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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.

固然手机行业曾很是残暴（想一想黑莓的兴衰），并且低端手机市场竞争依然很是剧烈，但在高端市场上，苹果正在突起，它在美国的收入市场份额跨越60%，并在操作体系方面盘踞主导职位地方。

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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联邦快递暗示，其大部门办事来岁的运费将均匀上涨5.9%。运费上涨的速率快于近10年来的程度，这致使收集电商提高商品代价或寻觅其他方法抵消本钱上升的压力。

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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，长按文末小步伐码打卡，谜底下期颁布~联邦包裹公司估计将在接下来的几周颁布2022年的运费提价规划。据供给链办理和物流公司运输洞察说，最少从2010年起头，这两家运输公司每一年的代价上涨步调都是一致的。

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.

代价浮动增加率跨越4.9%表白订价权已转移到联邦快递、结合包裹和美国邮政办事等快递公司手中。疫情时代已显示出，社会对这些公司的运力和送货上门需求大幅上升。办事费代价上涨幅度高于正常程度，也是通胀影响全世界供给链的一个标记。

“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的结合首席履行官特雷弗·奥特曼暗示:“承运商很是乐观，他们信赖本身把握着所有的自动权，有能力从客户那边获得比之前都更多的利润。”

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.

联邦快递和结合包裹此前曾向托运人表示过运费年涨幅将比之前高。以前，一些托运人会在合同中参加会商条目，请求其年运费涨幅约为2.5%至3%，是大众运费涨幅的一半。近来几周，据运输参谋说，近来几周，一些大型运输公司收到了续约合同，将其办事费的年涨幅限定在了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-co妹妹erce shipments.

联邦快递的新费率将于1月3日见效。联邦快递在美国的运费和联邦快递的陆运及本土快递办事费均匀将上涨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）

公布时候：2021.09.21

辞汇堆集

1.lockstep

英 /'l?kstep/美/'lɑkst?p/

n. 沿袭保守；密集连锁的步调；步调一致

2.reverberate

英/r?'v??b?re?t/美/r?'v?b?'ret/

vi. 回响;回荡

vt. 使反应; 使回荡; 使反射

adj. 反应(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；(对将来)抱有信念的, 乐观的

4.skew

英 /skju?/美/skju/

n. 倾斜；斜交

adj. 斜交的；倾斜的

词组搭配

1.pricing power 订价权

2.global supply chain 全世界供给链

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

布局:sb. is expected to do sth.

或人估计将做某事

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