每日一词 | cut-throat

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

“cut-throat”的字面意思是“切喉”，常常用来表示“冷酷无情的”，是个充满画面感的常见单词。当我们想描述竞争非常激烈时，除了用 fierce, tough, severe 之外，还可以用到 cut-throat，强调竞争的残酷无情，为达到目标而不择手段。 

cut-throat 的使用比较简单，常和表示领域（比如 industry, business 和 world）、竞争和价格的词一起搭配使用。我们可以用 cut-throat 来描述某一行业领域的竞争激烈。比如，最近关于锤子科技的报道不断，其中一个关键点是智能手机行业竞争激烈，日趋饱和，就可以说： 

The competition in the smartphone industry is cut-throat. 

The smartphone business is cut-throat and relentless.（这里的 relentless (残酷的，无情的) 和 cut-throat 是同义表达，放在一起起强调作用，这两个词可以一起记下来。） 

看看《经济学人》是怎么用 cut-throat 的： 

1）Ride-hailing, like many online businesses, is a cut-throat, winner-takes-all market (一家独大，占有全部市场): Didi itself is the product of a 2015 merger of two local firms. 

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

3）Amazon's cut-throat pricing has lowered online inflation by about one percentage point. 

1）翻译下面的句子： 

在这个竞争激烈的世界，只有适者才能生存。 

In a cut-throat world, only those who can adapt to the world can exist.

参考翻译：In this cut-throat world, only the fittest will survive/prevail. 

造句：

场景一：旅游业的竞争激烈

The competition in the tourist industry is cut-throat.

场景二：他并不想要成为政治家，因为他不惜花斗得你死我活的政界。

He does not think he will be a politician in the future, because he dislikes the cut-throat world of politics.