跟着KK开始学习何凯文每日一句!用“独角兽”来形容一家成立不到10年、价值至少10亿美元的初创企业,以表达一种稀有和神奇的力量的混合,如今,独角兽并不罕见。如果你能从开始坚持到结束,对于每一句能够融会贯通,那么你就赢了!下面文都考研带给大家何凯文每日一句:
“独角兽”已不罕见:2021何凯文每日一句第27句
今天的句子:
In November 2013, venture capitalist Aileen Lee published an article coining the term “unicorn” to describe a startup that’s less than a decade old and worth at least $1bn. She chose the word carefully, to convey a mix of rarity and magic power. What Lee seemingly didn’t anticipate was that just a few years later it would have become a misnomer: these days there’s nothing rare about unicorns.
思考题:
At present, the term “unicorn” ___.
A.aptly captures the traits of tech startup
B.has been too overused to be accurate
C.is known to be a chosen word by linguists
D.has been used wrongly by entrepreneurs
句子解析:
句:
In November 2013, venture capitalist Aileen Lee published an article coining the term “unicorn” to describe a startup that’s less than a decade old and worth at least $1bn.
参考译文:2013年11月,风险投资家艾琳·李(Aileen Lee)发表文章,首创“独角兽”一词来描述成立不到十年、市值超过10亿美元的初创企业。
第二句:
She chose the word carefully, to convey a mix of rarity(稀有,这是大纲词汇!) and alchemy(魔力).
参考译文:她谨慎地选用了这个词,来同时表达稀有和“魔力”。
第三句:
What Lee seemingly didn’t anticipate (主语从句)was that// 表语从句来了:just a few years later(状语)it would have become a flagrant (臭名远扬的)misnomer(不恰当的说法):解释来了: these days there’s nothing rare about unicorns.
参考译文:但李似乎没有预料到,仅仅几年后,“独角兽”就变成了一个极其不当的误称:现在独角兽已经一点都不罕见了。
思考题解析:
A. aptly captures the traits of tech startup
(恰如其分地描述了科技初创公司的特点)
A选项错误。
刚好相反,已经不准确了。
B. has been too overused to be accurate (已经因过度使用而不准确)
B选项正确
对应的就是最后一句:
a misnomer: these days there’s nothing rare about unicorns.
虽然你不认识misnomer
但你应该之后冒号后的内容!也就是不准确了!
虽然你可能觉得overuse 没有对应,但是这个就是最 佳了!
C. is known to be a chosen word by linguist (被认为是语言学家选择的词)
C选项错误。文章也没有谈到
D. has been used wrongly by entrepreneurs (被企业家错误地使用)
D选项错误。文中没有谈到!
文章来源背景和来源:
For our overhyped, overvalued tech startups, soon the reckoning will come
对于炒作过度、过于高估的科技初创公司来说,清算很快就会到来
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/03/overhyped-overvalued-tech-startups
背景:“独角兽”一词最早由美国投资人艾琳·李用来分类估值10亿美元以上的初创企业。随后这个新概念迅速流行于硅谷,并席卷全球。虽然这个词刚开始带有“稀缺”的意思,但到了现在独角兽企业不再少见,2019年,就有142家新公司达到10亿美元估值的标准,令独角兽的总数膨胀至500家,总体估值2万亿美元。这让“独角兽”一词显得非常不恰当。初创企业的普遍高估值显著表明,目前国际经济又一次进入非理性繁荣。也许对于工资上涨停滞的普通人来说,这听起来有些不可思议。但商业界实际上现金泛滥。在超过一半未偿政府债券负利率的全球背景下,投资者轻而易举地就把钱投给了硅谷那些闪亮的新企业。所以,我们现在常常看到非常荒谬的高估值。。
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