原文標(biāo)題：
Amazon’s new health care push
Prime of life
It might be its riskiest business?venture yet
亞馬遜的新醫(yī)療推廣
生命會員
這可能是亞馬遜迄今為止最大的商業(yè)冒險

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AS BIG TECH firms face a brutal?slow-down the hunt is on for new areas of expansion.
由于殘酷的經(jīng)濟(jì)放緩形勢，大型科技公司正在尋找新的擴(kuò)張領(lǐng)域。

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Amazon, which is now America’s second-biggest business by revenue, is a case in point.
現(xiàn)在美國營收排第二的亞馬遜就是一個很好的例子。
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In the final quarter of 2022 its sales are expected to expand by just 6.7% year-on-year.
2022年第四季度，預(yù)計其預(yù)計將同比增長6.7%。
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On November 17th Andy Jassy, its chief executive, confirmed that the firm had begun laying off?workers and would fire more next year.
11月17日，該公司首席執(zhí)行官安迪?賈西證實，公司已經(jīng)開始裁員，明年還會繼續(xù)裁員。
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He said it was the hardest decision he had made since becoming boss.
他說這是他任職以來做的最艱難的決定。
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But he also noted that “big opportunities” lie ahead.
但他也表示未來還有“巨大的商機(jī)”。
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One is the largest, most lucrative?and hellishly?difficult business in America: health care.
其中之一是美國規(guī)模最大、利潤最豐厚、難度最大的行業(yè):醫(yī)療保健。

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Many tech firms have health-care ambitions.
很多科技公司躍躍欲試進(jìn)軍醫(yī)療保健行業(yè)。
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Apple tracks well-being through the iPhone.
蘋果通過蘋果手機(jī)來追蹤人們的健康狀況。
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Microsoft offers cloud-computing services to health firms.
微軟為醫(yī)療公司提供云計算服務(wù)。
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Alphabet sells wearable devices and is pumping money into biotech research.
Alphabet銷售可穿戴設(shè)備，并向生物技術(shù)研究投入大量資金。
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But Amazon is now creating the most ambitious?offering of all.
而亞馬遜現(xiàn)正在打造一項最宏大的項目。
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Two days before Mr Jassy’s statement it launched “Amazon Clinic”, an online service operating in 32 states that offers virtual?health care for over 20 conditions, from acne?to allergies.
在賈西發(fā)表聲明的兩天前，亞馬遜推出了“亞馬遜診所”。這是一項在32個州運(yùn)營的在線服務(wù)，為從痤瘡到過敏等20多種疾病提供虛擬醫(yī)療服務(wù)。
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Amazon describes the service as a virtual storefront that connects users with third-party health providers.
亞馬遜將這項服務(wù)描述為連接用戶與第三方健康服務(wù)提供者的虛擬店面。

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The Amazon Clinic launch follows a $3.9bn takeover, announced in July, of One Medical, a primary-care provider with 790,000 members that offers telehealth services online and bricks-and-mortar clinics (the deal is yet to close).
在推出亞馬遜診所之前，亞馬遜于今年7月宣布以39億美元收購One Medical。One Medical是一家擁有79萬會員的初級保健公司，提供遠(yuǎn)程在線醫(yī)療服務(wù)和實體診所。不過目前交易尚未完成。
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The deal was led by Neil Lindsay, formerly responsible for Prime, Amazon’s subscription service.
這項交易由尼爾·林賽牽頭，他曾負(fù)責(zé)亞馬遜的會員Prime訂閱服務(wù)。
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He has said health care “is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention”.
他曾表示，醫(yī)療保健“是一個需要特別重塑的行業(yè)”。
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These latest moves complement?Amazon’s existing assets.
這些最新舉措是對亞馬遜現(xiàn)有醫(yī)療成果的補(bǔ)充。
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Its Halo band, a wearable device that went on sale in 2020, monitors the health status of users.
其2020年上市的可穿戴設(shè)備Halo手環(huán)可以監(jiān)測用戶的健康狀況。
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In 2018 it bought PillPack, a digital pharmacy?that is now part of Amazon Pharmacy, for $753m.
2018年，亞馬遜以7.53億美元收購了數(shù)字藥房PillPack，現(xiàn)已是亞馬遜藥房的一部分。
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Amazon Web Services launched specific cloud services for health-care and life-science companies in 2021.
亞馬遜網(wǎng)絡(luò)服務(wù)又在2021年為醫(yī)療保健和生命科學(xué)公司推出了特定的云服務(wù)。
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The move into primary care, jargon?for the role of the family doctor, is a big step but a logical one.
進(jìn)軍初級保健，是關(guān)鍵且合乎邏輯的一步。（初級保健是家庭醫(yī)生的行話）
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Walgreens, a pharmacy chain, reckons the industry is worth $1trn a year.
連鎖藥店沃爾格林估計，該行業(yè)每年價值1萬億美元。
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Around half of Generation Z and millennial Americans do not have a primary-care doctor and One Medical’s membership has almost doubled since 2019.
大約一半的千禧一代美國人沒有初級保健醫(yī)生。自2019年以來，One Medical會員人數(shù)幾乎翻了一番。
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Amazon Clinic will accept cash for its services, rather than relying on America’s nightmarish?insurance system to recoup costs.
亞馬遜診所的服務(wù)將接受現(xiàn)金支付，而不是依靠美國噩夢般的保險系統(tǒng)來收回成本。
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（恭喜讀完，本篇英語詞匯量378/800左右）
原文出自：2022年11月26日《The Economist》Business版塊。

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【補(bǔ)充資料】（來自于網(wǎng)絡(luò)）
Amazon Clinic據(jù)界面的報道，亞馬遜公開宣布了其史上最大醫(yī)療收購案，以39億美金超大手筆收購一家醫(yī)療服務(wù)運(yùn)營商1Life Healthcare。這是Jeff Bezos卸任、新任CEO Andy Jassy上任后的第一筆巨額收購案。這筆收購，也讓亞馬遜亮出了其大舉進(jìn)軍美國醫(yī)療界的決心和野心。通過收購One Medical，亞馬遜將獲得其此前運(yùn)營的全美范圍25個區(qū)域市場，包含188個線下醫(yī)療網(wǎng)點。
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亞馬遜的Prime服務(wù)計劃是一項方便注冊會員購物的增值計劃。作為亞馬遜Prime會員，您可在會員有效期內(nèi)享受無限次亞馬遜海外購商品滿額免費(fèi)配送服務(wù)。隨著Prime會員權(quán)益不斷豐富，您將獲得越來越美好的在線購物體驗。免費(fèi)試享期滿后，您將自動成為年度或季度會員。亞馬遜Prime年度會員費(fèi)為人民幣288元；或以人民幣79元/季度的價格成為Prime季度會員，享受與年度會員一樣的權(quán)益和體驗。
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社區(qū)醫(yī)療（community care）范圍是指一般的醫(yī)療保健，即病人在轉(zhuǎn)診到醫(yī)院或?qū)？魄暗囊恍┽t(yī)療，屬于常見的初級醫(yī)療（primary care）。大病進(jìn)醫(yī)院，小病進(jìn)社區(qū)是比較合理的醫(yī)療資源配置方式，社區(qū)醫(yī)療機(jī)構(gòu)將成為預(yù)防保健、基本醫(yī)療、健康教育、疾病控制等社區(qū)衛(wèi)生服務(wù)的主體。
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【重點句子】（3?個）
AS BIG TECH firms face a brutal slow-down the hunt is on for new areas of expansion.
由于殘酷的經(jīng)濟(jì)放緩形勢，大型科技公司正在尋找新的擴(kuò)張領(lǐng)域。
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Many tech firms have health-care ambitions.
很多科技公司躍躍欲試進(jìn)軍醫(yī)療保健行業(yè)。
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The move into primary care, jargon for the role of the family doctor, is a big step but a logical one.
進(jìn)軍初級保健，是關(guān)鍵且合乎邏輯的一步。（初級保健是家庭醫(yī)生的行話）