-课程导读

今天在“法制”栏目中，我们来聊聊“商业欺诈”，Let's talk about “Business Deception”in today’s program.

近日，美国加州一名法官判处血液检测公司Theranos创始人Elizabeth Holmes11年零3个月的监禁，罪名是利用公司欺诈投资者。在听证会上，她哭着说被自己的失败“摧毁了”。如果有机会，她会做很多不同的事情。她说：“我对人们所经历的一切感到羞耻不已，我辜负了他们。” 今天我就带你走进关于商业欺诈的新闻。

-课程内容

词汇积累：Word Bank

1、血液测试：blood testing

2、辍学：drop out

3、斯坦福大学：Stanford University

4、梦想：dream

5、创建：create

6、革命：revolutionize

7、创业公司：startup

8、科技：technology

9、针孔：pinprick

10、自夸：boast

【初级水平】基本对话：Conversation

场景：

小波在周末的“围炉夜话”中和大家谈到了创业路上的思考，并给大家举了个例子——独角兽Theranos的商业欺诈案（The Theranos Deception）

Xiaobo：Have you guys heard of the recent news about a fallen unicorn called Theranos?

小波：你们最近有听说一家独角兽Theranos倒下的新闻了吗？

Xiaohua's Boyfriend：I’ve heard of it. It's a business deception.

小华男友：我听说了。事关商业欺诈啊。

Xiaohua：You mean the company cheated?

小华：你意思是公司欺骗或作弊？

Xiaohong：Of course. According to NewYorkTimes, the founder Elizabeth Holmes failed blood-testing start-up Theranos and was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding investors about her company's technology and business dealings.

小红：当然了。据《纽约时报》称，血液测试初创公司Theranos的创始人伊丽莎白·霍姆斯因在公司科技和商业交易上欺骗投资者被判处11年以上的监禁。

Xiaobo：She was considered as the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world.

小波：她可被认为是世界上最年轻的白手起家的女亿万富翁啊。

Xiaohua：Wow, what exactly did she do?

小华：哇，她都干些啥了？

Xiaobo：To make a long story short, she was just 19 years old when she dropped out of Stanford University with a dream of creating a company that would revolutionize blood testing. She founded the startup Theranos. It boasted her technology could take a pinprick worth of blood from the finger and perform hundreds of laboratory tests.

小波：长话短说，她从斯坦福大学辍学时只有19岁，她的梦想是创建一家彻底改变血液检测的公司。她创建了初创公司Theranos，该公司夸耀地称，它的技术可以从手指上抽取一针血，并进行数百项实验室测试。

Xiaohong： Later as the Wall Street Journal uncovered, she was at the center of a massive multi-year fraud.

小红：后来《华尔街日报》发现她是一桩持续多年的大规模欺诈案的中心人物。

Xiaohua's boyfriend：The name of the company sounds like Thanos. That's why.

小华男友：这公司名字听起来很“灭霸”，所以“灭”了。

【完美发音】Perfect Pronunciation

目标句子：She called her invention the iPod of healthcare.

目标音：击穿音（Dropped H）called her，the /?i/ iPod

断句：She called her invention |the iPod of healthcare.

中速/快速：She called her invention the iPod of healthcare.

参考翻译：她称自己的发明为保健界的iPod.

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