Vocabulary: 谷歌的故事
- gold rush
- broker; middleman; agent; manager
- one after another; in succession; one by one; continuously; diverse; in profusion; numerous and confused; pell-mell
- to make a telephone call
- inside story; inside information
- to pour; to pour down (of rain); to lay a bet
- sales figure; total income from sales; turnover
- quarter of a year; season (sports)
- 作 zūo: 作 zuo1: (bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)作 zùo: 作 zuo4: to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works
- analyst; commentator
- the end of the year; year-end
- to prompt; to induce; to spur
- financier; banker
- money; currency
- flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor
- to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse; everywhere present; about to inundate (water); permeated by (smoke); filled with (dust); to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
- actually; in fact; really
- conflict; to conflict; clash of opposing forces; collision (of interests); contention
- new generation
- investigator; researcher
- incubator (for eggs or startup businesses)
- Hewlett-Packard; HP
- sun; sunlight; sunshine; temple (on the side of the human head) (abbr. for 太陽穴|太阳穴[tai4 yang2 xue2])
- 微 wēi: 微 wei1: tiny; miniature; slightly; profound; abtruse; to decline; one millionth part of; micro-; Taiwan pr. [wei2]微 Wēi: 微 Wei1: surname Wei; ancient Chinese state near present-day Chongqing; Taiwan pr. [Wei2]
- sophisticated; advanced (technology etc); meritorious; exemplary (deeds etc)
- convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself
- to allow; to permit
- role; part (in a play or movie etc); also pr. [jiao3se4]
- to have; to own; to hold; to occupy; to possess; to account for (a high proportion etc)
- groundbreaking
- to pay (money)
- cost; expenditure; expense; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- to agree to and sign (a treaty etc)
- to become rich
- in no way; not in the least; absolutely not
- barrier; obstruction; hindrance; impediment; obstacle
- then (as in "the then chairman")
- enterprising spirit; pioneering spirit
- good; favorable; well; fine
- (military) forward position; frontier; cutting-edge; forefront
- clear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable; to understand; to realize
- sometimes