Reading Day 2

心得笔记

1 are plotting to do:联合起来筹谋某事

2 fight against

3 are thrilled to: super excited比如看到明星，肌肉都要抽搐了

4 focus on doing; focus sth on sth

5 search engine

6 chip away at削弱损害，而且是一点一点的除掉，就像老鼠啃东西，小口小口的

chip away at Amazon’s online dominance

7 make for在这里不是补偿的意思,是促成、造就的意思

Walmartand Google make for strange bedfellows.

我们或许会用Walmart and Google are strange bedfellows.但是用make for就更加生动了

8 strange bedfellows

9 make a lot of sense合理的

10 tend to倾向于

但是tend to还有照看的意思，比如: She stayed at home and tended to her mother.

11 narrow that gap缩小差距

12 dominated by

Her office isdominated bya largeoaktablewhere shespreadsout her work.

Moviedirectingisaprofessiondominated bymen.

Massivedatabasemanagementmay be one area that couldbedominated byopticaltechnology.

13 in its infancy: at beginning stagesth is in its infancy

14 in revenue用法：位于金额之后$486billion in revenue

15 behemoth:巨兽，媒体形容巨头也用这个词

16 buy up：toquicklybuyasmuch of something aspossible, for exampleland,tickets, or goods

尽量买下，全部买下

Up这个词很万能，比如eat up就是全部吃下

17 beef up：吃了牛肉就会很强壮，增强的意思，加强，充实toimprovesomething or make it moreinteresting, more important etc

Weneed tofindsome newplayerstobeefup theteam.我们得招纳几个新队员以加强全队的实力。

Thecompanyhasplanstobeefupitsproduction.公司计划扩大生产。

Yourreporton the newcarparkisfine, but why don't youbeefit up with somefigures?你那份关于新停车场的报告很不错，但为什么不加入一些数字使之更充实呢？

18 partner名词是合作，动词也很好用，partner

with与谁合作

造句：

1 plot to do:Alibaba

are plotting to create self-service store.

2 buy up: When high-tech behemoths have a programin its infancy, they tend to buy up small companies who have done well in thesimilar thing, then beef it up, and finally get a new one.

3 be thrilled to: I am thrilled to partner with thevery responsible researcher Jack.