潛在用戶上看9億
With the US market already saturated and China’s influence as the world’s largest emerging economy fading, which country is seeing explosive growth in internet users? The answer is India.
隨著美國市場已經飽和，中國作為全球最大新興經濟體的影響力逐漸式微，哪個國家的網路用戶正在爆炸性成長？ 答案是印度。
saturated(adj.)飽和的saturated fat飽和性脂肪unsaturated fat不飽和脂肪emerging economy 新興經濟市場fade(v.)消退=decline=waneexplosive(adj.)爆炸性的、激增的、迅速擴大的dramatic(adj.)戲劇化的
India has more people offline than any other country, making it the biggest opportunity in the global tech industry today. There are 900 million Indians who have never used a smartphone, nor accessed the internet.
印度的離線人口比任何其他國家都多，使其成為當今全球科技產業的最大市場，有9億印度人從未使用過智慧型手機或上網。
nor(adv.)也沒有;也不access(v.)取得;使用;利用
Silicon Valley’s tech giants are already competing in the race to bring them online, adding to over 500 million Indians already connected to the internet.
矽谷的科技巨頭已經加入競賽，企圖讓這些未上網的人口上線。目前印度的在線人口超過5億。
compete(v.)競爭
Rajan Anandan, managing director of Google in India, estimates that India will have 800 million internet users by 2022 at the latest.
谷歌印度區總經理阿南丹估計，最晚到2022年印度將有8億網路用戶。
“The reality is only 30% of India’s market is online today. The real India that needs the internet, that can benefit from the internet is not yet online,” Anandan added. “In many ways we are in day zero of the Indian internet.”
「事實是只有3成的印度市場在線上，真正需要網路且能因網路受惠的印度仍未上線，在許多方面，我們處於印度網路發展的萌芽期。」
benefit from~受惠於
The key to India’s internet boom would be low-cost smartphones.
印度網路蓬勃發展的關鍵會是低價智慧型手機，
boom(n.)(經濟)繁榮、迅速增長、激增baby boom(二次大戰後)嬰兒潮
In India, people go directly from not being online to being online via a smartphone, and for most people, the biggest hurdle to getting online is the price of smartphones.
在印度，人們直接從不上網到使用智慧型手機上網，而對於大多數人來說，上網的最大障礙是智慧型手機的價格，
hurdle(n.)障礙、難題=obstacle=barrier
Even the most affordable models are still out of reach for many Indians, who earn less than $2,000 a year on average.
對於許多印度人來說，即便是最實惠的型號也是遙不可及的，因為他們的年均收入不到2000美元，
affordable(adj.)可負擔的;負擔得起的out of reach遙不可及的on average平均
“If we could lower the price, then I think literally overnight we could double the user base in India,” said Anandan.
阿南丹說：「如果我們可以降低價格，那麼我認為印度的網路用戶群肯定將一夕翻倍。」
literally(adv.)逐字地、(用於強調)確實、真正地、不誇張地