外刊汇总 | 外媒如何评价华为5G折叠手机？
2月24日，华为在巴塞罗那举办的2019世界移动通信大会（MWC）推出收款5G可折叠只能手机Mate X。
我们选取了几份外刊信源对华为折叠手机的报道，提炼出好用的表达。希望对大家有所帮助。
◆Mashable◆
The race to build the best foldable phone is officially on.
race, 竞赛，之前在一篇关于《流浪地球》的外刊解读文章中也遇到过这个词>>>口碑爆棚！纽约时报眼中的《流浪地球》:
China's Film Industry Finally Joins the Space Race（中国电影业终加入太空角逐）
还有之前常说的军备竞赛arms race.
关注后面的小词on, be officially on正式开始。
同样用到race一词的还有Financial Times的报道：
Huawei has joined Samsung in the race to persuade consumers they need to spend more than $2,000 on a new type of foldable smartphone by unveiling its Mate X device at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday.
华为(Huawei)已加入三星(Samsung)的行列，试图说服消费者花2000多美元购买一款新型可折叠智能手机，该公司昨日在巴塞罗那举行的世界移动通信大会(Mobile World Congress)上发布了其Mate X设备。
Not to be outdone by Samsung's Galaxy Fold, Huawei announced its very own foldable phone called the Mate X at Mobile World Congress.
Not to be...状语，逻辑主语是主句主语Huawei。outdone原型outdo, 近义词outperform，A比B表现更好。注意out-词缀，有“超越，超过”的意思。
类似outdo, outperform，还有哪些词或词组可以表达“把……比下去，比……好”呢？这里做个小结：
eclipse：[often passive,常用被动态] to become more important, powerful, famous etc than someone or something else, so that they are no longer noticed使失色，盖过 The economy had eclipsed the environment as an election issue. 经济作为竞选话题已经盖过环境问题。
overshadow: to make someone or something else seem less important使〔别的人或事〕显得较不重要，使相形见绌[黯然失色] Her interest in politics began to overshadow her desire to be a poet. 她对政治的兴趣开始盖过了想当诗人的愿望。
beat: [T not in progressive,不用进行式] especially spoken to be much better and more enjoyable than something else赛过，胜过 Fresh milk beats powdered milk any time. 新鲜牛奶任何时候都比奶粉好。
Outshine: vt. If you outshine someone at a particular activity, you are much better at it than they are. 优于; 使···相形见拙。Jesse has begun to outshine me in sports.杰西开始在体育上使我相形见绌。
pale beside / next to sth | pale in comparison with: to seem less important when compared with sth else 相形见绌；显得逊色 Last year's riots pale in comparison with this latest outburst of violence. 去年的骚乱与最近这次暴乱相比，可说是小巫见大巫。
pale本义是苍白，A跟B比显得苍白，即A不如B。
put sth/sth to shame，When machines can put humans to shame in performing the routine job-specific tasks that Infosys once took offshore, it makes sense to think about the skills that computers find harder to learn. 既然在执行日常的、与特定工作相关的具体任务时（印孚瑟斯一度迁往离岸的那些工作），机器已经能让人类相形见绌，那么思考那些电脑较难掌握的技能便顺理成章。
Watching a Huawei spokesperson fold and unfold the screen was truly a sight to behold.
这句话还蛮押韵的，固定词组be a sight/joy/pleasure etc to behold赏心悦目的事物，比如The beauty of the garden was a pleasure to behold. 花园美景，赏心悦目。
这个词容易让人想起一句谚语，Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.各花入各眼。顺便记忆啦~
He made the Galaxy Fold look like an unfinished prototype in comparison.
这句话有点讽刺，华为折叠手机让三星新品看起来就像是个半成品。prototype一般是机器、汽车等的原型产品，中文里经常叫“样机”。
◆TheWall Street Journal◆
Just days after Samsung Electronics Co. launched the industry’s first mainstream foldable-screen smartphone, China’s Huawei Technologies Co. upped the ante with a competing device and an even more stratospheric price tag.
up/raise the ante 固定词组：to increase your demands or try to get more things from a situation, even though this involves more risks增加筹码，提高要求
这里的意思是，华为凭借这款功能超群、价格又stratospheric极高的新品，直接将竞争的逼格拉升了一个等级。
◆New York Daily News◆
Begun, the fold wars have.
很简洁却很有气势的句子。begun提前，表示强调，已经开始了！
Financial Times也用了一个词组形容了华为在这场竞争中火力全开的架势
Huawei is on the offensive at the annual telecoms industry event.
华为在这一年度电信业盛会上发起了攻势。
be/go on the offensive发起进攻。
Less than a week after Samsung introduced the Galaxy Fold, Chinese tech giant Huawei rolled out the Mate X, a razor-thin 5G phone that folds in half with no gap.
到这里总结一下外刊中经常用于表示“推出（新品）”的词：
第一篇文章中的announce sth., 第二篇的launch, 还有这里的 roll out,还有unveil, release, put into market, bring to market
razor剃刀，razor-thin像剃刀一样薄的，经常会看到厂家在做电视机、笔记本电脑、手机广告，形容屏幕超薄用的一个词“锋薄”，可以用razor-thin来对应。除此之外，经常看到表示屏幕很薄的形容词还有thin和slim.
