2018考研英語長難句解析（23）

Making a buck is becoming progressively。more challenging for brick-and-mortar retailers. Nearly two decades after Amazon.com and others began to chop away at the underpinnings of the traditional retailing business model, the pervasiveness of smartphones, the emergence of the digitally empowered consumer, and the prospect of one-day delivery make the future of physical retailing seem ever more tenuous.
    詞匯突破：
    Makea buck 掙錢
    Progressively 越來越
    Challenging 挑戰(zhàn)性
    brick-and-mortar retailers 實體零售商
    chop away at 削弱;動搖
    underpinning (理論)基礎(chǔ)
    pervasiveness 遍布，普及
    empower 獲得…能力
    physical retailing 實體銷售
    tenuous 脆弱;
    句子解析：
    1. Making a buck is becoming progressively more challenging for brick-and-mortarretailers.
    對于實體店而言，賺錢變得越來越困難
    2. Nearly two decades after Amazon.com and others began to chop away at the underpinnings of the traditional retailing business model, the pervasiveness of smartphones, the emergence of the digitally empowered consumer, and the prospect of one-day delivery make the future of physical retailing seem ever more tenuous.
    句子主干： A, B and C make D seemever more tenuous.
    A= the pervasiveness of smart phones,
    B= the emergence of the digitally empowered consumer
    C= the prospect of one-day delivery
    其他成分：Nearly two decades after Amazon.com and others began to chop away at the underpinnings of the traditional retailing business model,時間狀語
    參考譯文：二十多前，亞馬遜以及其他公司就開始削弱傳統(tǒng)零售商業(yè)模式的理論基礎(chǔ)，智能手機無處不在，消費者擁有了數(shù)字技術(shù)的能力，快遞業(yè)可以當(dāng)日送達，這些都使得實體銷售的前景似乎更加岌岌可危。