备战2023|MBA考研英语二-英语词汇积累计划Day145

2022年考研人数逐年增加，竞争之激烈使得我们不得不加急复习的日程。众所周知，阅读理解占据了考研英语二100分试卷的一半分值，而考研英语阅读文章大多来自英美国家的主流报刊杂志，所以如果能在日常就多多阅读这些文章，对以后读懂文章做对题目来说会大有裨益。但是对大多数备考的同学来说，刚开始投入复习，就去读考试文章难度的新闻报刊，也是不现实、并且不符合循序渐进的学习规律的，所以我们会在每次推送中，给大家给出两篇短文，一篇是初阶水平（大致在初高中水平）；一篇是高阶水平（四六级到考研水平）；同学们可以根据自己当前的情况，选择其中一篇进行学习。

学习步骤如下：

1.不看汉语译文自己看一遍短文做理解

2.看汉语译文比对自己理解的意思与之出入

3.强化记忆重点单词（以记忆其汉语意思为主）

初阶文段

It may be that the value of Whole Foods to Amazon is not so much the 460 shops it owns, but the records of which customers have purchased what.

 Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power. But it is clumsy. For one thing, it is very slow compared to the pace of change within the digital economy. By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by new abuses of power. But there is a deeper conceptual problem, too.

短文翻译

可能“全食”对于亚马逊的价值并不仅仅在于它拥有的 460 家店铺，而是对于什么样的客户会购买什么商品的记录。

《竞争法》似乎是解决（address）这种权力不平衡的唯一办法。但并不得当。首先，相较于数字经济的变革节奏，它的发展太过缓慢。等到某个问题得到处理和修正（remedy）的时候，它可能已经从市场上消失（vanish）了，取而代之的是权力滥用（abuse）的新形式。但也还有一个更深层的概念性问题。

重点单词

Competition [ˌkɒmpəˈtɪʃn]

n.竞争; 角逐;

address [əˈdres]

v.解决，做演讲

imbalance [ɪmˈbæləns]

n.失衡，不平衡

remedy [ˈremədi]

v.纠正，改进

vanish [ˈvænɪʃ]

v.消失

文段 II

Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don’t pay for them.

The users of their services are not their customers. That would be the people who buy advertising from them—and Facebook and Google，the two virtual giants，dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.

短文翻译

按照目前的解读（interpret），《竞争法》处理对客户造成的经济损失的，而当这些服务的用户无须支付费用时，这一点并不明显。

这些服务的用户并非其客户。客户应该是从他们那里购买广告的人们——而脸书和谷歌，这两大虚拟巨头，掌控（dominate）着数码广告市场，这对其他所有的媒体和娱乐公司都是不利的。

重点单词

interpret [ɪnˈtɜːprət]

v.诠释; 说明;

disadvantage [ˌdɪsədˈvɑːntɪdʒ]

n.不利因素，障碍

consumer [kənˈsjuːmə(r)]

n.消费者，顾客

virtual giant

虚拟巨头

advertising [ˈædvətaɪzɪŋ]

n.广告活动