THIS month Jennifer Balch will head into the Amazon rainforest of Mato Grosso state, in Brazil.She intends to set fire to it and find out what happens.
珍妮弗·巴尔什这个月即将深入巴西马托格罗索州的亚马逊雨林,她打算在那来一场人工火灾,然后看看会发生什么。
The evergreen forests of the Amazon and Congo basins, for example, are generally fire-free because the closed canopy maintains a level of humidity that inhibits burning.
例如,亚马逊和刚果盆地的乔木通常是防火的,因为它们遮天的树冠保持了一定的湿度,抑制了燃烧。
A new experiment is setting the Amazon on fire.
一项新实验点燃亚马逊丛林。
The higher probability of a drier Amazon in the 21st Century predicted by some global circulation models... may push Amazonia towards an amplified fire-prone system.
据某些全球环流模型预测,21世纪的亚马逊地区可能更干燥。这种概率的上升有可能促使亚马逊成为火灾多发区。
But if it does return fire, Amazon could get its fingers toasted.
但它如果点起价格战的烈火,亚马逊的手指将难免被烧焦。
The Kindle Fire (internal code name: Otter) is designed to ensure that even more of those purchases go to Amazon.
(内部码:水濑)设计的主要目的之一就是保证更多的销量投入亚马逊的怀抱。
For Amazon one of the main benefits is considered to be the data mining opportunities arising from having all web pages browsed by Kindle Fire users tunneled through AWS.
对于Amazon来说,从Kindle Fire用户通过AWS浏览的所有web页面中进行数据挖掘,这 其中的机会是最大的好处之一。
DC says it took two years of work with Amazon to complete the process of converting the comics into something that could be read and appreciated on the Kindle Fire.
DC称为了将动漫转换为可在Kindle Fire阅读器上阅读并鉴赏的内容,他们与亚马逊合作了两年时间才完成整个过程。
Fiona Dias, ShopRunner's chief strategy officer, says that by locking in a new wave of customers with the Kindle Fire, Amazon will make their jobs even harder.
ShopRunner首席战略官菲奥娜·迪亚斯表示,亚马逊可以借助Kindle Fire锁定一批新用户,使得他们的工作更加难以展开。
With the Kindle Fire, Amazon is betting that people who see a tablet as an entertainment device might think $500 is too rich, but $200 is worth it.
亚马逊Kindle Fire平板电脑的锁定的目标人群仅仅只是将平板电脑当成一种娱乐设备,花500美元不值得,200美元则刚刚好。
What Amazon needs next is a steeply rising sales curve for the Kindle Fire, which could provide the necessary scale to challenge Apple.
亚马逊接下来需要的乃是Kindle Fire的市场大卖,这将为挑战苹果提供必要的规模效应。
Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, has unveiled a color tablet computer called the Kindle Fire in New York.
全球最大的在线零售商亚马逊在纽约正式发布名为Kindle Fire彩色平板电脑。
The only way most Kindle Fire owners are going to be installing apps is from the Amazon Appstore for Android.
大多数Kindle Fire用户安装应用的唯一方式就是使用亚马逊安卓应用商店。
Amazon breaks up the video section on the Fire into three main categories — Prime Instant Videos, Movies and TV Shows.
亚马逊将Fire上的视频分成三大类:尊享即时视频,电影和电视节目。
Amazon unveiled a Kindle Fire tablet for $200, less than half the price of the iPad, the original tablet.
亚马逊展示了一款售价200美元的平板电脑KINDLE FIRE,这比最初的平板电脑IPAD便宜了一半还多。
More than any other Kindle before it, the Fire is an initiation into an ecosystem where nearly every service is provided by Amazon.
Fire比此前任何一款Kindle都要更进一步,它是亚马逊独有的生态系统的接入装置,这个系统中亚马逊提供的服务几乎应有尽有。
Moreover, Amazon can use cross-subsidies from the sale of digital content to keep the price of the Fire down, something that rival tablet-makers who do not sell content cannot do.
此外,亚马逊可以利用数字内容得来的交叉补贴降低Fire的价格。这一点是那些不内容的平板电脑制造商对手所无法做到的。
Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon. com.
苹果新任总裁库克还将不得不应对Amazon公司推出的Kindle点燃的平板电脑战火。
Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon. com.
苹果新任总裁库克还将不得不应对Amazon公司推出的Kindle点燃的平板电脑战火。
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