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地道表达

• Through both ruthless dealing and visionary philanthropy,he came to personify American capitalism.
  [personify] v. To represent (an abstract quality or idea) 代表（一种抽象的性质或思想）：

• It utterly dominates e-commerce in China, and has also made inroads into internet finance, cloud computing and logistics. Its flotation in New York in 2014 was the biggest public offering ever, and with a fortune worth perhaps $23 billion, Mr Ma is one of China’s richest men.
  [make inroads into]make inroads into/on something:
  a)to have an important effect or influence on something, especially by taking something away from it；
  b) to make some progress towards achieving something difficult
  [flotation] The act or an instance of launching or initiating, especially the floating of stocks or bonds or the financing of a business venture by floating stocks or bonds 发行公债，发行股票：发起或创立的行为或事例，尤指流动股票、债券或由流动股票、债券支持的商业资金

• How did a poor boy who barely scraped into a teacher’s college manage this? Like Rockefeller, Mr Ma spotted a confluence of technologies and market opportunities. The rise of the internet came just as China was gearing up to join the World Trade Organisation in 2001.
  [a confluence of] a situation in which two or more things combine or happen at the same time
  [gear up] To get ready for a coming action or event 为…准备好：为一将要发生的行动或事件做好准备

• With liberalisation would come rising incomes and global travel, reasoned Mr Ma, and soon hundreds of millions of Chinese would clamour for the goods and services enjoyed by the comfortable classes elsewhere.
  [clamour for] To make insistent demands or complaints；坚持要求或抱怨；clamored for tax reforms.

• China’s online consumers are now the world’s most voracious
  [voracious]Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or a pursuit; greedy贪婪的：具有对某种活动或愿望的不满足的欲望的；贪婪的

• Though state-owned enterprises and national champions lumber on
  [lumber on ] .intr.（不及物动词）To walk or move with heavy clumsiness

• unlike Rockefeller, who was widely reviled as a monopolist
  [revile] v.tr.（及物动词）To assail with abusive language; vituperate.See Synonyms at scold 谩骂，辱骂：用谩骂的语言攻击；辱骂

• Team-building exercises regularly have employees doing handstands
  [doing handstands] 手倒立

句式连接

• With liberalisation would come rising incomes and global travel, reasoned Mr Ma, and soon hundreds of millions of Chinese would clamour for the goods and services enjoyed by the comfortable classes elsewhere.
  [分析] 注意中英表达中 对于reasoned Mr Ma这个结构所在的位置的不同： 在英文中，一般是：说的话+谁说的，在中文习惯里，则是 谁说的+说的话
  [翻译] 马云推断，自由化会带来收入的上涨及国际来往的盛行，而且很快，数以亿计的中国人可能会争相购买世界上其他地方富人阶级所享有的商品和服务。