亞馬遜成第二家市值突破萬億的公司

Amazon has become the second publicly traded company in the US to be valued at a $1 trillion, just weeks after tech giant Apple became the first to reach the historic milestone.

亞馬遜成美國上市公司中第二家市值達一萬億美元的公司，僅僅幾周前，蘋果公司才迎來這一歷史性里程碑。

In the 24 years since its founding, the company has capitalised on a growing demand for online shopping. It now generates $178 bn in revenue each year.

成立24年以來，亞馬遜充分利用不斷擴張的網購需求?，F(xiàn)如今，年收益高達1780億美元。

The company has gone from being an online marketplace to a movie and television producer, e-book publisher, and cloud storage centre. It also created a popular, digital home assistant named "Alexa".

這家公司從在線市場演變成了影視制作人、電子書出版商及云端存儲中心。它還創(chuàng)造出了大受歡迎的數碼管家助手“Alexa”。

Amazon's success has also made its CEO, Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world – something Senator Bernie Sanders took shots at during a Labour Day event.

亞馬遜的成功也使得CEO杰夫?貝佐斯成為了這個世界上最富有的人——在一次勞工節(jié)活動中，這一點成了參議員伯尼?桑德斯抨擊他的地方。

“We have one person whose wealth is increasing by $250 million every single day, while he pays thousands of his workers wages that are so low that they are forced to go on food stamps, Medicaid, and subsidized housing.”

“我們中有一個人，他的財富以每天2.5億美元的速度增長，然而卻對他數以千計的員工支付著低廉的薪水，低到他們不得不依賴政府糧票、公共醫(yī)療補助及補貼住房。”

The company hit back with a statement claiming Mr Sanders had spread "misleading statements".

亞馬遜回擊稱桑德斯先生傳播的是“誤導性言論”。

"We encourage anyone to compare our pay and benefits to other retailers," the company said.

“歡迎任何人就我司的薪資福利與其他零售商作比較。”亞馬遜如此回應。

It was not the first time the nearly 600,000-person company has been criticised for its employment practices. A 2015 expose from the New York Times revealed how even the company's white-collar employees are often worked past their breaking points. The company responded by calling the article "sensational" and saying it had misrepresented the company.

這家近60萬員工的公司的雇傭狀況，并不是第一次被人批評。2015年《紐約時報》的一篇揭露報道顯示，甚至于這家公司的白領也常常工作到崩潰邊緣。當時亞馬遜回應說這篇文章是“聳人聽聞”的，是故意對其做出錯誤報道。

Amazon has also found a frequent critic in President Donald Trump, who recently accused the company of failing to pay its fair share of taxes to using Mr Bezos 's ownership of the Washington Post to lobby for its interests.

還有一位活躍的亞馬遜“批評家”——總統(tǒng)唐納德?特朗普，他最近譴責該公司未按合理份額繳納稅款，因為貝佐斯先生擁有的《華盛頓時報》充當了其為公司利益游說的工具。