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While the handset sector used to be brutal (think of the rise and fall of BlackBerry), and is still very competitive for cheaper phones, at the high end Appleisascendant, with a revenue market share of over 60% in America and a dominant position in operating systems there.

虽然手机行业曾经非常残酷（想想黑莓的兴衰），而且低端手机市场竞争仍然非常激烈，但在高端市场上，苹果正在崛起，它在美国的收入市场份额超过60%，并在操作系统方面占据主导地位。

1.handset: The handset of a telephone is the part that you hold next to your face in order to speak and listen

2.ascendant: becoming more powerful or popular

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联邦快递表示，其大部分服务明年的运费将平均上涨5.9%。运费上涨的速度快于近10年来的水平，这导致网络电商提高商品价格或寻找其他方式抵消成本上升的压力。

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FedEx Corp. on Monday said shipping rates would go up an average of 5.9% next year across most of its services, the first time in eight years that it or rival United Parcel Service Inc. has strayed above annual increases of 4.9%. UPS is expected to release its rate increase for 2022 in the coming weeks. The two carriers have moved inlockstepwith their annual price increases since at least 2010, according to Transportation Insight LLC, a supply-chain management and logistics firm.

翻译划线句，长按文末小程序码打卡，答案下期公布~联邦包裹公司预计将在接下来的几周公布2022年的运费提价计划。据供应链管理和物流公司运输洞察说，至少从2010年开始，这两家运输公司每年的价格上涨步伐都是一致的。

The move away from a 4.9% annual increase shows how thepricing powerhas shifted to carriers like FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service, which have seen demand for their shipping capacity and home delivery soar during the pandemic. The higher-than-normal rate hike also is a sign of inflationreverberatingacross theglobal supply chain.

价格浮动增长率超过4.9%表明定价权已转移到联邦快递、联合包裹和美国邮政服务等快递公司手中。疫情期间已显示出，社会对这些公司的运力和送货上门需求大幅上升。服务费价格上涨幅度高于正常水平，也是通胀影响全球供应链的一个标志。

“The carriers are incrediblybullishand


confident that they are holding all the cards and that they have the leverage to squeeze more margin out of their customers than ever before,” said Trevor Outman, co-chief executive of Shipware LLC, a shipping consulting firm.

航运咨询公司Shipware LLC的联合首席执行官特雷弗·奥特曼表示:“承运商非常乐观，他们相信自己掌握着所有的主动权，有能力从客户那里获取比以前都更多的利润。”

FedEx and UPS had dropped hints to shippers that the annual rate increase would be higher than before. Previously, some shippers would negotiate clauses into contracts that their annual rate increase would come in around 2.5% to 3%, half of the public rates. In recent weeks some large shippers have received contract renewals that would cap their annual increase at 5%, according to shipping consultants.

联邦快递和联合包裹此前曾向托运人暗示过运费年涨幅将比以前高。之前，一些托运人会在合同中加入谈判条款，要求其年运费涨幅约为2.5%至3%，是公共运费涨幅的一半。最近几周，据运输顾问说，最近几周，一些大型运输公司收到了续约合同，将其服务费的年涨幅限制在


了5%。

FedEx’s new rates will go into effect Jan. 3. They will rise an average of 5.9% for FedEx Express shipments in the U.S. and on FedEx’s Ground and Home Delivery service, whichskewmore heavily toward e-commerce shipments.

联邦快递的新费率将于1月3日生效。联邦快递在美国的运费以及联邦快递的陆运及本土快递服务费平均将上涨5.9%，后者更专注于电商货运。

本文节选自：The Wall Street Journal（华尔街日报）

发布时间：2021.09.21

词汇积累

1.lockstep

英 /'l?kstep/美/'lɑkst?p/

n. 因循守旧；密集连锁的步伐；步伐一致

2.reverberate

英/r?'v??b?re?t/美/r?'v?b?'ret/

vi. 回响;回荡

vt. 使反响; 使回荡; 使反射

adj. 反响(性)的;反射(性)的

n. 反射器;反射灯;反射炉

3.bullish

英/'b?l??/美/'b?l??/

adj. 公牛的；公牛般的；股票行情看涨的, 做多头的；(对未来)抱有信心的, 乐观的

4.skew

英 /skju?/美/skju/

n. 歪斜；斜交

adj. 斜交的；歪斜的

词组搭配

1.pricing power 定价权

2.global supply chain 全球供应链

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UPS is expected to release its rate increase for 2022 in the coming weeks.

结构:sb. is expected to do sth.

某人预计将做某事

例句:This student is expected to become a business leader in the near future.

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