おはようございます。KANOです。本日はこちらの記事から。
Amazonはあからさまな転売価格と送料詐欺が多くて注文頻度が下がりました。でも楽天はサイトデザインが受けつけないんだよなあw
behemoth
意味 [C]巨大で強力なもの.
Amazon was already an economic behemoth before the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
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聖書由来の言葉でした。文中で類推できましたがこれは覚えたいなー。
ramp up
意味 〈生産などが〉増える; スピードを上げる.
But when many Americans ramped up their shopping from home, the company saw explosive growth.
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come off
意味 (くだけて)〈計画· 旅行などが〉行われる; うまくいく; 〈演技などが〉成功する; 〈冗談などが〉受ける （[!]しばしば様態の[副]を伴う） .
And while Amazon doesn’t come off as quite a hero, the book is much more about the American economy and American economic history through an Amazon lens.
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come offってたくさん意味があるんですね…その中でも一番この文意に近いのはこれかなと。
disparities
意味 格差
I especially wanted to write about it after Trump got elected; it was so clear just what a big role these regional disparities had in Trump’s election.
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concentration
意味 集中
The regional concentration of wealth in our country is very closely tied to the concentration of our economy in certain companies.
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prosperity
意味 繁栄
And I wanted to focus on Washington because it was so clear that Washington was another winner-take-all city that had been completely transformed by this kind of hyper-prosperity.
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lo and behold
意味 (おどけて) （そして） 何と驚くべきことに; (皮肉で) それ見たことか （[!][接]の後や文頭などで挿入的に用いる） .
And then, lo and behold, they go ahead and pick Washington as their second headquarters.
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residents
意味 住民、居住者
All these people, longtime residents, mostly longtime black residents, being displaced by the thousands.
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inevitably
意味 必然的に
Is there an original sin that sort of led to where we are, or is it just that we went from a goods-based to a tech-based economy, and this just sort of inevitably happened?
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utterly
意味 完全に, まったく, すっかり （[!]否定的な意味の語や感情を表す語と主に用いる）
They feel this sense of, “That is not me. In no way am I those people. Those people cannot possibly be in the same party as me, because they’re utterly removed from my experience.”
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Coalition
意味 [U] （政党· 団体が） 連合 [提携] すること
The Democratic Party is now increasingly becoming what I think of as sort of the Amazon Coalition.
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