【新唐人2011年7月8日讯】【看新闻学英语】
Sony Forecasts Nearly $1 Billion Profit for Current Year
索尼预测本年度利润近10亿美元
By Jessie Chen, David Lee
【新闻关键字】
1. operating profit: [ˋɑpəretɪŋ] [ˋprɑfɪt] n.营业净利
2. revise: [rɪˋvaɪz] v. 修改
3. cloud: [klaʊd] v.使阴暗
4. breach: [britʃ] n.缺口、裂痕
5. leak: [lik] n.漏洞
6. expose to: [ɪkˋspoz] [tu]ph.暴露于
7. hack: [hæk] v.劈、砍
8. break-in: [ˋbrek͵ɪn] n.非法入侵
9. predict: [prɪˋdɪkt] v.预料、预言
10. flagship: [ˋflæg͵ʃɪp] n.旗舰、头号
11. reiterate: [riˋɪtə͵ret] v.重申
12. release: [rɪˋlis] v.发表、发行
Sony Corp forecast a net profit of $975 million U.S. dollars on Thursday for the year that started on April 1.
周四，索尼公司预测从4月1日起的营业年度，净利为 9.75亿美元。
The electronics and entertainment company says it expects to make an operating profit of about $2.4 billion U.S. dollars this business year.
这家电子和娱乐公司表示，预计此营业年度，将创造出约 24亿美元的营业净利。
[Masaru Kato, CEO, Sony Corp.]:
“Despite the negative effects from the earthquake in Northeastern Japan, this year we expect four-percent increase in sales and about the same level of net profit."
索尼公司执行长Masaru Kato说：
“尽管受日本东北部地震的负面影响，今年我们预计4％的销售成长，几乎同等于净利水平。”
On Monday, Sony revised its estimate of net profit for the year ending on March 31, saying the impact of Japan’s earthquake had clouded sales prospects in the country.
周一，索尼修改至3月31日为止的年度净利，说日本地震的影响，已使这个国家的销售前景蒙上阴影。
Sony is recovering from one of the biggest ever Internet security breaches, which forced it to close its PlayStation videogames network for nearly a month after data on tens of millions of user accounts was leaked.
索尼正从有史以来最大的互联网安全漏洞中恢复，在数千万用户账号资料外泄之后，迫使它关闭其PlayStation电子游戏网络近一个月。
Hacking attacks exposed more than 100 million accounts on its online gaming network to possible data theft. On Tuesday Sony said additional websites in four countries have also been hacked.
骇客入侵使多达1亿的线上游戏用户，暴露于可能的资料窃取。周二，索尼公司表示，索尼在四个国家里的附加网站，也被入侵。
Among the break-ins, personal information for 8,500 people was leaked from its Greek Sony Music Entertainment website.
非法入侵中，有8,500名的个人资料，从希腊索尼音乐娱乐网站泄露出去。
Even so, the company also predicted that it will sell 15 million of its flagship PlayStation 3 game consoles in the current business year, compared with 14.3 million in the year that just ended.
即便如此，该公司也预测在目前财务年度中，将卖出1,500万台首发PlayStation 3游戏机，相较刚结束的财务年度则是1,430万台。
[Masaru Kato, CEO, Sony Corp.]:
“There are concerns about a sales drop of PlayStation 3 and other devices that connect to our networks, but we’re not actually worrying."
索尼公司执行长Masaru Kato说：
“有人忧心，PlayStation 3与其它我们网路相关的配备销售会降低，其实我们并不担心。 ”
Sony reiterated its plan to release a next generation portable games device by the end of 2011.
索尼重申，2011年年底，计划推出下一代可携式游戏机。
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本专栏由前卫英语李德良老师主编 www.davidlee.url.tw
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2. Old Wounds Pose Challenge for Thailand’s New PM
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3. Growing the Economy is Vital to Reducing Debt: Obama
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【头条关键字】
※本栏目头条取自英文大纪元English Epoch Times
1. EU: European Union, 欧盟
2. aid: n. 协助
3. wound: [waʊnd] n. 伤口
4. challenge: [ˋtʃælɪndʒ] n. 挑战
5. PM: Prime Minister的缩写，首相、总理。共同立宪国家为总理，君主立宪国家为首相，泰国有国王，所以是首相。
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