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第二題：翻譯題（英翻中） Last month, Amazon announced that it would pay $13.7bn to take over Whole Foods, an upscale grocer known for its organic produce. The acquisition was more than ten times bigger than any one Amazon has made so far, and the precise impact of this takeover is hard to gauge, primarily because buying Whole Foods barely gives Amazon a stranglehold on food and beverages: the combined companies will account for just 1.4% of America’s grocery market. Customers who shop at the chain are not the mass market; instead they are the unusually niche of affluent groups. Since Amazon has yet to make any decision about significant changes at Whole Foods, how Amazon is to integrate Whole Foods remains murky, stirring speculation on business synergy and market rivalry. Nevertheless, this takeover gives a glimpse into Amazon’s playbook, a rather complex strategy of enmeshing itself in its customers’ lives: each new service, from streaming video to its virtual assistant, makes it more integral to a person’s day.【25 分】