學習“三言兩語雜貨社”
? arm v. 武裝雷客；以武器裝備酗洒；n. 分部撤嫩、職能部門
Though American and Chinese tech platforms started the e-commerce gold rush (淘金熱), one Canadian company realised early on(在早期階段) what money was to be made from selling shovels. … But in the past five years its share-price rise(漲幅) has outstripped(outstrip v. 超過) that of “The Everything Store” more than tenfold.
? logistics n. 物流
? A is a tenth B? A是B的1/10【注意：沒有介詞】e.g. Team A is twice the size of team B.=The size of team A is twice that of team B.
? tenfold ad. 十倍地——-fold表示“X倍”
Harley Finkelstein, president of Shopify, is an evangelist for small retailers. Shopify’s more-than-1m merchants range from $1bn-plus brands like Allbirds to tiny startups that make their first sale on its platform every 52 seconds. Yet he believes that consumers will be the big winners from the transformation of retail, giving them more influence over how and what they buy.
? evangelist n. 巡回布道者——tech evangelist 技術(shù)傳播者=technology advocate
? range from A to B 在一定范圍內(nèi)變動
? influence over sth. 影響力窃诉、支配力【程度比較深】——e.g. Her parents no longer have any real influence over her.乐纸；influence on/upon sb./sth. 對某人、某事的影響【淺】
? in favor of… 對…有利鲤氢、贊成…
? Not since A has there been B 倒裝結(jié)構(gòu)搀擂，強調(diào)寫在前的倒裝部分西潘，還原為：There has not been B since A.自從A以來都沒有過B。
Yet it is not the only fifth columnist. Across the world, regional platforms are competing fiercely to avoid American and Chinese dominance.
? thrive v. 繁榮——【近義】flourish
? sales channel 銷售渠道
? fifth-column n. 第五縱隊哨颂，敵后內(nèi)應(yīng)力量喷市、叛徒、間諜
In Japan Amazon and Rakuten, a local e-commerce veteran, are in a battle for market leadership, but Softbank also plans to merge Yahoo Japan, an online shopping site in which it has a big stake, with Line, a messaging app, to make it a three-horse race. Amazon also has designs on South Korea via a partnership with 11street, owned by a local telecoms(電信,telecommunications縮寫) giant. But the market, led by Coupang, an online platform, is highly competitive. The South Korean affiliate of eBay, a big American platform, may be up for sale soon, making the contest fiercer still.
? stake n. 重大利益咆蒿、股份——have a stake in sth.东抹；stakeholder 利益相關(guān)者
? X-horse race n. X名強者的對抗
? have designs on sb./sth.? [正式]打…的鬼主意蚂子、覬覦
? up for sth. 提供作…正待…
In India, though the bulk of retailing still takes place in corner shops called kirana, e-commerce is a battle between Amazon, Flipkart (owned by Walmart) and [JioMart, owned by Reliance, a conglomerate, with backing(支柱沃测、支持) from Facebook, the American social-media giant]. The Western firms are not just vying for a share of India’s vast retail market. They also want to learn how best to entice new smartphone users in emerging markets to shop online. That means more voice search(語音搜索), because of the plethora of local languages, as well as more video, says Leigh Hopkins, Walmart’s head of international strategy.
? holdings n. 股份——holdings in sth. X的股份
? bulk n. 主體、大部分——the bulk of sth.
? conglomerate n. 企業(yè)集團
? vie for st. 爭奪某事
? entice v. 誘使——entice sb. into doing sth. / entice sb. to do sth.
? the plethora of sth. 過量的…
Yet Amazon is strong in Mexico, where it goes head to head with Mercado Libre, and competition between the two is growing in Brazil. … So far its business in Brazil does not live up to the name. But that is a rare exception.
? marketplace n. 市場
? mount v. 逐步增加——e.g. The death toll continues to mount.死亡人數(shù)持續(xù)增加食茎。
? head-to-head a. 正面交鋒的——go head-to-head with sb. 和某人針鋒相對
? live up to sth. 達到蒂破、不辜負
