NPR 팟캐스트 영어회화 원어민영어 Day 5

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They put a very diplomatic public face on it.

*ironclad 철갑선, 밀봉된, 강력한, 견고한
No matter who's in the White House, alliances with Washington will remain ironclad.

*say something under one’s breath 작은 소리로[소곤소곤] …을 말하다 

in terms of either saying out loud or saying under their breaths

*reservation 의구심, 꺼리낌

You will change your mind if you have any reservations.

President Zelenskyy's government is reaching out privately to Trump's team. 

*precarious 위태로운, 불안정한, 불확실한

The U.S. won't give its full backing at this very precarious time for Israel's security.

*brinksmanship 극한 상황에서의 교섭이나 정치 전략

They all know who the key players in Congress are. 

*impoverished 가난한, 빈곤한, 빈약한

*gobble up 게걸스럽게 먹어 치우다. (=swallow up, eat up) 

Amazon is 30. Here's how a book store gobbled up all of e-commerce

*incorporate (법인체를) 설립[창립]하다

The company was incorporated as Cadabra. Inc.

*payee (금전·수표의) 수취인[수령인]

Amazon is among NPR‘s financial supporters and payees to distribute some of our content.

He really wanted to get in on the dot-com boom.

*be up to ~하고 있다

What was he up to back in 1994?

*wispy 얇고 가는, 머리카락이 부드러운

Picture a guy with wispy hair.

*a leg up on 도움이나 이점을 얻다. 우위를 점하다

It got a leg up on sales tax for a long time as an online seller.

Amazon put a laser focus on Two-day and then same day shipping.

You could’ve said everything.

Amazon is now the second largest private employer in the US, right behind Walmart .

It’s knees are creaking a little bit, it’s feeling a little bloated.

*scale back 축소하다 

It’s now scaling back.

Really big picture Amazon does face is a federal anti-monopoly lawsuit.

*stave off 비키다 피하다 모면하다

Is it able to stave off the fake reviews, fake products, rising prices, frustrations with search, and stay ahead of competition.

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Amazon is 30. Here's how a book store gobbled up all of ecommerce

30 years ago today, Jeff Bezos founded an online bookstore in his garage.

What Bezos eventually named Amazon is now one of the largest companies on earth — one of a few to be worth $2 trillion.

Alina Selyukh covers the company on NPR’s Business Desk. She talked with NPR’s Andrew Mambo about how Amazon gobbled up much of the internet to become “the everything store.”

 

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Amazon is 30. Here's how a book store gobbled up all of e-commerce