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What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.
企业担心的是现在被称为“商品化”的现象。这个词的意思很简单，就是把特定产品的市场转变成商品市场。商品市场的特点是价格和利润率下降，竞争加剧，进入壁垒降低。
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If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
如果你要对抗一种国际现象，在国际上分享信息是必不可少的。
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.
因为所有的生物学都是相互联系的，所以一个人常常可以用夸大某一特定现象的有机体来取得突破，然后探索其共性。
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
给一种现象贴上标签并不能解释它。
It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.
这是一种我们并不真正理解的现象。
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
抑郁症不是一种功能障碍，而是一种功能性现象。它让你停止寒冷，让你沮丧，让你痛苦。
Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
社交网络现象会减少吗?我不这么想。