【外文阅读精讲(49)】Altasia会取代中国制造吗?|考研英语|外刊精读|经
2023-03-23 09:09 作者:爱睡懒觉的Nick船长 | 我要投稿

Global firms are eyeing Asian alternatives to Chinese manufacturing. Can “Altasia" steal China's thunder?
Vocabulary:
- Altasia: an alternative for multinational who want to avoid China.
- eye = look at sb/ sth 盯着 e.g. Fool has been eyeing me. 傻子在盯着我/ 引申出来着眼于 e.g. Mobike is operating in Singapore, and eyeing other markets.
- steal sb's thunder 剽窃某人创意或者抢某人的风头 e.g. Who are just waiting to steal your thunder.
- make a bet 打赌,可以引申为冒险
- pile into 挤进,挤入 e.g. Before long other titans of consumer electronics were also piling into China to take advantage of its abundant and cheap labour.
- linchpin 关键 e.g. He is the linchpin of our team and crucial to my long-term plan.
- A out of B. 源自,来源 e.g. You get 8, out of ten.
- trillion 万亿
- weighty = heavy adj 重大的,严重的 e.g. under a weighty combination of commercial and political pressure 在政治和经济的双重重压下
- pluck up the courage to do sth 鼓起勇气去做某事 e.g. He cannot pluck up the courage to leave home.
- Taken together 综合来看
- formidable adj 强大的,难以对付的
- deep pocket 财力雄厚
- heft n 重要性,分量,影响
- A dwarf B A使B相形见绌,
- A be home to B = There be A in B = B have A
- tertiary education 高等教育
- ageing China , ageing pouplation。 In contrast, China is the world's most poupulation, but it has a rapidly ageing population.
- be poised to do sth = be ready to do sth
- let alone 更不必说
- in practice 在实践上
- have no equal 无人能比,无与伦比
- closer tie 更紧密联系 e.g. In economy, China is getting closer ties with those countries.
- budding 成长中,正在萌芽阶段的
Sentences:
- It takes a brave firm to avoid China. 要避开中国,需要一家有勇气的公司。
- Yet taken together, a patchwork(拼凑) of economies across Asia presents a formidable alternative.
- 人口的比较:Its collective working-age population of 1.4bn dwarfs even China's 980m. Altasia is home to 154m people aged between 25 and 54 with a tertiary education, compared with 145m in China-and, in contrast to ageing China, their ranks look poised to expand.
- America may yet realise that reducing its reliance on China in practice requires closer ties with friendly countries. And as a budding alternative to China, Altasia has no equal.