1039.经济学人-It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube-4

Ms Wojcicki is as close to Mountain View aristocracy as you can get without being surnamed Brin or Page; Sergey and Larry first set up the search engine that would be Google in her garage.

She no doubt helped bring Google’s professionalism to bear on YouTube.

After the freewheeling chaos of YouTube’s early days—it had been founded only a year before Google bought it in 2006—she became the adult, and ad-executive, in the room.

As she departs it is worth asking whether YouTube, now past adolescence, benefits from its attachment to the mother ship as much as it used to.

Tim Mulligan of midia, another research firm, thinks Alphabet may in fact be hindering YouTube more than helping it. Is it time for a spin-off?

这是《经济学人》2023年2月刊的一篇文章'It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube'第5段。

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aristocracy：贵族

surnamed：取姓，以姓氏称呼

garage：车库

在不冠以Brin或者Page姓氏的情况下，Wojcicki女士已经是到达了顶层一览贵族最近的距离了；Sergey与 Larry第一个建立的搜索引擎google就是在她的车库中。

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她无疑将谷歌的职业化带到了YouTube上面。

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在YouTube早期无序混乱的日子里-谷歌2006年收购之前刚刚创立一年-她成为公司的成熟的广告总经理。

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departs：离开

adolescence：青春期

attachment：隶属

随着她的离职，如今已过青春期的YouTube从隶属母舰获得的收益是否能够像过去一样多，这个问题值得一问。

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hindering：阻碍

另一家调研公司midia的分析师Tim Mulligan认为，Alphabet对于YouTube实际上来说阻碍大于帮助。是时候剥离出来了吗

词汇

aristocracy：贵族

surnamed：取姓，以姓氏称呼

garage：车库

departs：离开

adolescence：青春期

attachment：隶属

hindering：阻碍