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天天商务英语词汇 语音下载

purportedly (adverb) 据称地
解释	appearing to be or do something, especially falsely

例句	A number of studies purportedly show that computers help people to learn faster

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Bucks don't stop at CEOs' $1 salaries CEO的收入不止于1美元 As Ford, General Motors and Chrysler go hand in hand to Congress asking for help, their CEOs now say they'll take just a dollar a year in salary if that'll make things better. But the bucks don't really stop there. Jeremy Hobson reports. 随着福特，通用和克莱斯勒手拉手到国会寻求帮助，他们的CEO都说如果能使事情更好，他们愿意领1美元的年薪。但是实际上收入不会真的就是1美元的。Jeremy Hobson做了报道。

KAI RYSSDAL: As Ford, General Motors and Chrysler go hat in hand to Congress asking for help, their CEOs now say they'll take just a dollar a year in salary if that'll make things better. But Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson reports the bucks don't really stop there.
JEREMY HOBSON: There are plenty of CEOs who take home just a dollar a year in salary. Steve Jobs at Apple, Eric Schmidt at Google, and John Mackey at Whole Foods, to name a few. But it's not easy to find one who gets no additional compensation.
ALEXANDRA HIGGINS: No, that doesn't happen.
Alexandra Higgins with the Corporate Library says when you add it all up -- the perks, the bonuses, the restricted stocks, the stock options -- getting rid of a salary just isn't all that big a deal.
HIGGINS: The only thing it does is remove a guaranteed payment.
Tom LaWer at the consulting firm Compensia says there are two main reasons CEOs decide to take a dollar a year. Either they started their company, like Apple's Steve Jobs, and already own so much of it that growth is far more important than compensation. Or, says LaWer, their company is collapsing -- as in the case of the automakers.
LAWER: Obviously, some of it is probably publicity but you have to make a strong statement at the top.
He says the CEOs of GM, Ford and Chrysler may not have the same safety net as other CEOs. Their stock options ain't what they used to be.
LAWER: So for this next year or two, that dollar a year could be most of their compensation.
I guess it beats unemployment.

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