夏说英语新闻晨读 第246期:亚马逊vs沃尔玛
时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：夏说英语新闻晨读
英语课
本期内容：
Walmart, the US biggest retail 1 chain, has been accused of trying to coerce 2 its technology suppliers into shunning 3 Amazon's cloud computing 4 service. Amazon has accused its rival of attempting to "bully 5" the IT companies into picking a rival platform. The row comes at a time Amazon is expanding its shopping operations. Last Friday, the Seattle-based business announced a $13.7bn takeover of the groceries chain Whole Foods.
Coerce: 胁迫
Shun: 拒绝
Row: 争论
Groceries: 杂货店
v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格
- In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
- These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
v.强迫，压制
- You can't coerce her into obedience.你不能强制她服从。
- Do you think there is any way that we can coerce them otherwise?你认为我们有什么办法强迫他们不那样吗？
v.避开，回避，避免( shun的现在分词 )
- My flight was more a shunning of external and internal dangers. 我的出走是要避开各种外在的和内在的威胁。 来自辞典例句
- That book Yeh-yeh gave me-"On Filial Piety and the Shunning of Lewdness"-was still on the table. 我坐下来，祖父给我的那本《刘芷唐先生教孝戒淫浅训》还在桌子上。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）
n.计算
- to work in computing 从事信息处理
- Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代（约1980年），他们就创办了软件公司。
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