外刊晨读 | 谷歌拒绝特朗普的社交软件“Truth Social”上架
Trump’s Truth Social barred from Google Play store over content moderation concerns
【知识点】
Truth Social是特朗普被Twitter和Facebook等社交网站封杀后,自己找团队研发的一款社交软件。
bar这个小词,即可以做名词,也可以做动词。名词时,意思是“条,棒,杆;酒吧,专柜”;进而引申出动词时的词意“阻挡,禁止”。
表“禁止”的动词还有:ban,forbid,prohibit
over在这里表原因,可替换为because of;due to;on account of等表原因的短语。
Key Points
1. Donald Trump’s Truth Social is not available on the Google Play store.
2. The restriction means that 44% of smartphone users in the U.S. cannot download the app.
3. Google says that the app violates the Play store’s standards for content moderation, according to Axios.
available:可获得的;可购得的;可找到的。这是一个很好用的词汇,当你要表达“(of things 东西) that you can get, buy or find ”时,即可以使用这个形容词。
注意外刊是如何围绕一个语义选择用词的:从一开始的barred from...over content moderation concerns,到not available,the restriction进而cannot download,后面又给出理由violate standards。这些用词都是围绕“谷歌不让Truth Social”上架这个核心语意展开的。大家在写英语作文时,也要特别留意这种围绕一个核心语意使用多个用词。
Truth Social, the would-be Twitter competitor created by Trump Media and Technology Group, remains unavailable on the Google Play store.
would-be 想要成为…的。a would-be writer is someone who wants to be a writer, 因此,这里的the would-be Twitter competitor即the one that wants to be Twitter`s competitor.
remain unavailable这个表达,一是要注意remain后跟形容词,因此这时的remain是系动词的用法。其次,unavailable是available的反义词。而available则是动词“avail”加后缀“-able”的合成词。
avail是英语动词中的一个高频动词,也可以做名词。
做动词时,是“make use of利用”的正式用法,地道搭配是avail oneself of sth。
例如:
Guests are encouraged to avail themselves of the full range of hotel facilities. 旅馆鼓励旅客充分利用各种设施。
做名词时,要掌握下面这个地道搭配的用法:to little/no avail,意思是“with little or no success 没有什么效果;不成功”。
比如:
The doctors tried everything to keep him alive but to no avail.医生千方百计想使他活下来,但无济于事。
His efforts were to no avail. 他徒劳无功。
I apologized repeatedly, but to little avail. 我一再道歉,但丝毫没有奏效。
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