学习“三言两语杂货社”
arm v. 武装；以武器装备；n. 分部、职能部门
Though American and Chinese tech platforms started the e-commerce gold rush (淘金热), one Canadian company realised early on(在早期阶段) what money was to be made from selling shovels. … But in the past five years its share-price rise(涨幅) has outstripped(outstrip v. 超过) that of “The Everything Store” more than tenfold.
logistics n. 物流
A is a tenth B A是B的1/10【注意：没有介词】e.g. Team A is twice the size of team B.=The size of team A is twice that of team B.
tenfold ad. 十倍地——-fold表示“X倍”
Harley Finkelstein, president of Shopify, is an evangelist for small retailers. Shopify’s more-than-1m merchants range from $1bn-plus brands like Allbirds to tiny startups that make their first sale on its platform every 52 seconds. Yet he believes that consumers will be the big winners from the transformation of retail, giving them more influence over how and what they buy.
evangelist n. 巡回布道者——tech evangelist 技术传播者=technology advocate
range from A to B 在一定范围内变动
influence over sth. 影响力、支配力【程度比较深】——e.g. Her parents no longer have any real influence over her.；influence on/upon sb./sth. 对某人、某事的影响【浅】
in favor of… 对…有利、赞成…
Not since A has there been B 倒装结构，强调写在前的倒装部分，还原为：There has not been B since A.自从A以来都没有过B。
Yet it is not the only fifth columnist. Across the world, regional platforms are competing fiercely to avoid American and Chinese dominance.
thrive v. 繁荣——【近义】flourish
sales channel 销售渠道
fifth-column n. 第五纵队，敌后内应力量、叛徒、间谍
In Japan Amazon and Rakuten, a local e-commerce veteran, are in a battle for market leadership, but Softbank also plans to merge Yahoo Japan, an online shopping site in which it has a big stake, with Line, a messaging app, to make it a three-horse race. Amazon also has designs on South Korea via a partnership with 11street, owned by a local telecoms(电信,telecommunications缩写) giant. But the market, led by Coupang, an online platform, is highly competitive. The South Korean affiliate of eBay, a big American platform, may be up for sale soon, making the contest fiercer still.
stake n. 重大利益、股份——have a stake in sth.；stakeholder 利益相关者
X-horse race n. X名强者的对抗
have designs on sb./sth. [正式]打…的鬼主意、觊觎
up for sth. 提供作…正待…
In India, though the bulk of retailing still takes place in corner shops called kirana, e-commerce is a battle between Amazon, Flipkart (owned by Walmart) and [JioMart, owned by Reliance, a conglomerate, with backing(支柱、支持) from Facebook, the American social-media giant]. The Western firms are not just vying for a share of India’s vast retail market. They also want to learn how best to entice new smartphone users in emerging markets to shop online. That means more voice search(语音搜索), because of the plethora of local languages, as well as more video, says Leigh Hopkins, Walmart’s head of international strategy.
holdings n. 股份——holdings in sth. X的股份
bulk n. 主体、大部分——the bulk of sth.
conglomerate n. 企业集团
vie for st. 争夺某事
entice v. 诱使——entice sb. into doing sth. / entice sb. to do sth.
the plethora of sth. 过量的…
Yet Amazon is strong in Mexico, where it goes head to head with Mercado Libre, and competition between the two is growing in Brazil. … So far its business in Brazil does not live up to the name. But that is a rare exception.
marketplace n. 市场
mount v. 逐步增加——e.g. The death toll continues to mount.死亡人数持续增加。
head-to-head a. 正面交锋的——go head-to-head with sb. 和某人针锋相对
live up to sth. 达到、不辜负