CCTV9英语新闻：中国互联网巨头之间的竞争上升
时间：2019-02-18 作者：英语课 分类：CCTV9英语新闻2014年05月
Competition is heating up between China's biggest Internet companies, including e-commerce leader Alibaba and search giant, Baidu. Mobile Internet is the new battle ground and with half a billion Chinese now using mobile devices to get online, the stakes couldn’t be higher. China’s biggest mobile Internet event of the year, the Global Mobile Internet Conference, kicked off on Monday in Beijing.
In China’s Internet landscape, mobility 1 is everything.
"Nokia and Motorola are dying, because this is the mobile Internet age. It is destructive, but it also has huge potential." Wu Hequan, president of Internet Society Of China, said.
According to the China Internet Network Information Center, China ended 2013 with 618 million Internet users. Among them, 500 million logged on via mobile. That’s more than 80 percent.
There are many reasons why mobile Internet is so popular in China. For one as a developing country, many consumers can afford to buy a phone before a computer. There’s also the increasing expectation of consumers globally to always have Internet, wherever they go.”
The impact of China’s mobile Internet revolution is vast terms of instant messaging, online videos and online payments. 86 percent of all Chinese Internet users now use apps like WeChat. While 70 percent watch videos on tablets and phones/ And 42 percent use mobile devices to make payments.
Now, competition and rivalry 2 between China’s biggest Internet giants is hotting up.
Last week, Beijing-based mobile browser 3, UCweb announced a new joint 4 venture with China’s biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba. The new company will be called "Shenma", [which means "What" in English] and will focus exclusively on mobile Internet. It’s being seen as a direct attack on China’s biggest search company, Baidu.
"We will focus on mobile messaging, search and browsing 5. Whereas Baidu focuses on PC-based searches. We now have 100 million users. By the end of 2014, we hope to have 200 million." Yu Yongfu, CEO of UCWEB, said.
Telecoms companies are feeling the heat too. The world’s biggest carrier, China Mobile has announced plans to collaborate 6 with China Unicom and China Telecom on mobile games.
In China’s cut-throat communications market, few things are certain. But with half a billion Chinese still offline, there’s an enormous market to tap into. And mobile internet providers are poised 7 to move in.
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mobility
n.可动性，变动性，情感不定
参考例句：
The difference in regional house prices acts as an obstacle to mobility of labour.不同地区房价的差异阻碍了劳动力的流动。
Mobility is very important in guerrilla warfare.机动性在游击战中至关重要。
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rivalry
n.竞争，竞赛，对抗
参考例句：
The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。
3
browser
n.浏览者
参考例句：
View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。
4
joint
adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合
参考例句：
I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
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browsing
v.吃草( browse的现在分词 )；随意翻阅；（在商店里）随便看看；（在计算机上）浏览信息
参考例句：
He sits browsing over[through] a book. 他坐着翻阅书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
Cattle is browsing in the field. 牛正在田里吃草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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collaborate
vi.协作，合作；协调
参考例句：
The work gets done more quickly when we collaborate.我们一旦合作，工作做起来就更快了。
I would ask you to collaborate with us in this work.我们愿意请你们在这项工作中和我们合作。
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poised
a.摆好姿势不动的
参考例句：
The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋，准备俯冲。
Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张，手悬在电话机上。
- The difference in regional house prices acts as an obstacle to mobility of labour.不同地区房价的差异阻碍了劳动力的流动。
- Mobility is very important in guerrilla warfare.机动性在游击战中至关重要。
- The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
- He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。
- View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
- I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
- He sits browsing over[through] a book. 他坐着翻阅书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Cattle is browsing in the field. 牛正在田里吃草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The work gets done more quickly when we collaborate.我们一旦合作，工作做起来就更快了。
- I would ask you to collaborate with us in this work.我们愿意请你们在这项工作中和我们合作。