TutorABC: Online Business

**Vocabulary
1. disseminate 傳播、散佈消息
2. mumbo jumbo 雜事
3. drastically=quickly

**Useful phrase
1. exploit the internet to your advantage
2. It's time to get down to the real business

TutorABC: Tax

**Vocabulary
1. inheritance tax 遺產稅
2. sumptuary tax 限制個人費用、限制個人行為、禁止奢侈浪費的稅=sin tax (例如對香菸課重稅)
3. proscribe: 禁止、排斥
4. emit: 發散、放出 e.g. greenhouse gas emitted
5. severance tax 天然資源開採稅
6. deforestation 砍伐森林

**Useful phrase
1. monitor the result 看結果
2. aka: also known as
3. in the top bracket 在最高階層、等級的人(年齡、所得)
4. Tax evasion 逃稅; tax avoidance 避稅; tax saving 節稅

**Knowledge
能源稅(ecotax)包括：
1. Waste disposal tax: 垃圾處理量
2. Carbon tax: 二氧化碳排放量
3. Severance tax: 開採天然資源如礦產、林木
4. Energy tax: 電力及燃料

TutorABC: Oil Tycoon- John Rockefeller

**Vocabulary
1. tycoon 企業大亨
2. philanthropist: 慈善家
3. backlash 反對聲浪 against xx company
4. orphan 孤兒
5. sanitary 清潔衛生
6. eradicate 根絕、消滅
7. plage: 使受災禍、煩擾、折磨
8. prompt (v): 激起、慫恿

**Useful phrase
1. “Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

**Knowledge
1. 石油公司：Shell, Mobil, conoco, bp, AMOCO, ExxonMobil
2. Rockefeller Center: Famous landmark在紐約市中心一區摩天大樓

TutorABC: Indispensable Employees

**Vocabulary

1. indispensable: 不可取代的irreplaceable
2. relinquish 放棄
3. swoop in 突然襲擊
4. insidious 陰險
5. limelight 眾人注目的重心
6. prevalence 盛行、普遍
7. hearsay 傳聞

**Useful phrase
1. gossip artist: 愛講八卦的人
2. in the nutshell: 簡要地說
3. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." by Eleanor Roosevelt.
4. He got the axe. = He got fired.
5. As a result
6. hurt my feelings