Vocabulary: 贝佐斯传
- peak; apex; world best; number one; finest (competitors); top (figures in a certain field)
- to produce in abundance; to be rich in
- to reduce; to decrease; to shrink
- to lock (a door); to close with a latch; to lock into place; a lock; a latch; to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten); to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection); to focus attention on; to target
- day of commemoration; memorial day
- ammunition
- direction of a current; direction of flow; to flow toward
- (of a committee etc) to deliberate; to consider; to discuss
- credit; borrowed money
- to elect as; to choose as; to consider as
- mortal enemy; arch-enemy
- to have a special liking (for sth)
- (bound form) to seek by inquiry; (bound form) to visit; to call on
- to be included among those selected for
- incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly
- left-leaning; progressive
- city council
- man-hour
- taxes; duties
- shortage
- a tiny bit; very little; next to nothing (idiom)
- each person; everybody; per person
- lasting until; up till (the present)
- at fault; blamed for; responsible (for a blunder or crime)
- to levy taxes
- to benefit (from)
- municipal administration
- odd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange; to regard as odd; to blame; (coll.) somewhat; rather
- tower (of building)
- to sublet; to sublease
- to have (sth) for one's own use; (literary) to be opinionated
- decree; ordinance
- opposite bank (of a body of water)
- residential area; housing development
- trip; journey; tourism; travel; tour; to travel