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【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:

  1. Altasia: an alternative for multinational who want to avoid China.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. make a bet 打赌,可以引申为冒险
  5. 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.
  6. linchpin 关键 e.g. He is the linchpin of our team and crucial to my long-term plan.
  7. A out of B. 源自,来源 e.g. You get 8, out of ten.
  8. trillion 万亿
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. Taken together 综合来看
  12. formidable adj 强大的,难以对付的
  13. deep pocket 财力雄厚
  14. heft n 重要性,分量,影响
  15. A dwarf B A使B相形见绌,
  16. A be home to B = There be A in B = B have A
  17. tertiary education 高等教育
  18. ageing China , ageing pouplation。 In contrast, China is the world's most poupulation, but it has a rapidly ageing population.
  19. be poised to do sth = be ready to do sth
  20. let alone 更不必说
  21. in practice 在实践上
  22. have no equal 无人能比,无与伦比
  23. closer tie 更紧密联系 e.g. In economy, China is getting closer ties with those countries.
  24. budding 成长中,正在萌芽阶段的

Sentences:

  1. It takes a brave firm to avoid China. 要避开中国,需要一家有勇气的公司。
  2. Yet taken together, a patchwork(拼凑) of economies across Asia presents a formidable alternative.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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