考研The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly f

荷兰巨头爱思唯尔（Elsevier）声称发表了世界上25%的科学论文，去年盈利超过9亿英镑，而仅英国大学在2016年就花了2.1亿英镑让研究人员能够公开发表论文

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me

数字经济巨头们的力量和雄心是惊人的——亚马逊刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购高档食品连锁店Whole Foods，但两年前Facebook支付了更高的价格收购WhatsApp me

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Several opponents have recently emerged, ranging from rival tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon to small bodies representing authors and publishers across the world.

最近出现了一些反对者，从微软和亚马逊等技术巨头的竞争对手，到代表世界各地作家和出版商的小型机构。

2011年12月阅读原文

高考Restarting antitrust for the information age will not be easy but if govemments don't wants a data oconomy by a few giants, they must act soon.

在信息时代重新启动反垄断并非易事，但如果政府不想让少数几家巨头实施数据垄断，他们必须尽快采取行动。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级Within the wider business world, a man who liked to see himself as a hippy （嬉皮士）, permanently in revolt against big companies, ended up being hailed by many of those corporate giants as one of the greatest chief executives of his time

在更广阔的商业世界里，一个喜欢把自己看作嬉皮士的人(嬉皮士）, 长期反对大公司，最终被许多公司巨头誉为他那个时代最伟大的首席执行官之一

2012年12月阅读原文

六级The Ebro Delta, in Spain, famous as a battleground during the Spanish civil War, is now the setting for a different contest, one that is pitting rice farmers against two enemies: the rice-eating giant apple snail, and rising sea levels.

西班牙的埃布罗三角洲在西班牙内战期间曾是一个著名的战场，现在它正在进行一场不同的竞赛，一场是让稻农与两个敌人较量：吃大米的巨型苹果蜗牛和海平面上升。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

高考Now similar concerns ares being raised by the giants that deal in data, the oil of the digital age.

如今，数字时代的石油数据巨头也提出了类似的担忧。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级Electronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish (翻新) old electronic components and parts into new products.

过去几年，百思买（Best Buy）和三星（Samsung）等电子巨头提供了旨在翻新的电子垃圾回收计划(翻新) 将旧的电子元器件改造成新产品。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级At the same time, this sea-water also kills off the greedy giant apple snail, an introduced pest that feeds on young rice plants.

与此同时，海水还杀死了贪婪的巨型苹果蜗牛，这是一种以水稻幼苗为食的外来害虫。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

考研The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giants.

这项工作应用于医疗保健的潜力非常巨大，但也可能导致科技巨头的权力进一步集中。

2018年考研阅读原文

考研The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giant.

这项工作应用于医疗保健的潜力非常巨大，但也可能导致这家科技巨头的权力进一步集中。

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.

最近在埃及海岸附近发现的巨大Zohr气田最终将对地中海地区和欧洲的定价产生影响，而在许多其他地方，尤其是阿根廷，也有着巨大的开发潜力。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考However, just before the annual giant vegetable competitions, an enormous rabbit begins terrorising the town.

然而，就在一年一度的巨型蔬菜比赛之前，一只巨大的兔子开始恐吓小镇。

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考And the appearance of new-born giants suggests that newcomers can make waves, too.

新生巨人的出现表明，新来者也可以掀起波澜。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级For now, the giant apple snail's presence in Europe is limited to the Ebro Delta.

目前，这种巨型苹果蜗牛在欧洲的存在仅限于埃布罗三角洲。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

四级The article cites the global giant Procter and Gamble as an example, saying a real innovative company should develop an innovation culture and use it as a primary tool for success.

文章以全球巨头宝洁（Procter and Gamble）为例，称真正的创新型公司应该发展创新文化，并将其作为取得成功的主要工具。

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

考研He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like "children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.

他引用了古典经济巨人阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔（Alfred Marshall）的话，将这种金融上的不耐烦描述为“孩子们从布丁上摘下李子，马上吃掉”，而不是把它们放在一边等着最后吃掉。

2019年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级The overthrown giants of Wall Street took the biggest knock, with average pay cuts of 38% and median bonuses of zero

被推翻的华尔街巨头遭受了最大的打击，平均工资削减38%，奖金中值为零

2013年6月阅读原文

六级The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

这家零售巨头表示，今年糟糕的财务表现促使其开始实施4亿美元的成本削减措施。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研But that message did not play well with many in Iowa, where wind turbines dot the fields and provide 36 percent of the state's electricity generation – and where tech giants like Microsoft are being attracted by the availability of clean energy to power t

但这一信息在爱荷华州的许多人中并不受欢迎。在爱荷华州，风力涡轮机遍布农田，提供了该州36%的发电量。在爱荷华州，像微软这样的科技巨头正被清洁能源的可用性所吸引

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考The giants' success has benefited consumers.

巨人的成功使消费者受益。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研The product they're selling is data, and we, the users, convert our lives to data for the benefit of the digital giants.

他们销售的产品是数据，而我们，用户，为了数字巨头的利益，将我们的生活转化为数据。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级The overthrown giants of Wall Street took the biggest knock, with average pay cuts of 38% and median bonuses of zero.

被推翻的华尔街巨头遭受了最大的打击，平均工资削减38%，奖金中值为零。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级I began working on my latest book, The Buried giant, in 2004.

2004年，我开始写我的新书《被埋葬的巨人》。

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

高考Such situations have led to calls for the tech giants to be broken up.

这种情况导致了要求拆分科技巨头的呼声。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders, ants building bridges with their bodies and other details.

梅里安对巨型食鸟蜘蛛、蚂蚁用身体搭桥和其他细节的看法是正确的。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研That would be the people who buy advertising from them-and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.

这将是那些从他们那里购买广告的人，而Facebook和谷歌这两个虚拟巨头主宰着数字广告，对所有其他媒体和娱乐公司不利。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.

描绘一只巨大的蜘蛛吞食一只蜂鸟可能不是淑女式的，但令人惊讶的是，当梅里安在18世纪初这样做时，没有人反对。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级Within the wider business world, a man who liked to see himself as a hippy （嬉皮士）, permanently in revolt against big companies, ended up being hailed by many of those corporate giants as one of the greatest chief executives of his time.

在更广阔的商业世界里，一个喜欢把自己看作嬉皮士的人(嬉皮士）, 长期反对大公司，最终被许多公司巨头誉为他那个时代最伟大的首席执行官之一。

2012年12月阅读原文

六级A prime example Schweitzer and his colleagues cite is the 2004 collapse of energy-trading giant Enron, where managers used financial incentives to motivate salesmen to meet specific revenue goals.

Schweitzer和他的同事举的一个主要例子是2004年能源交易巨头安然公司的倒闭。在安然公司，管理者利用财务激励来激励销售人员实现特定的收入目标。

2012年6月阅读原文

四级Lisa, our little company, and it is little compared to the giants in the city

莉莎，我们的小公司，和这个城市的巨人相比简直微不足道

2013年6月听力原文

四级Lisa, our little company, and it is little compared to the giants in the city.

莉莎，我们的小公司，和这个城市的巨人相比，它是微不足道的。

2013年6月听力原文

四级It is well positioned to compete with the giants.

它处于与巨人竞争的有利位置。

2013年6月听力原文

考研And a survey conducted for BuzzFeed News found 44 percent of Facebook users rarely or never trust news from the media giant.

为BuzzFeed News进行的一项调查发现，44%的Facebook用户很少或从不相信这家媒体巨头的新闻。

2018年考研阅读原文

考研Protests have erupted over construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope( ' , TMT), a giant observatory that promises to revolutionize humanity’s view of the cosmos.

抗议活动已经爆发，抗议建造30米望远镜（TMT），这是一座承诺彻底改变人类宇宙观的巨型天文台。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研Protests have erupted over construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, a giant observatory that promises to revolutionize humanity's view of the cosmos.

抗议活动已经爆发，抗议建造30米望远镜，这是一个巨大的天文台，有望彻底改变人类对宇宙的看法。

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级But Monsanto, the agricultural giant, insists it has a patent on the kind of genetically modified seeds Bowman used―and that the patent continues to all of the progeny (后代)of those seeds.

但农业巨头孟山都坚称，它拥有鲍曼使用的那种转基因种子的专利，而且该专利将继续适用于所有后代(后代)那些种子的种子。

2013年12月阅读原文

高考Data can strengthen giants' controlling position.

数据可以加强巨人的控制地位。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

考研The use of privacy law to curb the tech giants in this instance feels slightly maladapted.

在这种情况下，利用隐私法来遏制科技巨头的做法感觉有点不合时宜。

2018年考研阅读原文

高考Data giants' technology is very expensive.

数据巨头的技术非常昂贵。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

六级Just a few decades ago, Asia's two giants were stagnating(停滞不前) under faulty economic ideologies.

就在几十年前，亚洲的两大巨头还在停滞不前(停滞不前) 在错误的经济意识形态下。

2012年6月阅读原文

六级Just earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favor of legislation that would stop grocery giants from unfair trading practices that result in overproduction, thus creating waste.

就在今年早些时候，欧洲议会投票赞成立法，阻止食品杂货巨头采取不公平的贸易做法，导致生产过剩，从而造成浪费。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

考研And a survey conducted for Buzz Feed News found 44 percent of Facebook users rarely or never trust news from the media giant.

为Buzz Feed News进行的一项调查发现，44%的Facebook用户很少或从不相信这家媒体巨头的新闻。

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级After revelations by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 that the government both cozied up to ( 讨 好 ) certain tech companies and hacked into others to gain access to private data on an enormous scale, tech giants began to recognize the United States government as a hostile actor.

2013年，前国家安全局承包商爱德华·斯诺登披露，政府都讨好（讨 好 ) 某些科技公司并大规模入侵其他公司以获取私人数据，科技巨头开始认识到美国政府是一个敌对行为者。

2017年12月英语六级考试真题（卷三）

六级The Ebro Delta, in Spain, famous as a battleground during the Spanish Civil War, is now the setting for a different contest, one that is pitting rice farmers against two enemies: the rice-eating giant apple snail, and rising sea levels.

西班牙的埃布罗三角洲是西班牙内战期间著名的战场，现在是一场不同的比赛的背景，这场比赛让稻农与两个敌人对抗：吃米的巨型苹果蜗牛和不断上升的海平面。

2018 年 6 月6级真题第1套

六级And yet there are substantial sectors of the vast U. S. economy-from giant companies like Coca-Cola to mom-and-pop restaurant operators in Miami-for which the weak dollar is most excellent news.

然而，从可口可乐（Coca-Cola）等大公司到迈阿密的夫妻餐厅运营商，在庞大的美国经济中，有许多领域的美元疲软是最好的消息。

2008年6月英语六级真题

六级Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $100 billion.

如今，它是一家价值1000亿美元的大型广告公司。

2007年6月英语六级真题

六级In Ludwigshafen, German chemicals giant BASF runs an interconnected complex of more than 200 chemical factories, where heat produced by one chemical process is used to power the next.

在路德维希港，德国化工巨头巴斯夫经营着一个由200多家化工厂组成的相互连接的综合体，其中一个化学过程产生的热量被用来为下一个提供动力。

2007年12月英语六级真题

六级Frustrated by these restrictions, Subra left her job in 1981, created her own company and has devoted the past two decades to helping people fight back against giant industrial polluters.

由于对这些限制感到失望，苏布拉于1981年离职，创建了自己的公司，并在过去的二十年里致力于帮助人们反击巨大的工业污染者。

2009年12月英语六级真题

四级The first full-scale giant recycling plants are perhaps fifteen years away.

第一个全面的大型回收工厂可能还有15年的时间。

1993年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Within the wider business world, a man who liked to see himself as a hippy (嬉皮士), permanently in revolt against big companies, ended up being hailed by many of those corporate giants as one of the greatest chief executives of his time.

在更广阔的商业世界里，一个喜欢把自己看作嬉皮士的人(嬉皮士), 长期反抗大公司，最终被许多企业巨头誉为他那个时代最伟大的首席执行官之一。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题（2）

四级The overthrown business giants of Wall Street took the biggest knock, with average pay cuts of 38% and median bonuses of zero.

被推翻的华尔街商业巨头受到的打击最大，平均减薪38%，奖金中位数为零。

2013年6月大学英语四级考试真题(第1套)

四级” Economist Bryan Caplan, who is writing a book about education, agrees: “It’s a giant waste of resources that will continue as long as the subsidies continue.

经济学家Bryan Caplan正在写一本关于教育的书，他对此表示赞同：“只要补贴继续下去，这将是对资源的巨大浪费。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

四级David Palmer，an analyst at UBS，a bank，says smaller fast- food chains in America，such as Jack in the Box and Carl’s Jr. ，have been hit particularly hard in this downturn because they are competing with the global giant McDonald^, which increased spending on advertising by more than 7% last year as others cut back.

瑞银（UBS）分析师戴维·帕尔默（David Palmer）表示，美国较小的快餐连锁店，如Jack in the Box和Carl's Jr.，在这场经济衰退中受到的打击尤其严重，因为它们正在与全球巨头麦当劳竞争。去年，随着其他公司的削减，麦当劳在广告上的支出增加了7%以上。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第1套)

考研In general , our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic ( 官僚主义的)management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog in the machinery.

总的来说，我们的社会正在成为一个由官僚（官僚主义的)在管理中，人成为机器中一个润滑良好的小齿轮。

1993年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams.

很少有大型技术的创造能像大坝一样吸引人们的想象力。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Several giant dam projects threaten to do more harm than good.

几个巨型水坝项目可能弊大于利。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Turkey’s bid for First World status includes the giant Ataturk Dam.

土耳其争取第一世界地位的项目包括阿塔图尔克大坝。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left -- all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.

例如，阿斯旺大坝阻止了尼罗河洪水，但剥夺了埃及洪水留下的肥沃淤泥——所有这些都是为了换取一个巨大的疾病库，这个水库现在充满了淤泥，几乎无法发电。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研The existence of the giant clouds was virtually required for the Big Bang, first put forward in the 1920s, to maintain its reign as the dominant explanation of the cosmos.

巨型云的存在实际上是20世纪20年代首次提出的宇宙大爆炸所必需的，以保持其作为宇宙主要解释的统治地位。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题