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2025年4月1日,小米集团股价截至收盘下跌5.49%至46.50港元,创近两个月新低。此前,一辆小米SU7标准版在德上高速公路池祁段行驶过程中遭遇严重交通事故。

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1. Based on the article, what can be inferred about the public reaction to the accident?

A) People were largely indifferent.

B) The news gained significant attention.

C) Xiaomi's EV production was halte

D) Xiaomi downplayed the accident.

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无注释原文:

Xiaomi's stock slid 5% after one of its electric vehicles was in a 'serious' highway accident

From: Business Insider

Xiaomi shares fell 5.5% after an SU7 electric vehicle accident in China.

The accident occurred on the Deshang Expressway on Saturday night. Local media reported three fatalities.

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.

Shares of the Chinese tech giant Xiaomi slumped after the company said one of its SU7 electric vehicles was involved in a "serious traffic accident" on Saturday night.

Shares of Hong Kong-listed Xiaomi plunged sharply to a six-week low following the Weibo post. Xiaomi closed 5.5% lower at 46.50 Hong Kong dollars per share on Tuesday, underperforming gains of 0.4% in the Hang Seng Index.

Xiaomi's share price is still 35% higher this year following a rush into Chinese tech stocks thanks to the hype in Chinese AI model DeepSeek.

A Xiaomi spokesperson wrote on Weibo on Tuesday that the accident occurred along the Deshang Expressway in eastern China.

Initial information showed the car was in the Navigate on Autopilot, or NOA, intelligent-assisted driving mode before the accident and was moving at 116 kilometers per hour, or 72 miles per hour, Xiaomi wrote on Weibo.

The vehicle detected an obstacle and slowed down before a human driver took over. It collided with a cement barrier a few seconds later, the company wrote.

More than nine minutes after the NOA mode was activated, the car sent out an alert for the driver to hold the steering wheel.

Local media reported that three people died in the accident, and news of the accident became a trending topic on Weibo.

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. Xiaomi did not provide details about injuries or fatalities in its post. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Xiaomi said in its post that it's cooperating with the police on investigations.

The accident poses a potential setback for Xiaomi, which has made waves in the EV space.

Last year, Xiaomi set a goal of selling 100,000 SU7s by year-end. It surpassed that sales target in November.

It raised its 2025 sales target to 350,000 units, up from its previous target of 300,000 units.

In October, Ford CEO Jim Farley said he was a fan of the Xiaomi SU 7, describing the car as "fantastic."

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注:完整题目见本文开头;中文文本为机器翻译并非一一对应,仅供参考

含注释全文:

Xiaomi's stock slid 5% after one of its electric vehicles was in a 'serious' highway accident

From: Business Insider

Xiaomi shares fell 5.5% after an SU7 electric vehicle accident in China.

小米(Xiaomi)股价因其SU7电动车发生事故下跌5.5%。

highway

highway /ˈhaɪ.weɪ/ 表示“公路(尤指连接城镇的重要公路)”,英文解释为“a public road, especially an important road that joins cities or towns together”如:a coastal/interstate highway 滨海/州际公路。

The accident occurred on the Deshang Expressway on Saturday night. Local media reported three fatalities.

该事故于周六晚间发生在德上高速公路。据地方媒体报道,事故造成三人遇难。

expressway

expressway /ɪkˈspres.weɪ/ 表示“快速干道;高速公路”,英文解释为“a wide road for fast-moving traffic, especially one in the US that goes through a city, with a limited number of places at which drivers can enter and leave it”

区分:

📍highway /ˈhaɪ.weɪ/ 表示“公路(尤指连接城镇的重要公路)”,英文解释为“a public road, especially an important road that joins cities or towns together”如:a coastal/interstate highway 滨海/州际公路。

📍freeway /ˈfriː.weɪ/ 表示“高速公路”,英文解释为“a wide road for fast-moving traffic, especially in the US, with a limited number of places at which drivers can enter and leave it”

fatality

表示“(事故或暴力事件中的)死亡,死者”,英文解释为“a death caused by an accident or by violence, or someone who has died in either of these ways”举个🌰:There are thousands of traffic fatalities (= deaths in traffic accidents) every year. 每年因交通事故有数千人死亡。

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.

事故具体原因仍笼罩在迷雾中。

Shares of the Chinese tech giant Xiaomi slumped after the company said one of its SU7 electric vehicles was involved in a "serious traffic accident" on Saturday night.

中国科技巨头小米的股价下跌,此前该公司称其一辆SU7电动车在周六晚遭遇“重大交通事故”。

slump

作动词,slump /slʌmp/ 1)表示“沉重地坐下(或倒下)”,英文解释为“to sit or fall heavily and suddenly”举个🌰:She slumped into the chair, exhausted. 她颓然跌坐在椅子上,筋疲力尽。

2)表示“(价格、价值或销售额)猛跌,突然下降”,英文解释为“(of prices, values, or sales) to fall suddenly”

作名词,1)表示“(价格、价值、销售额等的)猛跌,暴跌”,英文解释为“a fall in the price, value, sales, etc. of something”举个🌰:There's been a slump in the demand for new cars. 新车的需求量猛跌。

2)表示“萧条(期),衰落”,英文解释为“a period when an industry or the economy is in a bad state and there is a lot of unemployment”举个🌰:The airline industry is currently in a slump. 当前航空业正处于萧条期。

Shares of Hong Kong-listed Xiaomi plunged sharply to a six-week low following the Weibo post. Xiaomi closed 5.5% lower at 46.50 Hong Kong dollars per share on Tuesday, underperforming gains of 0.4% in the Hang Seng Index.

小米官方在微博发布该消息后,在中国香港上市的小米股价大幅下挫至近六周低点。周二,小米收盘下跌5.5%,报46.50港元/股,与恒指0.4%的涨幅形成鲜明对比。

list

list作动词,表示“使(公司)上市;(公司)上市”(If a company is listed, or if it lists, on a stock exchange, it obtains an official quotation for its shares so that people can buy and sell them.)举个🌰:Last month, thirty new companies were listed. 上个月有30家公司上市。

📍relist 重新上市。

📍listing作名词,除了表示“(表册上的)位置,项目”,也有“上市”的含义,英文解释为“a position or an item on a list”举个🌰:The company is seeking a stock exchange listing (= for trading shares). 这家公司正在争取上市。

plunge

plunge /plʌndʒ/ 可以作动词,也可以作名词,1)表示“使突然前冲(或下落)”,英文解释为“to move or make sb/sth move suddenly forwards and/or downwards”举个🌰:She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death.她没有站稳,从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。

2)表示“骤降”,英文解释为“If an amount or rate plunges, it decreases quickly and suddenly.”举个🌰:His weight began to plunge.(动词)他的体重开始骤然下降。Japan's banks are in trouble because of bad loans and the stock market plunge.(名词)日本各家银行处于困境,缘于不良贷款以及股市的暴跌。

📍2020年4月瑞幸咖啡怎么了?文中就提到了CNN的标题China's Luckin Coffee plunges 75% on accounting probe用的是plunge一词,表示股价暴跌。

3)plunge (sb/sth) into sth表示“(使)陷入;(使)经历”,英文解释为“to suddenly experience a bad situation or unhappiness, or to make someone or something suddenly experience a bad situation or unhappiness”举个🌰:He was plunged into despair when his wife left him. 他妻子离开他时,他一下子陷入绝望之中。

📍类似的表达「暴跌」的词有:plummet,tank,sink,slump,...

📍slump表示“(价值等)暴跌”,英文解释为“If something such as the value of something slumps, it falls suddenly and by a large amount.”举个🌰:Net profits slumped by 25%. 净利润暴跌了25%。

📍plummet /ˈplʌmɪt/ 表示“(数量、比率、价格)暴跌”,英文解释为“If an amount, rate, or price plummets, it decreases quickly by a large amount.”举个🌰:Her spirits plummeted at the thought of meeting him again. 一想到又要见到他,她的心情便直往下沉。

📍tank,熟词僻义,作名词是坦克的意思,作动词有“表现得很糟糕,快速减少,衰落,下跌”的含义,英文解释为“If something such as a stock price or a movie tanks, it performs very badly, for example because it loses a lot of money.”举个🌰:Tech stocks have tanked. 科技股票暴跌了。

underperform

替表示“发挥不够;表现不理想”,英文解释为“to do less well than other similar people or things, or less well than is expected;to make less profit than other similar businesses, types of investment, etc., or less than was expected”

Xiaomi's share price is still 35% higher this year following a rush into Chinese tech stocks thanks to the hype in Chinese AI model DeepSeek.

受益于中国AI大模型DeepSeek带动的中国科技股热潮,小米股价年内累计涨幅仍达35%。

hype

1)作名词,表示“大肆的宣传广告;炒作”,英文解释为“Hype is the use of a lot of publicity and advertising to make people interested in something such as a product.”举个🌰:We are certainly seeing a lot of hype by some companies. 我们的确看到一些公司天花乱坠的广告宣传。

2)作动词,等同于“hype up”,表示“大肆宣传”,英文解释为“To hype a product means to advertise or praise it a lot.”举个🌰:The media seems obsessed with hyping up individuals or groups. 传媒界似乎热衷于对某些个人或团体进行大肆炒作。

📍2020年8月《经济学人》(The Economist)一篇讲述卡车业文章的标题就叫:The trucking industry is in the midst of upheaval—and hype 卡车运输业正在经历剧变,以及炒作。

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A Xiaomi spokesperson wrote on Weibo on Tuesday that the accident occurred along the Deshang Expressway in eastern China.

小米官方微博周二确认,事故发生在华东地区的德上高速公路。

Initial information showed the car was in the Navigate on Autopilot, or NOA, intelligent-assisted driving mode before the accident and was moving at 116 kilometers per hour, or 72 miles per hour, Xiaomi wrote on Weibo.

小米官方在微博上写道,据初步了解,事故发生前车辆处于NOA智能辅助驾驶状态,以116km/h时速持续行驶。

The vehicle detected an obstacle and slowed down before a human driver took over. It collided with a cement barrier a few seconds later, the company wrote.

小米称,车辆检测出障碍物后开始减速。随后驾驶员接管车辆进入人驾状态。数秒后与隔离带水泥桩发生碰撞。

collide

collide /kəˈlaɪd/ 表示“碰撞,相撞”,英文解释为“to hit something or someone that is moving in a different direction from you”举个🌰:Two trains collided head-on (= when they were moving directly towards each other ) . 两辆火车迎头相撞。

collide除了指物理上的碰撞,也可以表示“(不同的观念、想法等)碰撞(而产生有趣结果)”举个🌰:Istanbul is the place where East and West collide. 伊斯坦布尔是东西方文化交会的地方。

collide还有“(目标、观点或利益等)相抵触;相冲突”的意思,英文解释为“If the aims, opinions, or interests of one person or group collide with those of another person or group, they are very different from each other and are therefore opposed.”举个🌰:The aims of the negotiators in New York again seem likely to collide with the aims of the warriors in the field. 纽约谈判者的目标看起来可能再次与战场上勇士们的目标相冲突。

和collide类似的表达有:

📍crash表示“使…撞毁; 撞毁(撞车,坠机)”,英文解释为“If a moving vehicle crashes or if the driver crashes it, it hits something and is damaged or destroyed.”举个🌰:Her car crashed into the rear of a van. 她的汽车撞毁了一辆面包车的尾部。

crash还表示“(发出巨响)猛撞,猛击”,英文解释为“to hit something or someone extremely hard while moving, in a way that causes a lot of damage or makes a lot of noise”举个🌰:We watched the waves crashing against the rocks. 我们看着海浪哗啦哗啦地冲击岩石。

📍smash表示“(使)猛撞,猛击,猛掷”,英文解释为“to hit an object or surface violently, or to make something do this”举个🌰:A stolen car smashed into the bus. 一辆被偷的汽车猛地撞上了公共汽车。The bottle smashed against a wall. 那瓶子撞到了一面墙上。

smash还表示“打碎; 破碎”,英文解释为“If you smash something or if it smashes, it breaks into many pieces, for example, when it is hit or dropped.”举个🌰:Someone smashed a bottle. 有人打碎了一个瓶子。

cement

cement /sɪˈment/ 作名词,表示“水泥”,英文解释为“a grey powder that is mixed with water and sand to make mortar or with water, sand, and small stones to make concrete”如:a bag of cement 一袋水泥,也可以指表示“胶合剂;黏固剂”,英文解释为“a substance that sticks things together”

作动词,表示“加强,巩固(协议或友谊)”,英文解释为“to make something such as an agreement or friendship stronger”举个🌰:The university's exchange scheme has cemented its links with many other academic institutions. 这所大学的交流计划加强了与许多其他学术机构的联系。

More than nine minutes after the NOA mode was activated, the car sent out an alert for the driver to hold the steering wheel.

在NOA模式激活超过九分钟后,车辆发出发出脱手预警提示“请手握方向盘”。

steering wheel

steering wheel /ˈstɪə.rɪŋ ˌwiːl/ 表示“方向盘”,英文解释为“a wheel in a vehicle that the driver turns in order to make the vehicle go in a particular direction”

Local media reported that three people died in the accident, and news of the accident became a trending topic on Weibo.

当地媒体报道称,事故造成三人遇难,相关话题登上微博热搜。

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. Xiaomi did not provide details about injuries or fatalities in its post. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

事故原因仍在调查中,小米公告未披露具体伤亡情况。截至发稿,小米公司尚未回复Business Insider的置评请求。

Xiaomi said in its post that it's cooperating with the police on investigations.

小米在帖子中表示正配合警方调查。

The accident poses a potential setback for Xiaomi, which has made waves in the EV space.

这场事故可能成为小米造车征程的重大考验。

Last year, Xiaomi set a goal of selling 100,000 SU7s by year-end. It surpassed that sales target in November.

去年,小米为SU7定下10万辆年度销售目标,结果提前一个月超额完成。

surpass

surpass /səˈpɑːs/ 表示“超过,优于,胜过”,英文解释为“to do or be better than”举个🌰:His time for the 100 metres surpassed the previous world record by one hundredth of a second. 他以0.01秒的优势打破了100米短跑的前世界纪录。

It raised its 2025 sales target to 350,000 units, up from its previous target of 300,000 units.

该公司将2025年销售目标从30万辆上调至35万辆。

In October, Ford CEO Jim Farley said he was a fan of the Xiaomi SU 7, describing the car as "fantastic."

10月,福特(Ford)CEO吉姆·法利(Jim Farley)表示他是小米SU7的粉丝,称该车“非常棒”。

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