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今天的句子:

Accusing the U.S. Postal Service of being Amazon’s delivery boy is kind of funny, since delivering things is the business of the post office. But the idea that Amazon is getting a subsidy is not original to Trump.

思考题:

what is the opinion of Trump?

词汇突破:

1.Accuse : 指责 accuse A of B 指责A是B

2. U.S. Postal Service 美国邮政服务

3. delivering things 快递的事情

4. subsidy 补贴

5. original 原创

第一句:

Accusing the U.S. Postal Service of being Amazon’s delivery boy is kind of funny, since delivering things is the business of the post office.

主干识别:

Accusing the U.S. Postal Service of being Amazon’s delivery boy 

(动名词做主语) is kind of funny

切分成分:

since delivering things is the business of the post office 状语

参考译文: 指责美国邮政充当亚马逊的快递员是一件搞笑的事,因为快递东西本来就是邮政的业务。

第二句:

But the idea that Amazon is getting a subsidy is not original to Trump.

主干识别:

the idea is not original to Trump

这个想法不是特朗普的原创;

切分成分:

Amazon is getting a subsidy

亚马逊在获取(政府)补贴。

参考译文:认为亚马逊在获取(政府)补贴的想法并不是特朗普的原创。

思考题:

what is the opinion of Trump?

答案:Amazon is getting a subsidy 

明天的句子:

Data on who holds the anonymous currencies are hard to find,” Hannah Kuchler explains in the Financial Times, “but Uphold, a virtual currency wallet service that does background checks on its users, says 75 percent are men, while Coin Dance, which tracks statistics on the bitcoin community, found 97 percent of engagement was from men.

思考题:

How can Uphold get the data of the result?