## Business: Chinese internet firms Clubbing together
#### 地道表达
*Chinese internet firms **Clubbing** together
**Clubbing**. v. 用棍棒打；募集；联合（club的ing形式）
Eg. The two large companys club together to make more money.
* The **merger** of Meituan and Dianping could **herald** a bigger consolidation.
**mergern**. n（企业等的）合并；并购
**herald** vt. 通报；预示…的来临
Eg.The dark cloud in the sky herald it will rain later.
* with even America’s pioneer, Groupon, **slashing** over 1,000 jobs last month, but it is still doing well in China.
**slashing** vt. 猛砍；鞭打；大幅度裁减或削减
Eg.She feels very anxious because her company is slashing.
* Groupon has **flopped** in China, just as many other Western internet firms have done.
**flopped** vi. 失败；扑拍；扑通落下
* It will **quash** competition on one front of a costly
* **proxy** war now being fought by China’s big three internet firms—Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.
**quash** vt. 撤销；镇压；宣布无效；捣碎
Eg. In the end,they quashed the great war.
**proxy** n. 代理人；委托书；代用品.
Eg.You can vote by proxy.
* The deal marks an **escalation** in what seems to be an effort by Alibaba and Tencent to squeeze out Baidu and turn the Chinese internet’s big three into a big two.
**escalation** n. 增加；扩大；逐步上升.
Eg.With the escalation of the sales volum of the goods, he goes through the dark feelings which caused by the failure of disgning last time.
* But China’s **antitrust** authorities, which have been soft on local internet firms, ought nonetheless to be **vigilant**.
**antitrust** adj. [经] 反垄断的；[经] 反托拉斯的
Eg.Many countries have antitrust law.
**vigilant** adj. 警惕的；警醒的；注意的
Eg.Parents offen tell their kids to keep vigilant to strangers.
#### 专业知识
*1 GROUP buying—in which discounts are offered on goods and services once a certain number of consumers have signed up—may be falling out of fashion in many countries, with even America’s **pioneer** , **Groupon**, slashingover 1,000 jobs last month, but it is still doing well in China.
* **pioneer 先锋电子（中国）投资有限公司**n. 先锋；拓荒者
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