【3月超耐笔记06】Winning yet Losing: Boeing

2019-03-14

Winning yet Losing: Boeing

【赏析】winning →业绩不错 losing→市场份额下降

① Fresh from signing a $13.8bn deal to sell 39 aircraft to Singapore Airlines, the American aerospace and defence giant announces what should be strong third-quarter results today.

*fresh from = just 刚刚 

*sign a deal/contract 签合同

*aircraft 单复数同形

* airlines 航线的复数就是航空公司，毕竟航空公司就是由很多航线构成的

*what should be 可看作是宾语从句，也可以看作插入语，转述句型，使观点不是那么地主观

【赏析】不一定用because/so，而用时间词来表示因果关系，句首的fresh from可以用after/in the wake of等时间词来替代。

② Boeing delivered 7.4% more commercial aircraft than in the same period a year earlier, outweighing a 12% slide in defence contracts.

*deliver v. 交付 deliver the promise 履行诺言

* in the same period 同期

*outweigh v.超过 【赏析】outweigh的使用，使得后文的国防订单下降和前文的商业订单增加之间形成一种平衡

*slide n.缓慢的下跌

③ Yet Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing's boss, should fear for his job. 

④ Earlier this year, under attack from President Donald Trump, he supported the president's call for more tariffs on imports.

*tariffs 关税 → *slapped tariffs  增加关税

⑤ America's Commerce Department then slapped tariffs of more than 300% on rival C-Series airliners made by Bombardier—but this annoyed many of Boeing's biggest customers.

*airliner 飞机

【赏析】制造疑问：为什么美国商务部对波音的对手征税会导致波音顾客的不满？

⑥ Then last week the Canadian planemaker gave Airbus, Boeing's European arch-rival, half the project for free, sidestepping tariffs by making the C-Series for American customers in its Alabama plant.

*arch-rival 最主要的对手

*sidestep v. 绕开

⑦ "This is a win-win-win situation for everyone," crowed Tom Enders, Airbus's chief executive.

*crow v. 乌鸦叫→叫嚣

⑧ Except Boeing, that is.

【感想】每次看商业和政治，都觉得自己脑子不够用。很佩服这些能够不被眼前利益所扰，关注长期利益并为此做好准备的人。