[E432]The digital economy
本文音频及原文摘自杂志The Economist 2016年第24期，Britain版块。
Industrial evolution
Jun 11th 2016
Sometimes it feels as though the digital world is swallowing everything. Personally and socially it may be, but commercially not yet. Businesses that are part of the digital economy have grown by 30% in the past five years and the digital sector has outperformed the economy overall. But it is still small in many ways. Just 5% of jobs and 9% of businesses form part of the digital workplace, and it still contributes only 7% of the national output, similar to America, but behind South Korea which leads the world at more than 11%. What is more, the digital sector’s economic contribution of £118 billion ($194 billion) in 2014 is still below that of manufacturing (£151 billion). The industrial revolution[工业革命;产业革命] lives on[1].
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注释
[1]live on
(after someone or something) to be remembered long after someone or something might otherwise be forgotten or dead, in the case of persons.
His good works will live on long after him.
Fears of war will live on after the actual conflict.
I hope my memory lives on.
live on something
to depend on something for sustenance. (Compare this with live off someone or something.)
I can't live on bread and water.
We can hardly live on $500 a week.
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原文摘自The economist，仅外语学习之用。
其中生词解释来源于Cambridge Dictionaries
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