2019-1-4 每日一词

Cut-throat

英英释意：A cut-throat situation or activity is one in which people behave in an unfair or immoral way in order to get an advantage over other people

竞争的激烈，残酷无情，不择手段

常与Industry/business/world连用

Relentless

竞争fierce/tough/severe

例句：

1. The competition in smartphone business is cut-throat.

  The smartphone business is cut-throat and relentless.

TE原文：

1.  Ride-hailing, like many other online business, is a cut-throat, winner-takes-all market.

Hail 打招呼，下冰雹

Taxi-hailing service 出租车呼叫服务

2.  Once state support for AT&T's monopoly was removed, the phone market became cut-throat.

Monopoly 专政

造句：

1. Only the fittest (will)survive s /prevail in the world's cut-threat competition in this cut-throat world.

2. 背景：求职市场竞争日益激烈，公务员依靠稳定的收入、较高的社会地位和福利待遇成为众多大学生的期待的工作。

In the cut-threat employement market, civil servant has become the most sought-after vocation among university graduates, owing to its stable income, high social status and good welfare.