Shade：细微差别

Disney's profit of $698 million， or 33 cents a share， was a shade above Wall Street estimates and contrasts with the $537 million， or 26 cents， it earned a year earlier. Revenue in the period ended April 2 climbed 9% to $7.8 billion.

Ratification：批准，承认

Bahrain has its own agreement awaiting U.S. Congress ratification. Two other members of the six-state Gulf Cooperation Council —— Oman and the United Arab Emirates —— have started talks on free trade deals with the U.S.

Repellent：驱虫剂

After years of promoting the chemical DEET as the best defense against West Nile-bearing mosquitoes， the government for the first time is recommending the use of two other insect repellents.

Thriller：惊悚片

Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn's “The Interpreter” translated into solid box-office as the United Nations thriller debuted with $22.8 million to top the weekend for Hollywood.

Peck：啄，轻吻

The “MareNostrum，” built by IBM Corp.， boasts 40 teraflops of speed. It can make more calculations in one second than a human pecking at a calculator could make in 10 million years.

Buyout：全部买下

Shares in Lenovo Group， the largest Chinese maker of personal computers， rose Thursday after three buyout funds bought a stake in the company for $350 million.

Oust：驱逐，罢黜

Mr Hurd， currently head of smaller US computer services group NCR， will replace Carly Fiorina， who was ousted from HP in February. HP's shares closed up 8.1% in Tuesday trading in New York， following initial speculation of Mr Hurd's appointment.

Realism：真实性，逼真度

A judge has ordered Sony Corp. to pay $90.7 million to a company that develops technology that enhances video game realism but immediately stayed an order that would halt U.S. sales of Sony's popular PlayStation consoles.

Epizootic：家畜流行病

The report said the State Emergency Veterinary and Anti-Epizootic Committee was working on the problem， reporting outbreaks in “a few” locations， including the Hadang Chicken Farm， one of Pyongyang's largest.

Capsize：倾覆

Bernard Ebbers， the once-swaggering CEO of WorldCom， was convicted Tuesday of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history - an $11 billion accounting scandal that capsized the big telecom company three years ago.