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Finance Ministry Plans E-Receipts for Invoice Lottery 财政部计划发行电子发票

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Finance Ministry Plans E-Receipts for Invoice Lottery  财政部计划发行电子发票

Some people love the receipt lottery, eagerly collecting every receipt they can get their hands on. Others refuse to play, having spent too many hours trawling through hundreds of receipts, never to win a cent. However, the latter group might reconsider sitting out the game once the Ministry of Finance introduces the “e-receipt” program and increases the prize money. The ministry says the new system means people will no longer need to be issued paper receipts. When a customer makes a purchase using an IC chip card, such as the Easycard, the information will be stored at the Financial Data Center. When the lottery numbers are announced, the system will check everyone’s data and send texts or emails to the lucky winners. Furthermore, overall prize money could be increased in 2011, and talks about introducing a NT$10 million jackpot are underway, too. Whatever happens, it looks like playing the receipt lotto is about to get easier.

有些人喜爱对发票，急切地收集任何他们可以拿到的发票；其他人则不愿跟进，因为总是花很多时间慢慢地查校几百张发票，却一丁点钱都没赢得。然而一旦财政部引进电子发票计划并增加奖金金额后，这些人可能会重新考虑，是否仍然不加入拿发票对大奖的行列。财政部表示，新的系统意谓不再需要发行纸本发票给人们。当顾客使用如悠游卡之类的IC芯片卡购物时，数据会储存在财税数据中心。而系统将会于中奖号码公布后核对每一人的数据，并以简讯或电子邮件的方式通知幸运赢家。此外，总奖金可能会在今年加码，而一千万的头奖也正在研议中。不管之后的发展如何，对发票中大奖的游戏在未来将会容易许多。

Graphene Scientists Win Nobel Prizes  研究石墨烯的科学家荣获诺贝尔奖

Two scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in recognition of their work developing a revolutionary material called graphene. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, of Manchester University, England, extracted graphene – the thinnest, strongest material ever discovered – from pencil lead, or graphite. Sheets of graphene are one-layer thick, closely arranged carbon atoms. Graphene conducts electricity, and is flexible and easily manipulated. Therefore, it has many potential uses in touch screen technology, solar cells, and as a replacement for silicon transistors in computers. Graphene transistors could also increase the speed of our computers many hundreds of times. Despite the scientific community’s excitement over graphene, the prize-winning researchers remain humble. When asked about the award, Professor Geim said it would not affect him or his work, telling journalists that he would “muddle on as before.”

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Vocabulary

单词发音

invoice [ˋɪnvɔɪs] n. 发票

lottery [ˋlɑtərɪ] n. 奖券，彩票

receipt [rɪˋsit] n. 收据，收条

trawl [trɔl] v.〔在大量文件﹑名单等中的〕搜寻

Ministry of Finance 财政部

issue [ˋɪʃjʊ] v. 发给

jackpot [ˋdʒæk͵pɑt] n. 累积奖金

graphene 石墨烯

recognition [͵rɛkəgˋnɪʃən] n. 公开的赞扬; 表扬; 表彰

extract [ɪkˋstrækt] v. 提取，提炼

graphite [ˋgræfaɪt] n. 石墨

conduct [kənˋdʌkt] v. 传导（热，电等）

manipulate [məˋnɪpjə͵let] v. 操作，运用

transistor [trænˋzɪstɚ] n. 晶体管

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get one’s hands on something 把……弄到手 to obtain something

sit out 坐在一旁不参加 not to participate in something; to wait until something is over before participating

muddle [ˋmʌd!] on  混日子; 杂乱 无章地干下去 to proceed in a disorganized way

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