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The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing -- Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5bn, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn’t have any physical product at all. What WhatsApp offered Facebook was an intricate and finely detailed web of its users’ friendships and social lives.
power“权力”，也可以充当动词“供以动力，使...有力量”；ambition“野心”；giant“巨头”；digital economy“数字经济”；astonishing“惊人的，令人惊讶的”；announce“宣布”；purchase“购买”；upmarket“质优价高的，的”；grocery chain“食品杂货连锁店”；acquire“收购”，名词形式acquisition，merger and acquisition“兼并和收购”；messaging名词“消息传送”；physical product“实体产品”；intricate“复杂的”；detailed“详细的”。
Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through. Even without knowing what was in the messages, the knowledge of who sent them and to whom was enormously revealing and still could be. What political journalist, what party whip, would not want to know the makeup of the WhatsApp groups in which Theresa May’s enemies are currently plotting? It may be that the value of Whole Foods to Amazon is not so much the 460 shops it owns, but the records of which customers have purchased what.
promise“承诺”，promise to do“承诺做某事”，make a promise“做出承诺”；link... to...“把...和...联系起来”；identity“身份”；break the promise“打破承诺”即“违背诺言”；deal“协议”；go through“通过”；enormously“非常，在极大程度上”；revealing“揭露性的”；political journalist“娱乐记者”；whip可以表示“在议会中负责组织工作的议员”，party whip“党派议员”；makeup“组成”；plot“密谋，策划”；not so much“与其”；record“记录”；which customers have purchased what“哪些顾客购买了什么东西”。
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