31日的财年中，软银公布了5万亿日元(460亿美元)的净利润，创下了日本企业年度最高净利润。

Much of that came from gains in its vision-fund investments, particularly Coupang, a South Korean e-commerce company that went public in March.
其中大部分利润来自软银愿景基金投资的收益，特别是今年3月上市的韩国电子商务公司Coupang。

Elon Musk, a vocal backer of digital currencies, reversed his three-month-old policy and said that Tesla would not now accept bitcoin as payment for its cars
公开支持数字货币的埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)改变了他长达三个月的政策，称特斯拉现在不接受比特币作为购车的付款方式，

because of the environmental effects from the electricity used to power the currency on computers.
原因是利用电脑”挖矿比特币“所需电力会对环境造成影响。

The EU's General Court, the second highest in the bloc, ruled that the European Commission was wrong to order Amazon to pay 250m euros ($300m) in taxes to Luxembourg,
欧盟第二最高法院——欧盟总法院裁定，欧盟委员会要求亚马逊向卢森堡缴纳2.5亿欧元(3亿美元)的税款是无效的，

finding that the commission had not proved the firm received special tax treatment.
因为欧盟委员会没有证明该公司获得了特殊的税收待遇。

The same court made a similar decision last year in the case of Apple; the commission is appealing that ruling to the European Court of Justice.
该法院去年对苹果公司一案做出了类似的裁决；欧盟委员会正在向欧洲法院上诉。

Almost 40% of the shareholder vote at AstraZeneca's annual meeting rejected the salary package for its CEO,
在阿斯利康的年度股东大会上，近40%的股东投票否决了其首席执行官的薪酬方案，

the latest in a wave of rebellions by investors against generous payouts for executives dished out during the pandemic.
这是投资者反对疫情期间向高管慷慨支付薪酬的最新一波反叛浪潮。

The pay policy—which increases the potential bonus and stock awards for Pascal Soriot—was approved by just 60% of shareholders at the meeting.
该薪酬政策增加了帕斯卡尔·索里奥(Soriot)的潜在奖金和股票奖励，在会议上仅得到60%股东的支持。

There were more signs of a recovery in the tourism industry. TUI, the world's largest tour company, said there had been a clear pickup in demand.
旅游业出现了更多复苏的迹象。全球最大的旅游公司途易(TUI)表示，市场需求出现了明显回升。

Although it doesn't expect its business in 2021 to reach pre-pandemic levels, bookings for holidays next year from Britain,
尽管该公司预计2021年的业务无法达到疫情前的水平，

one of its biggest customer markets, are exceeding bookings at this point in 2019.
但其最大的客户市场之一英国明年假期的预订量已超过2019年的预定量。

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1. go public 上市（企业发行股票）；公开宣布

The remaining partnerships seem in no hurry to go public.

剩余的合伙企业们看上去不急于上市+M)xsRVUnk%。

2. at this point 这个时候；此时此刻

At this point I don't care what you decide to do.

到这个时候，我不在乎你决定要怎么做了GvXFJ*Q)r[([Oi5CQ。

3. dish out 给予；分发

They dish out clean towels on Monday.

星期一他们会分发干净毛巾MJ*C;f0S[x+U。

4. annual profit 年度净利润

The company reported a 13% growth in annual profit earlier this week.

上周该公司公布年利润增长了13%z6@=PPLF;B。

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