✸✸Technology service providers can create a new digital platform thatfrees uporganizations tofocus ondifferentiated servicesinstead oftraditional ITplumbing.

1) free up 释放;开放 （市场、经济或体制）

This means we can free up reporters so they have more time to think.

这意味着我们可以将记者从撰写新闻的工作中解放出来，让他们有更多时间思索。

2) focus on 英 [ˈfəukəs ɔn]   美 [ˈfokəs ɑn]  致力于;使聚焦于;对（某事或做某事）予以注意;把…作为兴趣中心

The talks will focus on economic development of the region.

会谈将着重讨论该地区的经济发展。

3) instead of 英 [inˈsted ɔv]   美 [ɪnˈstɛd ʌv]  （用…）代替…， （是…）而不是…， （用…）而不用…

The farmers will be paid for their grain in cash, instead of IOUs.

农民卖粮，将以现金支付，而不是白条了。

4) plumbing 英 [ˈplʌmɪŋ]   美 [ˈplʌmɪŋ]  n.水管装置;水暖工的工作;管道工程 v.用铅锤测量（plumb的现在分词）;探究

The electrics and the plumbing were sound.

电路和水暖设备都完好无损。​

​✸✸Global companies that are digital leaders view IT as crucial to meeting their strategic goals,according toexecutives polled in an Economist Intelligence Unit survey. This finding reflects the importance ITplays inbusiness strategy as innovative technologies from analytics to machine learning reshape the competitive playing field.

1) according to 英 [əˈkɔ:dɪŋ tə]   美 [əˈkɔ:rdɪŋ tə]  na.据，按照;据…所说;如;比照

Philip stayed at the hotel, according to Mr Hemming

据亨明先生所说，菲利普住在旅馆里。

2) play in 英 [pleɪ in]   美 [pleɪ ɪn]  在…玩耍;在…演奏;在…扮演角色;（使）在比赛中占…位置

Lon and I play in the same weekly poker game.

我和朗每周和同一帮人聚在一起打扑克。​

​ ​✸✸These technologies can increaseagility, enhance productivity, and substantially improve processes. But while many executives understand these benefits, the path to adopting the technologies can bedaunting.

1) agility 英 [ə'dʒɪlətɪ]   美 [əˈdʒɪlɪti]  n.敏捷;灵活;活泼;机敏

With her speed and agility, cage cut out all her competitors in the hurdle race.

凯奇跨栏时速度快，动作敏捷，击败了其他所有选手。

2) daunting 英 [dɔ:ntɪŋ]   美 [dɔ:ntɪŋ]  adj.令人畏惧的;使人气馁的;令人怯步的 v.威吓(daunt的现在分词);使气馁;使害怕;使失去信心

They were faced with the daunting task of restoring the house

他们面临着修复房子的艰巨任务。​

​ ​ ​✸✸Mike Nefkens, executive vice president and general manager of regions and industries for DXC Technology, a global IT services and solutions leader, knows well the challenges companies face. “Most enterprises need to execute quickly at extreme scale, and they must innovate globally while keeping their infrastructure secure,” he says. “Technology service providers can create a new digital platform that frees up organizations to focus on differentiated services instead of traditional IT plumbing.”​

​✸✸An external technology partner can also add a critical aspect to the digital journey. “Companies must engage differently—with cloud providers, service integrators, and An external technology partner can also add a critical aspect to the digital journey. “Companies must engage differently—with cloud providers, service integrators, and other ecosystem participants,” says Dan Hushon, senior vice president and chief technology officer at DXC.​

​✸✸Why all this collaboration? Because digital is aboutmuch more thanjust learning or implementing a technology—it’s a vast cultural change in the way we work. A complete digital transformation involvesempoweringemployees, optimizing business processes, and reimagining how employees work with clients and collaborate internally. “True digital transformation is about bringing information into the fabric of every transaction with a client, employee, partner and process,” Hushon says.

1) much more than 不仅仅

I use the sense of sound much more than the sense of sight.

我用听觉比视觉要多得多。

2) empowering 英 [ɪm'paʊərɪŋ]   美 [ɪm'paʊərɪŋ]  v.授权( empower的现在分词 );准许;增加（某人的）自主权;使控制局势

And what better way to improve living conditions than by empowering women.

没有什么方法能够比加强妇女的权力更有效地改善生活条件了。​

​ ​✸✸But a complete transition to digital can’t happen overnight. “For at least the next five years, it will be ahybridworld. Since many applications are too costly and risky for companies to tackle all at once, companies will have one foot in the traditional world and one in the digital world,” Nefkens says. “But once companies replacearchaicinfrastructures and applications with modern, next-generation IT solutions, they will be able to move faster, stay a stepahead oftheir competitors, get to customers first, and create new growth. That’s the definition of a successful digital transformation.”

1) hybrid 英 [ˈhaɪbrɪd]   美 [ˈhaɪbrɪd]  n.杂种;杂交生成的生物体;混合物;混合词 adj.混合的;杂种的

All these brightly coloured hybrids are so lovely in the garden.

花园里所有这些色彩鲜艳的杂交花真美丽。

2) archaic 英 [ɑ:ˈkeɪɪk]   美 [ɑ:rˈkeɪɪk]  adj.古代的;古体的;过时的，陈旧的;古色古香的

And nothing was so irritating as the confident way he used archaic idiom.

没什么比他使用过时的方言时那种自负的神态更气人的了。

3) ahead of 英 [əˈhed ɔv]   美 [əˈhɛd ʌv]  n.在…之前

Thanks to your help, we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.

亏得你们帮忙，我们才提前完成了任务。​

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