心得筆記
1 are plotting to do:聯(lián)合起來籌謀某事
2 fight against
3 are thrilled to: super excited比如看到明星，肌肉都要抽搐了
4 focus on doing; focus sth on sth
5 search engine
6 chip away at削弱損害，而且是一點一點的除掉，就像老鼠啃東西，小口小口的
chip away at Amazon’s online dominance
7 make for在這里不是補償?shù)囊馑?是促成、造就的意思
Walmartand Google make for strange bedfellows.
我們或許會用Walmart and Google are strange bedfellows.但是用make for就更加生動了
8 strange bedfellows
9 make a lot of sense合理的
10 tend to傾向于
但是tend to還有照看的意思，比如: She stayed at home and tended to her mother.
11 narrow that gap縮小差距
12 dominated by
Her office isdominated?bya largeoaktablewhere shespreadsout her work.
Moviedirectingisaprofessiondominated?bymen.
Massivedatabasemanagementmay be one area that couldbedominated?byopticaltechnology.
13 in its infancy: at beginning stagesth is in its infancy
14 in revenue用法：位于金額之后$486billion in revenue
15 behemoth:巨獸，媒體形容巨頭也用這個詞
16 buy up：toquicklybuyasmuch of something aspossible, for exampleland,tickets, or goods
盡量買下，全部買下
Up這個詞很萬能，比如eat up就是全部吃下
17 beef up：吃了牛肉就會很強壯，增強的意思，加強，充實toimprovesomething or make it moreinteresting, more important etc
Weneed tofindsome newplayerstobeefup theteam.我們得招納幾個新隊員以加強全隊的實力。
Thecompanyhasplanstobeefupitsproduction.公司計劃擴大生產(chǎn)。
Yourreporton the newcarparkisfine, but why don't youbeefit up?with?somefigures?你那份關(guān)于新停車場的報告很不錯，但為什么不加入一些數(shù)字使之更充實呢？
18 partner名詞是合作，動詞也很好用，partner
with與誰合作
造句：
1 plot to do:Alibaba
are plotting to create self-service store.
2 buy up: When high-tech behemoths have a programin its infancy, they tend to buy up small companies who have done well in thesimilar thing, then beef it up, and finally get a new one.
3 be thrilled to: I am thrilled to partner with thevery responsible researcher Jack.
