21考研英语阅读《经济学人》–爱奇艺面对的流媒体大战或以双头垄断告…(2022考研英语阅读)

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improbable close friend 正确翻译应该为：不太可能亲密的朋友
根据上下文可以判断：金斯伯格是自由派成员，而评价她的安东宁是保守派的大法官，二人政治立场不同，所以说不太可能是亲密朋友，侧面也反映了对金斯伯格的评价之高～
上期翻译答案
working in the 1970s with the american civil liberties union, justice ginsburg successfullyargueda series of cases before the high court（that strategicallychipped away atthe legal wall of gender discrimination, eventually causing it to topple）.
1970年代，金斯伯格法官与美国公民自由联盟合作，在高等法院成功地打赢了一系列案件，从战略上削弱了性别歧视的法律壁垒，并最终使其崩塌。
句子主体为:justice ginsburg successfully argued a series of cases before the high court. that strategically…是对a series of cases的修饰
1.chipped away at 不停地削(或凿)，to keep breaking small pieces off sth
2.topple 打倒；推翻；颠覆，to make sb lose their position of power or authority，约等于overthrow
《本期内容》
导读
创立于2010年的视频网站爱奇艺已经习惯了外媒叫它“中国版奈飞（netflix）”。鉴于视频流媒体先驱奈飞取得的成功，这个别名也不算太差。但爱奇艺的创始人兼ceo龚宇坚称对他的公司更准确的称法应为“奈飞+”（netflix plus）。
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双语阅读
like netflix, iqiyi offers customers a deep catalogue of licensed and original content. unlike netflix, which relies almost entirely on subscription fees, iqiyi has multiple revenue streams. “membership fees”, which start from 19.8 yuan ($2.87) a month, accounted for just over half of iqiyi’s 7.4bn yuan in revenues in the second quarter.
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和奈飞一样，爱奇艺也为用户提供非常丰富的授权和原创内容。但和奈飞几乎完全依赖订阅费不同，爱奇艺有多种收入来源。每月最低19.8元的“会员费”在爱奇艺第二季度74亿元的营收中占比刚刚过半。
the rest came mainly from an online store (which sells “entertainment-related merchandise”), anascentmobile-gaming arm, an e-book business and advertisements; iqiyi operates a “freemium” model which allows stingier users to stream some content free of charge provided they agree to watch ads.
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其余收入主要来自爱奇艺商城（销售“娱乐相关商品”）、新增手游部门、电子书业务和广告；爱奇艺实行“免费增值”运营模式，允许不想付费的用户免费收看部分内容，只要他们同意观看广告。
conveniently for iqiyi, which does little business outside its home market, netflix is blocked in china, under laws that ban a lot of foreign content. but that is not to say that china is free from the streaming wars of the sort thatpits netflix against rivalslike disney, hbo (owned by at&t) and nbc universal (belonging to comcast). far from it. mr gong is battling tencent video, part of theeponymoustechnologyconglomerate.
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对于爱奇艺（海外业务寥寥）来说幸运的是，由于中国的法规禁止了大量外国内容在国内播放，奈飞被中国拒之门外。但这并不是说中国就此免于一场流媒体大战——类似于奈飞和迪士尼、hbo（at&t旗下）和nbc环球（属于康卡斯特）等竞争对手之间的那种厮杀。事实远非如此。龚宇正在与科技企业集团腾讯旗下的腾讯视频较量。
still, as westerners who pay for a few video subscriptions canattest, streaming is not azero-sum game. gigi zhou of bocom international, abroker, reckons the chinese market will soon be big enough to sustain both iqiyi and tencent video, which also has yet to make money.
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不过，流媒体并非零和游戏，同时付费订阅多个视频服务的西方人可以证明这一点。翻译划线句，在文末留言框内打卡，答案下期公布~
ms zhou expects 400m chinese to subscribe to video-streaming platforms by 2023, up from some 300m in 2019. so long as no new rival emerges, each firm could capture around 150m, helping them spread costs over more subscribers and so turn a profit.
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周喆预计，到2023年将有四亿中国人订阅视频流媒体平台，高于2019年的三亿左右。只要没有新的竞争对手出现，每家公司都能吸引到约1.5亿订户， 助它们把成本分摊给更多订户，从而实现盈利。
本文节选自：the economist（经济学人）
发布时间：2020.09
作者：经济学人
原文标题：china’s streaming wars may end with a duopolistic peace
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词汇积累
1.nascent

英 /’ns()nt/美/’nsnt/

adj. 初期的；开始存在的，发生中的

2.freemium

n. 免费增值

3.eponymous

英/ipnims/美/’pɑnms/

adj. 齐名的

4.conglomerate

英 /kn’glm()rt/美/knɡlɑmret/

n. (多种经营的)联合大企业,企业集团；聚集物;砾岩

5.attest

英/’test/美/’tst/

vt. 证明；证实；为…作证
vi. 证明；作证

6.broker

英/’brk/美/’brok/

n. (股票、外币等)经纪人;中间人,代理商；(订合同的)中人
vi. 做掮客(或中人等)；作为权力经纪人进行谈判
vt. 以中间人等身份安排

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词组搭配
1.pit sb / sth against sth 使竞争；使较量；使接受考验
2.zero-sum game 零和博弈
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写作句总结
but that is not to say that china is free from the streaming wars of the sort that pits netflix against rivals like disney, hbo (owned by at&t) and nbcuniversal (bel

onging to comcast).
结构:but that is not to say that…
但这并不是说xx
例句:but that is not to say that an experienced is sure to win.
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