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2021年新高考高中英语外刊《经济学人》尖子生讲义[C03]
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(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[C02])
But big tech platforms, particularly Facebook, Google and Amazon, do indeed raise a worry about fair competition. That is partly because they often benefit from legal exemptions. Unlike publishers, Facebook and Google are rarely held responsible for what users do on them; and for years most American buyers on Amazon did not pay sales tax. Nor do the titans simply compete in a market. Increasingly, they are the market itself, providing the infrastructure (or “platforms”) for much of the digital economy. Many of their services appear to be free, but users “pay” for them by giving away their data. Powerful though they already are, their huge stockmarket valuations suggest that investors are counting on them to double or even triple in size in the next decade.
然而大型科技平台确实引发了对公平竞争的担忧,特别是Facebook、谷歌和亚马逊。原因之一是它们经常因免于承担法律责任而受益。与出版商不同,Facebook和谷歌很少为用户在其平台上的行为负责。多年来,亚马逊上的大部分美国买家都没有支付消费税。这几个超级巨头也不只是在市场上竞争,它们正日益变成市场本身,为大部分数字经济提供基础设施(即“平台”)。它们的许多服务看似免费,但用户在交出自己的数据时实际就在“付费”了。尽管它们已经实力强大,但其巨大的市值表明,投资者期待未来十年它们的规模能再增加一倍甚至两倍。
语法讲解:长难句解析
Powerful though they already are, / their huge stockmarket valuations suggest / that investors are counting on them / to double or even triple in size / in the next decade.
· 提取主干:Their huge stockmarket valuations suggest that …
(主语 + 谓语 + 宾语从句)
· 其他成分:
① Powerful though they already are作让步状语。在让步状语从句中,有“形容词+as /though+主语+动词”的倒装结构,且动词一般为系动词。
② 在that引导的宾语从句中,主语是investors,谓语是动词短语are counting on,宾语是them。
③ 动词不定式to double作宾语补足语,or连接了第二个动词triple。in size作状语。
④ in the next decade是时间状语,所修饰的动词是to double or even triple。
表达积累
· legal exemptions
exemption表示“免除”或者“豁免”,比如“免税”可以表达为“exemption from taxation”或者“tax exemption”。
想要表示“给予豁免”的话一般是和grant搭配,比如“The commission has the power to grant temporary exemptions. 委员会有权给予临时豁免”。
· titans
本义指希腊神话中的泰坦巨神,可以如文中一样描述商业“巨头”等。
· a titan of American industry. 美国工业巨头
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