0302跟经济学人学英文之公司上市（雅思四六级英文素材）

1.音乐流媒体巨头Spotify宣布上市

Spotify, the world’s largest music-streaming service（音乐流媒体公司）, said it would list on the New York Stock Exchange（纽约证券交易所上市，证券代码是“SPOT”）. Rather than offering new shares, the firm will allow employees and investors to sell their existing stakes（Spotify不需要中间的投行承销商来进行上市操作，而是将股东的股票直接放入市场进行交易。不产生新的股份。）. The company says its shares have traded as high as $132.50 on private markets（Spotify公司在私人市场的最高股价已经升至132.50美元）; that implies a valuation of more than $23bn.（可以计算其最高估值约230亿美元）

补充：

spotify其在官网的介绍是：

Spotify gives you instant access to millions of songs – from old favorites to the latest hits.

＊instant access to即时的进入

＊hits做名词可以讲：风靡一时

＊好听的老歌和新歌 ：old favorites & latest hits

2.每天分享三个词

2.1 with reckless (轻率的，莽撞的)abandon［with abandon：尽情地，放纵地］

  eg：This year holiday shoppers are spending money with reckless abandon.今年的节日购物者们在很疯狂的花钱。

abandoned —被抛弃的；an abandoned child 弃儿。

2.2 abase－－abase yourself自贬身价

2.3 abate—to gradually become less serious or extreme 缓解v

  abatement— noise/pollution abatement 噪音，污染的减少

Too few resources are invested in pollution abatement.在减少环境污染一事上太少资源投入了。