经济学人:一周要闻脸书面临反垄断诉讼

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alleging that it bought WhatsApp and Instagram, two social-media rivals, to suppress competition.
称其收购WhatsApp和Instagram这两家社交媒体竞争对手，以抑制竞争。

Separately, a coalition of 46 American states, led by New York, launched a similar lawsuit against the company.
另外，一个由美国46个州组成的联盟，以纽约州为首，对该公司发起了类似的诉讼。

Uber decided to sell its autonomous-vehicles subsidiary to Aurora, a startup that counts Amazon among its backers.
优步决定将其自动驾驶汽车子公司出售给Aurora，这家初创公司的支持者包括亚马逊。

Uber spent billions on self-driving cars, which it can no longer afford as the pandemic eats into its ride-hailing business
优步在自动驾驶汽车上花费了数十亿美元，但由于疫情侵蚀了其叫车业务，优步再也负担不起自动驾驶汽车了

(it is also selling its flying-car division, Uber Elevate, to a separate startup).
(优步还将其飞行汽车部门Uber Elevate出售给了一家独立的初创公司)。

The project unnerved investors in 2018 when one of its cars killed a woman in Arizona, the first fatal collision involving an autonomous car and a pedestrian.
2018年，该项目的一辆汽车在亚利桑那州撞死了一名女性，这是首次自动驾驶汽车与行人发生致死的碰撞事故，该事故令投资者感到不安。

Uber is not getting out of the business entirely. It will take a stake in Aurora and may eventually integrate the technology with its platform.
优步并没有完全退出这个行业。它将持有Aurora的股份，并可能最终将该技术与自己的平台整合在一起。

The first commercial flight of a Boeing 737 MAX took place, 20 months after the fleet was grounded worldwide following two fatal crashes.
20个月前，波音737 MAX因两起致命事故在全球范围内停飞。如今，该机型首次进行商业飞行。

Gol airline flew passengers from Sao Paulo to Porto Alegre after its pilots completed training to fly the revamped jet,
在飞行员完成这架改装喷气式飞机的驾驶训练后，Gol航空公司的旅客乘机圣保罗飞往阿雷格里港，

Meanwhile, Boeing delivered its first 737 max aircraft since the ban was lifted, to United Airlines,
与此同时，波音向美联航交付了自禁令解除以来的首架737 max飞机，

Huge investor appetite for the stockmarket debut of DoorDash, America's leading meal-delivery app,
美国领先的送餐应用DoorDash上市首日，投资者的巨大胃口

pushed its share price up by 86% on the first day of trading, valuing it at $60bn.
推动其股价在首日交易中上涨86%，使其市值达到600亿美元。

Facing similar demand for its ipo, Airbnb priced its shares above the target range it had set out to investors, as it prepared to float on the Nasdaq exchange.
面临类似的股票发行需求，Airbnb在准备在纳斯达克(Nasdaq)上市时，将股价定在高于向投资者设定的目标区间的水平。

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1.antitrust 反垄断的

In the old days, antitrust laws kept monopolies from buying potential competitors.

过去，反垄断法禁止垄断大户收购其潜在竞争者DjvZ[CYdUa&J(A,[&Zj~。

2.range 范围

The article covered a wide range of topics.

这篇文章讨论了一系列广泛的论题vz@6+6*,SZB_bh@N=|。

3.exchange 交换

Shares soared on the New York stock exchange.

纽约证券交易所股票暴涨6#&-k^^7K6&uB。

4.vsimilar 相似的

They have uncannily similar voices.

他们有着出奇相似的嗓音dGgjte_0Q%k*N。

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