经济学人下载:百度--下一个风口(2)

 1. The firm is rapidly diversifying. Last November it agreed to buy YY Live, a video-sharing and live-streaming app, for $3.6bn, in a bid to boost its presence in online entertainment and compete with the likes of Kuaishou.

in a bid to 试图

The Government has already closed down two newspapers in a bid to silence its critics.

政府已经查禁了两家报纸，试图压制批评人士的言论。

2. Baidu is also investing heavily in cloud services to keep up with Alibaba and Tencent, two bigger Chinese tech rivals.

keep up with 跟上，不落人之后

It is difficult to keep up with the rapid pace of change.

跟上迅速的变化是很困难的。