[영어기사 공부하기] 리스트의 1등이다, 영어로 어떻게 말하지?

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[기사제목] Did the Tesla Story Ever Make Sense?

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모든 학습의 후에는 반드시 내가 나중에 반드시 입으로 말해 볼 표현을 확실히 정리해야 합니다. 그렇지 않으면 밑 빠진 독에 물붓기는 같습니다!

 

* top the list of visitors : 방문자 리스트의 1등이다. 

* more or less understand : 정도의 차이는 있지만 이해는 한다.

* loosely speaking 대략 설명해 드리자면 

* as far as I can tell = as far as I know 내가 아는 한

*  We're all set to go. 우리 곧 갈 수 있다 = 확정, 준비, 곧

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# Now, some technology companies have indeed been long-term moneymaking machines. Apple and Microsoft still top the list of the most profitable U.S. corporations some four decades after the rise of personal computers.

 

* Now : 그런데

* indeed : 그런데

 * moneymaking : 흑자를 만들어내는

* top : 동사 - 1번 뜻 _ 능가하다, 2번 뜻 _ 리스트의 1등이다.

* top the list : 리스트의 1등이다. 

 

 

To top a list means to be mentioned or chosen more times than anyone or anything else.

[journalism]

Tourists from Southern Europe topped the list of visitors, representing 47 per cent of arrivals. [VERB noun]

So what happens if the Socialists top the poll but fall short of an absolute majority? [VERB noun]

Synonyms: lead, head, command, be at the top of   More Synonyms of top

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# But we more or less understand the durability of the dominance of Apple and Microsoft, and it’s hard to see how Tesla could ever achieve something similar, no matter how brilliant its leadership. Both Apple and Microsoft benefit from strong network externalities - loosely speaking, everyone uses their products because everyone else uses their products.

 

* more or less = 다소간X  => 대략, 대충, 거의 

* more or less understand : 정도의 차이는 있지만 이해는 한다.

* its leadership = leaders 경영진

* A benefits from B : B로부터 혜택을 받다.

* network externalities = network effects 외부효과

* loosely speaking 대략 설명해 드리자면 <-> strictly speaking, precisely speaking

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# In the case of Microsoft, the traditional story has been that businesses continued to buy the company’s software, even when it was panned by many people in the tech world, because it was what they were already set up to use: Products like Word and Excel may not have been great, but everyone within a given company and in others it did business with was set up to use them, had I.T. departments that knew how to deal with them, and so on. These days Microsoft has a better reputation than it used to, but as far as I can tell its market strength still reflects comfort and corporate habit rather than a perception of excellence.

 

* ~의 경우 : in the case of = with 

* 혹시 ~일까봐, 그 때를 대비해서 : in case 

* story 상황

* be panned by : 비난하다 (후라이팬으로 두드려 맞다)

* put > set > lay : 놓다 // 고정, 확정

  We're all set to go. 우리 곧 갈 수 있다 = 확정, 준비, 곧

* a given company = a particular company

* as far as I can tell = as far as I know 내가 아는 한

* refect = show

* corporate habit (타성)