蘋果公司堪稱世界上最大、最受矚目的高科技公司，但是近日來它的執行長庫克（Tim Cook）宣佈出櫃（come out of the closet）──公開宣布自己是同性戀者一事，更吸引眾人關注！庫克在他彭博商周（Bloomberg Business）的專欄裡如此寫道：

“Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me,”

「讓我這麼明說：我以身為男同性戀者為榮，而且我覺得身為男同性戀者是上帝給我最好的禮物之一。」

庫克的出櫃雖然是他的私事，但是因為他的頭銜實在太響亮，所以第二天國際各大媒體都以他說的「I'm proud to be gay」做為標題，顯著報導。

但是即使進步一如美國，也不是人人都能像庫克一樣的勇敢說出「I'm proud to be gay」。據「財富雜誌（Fortune）」呼應庫克出櫃而為文指出「Tim Cook said he's gay. In 29 states, you could be fired for doing the same」，表示「庫克說他是同性戀；（但是）在其他29州，你可能因做這樣的事而被炒魷魚。」庫克的此舉，被認為是帶頭在美國的職場上對抗性向認同的歧視，財富雜誌寫道：

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台灣有雙十節，在中國大陸有年度網路盛事 - 雙11節。由阿里巴巴集團帶頭的11月11號「淘寶網」網路購物節，其紅火的程度讓其他的電子商務業者不敢直視!「雙11」源自中國大陸一個非正式的「光棍節」，光棍是俗稱未婚或沒有男女朋友的單身狀態，而「1」是獨自一人，所以11月11號特為單身族做網路促銷，但是單日、單週銷售額竟然讓全世界瞠目結舌! 看懂媒體上的這4句英文，你就知道它們有多厲害；但是要先會這幾個關鍵字:

expect [ɪkˋspɛkt] (v.) 預計……可能發生；預料；預期
parcel [ˋpɑrs!] (n.) 小包，包裹
promotion [prəˋmoʃən] (n.) 促銷；晉升
delivery [dɪˋlɪvərɪ] (n.) 交貨；投遞，傳送
spree [spri] (n.) 狂飲作樂
peak [pik] (n.) 山頂，山峰

1.

More than 500 million parcels are expected to be delivered during the sales promotion week around Nov., 11.

(在11月11日左右的促銷週期間，預計要運送超過5億個包裹。)
這「雙11」的網路購物巨量，單單一週就有超過5億個包裏，其量之大甚至快遞物流業者也吃不消!有些消費者則是因為望穿秋水、苦盼不著自己的網購商品而大加抱怨!

2.

【新聞多益】除了Thank you 感恩節還能如何用英文道謝

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ranking	University	Det.	Country	Presence Rank*	Impact Rank*	Openness Rank*	Excellence Rank*
1	Harvard University			10	1	1	1
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology			5	1	27	14
3	Stanford University			2	3	52	3
4	Cornell University			24	5	67	20
5	University of Michigan			37	7	59	5
6	University of California Berkeley			40	4	178	15
7	Columbia University New York			60	6	141	12
7	University of Washington			25	10	113	6
9	University of Minnesota			110	9	15	23
10	University of Pennsylvania			42	11	109	9
11	University of Texas Austin			118	8	43	51
12	University of Wisconsin Madison			9	18	194	21
13	(2) Pennsylvania State University			78	13	53	36
14	University of California Los Angeles UCLA			64	17	317	4
15	University of Toronto			33	38	51	7
16	Yale University			41	12	343	19
17	University of Oxford			39	21	295	8
18	University of Cambridge			21	20	311	10
19	Purdue University			99	16	45	87
20	Texas A&M University			19	30	41	89
21	University of British Columbia			127	40	24	24
22	University of Illinois Urbana Champaign			4	58	56	43
23	Michigan State University			31	14	339	93
24	New York University			132	15	344	44
25	(2) Johns Hopkins University			45	50	631	2
26	University of Florida			76	26	180	40
27	Princeton University			34	19	398	76
28	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich			83	42	81	31
29	(2) Universidade de São Paulo USP			48	63	6	81
30	Duke University			223	35	219	17
31	University of California San Diego			163	29	451	13
32	(2) California Institute of Technology Caltech			17	66	125	34
33	(1) University of Maryland			65	37	112	70
34	(1) Seoul National University / 서울대학교			36	32	255	79
35	National Taiwan University			15	81	12	103
36	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill			141	25	511	27
37	Peking University / 北京大学			93	44	148	49
38	University College London			308	64	100	11
39	University of Chicago			111	23	558	46
40	University of Pittsburgh			344	59	69	28
41	Utrecht University / Universiteit Utrecht			67	105	26	30
42	Ohio State University			183	56	132	33
43	Carnegie Mellon University			90	22	179	160
44	University of Arizona			227	27	327	69
45	University of Helsinki / Helsingin yliopisto			35	112	5	101
46	University of Virginia			18	28	833	95
47	Georgia Institute of Technology			85	60	94	83
48	Tsinghua University China / 清华大学			378	41	174	45
49	University of Southern California			327	24	456	56
50	University of California Davis			229	43	448	29
51	University of Edinburgh			232	57	151	52
52	Arizona State University			120	36	257	122
53	University of Tokyo / 東京大学			168	94	149	25
54	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University			185	39	97	196
55	University of Utah			68	69	211	91
55	(1) Indiana University			87	33	297	187
57	Northwestern University			152	62	528	26
58	(2) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México			58	61	11	314
59	University of Amsterdam / Universiteit van Amsterdam			305	109	35	39
60	Zhejiang University (National Che Kiang University) / 浙江大学			228	52	362	72
61	University of Georgia			155	48	114	200
62	Ludwig Maximilians Universität München			350	137	19	47
63	Washington University Saint Louis			382	70	308	38
64	Vanderbilt University			138	71	378	62
65	Universität Wien			166	65	21	261
66	University of Alberta			53	111	168	66
66	Catholic University of Leuven			184	152	40	50
68	Shanghai Jiao Tong University / 上海交通大学			20	128	124	102
69	North Carolina State University			199	53	193	169
70	Ghent University / Universiteit Gent			28	221	30	74
71	University of California Irvine			329	45	604	67
72	University of California San Francisco			6	102	1687	16
73	University of Oslo / Universitetet i Oslo			104	123	36	124
74	Iowa State University			106	75	119	165
74	University of Colorado Boulder			277	49	523	90
76	Simon Fraser University			298	47	76	281
77	McGill University			71	103	502	53
78	University of Iowa			317	74	245	106
79	University of Hong Kong			80	134	74	130
80	University of Massachusetts Amherst			74	83	182	186
81	McMaster University			964	46	331	105
82	University of Melbourne			240	150	252	35
83	Boston University			269	77	609	57
84	University of Rochester			3	149	565	111
85	Colorado State University			552	34	406	245
86	Universität Hamburg			12	158	270	141
87	University of California Santa Barbara			96	90	567	96
88	Kyoto University / 京都大学			107	241	62	63
89	University of Nebraska Lincoln			268	78	48	301
90	Lund University / Lunds Universitet			55	301	16	108
91	University of Copenhagen / Københavns Universitet			219	194	134	54
92	Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology KAIST			16	122	300	215
93	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne			290	154	98	94
94	Delft University of Technology TU Delft			26	208	82	159
95	Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza			142	146	228	88
96	University of New South Wales			296	120	291	75
97	Oregon State University			243	82	110	269
98	University of Queensland			913	161	63	48
99	Università di Bologna (Università degli Studi di Bologna)			54	180	201	113
100	Charles University in Prague / Univerzita Karlova v Praze			86	127	101	229

 資料來源: http://www.webometrics.info/en/world