astonish中等

The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing — Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5bn, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn’t have any physical product at all.

数字经济巨头的实力和野心令人震惊——亚马逊刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购高端连锁杂货店全食超市，而两年前脸书为收购WhatsApp即时通讯服务付出的代价甚至更高，而WhatsApp根本没有任何实体产品。

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived.

令人震惊的发现之一是，丽贝卡·布鲁克斯对自己新闻编辑部里发生的事知之甚少，她也很少想到过问，而且她从未询问过那些报道是如何得来的。