America’s armed forces hope that artificial intelligence will revolutionize war.
- revolutionize v. 彻底变革
If that is to happen, data from the battlefield have to be crunched on a network of remote computers known as the cloud.
- battlefield 战场【陆地战场，与后文的clound形成对比】
- crunch （快速大量地）处理信息
Last year the Pentagon handed a mammoth $10bn cloud-computing contract for its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) to Microsoft.
- mammoth 庞大的
Amazon, a rival tech giant whose Web Services division lost out, having won a previous CIA contract, complained of “blatant political interference”.
- blatant 炫耀的；无耻的；显眼的
Amazon wants the process halted and the deposition of Donald Trump and his defense secretary.
- deposition 罢免
- defense secretary 国防部长
Today a federal court will rule on the case. Amazon claims that Mr Trump’s animus towards its founder, Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, a newspaper which is frequently critical of the president, played an undue role in the awarding of the contract.
- animus 敌意；仇恨；愤怒
- undue 不适当的；过分的；过度的
In 2016 Mr Trump had threatened Amazon with “problems” if he were elected—and has raged against Mr Bezos since.
Feb 11th 2020
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