英语新闻-09年第四季度雅虎利润上升，营业额下

时间：2010-01-28 08:41:09

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Internet giant Yahoo has posted a $153m (£95m) net profit in the fourth quarter of 2009, but has seen sales continue to fall.

互联网巨头雅虎2009年第四季度净利润达1.53亿美元，但是销售额持续下降。

Yahoo says 2009 was a "transformative" year for the business

The profit figure compares with a $303m loss in the same period in 2008, but revenue¹税收，收益 fell 4% to $1.7bn.

Yahoo struggled during the global downturn低迷时期，衰退 as advertisers广告商 trimmed削减，整理 their budgets. The firm cut more than 2,000 jobs to try to reduce costs.

Shares in Yahoo rose 1% in after-hours trading in New York to $16.17?.

"The fourth quarter marked a strong finish to 2009, which was a transformative变化的，有改革能力的 year for Yahoo," said chief executive² Carol Bartz.

"Our business has positive momentum³动力，势头 and we feel good as we head into 2010."

For the whole of 2009, Yahoo made a £598m profit, up 43% on the previous year.

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1 revenue
n.总收入，财政收入，税收；税务局
参考例句：
The country diminished the revenue by reducing tax.这个国家通过减税而使税收减少了。 A government's revenue and expenditure should be balanced.政府的财政收入和支出要平衡。

2 executive
adj.执行的，行政的；n.执行者，行政官，经理
参考例句：
A good executive usually gets on well with people.一个好的高级管理人员通常与人们相处得很好。 He is a man of great executive ability.他是个具有极高管理能力的人。

3 momentum
n.动力，冲力，势头；动量
参考例句：
We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。 The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。