英语新闻听写 智能手机市场2015大盘点

For the first time market research firm IDC is predicting that 2015 will be the first year that the rate at which the worldwide smartphone market expands will sink into single digits¹.

市场研究机构IDC首预测，2015年全球智能手机增长将首次降至个位数。

Turns out, most people who want smartphones probably already have'em.

归其原因，智能手机已成为了多数人的囊中之物。

Counterintuitively, this is to Apple's benefit.

“苹果”从中受益，这反而出乎了人们的意料。

IDC’s new report today predicts total smartphone shipments² in 2015 will amount to a 9.8 percent increase compared to last year, or 1.43 billion units.

今天，据IDC最新报告预测，较去年相比，2015年全球智能手机出货量预计将增长9.8%，至14.3亿部。

Not surprisingly, IDC expects that Windows Phones and other phones running on operating systems other than Android or iOS will ship in significantly³ less quantities in the future.

据IDC预测，Windows Phones等其它非安卓和“苹果”操作系统手机出货量将进一步缩水，而这也在预料之内。

1 digits   

n.数字( digit的名词复数 )；手指，足趾

参考例句：

• The number 1000 contains four digits. 1000是四位数。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The number 410 contains three digits. 数字 410 中包括三个数目字。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2 shipments   

船运，水运( shipment的名词复数 )； （从海路、陆路或空运的）一批货物

参考例句：

• The shipments are being expedited as much as possible. 装货速度在尽量加快。
• We received two shipments from Chicago. 我们收到从芝加哥运来的两船货物。

3 significantly   

adv.意味深长地；值得注目地

参考例句：

• Prices did not alter significantly during 2004. 2004年期间，价格没有大的变化。
• American English is significantly different from British English. 美国英语与英国英语有很大差异。