petrify | 词根
petr-,petro- = stone, 表示“石”。
后缀
-fy,-ify 缀于名词或形容词后，构成表示“使成…”“…化”“作成…”等意思的动词
石化 引申为吓傻，惊呆 |
They were petrified by the wreckage of the plane after the crash.
飞机失事后，他们被飞机残骸惊呆了 |
spring up | 兴起 to start to exist suddenly:
Thousands of new businesses have sprung up in the past couple of years. | |
undercut | 1. to charge less than a competitor:
Big supermarkets can undercut all rivals, especially small family-owned shops.
They claim to undercut their competitors by at least five percent.
If our two companies were to join forces we could undercut all our competitors.
2. to damage something or to make it fail:
He suspected it was an attempt to undercut his authority. | Brick- and rigortar companies were petrified that a dot.com would spring up and undercut them. |
contestable | 可争的 | |
prototypical | n. prototype
原型的 | |
mammoth | adj. extremely large
n. 猛犸象 引申为庞然大物 | |
anathema | something that is strongly disliked or disapproved of
something that is considered completely wrong and offensive
区分：
1. anesthetic
2. anemia | Competition is also reaching deep into areas of the economy where competition has traditionally been anathema.
But various studies show that alcohol is anathema for restorative sleep. |
leverage | 除了杠杆 还有影响力power的意思
power to influence people and get the results you want:
If the United Nations had more troops in the area, it would have greater leverage. | It turned out, however, that existing airlines had sufficient pricing leverage and power to keep out most new airlines. |
first-string | 一流的，优秀的
首发的
A：I mostly sit on the bench all day.
B：That's because you got to earn your way on to first string.
我通常都是坐冷板凳从头坐到尾而已 那是因为你得付出努力才能打首发啊。 | All told, these mammoth financial institutions provided the base of capital that the starup needed to be a first-string competitor. |
plethora | but a plethora of Online real estate brokers offering lower commissions or fixed fee deals have begun to drive down the price of real estate transactions
n. 过剩；过多；[医]多血症 | But if you can get it just right you unlock a whole plethora of benefits.
但你必须学会这点，因为你会得到非常多的好处
So, the Earth is home to a plethora of wildlife, with more being discovered every day. |
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