?blue-sky 新穎但未(必)可行的——blue-sky thinking 開放的心態(tài)
The term "big tech" is often used as?shorthand?to describe the small group of digital firms that?tower over(高過、超過)?the 21st-century economy. … As?business lines?have become?monopolised, it has?become?commonplace(司空見慣的)?to complain that tech firms are?offering consumers a toxic(有毒的) deal.
? shorthand 速記法、(不準確的)簡稱
? monopolize v. 壟斷——monopoly n. 壟斷
Video-streaming(視頻流媒體) is?a fight for?supremacy?between half a dozen firms. … Its experience is?a reminder of the?benign?power of competition--and of how governments should?be?surgical?about taming(tame v.馴服愧捕、馴化) tech.?這個經(jīng)歷提醒我們市場競爭的良性作用日川，以及政府應該如何精準地控制科技。
? in the form of 以…的形式≈such as
? supremacy n. 至高無上外构，這里翻譯成“霸主”——supreme a. 至高無上的
? benign a. 良好的跪帝、良性的——bene-好粱哼，benefit顶别；mal-不好谷徙，malnutrition營養(yǎng)不良
? surgical a. 外科手術的、精準的
Cloud computing took offabout15 years ago, as businesses began to?outsource?(their?web-hosting(網(wǎng)頁寄存), data centres, core computer systems and many applications)to(a few?big providers, particularly the pioneer AWS, run by Amazon). … Perhaps $40bn is being?ploughed?this year?into?data centres and other physical gear(設備) by AWS and others.
? take off起飛驯绎、騰飛——economic takeoff經(jīng)濟騰飛
? outsource sth. to sb. 外包——out+source蒂胞；【反義】in-house a. 公司內(nèi)部的、家養(yǎng)的
? plough sth. into sth. 大量投資于
The firms using it replace (lumpy(笨重的) capital expenditure) on?rickety?bespoke?IT with(a variable payment) for a service that can easily expand its capacity as needed.?
? rickety a. 不穩(wěn)的
? bespoke a. 量身定制的——【近義】tailor-made/custom-made
The cloud has also been seen as an example of?the internet's fragmentation(分裂条篷、破裂). Alibaba's and Tencent's cloud arms(arm 部門骗随、業(yè)務) dominate in China and are?making?some?inroads?elsewhere in Asia.
? make inroads 占領
? state-backed a. 國家支持的=state-sponsored
AWS remains the cloud's biggest firm, but Microsoft (, the original?antitrust(反壟斷的)?bad boy, )is?putting up?a fierce fight?with?its own service(, Azure,)and hopes to get more of its Office and Windows customers to use it for the cloud, too.最早的反壟斷惡龍，現(xiàn)在反倒成了奮起反抗的反壟斷屠龍勇士赴叹。
? put up with 顯示鸿染、表現(xiàn)
Alphabet is also?putting?its cloud?forward. On October 8th IBM said it would?spin off?part of its services business?to focus on the "hybrid-cloud(混合云)", which?marries old-fashioned?on-site(現(xiàn)場的)work with the cloud. Likewise Oracle's proposed bid for TikTok, asocial-media firm, is in part an effort to secure an?anchor-customer(大客戶、核心客戶)for its?nascent(新生的乞巧、初期的)?cloud operation. Regulators?need to be?vigilant(警醒的)?to ensure that cloud firms are not abusing other companies' data,?erecting unfair barriers to entry?or misusing their dominance in other businesses to get ahead. But broadly, the boom means more choice and?keener?prices(keen形容價格a. 有競爭力的).
? put sth. forward 推出
? spin off 分離業(yè)務——spinoff n. 分離組成的新公司
Treating big tech as a?monopolistic?monolith(原意“巨石”涨椒，衍生為“尾大不掉的組織”)does not make sense when some markets are competitive. …?If the main source of competition for big tech firms ends up being other big tech firms,?so be?it.
? take hold of sth. 把持
? so be it (表示完全接受)就這樣吧
技術有關：cloud computing, web-hosting, data center, video-streaming, e-commerce, hybrid cloud
