阅读学习笔记：Walmart联合Microsoft竞购TikTok；Porsche推出新电动车型

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Walmart enters race for TikTok US with Microsoft partnership

概要

Walmart is partnering with Microsoft in its bid for the US operations of TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app that President Donald Trump has vowed to shut down unless it is sold to a US company by mid-November.

The world’s largest retailer said in a statement that it was confident a joint bid with the tech group would satisfy the Trump administration, which has accused the app, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, of threatening national security.

Walmart’s interest in the social media platform, which would take it far from its business of consumer goods and groceries, is a sign of the company’s aspirations to expand online as it takes on Amazon.

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Porsche presses on with electric vehicle launches as it battles Tesla

阅读学习笔记：Walmart联合Microsoft竞购TikTok；Porsche推出新电动车型

概要

Porsche will press ahead with the launch of new electric models in the US despite sales in the country dropping by a fifth during the coronavirus crisis as the carmaker steps up plans to take on Tesla.

“We haven’t got a plan to postpone anything in [America], and that’s true for other countries as well,” Oliver Blume, Porsche’s chief executive, said.

But he added that current projections were based on there being no “second wave” of Covid-19 infections.

Last year, the German luxury carmaker, which accounts for more than a quarter of parent Volkswagen’s profits, unveiled its flagship electric sports car, the Taycan, designed to compete with Tesla’s Model S.

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词汇

Partner

partner ['pɑ:tnə]

伙伴，同伴；合作者；同伙
合股人；合伙人；股东
配偶(指夫或妻)
舞伴；(网球等运动的)配手；(桥牌中的)搭档
【航海学】桅孔加固板
[美国口语](男子之间的友好称呼) 伙计
长期共同生活的伴侣(不结婚而共同生活者，或指商业或职业的合伙者，或指体育或娱乐活动的搭档)
[古语]分享者；分担者

同…合作(或合伙)；做…的伙伴；使结成一对：
Bob partnered his father well at the tournament.
在比赛中鲍勃与他父亲结为很好的一对。
使有配手(或搭档)：
Jim and Sue were partnered for the dance.
吉姆和休在跳舞场上是很好的舞伴。

合伙；合股；成为搭档：
合伙；合股；成为搭档：
He still partnered with Tom.
他仍和汤姆合作。

短语:

开展辩论的老对手
练习拳击的搭档
dormant (或 secret, silent, sleeping) partner 没有参加经营管理的合伙人；隐名股东(或合伙人)
partner for life 终身配偶(伴侣)
predominant partner “优先合伙人”(指英格兰在大不列颠的重要地位)
sparring partner
wicked partners [美国英语]两个政客的不可靠的临时结伴

Press

press¹ [pres]

压；按；揿；扳：
Press this button to start the engine.
要开动发动机就按这个按钮。
压缩；压制；(尤指用熨斗)熨平：
to press a shirt
熨衬衫
使紧贴；紧抱；紧握：
The little girl pressed her nose against the shop window.
小女孩把她的鼻子紧贴在商店橱窗上。
逼迫；强迫；强制：
to press the enemy hard
紧逼敌人
挤出(路)：
He pressed his way through the crowd.
他从人群中挤了过去。
力劝，催促；催逼；敦促：
They are pressing us to make a quick decision.
他们正在敦促我们迅速做出决定。
恳求，请求；坚持；强调：
He is still pressing his claim for compensation.
他仍然坚持要求赔偿。
压制；把…压(或捏)成型：
to press a phonograph record
压制唱片
强迫接受；硬塞：
to press a gift on a friend
硬给朋友送礼
使苦恼；使烦恼；使窘迫：
I'm very pressed for cash at the moment.
我目前手头很紧。
驱赶；推动：
The police tried hard to press the crowd back.
警察拼命把人群往后赶。
竭力推行；执行；实施：
The government was looking for a chance to press its economic programme.
政府正在寻找机会推行其经济方案。
需立即处理；紧急；使紧迫：
a world pressed by mushrooming populations
人口暴增而日趋紧迫的世界
进逼；进攻：
to press a town on all sides
从四面攻城
【举重】推举：
to press 150kg
推举150公斤
生搬硬套(或牵强附会)地使用(词语、比喻等)
[古语]拥挤；推进
[废语]=oppress
[美国俚语](在大街或马路上)闲逛
[美国俚语](警察在辖区内)巡逻
[美国俚语](尤指政治家与选民)握手；讨好选民

压；挤；按；推：
Since air has weight, it must press down on the surface of the earth.
既然空气有重量，它就必定压向地球的表面。
催逼；紧迫；敦促：
The matter does not press.
这件事不急。
熨烫；被压平：
This silk dress presses well.
这件丝绸连衣裙很容易烫平。
奋勇前进，突进；赶上前：
Pedestrians press along the pavements.
行人们在人行道上熙熙攘攘走去。
变得紧急(或紧迫)：
Time presses.
时间紧迫。
竭力推行；竭力要求：
pressing for eight planes rather than six
竭力要求八架飞机而不是六架
挤拢，拥挤：
The girl pressed close to her mother.
小女孩紧紧地挤在母亲身边。
【篮球】紧逼，做紧逼动作
【高尔夫球】长挥击球过猛