经济学人 2018-01-04 Purchasing powder （12-09）
单词：
funnel V.
it is directed through a narrow space.
proliferate V
increase in number very quickly
peddle V兜售
Someone who peddles things goes from place to place trying to sell them.
It used to worry about entrusting so important a market to squads of anonymous intermediaries
dictate 摆布
If someone dictates to someone else, they tell them what they should do or can do.
haul V.
which is heavy or difficult to move, you move it using a lot of effort.
外媒这么介绍微信：
The spread of social-networking apps such as WeChat China’s most popular, brought the business online
代购在欧美和澳大利亚买的东西是不同的：
But whereas daigou in America and Europe procure mainly luxury goods for their customers—
a function of high Chinese tariffs—in Australia they buy mainly vitamins, food and beauty products.
menace
you mean that person or thing is likely to cause serious harm.
There are perhaps 50,000 daigou, stalking the aisles of Australian shops and periodically stripping them bare
contaminated V.
contaminated by dirt, chemicals, or radiation, they make it dirty or harmful.
riddle V.
If something is riddled with undesirable qualities or features, it is full of them
charge a fortune
A firm called the a2 Milk Company doubled itsprofit in the year to June thanks to soaring Chinese demand.
infant formula 婴儿配方奶粉
fall over themselves 自食其力
Businesses fall over themselves to win the favour of the most influential daigou, offering discounts and Chinese marketing materials
entruste V. 委托：
you make them responsible for looking after it or dealing with it.
句子：
It used to worry about entrusting so important a market to squads of anonymous intermediaries
澳大利亚对代购印象不好，不仅造成正常物品的短缺，他们的代购行为也不用交税
Daigou had earned a bad press in Australia for creating shortages of certain goods and for failing to pay tax on their commissions 。
最后一段充分说明代购的影响力！居然用了 heads rolled !!collapsed !!plunged !!
So Bellamy’s decided to funnel its wares to Chinese retailers and e-tailers, who in turn offered big discounts to customers, undercutting the daigou. This approach backfired completely, as daigou abandoned Bellamy’s products. Sales plunged. The firm’s share price collapsed; heads rolled. Bellamy’s recently cut back sales to other distributors, restoring daigou to prime position once again
