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1、 黑龙江大学实践报告学院：新闻传播学院专业：新闻学姓名：高宁学号：20153205成绩：一、翻译作品1、英语原文Passage1First ever Twitter profit hints at ad challenge for Google and FacebookTwitter reported its first profit yesterday, sending its shares to their highest levels in two years and suggesting advertisers are beginning to spread their online
2、spending beyond Facebook and Google. Its $91m in net income in the fourth quarter comes after a similar upbeat pre-Christmas performance by Snapchats parent, which posted strong revenue growth on Wednesday following unexpected increases in users and advertising.For years, Wall Street has been scepti
3、cal that smaller internet companies such as Twitter and Snap could ever challenge the dominance of Google and Facebook, which together account for more than three quarters of global spending on digital advertising.This weeks turnrounds at Twitter and Snap follow signs of strain in their larger rival
4、s dominance. Alphabets shares weakened last week after it spooked Wall Street with a big jump in the cost of distributing Googles advertising and services on mobile platforms. Facebook also came under pressure as it reported its first drop in North American usage and a decline in time spent on its a
5、pps at the end of last year.Yet the two companies financial might, with a combined market valuation of more than $1tn, still dwarfs their smaller rivals.Investors have waited 12 years for Twitter to report a profit and yesterdays announcement sent its shares up as much as 29 per cent before they par
6、ed gains in a wider Wall Street sell-off in the afternoon. Snap had risen 48 per cent on Wednesday but was a victim of profit-taking and yesterdays market rout, losing 7 per cent in late trade.Twitters $91m in net income was an improvement on losses of $167m a year earlier. Even though it beat Wall
7、Streets sales forecasts for the first time since going public almost a year ago, Snap remains heavily loss making.Passage2US lawmakers push for crackdown on foreign companiesUS lawmakers are pushing legislation that would force foreign business leaders to divulge sensitive information about their co
8、ntacts with US government officials in a crackdown on lobbying spurred by concern about Russian political meddling.Special counsel Robert Muellers probe into Russian interference has injected new life into a bill causing concern among non-US multinationals because it could class their employees as “
9、foreign agents” subject to stringent American disclosure requirements that could put them at a disadvantage to US rivals.The bill would strengthen an obscure 1930s law aimed at Nazi propagandists that was thrust into the spotlight by Mr Muellers October indictment of Paul Manafort, US President Dona
10、ld Trumps former campaign manager accused of failing to register as a foreign agent lobbying for a Ukrainian political party.Lawyers say the legislation, which would modify the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act, would heap new disclosure requirements on the staff of any non-US company meeting fed
11、eral officials; on American lobbyists providing services to foreign companies; and on US businesses lobbying for their own foreign affiliates.Its effect would be “chilling”, according to a Washington-based executive at one European company. “Your competitors would have extraordinary transparency int
12、o what you are doing in the US.”Multinationals with big US operations including the likes of engine maker Rolls-Royce and German manufacturers Bayer and Siemens have sent staff to Capitol Hill to express their concerns about the legislation in its current form, according to people familiar with the
13、bill.Nancy McLernon, president of OFII (the Organisation for International Investment), a trade group for non-US companies lobbying for changes to the bill, said it would “lump US employees of a Canadian auto-parts company or Germany-based grocery chain in with agents of foreign governments”.The Rep
14、ublican-backed bill, which passed a hurried committee vote in the House of Representatives in January, is sponsored by congressman Mike Johnson and the senator Chuck Grassley, who have said it would close “loopholes exploited by lobbyists of foreign entities to conceal their work”.While the bills pr
15、ogress is making business nervous, its chances of being put to a full vote are uncertain.One person close to House Republican leaders said it would not be brought up in the near future, while Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has not taken a position on the bill.Passage3Global equity mark
16、ets establish firmer footingGlobal stocks began the trading week with an upward spurt, shaking off the recent turmoil and sending the US benchmark S&P 500 higher after it suffered its worst week in over two years.Government bond yields also found some stability, having initially climbed on concerns about inflationary pressures.Koon Chow, a strategist at UBP, said the simultaneous rebo
