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ACE says it’s helped shrink the number of illegal streaming services in North America to 126, from more than 1,400 in 2018, aided in part by the MPA’s support for a 2020 federal law that made large-scale streaming of copyright material a serious crime.

ACE表示，它已帮助将北美的非法流媒体服务数量从2018年的1400多个减少到126个，这在一定程度上得益于美国电影协会对2020年一项联邦法律的支持，该法律将大规模流播受版权保护的内容定为重罪。

Consulting firm Parks Associates predicts that legitimate US streaming services’ cumulative loss from piracy since 2022 will reach $113 billion in the next two years.

咨询公司Parks Associates预测，自2022年以来美国正规流媒体服务因盗版造成的累计损失将在未来两年内达到1130亿美元。

According to Paragraph 1, legitimate streaming services ____

根据第1段，正规流媒体服务____

These systems often prompted customers to tip for services that were not previously tipped.

这些系统常常提示顾客为以前不用付小费的服务支付小费。

Today’s tip requests are often not connected to the salary and service norms that used to determine when and how people tip.

如今的小费要求往往与过去决定人们何时、如何付小费的薪资和服务规范无关。

Customers in the past nearly always paid tips after receiving a service, such as at the conclusion of a restaurant meal, after getting a haircut or once a pizza was delivered.

过去，顾客几乎总是在接受服务之后才付小费，比如在餐厅用餐结束时、理完发后或披萨送到时。

That timing could reward high-quality service and give workers an incentive to provide it.

这种时机安排可以奖励优质服务，并激励员工提供优质服务。

That helps explain why tip requests are creeping into new kinds of services.

这有助于解释为什么小费要求正悄然渗入新的服务类型。

Tipping has always been a vital source of income for workers in historically tipped services, like restaurants, where the tipped minimum wage can be as low as US $2.13 an hour.

对于传统上收小费的服务行业（如餐厅）的员工来说，小费一直是重要的收入来源，在这些行业中，领取小费员工的最低工资可低至每小时2.13美元。

Tip creep and tipflation are now further supplementing the income of many low-wage service workers.

小费蔓延和小费通胀如今正进一步补贴许多低薪服务人员的收入。

To ensure that all employees were paid fair wages, some restaurants banned tipping and increased prices, but this movement towards no-tipping services has largely fizzled out.

为了确保所有员工都能获得公平的工资，一些餐厅禁止收小费并提高了价格，但这场走向免小费服务的运动基本上已经不了了之。

And, as our research emphasizes, tipping now seems to be more coercive, less generous, and often completely dissociated from service quality.

而且，正如我们的研究所强调的，小费如今似乎更具强制性、更少出于慷慨，而且常常与服务质量完全脱节。

have less to do with service quality.

与服务质量关系更小。

Tip requests are creeping into new kinds of services as a result of ____

小费要求悄然渗入新的服务类型，是由于____

The movement toward no-tipping services was intended to ____

走向免小费服务的运动旨在____

helps encourage quality service.

有助于鼓励优质服务。

When it was established, the National Health Service (NHS) was visionary: offering high-quality, timely care to meet the dominant needs of the population it served.

国民医疗服务体系（NHS）在建立之初颇具远见：提供高质量、及时的医疗服务，满足其所服务人群的主要需求。

With more than 6.8 million on waitlists, healthcare is becoming increasingly inaccessible for those who cannot opt to pay for private treatment; and the cost of providing healthcare is increasingly squeezing our investment in other public services.

候诊名单上有超过680万人，对于那些无法选择自费接受私人治疗的人来说，医疗服务越来越难以获得；而提供医疗服务的成本正日益挤压我们对其他公共服务的投入。

We need to be much better at reducing and diverting demand on health services, rather than simply managing it.

我们需要更善于减少和分流对医疗服务的需求，而不仅仅是管理这些需求。

What health functions should remain at the centre, and what should be given to local leaders, often responsible for services that create health, and with a much better understanding of the needs of their populations?

哪些卫生职能应留在中央，哪些应交给地方领导者——他们往往负责那些创造健康的服务，而且对当地人群的需求了解得多得多？

is rivalled by private medical services.

受到私人医疗服务的竞争。

offer their services to public institutions.

向公共机构提供服务。

Recently, another expression of this predatory behavior has emerged: so-called support service consultancies that provide language and other editorial support to individual authors and to journals sometimes advise contributors to add a number of citations to their articles.

最近，这种掠夺性行为出现了另一种表现形式：为个人作者和期刊提供语言及其他编辑支持的所谓支持服务咨询公司，有时会建议投稿人在文章中添加若干引用。

And for authors who wish to steer clear of citation cartel activities: when an editor, a reviewer, or a support service asks you to add inappropriate references, do not oblige and do report the request to the journal.

对于希望远离引用联盟活动的作者来说：当编辑、审稿人或支持服务机构要求你添加不恰当的参考文献时，不要照办，并且一定要向期刊举报这一要求。

The support service consultancies tend to ____

支持服务咨询公司往往会____

Lack of transportation services.

缺乏交通服务。

It is all very well train operators trumpeting the improvements they are making to the network, but passengers should be able to expect a basic level of service for the substantial sums they are now paying to travel.

火车运营商大肆宣扬他们对铁路网所做的改进固然不错，但乘客为出行支付了如今这笔可观的费用，理应能够期待得到基本水平的服务。

The Government has pledged to change the law to introduce a minimum service requirement so that, even when strikes occur, services can continue to operate.

政府已承诺修改法律，引入最低服务要求，这样即使发生罢工，服务也能继续运行。

The Government has pledged to change the law to introduce a minimum service requirement so that, even when strikes occur, services can continue to operate.

政府已承诺修改法律，引入最低服务要求，这样即使发生罢工，服务也能继续运行。

Yes, more investment is needed, but passengers will not be willing to pay more indefinitely if they must also endure cramped, unreliable services, interrupted by regular chaos when timetables are changed, or planned maintenance is managed incompetently.

没错，需要更多投资，但如果乘客还必须忍受拥挤、不可靠的服务，以及时刻表变更或计划内维修管理不善时频繁出现的混乱，他们就不会愿意无限期地多付钱。

have failed to provide an adequate service.

未能提供足够的服务。

The commission argued that other agencies would protect against anti-competitive behavior, such as a broadband-providing conglomerate like AT&T favoring its own video-streaming service at the expense of Netflix and Apple TV.

该委员会辩称，其他机构会防范反竞争行为，比如像AT&T这样提供宽带服务的企业集团偏袒自家的视频流媒体服务，而牺牲奈飞和苹果电视的利益。

Yet the FCC also ended the investigations of broadband providers that imposed data caps on their rivals’ streaming services but not their own.

然而，FCC也终止了对一些宽带提供商的调查，这些提供商对竞争对手的流媒体服务设置了流量上限，对自己的服务却不设限。

But Judge Patricia Millett rightly argued in a concurring opinion that “the result is unhinged from the realities of modern broadband service,” and said Congress or the Supreme Court could intervene to “avoid trapping Internet regulation in technological anachronism.”

但法官帕特里夏·米利特在一份协同意见书中正确地指出，“这一结果脱离了现代宽带服务的现实”，并表示国会或最高法院可以介入，“以避免让互联网监管困于技术上的时代错位之中”。

It is in pursuit of quality service.

它在追求优质服务。

Rules need to be set to diversify online services.

需要制定规则使网络服务多样化。

A recent survey of manufacturing and service industries from Tata Consultancy Services found that companies currently use AI more often in computer-to-computer activities than in automating human activities.

塔塔咨询服务公司最近对制造业和服务业进行的一项调查发现，目前企业更多地将人工智能用于计算机与计算机之间的活动，而不是用于将人类活动自动化。

retrain their cabin staff for better services.

再培训客舱乘务人员以提供更好的服务。

Last Thursday, the French Senate passed a digital services tax, which would impose an entirely new tax on large multinationals that provide digital services to consumers or users in France.

上周四，法国参议院通过了一项数字服务税，将对向法国消费者或用户提供数字服务的大型跨国公司征收一种全新的税。

Last Thursday, the French Senate passed a digital services tax, which would impose an entirely new tax on large multinationals that provide digital services to consumers or users in France.

上周四，法国参议院通过了一项数字服务税，将对向法国消费者或用户提供数字服务的大型跨国公司征收一种全新的税。

Digital services include everything from providing a platform for selling goods and services online to targeting advertising based on user data, and the tax applies to gross revenue from such services.

数字服务涵盖从提供在线销售商品和服务的平台到根据用户数据定向投放广告的一切业务，该税适用于此类服务的总收入。

Digital services include everything from providing a platform for selling goods and services online to targeting advertising based on user data, and the tax applies to gross revenue from such services.

数字服务涵盖从提供在线销售商品和服务的平台到根据用户数据定向投放广告的一切业务，该税适用于此类服务的总收入。

Digital services include everything from providing a platform for selling goods and services online to targeting advertising based on user data, and the tax applies to gross revenue from such services.

数字服务涵盖从提供在线销售商品和服务的平台到根据用户数据定向投放广告的一切业务，该税适用于此类服务的总收入。

The digital services tax now awaits the signature of President Emmanuel Macron, who has expressed support for the measure, and it could go into effect within the next few weeks.

这项数字服务税目前正等待已表示支持该措施的埃马纽埃尔·马克龙总统签署，并可能在未来几周内生效。

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

相反，数字服务税是一个更大趋势的一部分：过去几年里，各国纷纷提出或实施了一大堆名目繁多的新国际税收条款。

At the same time, the European Union, Spain, Britain and several other countries have all seriously contemplated digital services taxes.

与此同时，欧盟、西班牙、英国和其他几个国家都在认真考虑征收数字服务税。

Both France and the United States are involved in the organization’s work, but France’s digital services tax and the American response raise questions about what the future holds for the international tax system.

法国和美国都参与了该组织的工作，但法国的数字服务税和美国的回应让人们对国际税收体系的前景产生了疑问。

regulate digital services platforms.

监管数字服务平台。

It can be learned from Paragraph 2 that the digital services tax ____

从第2段可知，数字服务税____

the shrinking demand for postal service.

对邮政服务需求的萎缩。

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。

Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don’t pay for them.

按照目前的解释，竞争法处理的是消费者在经济上受到的损害，而当这些服务的用户并不为其付费时，这种损害并不明显。

The users of their services are not their customers.

它们服务的用户并不是它们的客户。

quality service.

优质服务。

the services are generally digital.

这些服务通常是数字化的。

the services are paid for by advertisers.

这些服务由广告商付费。

The sharp hit to growth predicted around the world and in the UK could lead to a decline in the everyday services we depend on for our well-being and for growth.

预计全球和英国的经济增长将受到严重打击，这可能导致我们赖以获得福祉和增长的日常服务水平下降。

While polls show Britons rate “the countryside” alongside the royal family, Shakespeare and the National Health Service (NHS) as what makes them proudest of their country, this has limited political support.

尽管民意调查显示，英国人把“乡村”与王室、莎士比亚和国民医疗服务体系（NHS）并列为最让他们为祖国感到自豪的事物，但这种情感在政治上得到的支持却很有限。

Peretti gives the example of Netflix discontinuing its DVD-mailing service to focus on streaming.

佩雷蒂举了奈飞停止DVD邮寄服务、专注于流媒体的例子。

Plus, whatever image we present is magnified by social-media services like LinkedIn.

此外，我们展现的任何形象都会被领英等社交媒体放大。

Hire a personal stylist, or use the free styling service of a store like J. Crew.

聘请一位私人造型师，或者使用J. Crew等商店提供的免费造型服务。

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.

调查发现，与年长者相比，刚刚踏上人生道路的年轻人更有可能在工作中优先考虑个人成就感，更有可能相信定期换工作最能推进自己的事业，更喜欢公共服务更多、生活节奏更快的社区，更认同夫妻在结婚或生育之前应当经济上有保障，并坚持认为父母双方都在外工作对孩子最为有利。

He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service — as non-controversial and non-political heads of state.

他未能明白，君主制之所以基本得以存续，是因为它们提供了一种服务——充当没有争议、不涉政治的国家元首。

During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation.

在经济危机前的十年里，美国法律服务支出的增长速度是通货膨胀速度的两倍。

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.

事实上，允许非律师持有律所股份可以降低成本、改善对客户的服务，因为这会促使律所运用技术，并聘用职业经理人专注于提高律所的效率。

[For example], he theorised that a judge [fearful] of appearing too soft [on] crime might be more likely to send someone to prison [if] he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day.

例如，他提出理论认为，一位害怕显得对犯罪过于手软的法官，如果当天已经对另外五六名被告只判处了强制社区服务，那么他就更有可能把下一个人送进监狱。

provide better online services.

提供更好的在线服务。

There will always be change — new jobs, new products, new services.

变化总是会有的——新的工作、新的产品、新的服务。

new jobs and services have been offered.

新的工作和服务已被提供。

Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.

不到两周，他就首次与哈特福德金融服务集团的董事会进行了接洽，该集团于9月29日任命他为首席执行官兼董事长。

The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential [linked] to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services.

该系统可能会使用智能身份卡，或与特定计算机绑定的数字凭证，并在一系列在线服务中验证用户身份。

Google and Microsoft are among companies that already have these “single sign-on” systems that make it possible for users to [log in] just once but use many different services.

谷歌和微软等公司已经拥有这类“单点登录”系统，用户只需登录一次就能使用许多不同的服务。

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS’s ultimate overseer — Congress — insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

而从邮政工会到贺卡制造商等各种利益集团，都出于自身利益向美国邮政署的最终监管者——国会——施压，坚持认为无论邮政署发生什么其他变化，他们所依赖的现状的各个方面都必须得到保护。

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

这就是为什么近年来多次改革立法的尝试都以失败告终，致使邮政署除了推迟至关重要的现代化建设外，无法支付账单。

Now comes word that everyone involved — Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system’s heaviest users — has finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

现在有消息称，所有相关方——民主党人、共和党人、邮政署、工会以及该系统最大的用户——终于就一项修复该系统的计划达成了一致。

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate — where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

即使这项措施在众议院获得通过，它仍须经过参议院——在那里肯定会有人指出，它只不过是维持邮政署运转所必需的最最起码的措施，而不是全面改革。

The Postal Service: Keep Away from My Cheese

邮政署：别动我的奶酪

The Postal Service Needs More than a Band-Aid

邮政署需要的不止是一张创可贴

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires — nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

2015年，美国林务局首次将其55亿美元年度预算的一半以上用于扑灭火灾——这一比例几乎是20年前用于此类工作的比例的两倍。

The crash was a major reason the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided to formally list the bird as threatened.

数量的骤减是美国鱼类及野生动物管理局（USFWS）决定正式将这种鸟列为受威胁物种的一个主要原因。

John Donahue at Harvard's Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

哈佛大学肯尼迪学院的约翰·多纳休指出，西方公务员体系的文化规范适合那些安于现状的人，却不利于有能力的高成就者。