TE选文：出版业

学习重点：1 出版主题相关词汇 2 有趣的表达

标题

1 beleaguered: having a lot of problems or difficulties

作为定语的用法 eg. the beleuguered doctors

P1

1 主题相关：a beleaguered British publisher 困难重重的英国出版商，the world's largest educational publisher 全球最大的教育出版商，firm, company, international outfit (outfit: an organization or group)

2 句型：Few X(复数名词) have Y. 很少有X做过Y这种事

原句：Few big British companies have tested investors like Pearson.

造句：Few video conferencing providers have benefited from the trends set off by covid-19 like Zoom.

3 有趣的表达：shore up confidence 提升信心，turn education markets upside down 颠覆教育市场

P2

1 主题相关：a bloated conglomerate 业务庞杂、人浮于事的公司

a chunk of，剑桥词典

2 动词：flog，hammer（be hammered by sth）

剑桥词典 剑桥词典

3 书本相关：university textbooks 大学课本, physical books 纸质书

P3

1 主题相关：give Pearson a cut 分一杯羹, campus bookshops 校园书店，trade them online， the secondary market, beancounters/ bean counters 会计师

剑桥词典

2 书本相关： printed textbooks 纸质课本，second-hand ones 二手书，dog-eared hand-me-downs 此处特指折角的传下来的旧书

3 tank: to go down in price, value, etc., or to become less successful

近义词：bomb, flop, do under

4 peddle兜售, trade 买卖交易（如何避开sell这个常用词）

P4

1 考试相关：take driving-theory tests 交规考试，cancel exams 取消考试，language tests 语言测试

2 down: 用介词代替动词，突出画面感

如：I hate to break the news, but our sales were down again last month.  (口语，自Speak English Like an American)

P5

1 句型：X 希望获益于Y造成的新局面 X hopes to benefit from trends set off by Y.

造句：Zoom hopes to benefit from trends set off by covid-19.

set sth off, 剑桥词典

2 arm(a part of an organisation that is responsible for a particular activity or place), wing 分支

如：Alibaba's financial services arm, Ant Group

3 up： 与前文的down用法一致

Sales were down.      Enrolment is up.

P6

1 书本相关：paper books 纸质书，pirated copies 盗版书

2 resurrect sales 恢复销售量，serve up sth 提供

serve up sth，剑桥词典

3 让某人做某事，使用get这个动词，有付出努力做但是不强迫的意思 get students to do sth

P7

1 outgoing 即将离任的

2 slash costs 大幅削减成本，pay down debts 偿还部分债务

3 tetchy 暴躁易怒的

a bunch, 剑桥词典