夏说英语新闻晨读 第207期:美国科技企业上季度财报

 本期内容：
At $3.6bn, Facebook’s fourth-quarter profit was more than twice that of the year before, though an accounting-rule change was responsible for almost $1bn of that. It lost a $500m lawsuit¹ brought by ZeniMax, which accused Facebook’s Oculus of stealing virtual-reality technology. Apple again became the world’s biggest smartphone seller, announcing record quarterly revenue of $78bn and sales of over 78m phones.

Accounting-rule：会计准则
Lawsuit：官司

Virtual reality: 虚拟现实

1 lawsuit   

n.诉讼，控诉

参考例句：

• They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
• He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。