2020-05-16

1. Special Report on Coronavirus

🧡Stonehenge summer solstice sunrise to be streamed

summer solstice: 夏至

Stonehenge: 景点，巨石阵

stream: "to stream" refers to the process of delivering or obtaining media in this manner, the term refers to the delivery method of the medium, rather than the medium itself, and is an alternative to file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains the entire file for the content before watching or listening to it.  类似于订阅。在NETFLIX上看电视剧啥的就叫做 streaming service

🧡Hotels are ramping up touchless tech adoption

ramp up: to increase or to cause increase

🧡SEC reportedly probes companies' need for PPP loans

probe: v.If you probe a place, you search it in order to find someone or something that you are looking for. ///. In a conflict such as a war, if one side probes another side's defences, they try to find their weaknesses, for example by attacking them in specific areas using a small number of troops.

🧡Fannie, Freddie rule out foreclosures through June

Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateral(抵押） for the loan.

rule out: If you rule out a course of action, an idea, or a solution, you decide that it is impossible or unsuitable.

If something rules out a situation, it prevents it from happening or from being posible.

🧡 Clothing company prevails in trademark case at high court

prevail: prove more powerful than opposing forces; be victorious. 占上风

2. Consumer Brands Association SmartBrief

🧡Flowers Foods' rapid response meets demand spike

spike: n. a sharp increase in the magnitude or concentration of something.

"Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily colored by the circumstances in which one remembers."