2021届河北衡水高中英语经济学人外刊新高考培优讲义[03-17]作文素材阅读理解语法词汇拓展积累

2021年河北衡水高中英语《经济学人》外刊新高考培优讲义[03-17] 作文素材阅读理解语法词汇拓展积累 （含词汇讲解、长难句解析、翻译技巧、背景知识、写作积累：均由阿满编写） 原文（续[03-16]） To date tech giants have mostly tried to apply AI to reap profits from their existing operations. In the next few years they hope that AI will let them build new businesses. One area of intense competition isvirtual assistants. Smartphones know their users intimately, but AI-powered virtual assistants aim to take the relationship further, whether through phones or smartspeakers. Apple was first to explore their promise when it bought Siri, a voice assistant, in 2010. Since then Amazon, Google and Microsoft have invested heavily: their assistants’ speech recognition is better as a result. Samsung, Facebook and Baidu are also competing to offer them.   迄今为止，科技巨头大都试图通过应用AI而从现有业务中获利。而在接下来的几年里，它们希望能借助AI创建新业务。一个竞争激烈的领域是虚拟助理。智能手机非常了解用户，但以AI驱动的虚拟助理则要让两者的关系更进一步，无论是通过手机还是智能音箱。苹果在2010年收购了语音助手Siri，率先探索虚拟助理的潜力。从那时起，亚马逊、谷歌和微软也都投入了大量资金，它们的虚拟助理在语音识别方面因此也表现更好。三星、Facebook和百度也都在竞相提供虚拟助理。   It is unclear whether standalone speakers will become a huge market, but itis certain that people will move beyond text to engage with the internet. “All these companies understand that whoever owns that choke point for consumers will rule the market,”says Pedro Domingos, author of “The Master Algorithm”, a book about AI.   目前还不清楚独立智能音箱是否会成为一个巨大的市场，但可以肯定的是，人们将超越文本，采用其他方式与互联网互动。《终极算法》（The Master Algorithm)—书以AI为主题，作者佩德罗•多明戈斯（Pedro Domingos ) 说：“所有这些公司都明白，谁占据了这个面向消费者的“咽喉要道”，谁就会统治市场。   词汇讲解   · to date (up to the present moment) 同义于up to now   · reap profits 文中释义：获利 reap本义指“收割”庄稼，文中这里引申作“获得”讲 (to get something, especially something good, as a result of what you have done)，该引申用法下常见的搭配有reap the benefit/reward/profit (of sth) · reap the reward of years of study 从多年研究中获得报偿 · reap the fruits of one's actions 获得自己努力的成果 这里补充一个习语you reap what you sow，常见的翻译“一分耕耘，一分收获”我认为是不合适的，它其实表达的是“因果报应”的含义 (used to say that if you do bad things, bad things will happen to you, and if you do good things, good things will happ