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🍎 Apple Delays Mass Production of 2020 Flagship iPhones
蘋果推遲2020年旗艦iPhone的量產時間
- mass production 大量生產
- flagship 旗艦產品
🧐 Apple Inc. is pushing back the production ramp-up of its flagship iPhones coming later this year by about a month, according to people familiar with the changes, as the coronavirus pandemic weakens global consumer demand and disrupts manufacturing across Asia, the heart of the consumer electronics supply chain.
亞洲為消費電子產業的核心供應鏈,根據知悉相關變化內情的人士透露,由於新冠病毒大流行削弱了全球消費需求,擾亂了亞洲各地的生產活動,蘋果公司(Apple Inc.)將推遲旗艦iPhone的加大量產時間,從原定今年後半年向後推遲約一個月。
- push back 拖延,推遲
- ramp-up 擴大/加快速度,這裡指的是加大量產。
- supply chain 供應鏈
💰 Apple's annual product refresh fuels the majority of iPhone sales for an entire year, making new phones the linchpin of a business segment that accounts for more than half of the company's total revenue.
蘋果每年的產品更新是iPhone年度銷量的主要推力,推出新款iPhone是其關鍵業務,占了蘋果公司一半以上的總收入。
- fuel 當名詞是燃料或刺激因素,這裡是動詞的「激起;刺激」之意
- linchpin 核心、中樞、關鍵
- segment 部分
- revenue 收益、收入
✏️Apple usually unveils new iPhone models in mid-September and begins selling them before the end of the month. To do so, it usually ramps up mass-production in the early summer, building up inventory around August.
蘋果通常會在9月中旬發布新款iPhone,並在9月底前開始販售,為了做到這一點,蘋果通常會在初夏加緊量產,在8月前後累積庫存。
- unveil (首次)展示、介紹、推出/爲…揭幕
- inventory 商品存貨
🧐This year, while Apple would still be building some of the new phones in the July-to-September period, the mass-production ramp-up will slide back by about a month, the people said.
知情人士表示,儘管蘋果今年仍將在7月至9月期間生產部分新款手機,但加大量產將會推遲一個月左右。
- slide back 直譯是向後滑,但在這其實跟前面提過的push back一樣,是「拖延,推遲」的意思喔
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❓Quiz: As a diehard fan of Apple products, Howard always buys the latest _____ iPhone after the company _____ their new iPhone models.
浩爾是個超級「果粉」,每年蘋果發表完新iPhone,他就必會購入一支最新的旗艦手機。
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B. flagship/unveils
C. Frozen/Into the Unknown
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