字典解释
“cut-throat”的字面意思是“切喉”,常常用来表示“冷酷无情的”,是个充满画面感的常见单词。当我们想描述竞争非常激烈时,除了用 fierce, tough, severe 之外,还可以用到 cut-throat,强调竞争的残酷无情,为达到目标而不择手段。
“cut-throat”的使用比较简单,常和表示领域(industry business world)以及竞争和价格的词搭配时使用,我们可以用cut-throat描述某一行业领域的竞争激烈。
最近关于锤子科技的报道不断,其中一个关键点是智能手机行业竞争激烈,可以说
The competition in the smartphone idustry is cut-throat.
或者
The smartphone business is cut-throat and relentless(这里的relentless和cut-throat是同义表达,放在一起起到强调作用)
例句
Ride-hailing, like many online businesses, is a cut-throat, winner-takes-all market: Didi itself is the product of a 2015 merger of two local firms.
Once state support for AT&T’s monopoly status was removed, the phone market became cut-throat
Amazon’s cut-throat pricing has lowered online inflation by about one percentage point.
翻译练习
在这个竞争激烈的世界,只有适者才能生存
In this cut-throat world, only the best candidate could survive.
参考翻译:
In this cut-throat world, only the fittest will survive.