【每日晨读金融时报】8Aug2025 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

Microsoft hit $4tn in mar­ket cap­it­al­isa­tion yes­ter­day in a US tech share surge that also pushed Meta’s stock up 12 per cent, on the back of block­buster earn­ings from both groups the day before.The Nas­daq Com­pos­ite rose as much as 1.6 per cent to a record high after the open­ing bell, before par­ing its gains to about 1 per cent by early after­noon.The blue-chip S&P 500 index was 0.6 per cent higher, des­pite a hawk­ish Fed­eral Reserve meet­ing that had left the index more down­beat on Wed­nes­day.The run­away earn­ings from Microsoft and Meta have allowed investors to shrug off wor­ries over US growth and warn­ings of a stock mar­ket bubble. The two com­pan­ies are now worth a com­bined $5.9tn, about twice as much as the entire FTSE 100.Microsoft rose as much at 9 per cent in early trad­ing, becom­ing the second group to hit the $4tn mile­stone after Nvidia this month. Since the chip­maker passed the mark on July 9, its value has risen $400bn more. The rise in Microsoft shares later eased to 4.5 per cent.US tech stocks that have long dom­in­ated Wall Street lost some of their shine in the first quarter after China’s Deep­Seek stunned the mar­ket with its cut-price arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence ser­vice.1. blockbuster意思：轰动之作；巨大的成功（通常指电影、产品或交易）用法：常用于描述票房大卖的电影、销量惊人的产品，或震撼市场的大交易。例句：The film was a blockbuster, earning over $1 billion worldwide.这部电影是个票房大片，全球收入超过十亿美元。金融语境中：也可指“重磅交易”或“重大收购”e.g. A blockbuster deal between two tech giants shocked investors.2. runaway意思：迅速发展的；完全失控的；压倒性的用法：通常作为形容词，用来描述“失控的增长”、“压倒性胜利”、“迅猛发展的趋势”。例句：Inflation has become a runaway problem in the region.通胀在该地区已成为一个失控的问题。例句：The singer had a runaway success with her debut album.她的首张专辑取得了压倒性的成功。3. shrug off意思：对……不以为意；摆脱（困难、批评、损失等）用法：常用于形容一个人对负面事件“毫不在意”或“轻松应对”。例句：The company shrugged off criticism about its environmental record.公司对其环保记录方面的批评毫不在意。例句：Markets shrugged off the bad news and continued to rise.市场无视坏消息，继续上涨。