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Didi says it will prioritise safety over growth after murders

Didi Chuxing, China’s ride-hailing giant, has said it will start measuring success in terms of safety rather than scale and growth, after the second murder of a female passenger in four months sparked backlash from government authorities and users.

• ride-hailing 打车服务 hail 指“呼喊，大声招呼” 打车可以说 hail a cab , hail a taxi

• backlash [ˈbæklæʃ] n. [C] a strong negative reaction by a number of people against recent events, especially against political or social developments 〔尤指对政治或社会事件的〕强烈反应，反对

• spark backlash from sb 引起某人的强烈反对 我们也可以说 provoke backlash from sb [写作推荐]

Didi – which is the world’s largest ride-hailing platform by both valuation and riders served – issued a remorseful statement on Tuesday, saying: "We see clearly this is because our vanity overtook our original beliefs. We raced non-stop riding on the force of breathless expansion and capital through these few years; but this has no meaning in such a tragic loss of life. Throughout the company we start to question if we are doing the right thing; or even whether we have the right values. There is an enormous amount of self-doubt, guilt and soul-searching. The only thing we can do at this moment of pain is to face the pain and take on our responsibility . Not a single second shall be lost in solving the problems with our full effort. To bring back what we were here for from day one , this is the only meaningful kind of condolence we could offer to the victim."

• remorseful [rɪˈmɔːsfəl] adj. If you are remorseful, you feel very guilty and sorry about something wrong that you have done. 懊悔的；悔恨的；自责的 ◇ He was genuinely remorseful. 他真心实意地感到懊悔。

• issue a statement 发表声明

• vanity [ˈvænɪti] n.[U] too much pride in yourself, so that you are always thinking about yourself and your appearance 虚荣（心） ; 自负 ◇ Sabrina had none of the vanity so often associated with beautiful women. 萨布丽娜没有一点漂亮女人经常会有的那种虚荣。

• overtake v. to develop or increase more quickly than someone or something else and become more successful, more important, or more advanced than them 〔发展或增长〕超越，超过 ◇ Television soon overtook the cinema as the most popular form of entertainment. 电视很快就超过了电影，成为最大众化的娱乐方式。

• non-stop 既可以作形容词也可以作副词，指“不停顿的，不断的” (without any stops or pauses)

• race non-stop riding 马不停蹄，一路狂奔

• race to move very fast; to move sb / sth very fast （使）快速移动，快速运转 ◇ He raced up the stairs. 他飞快地冲上楼去。 ◇ The days seemed to race past. 日子似乎很快就过去了。

• condolence [kənˈdəʊləns] n. A message of condolence is a message in which you express your sympathy for someone because one of their friends or relatives has died recently. 慰唁

• take on one’s responsibility 负起某人责任

• from day one (informal) from the beginning 从一开始；从第一天 ◇ It's never worked from day one. 这从一开始就行不通。

It said that it will stop using “scale and growth as our measurement of success”, instead making safety “the single most important performance indicator.”

• the single+最高级 表示“最...的”，比如“抽烟是导致肺癌的最重要的原因”，我们可以说 ◇Cigarette smoking is the single most important cause of lung cancer. 再比如 “旅游业是这个国家最大的收入来源”： Tourism is the country's single biggest earner. [写作推荐]
  

Safety products like an SOS button and itinerary sharing functions will be upgraded, and the company said it will make changes to ensure that users dialing the police can be connected as soon as possible.

• itinerary [aɪˈtɪnərəri] n.[C] a plan or list of the places you will visit on a journey 旅行计划 ; 预定行程

• dial the police 和 call the police 一样，都可以指报警

Hitch – the carpool service that was halted earlier this week – will remain suspended indefinitely until a user-approved safety mechanism can be added. The service’s business model will be “thoroughly reevaluated”, Didi said.

• hitch 在这里指滴滴的顺风车，作者用同位语 the carpool service 对其进行了简单的解释。 Hitch will remain suspended indefinitely 即“滴滴顺风车业务将无限期下线”。滴滴现在提供的业务还有快车 Express ，出租车 Taxi ，豪华车 Luxe 等等。

• the carpool service 拼车服务
  

Additionally, Didi said it will deepen its collaboration with law enforcement agencies, including the testing of a newself-service inquiry system for police.

Didi’s red-hot growth has helped it out-manoeuvre Uber in China, and it is in the midst of an international expansion push. Its Hitch product in particular has resonated with younger users, since it is less expensive than regular Didi rides.

• red-hot growth ret-hot 本来是形容金属或岩石“赤热的，热得通红的”，引申为“激进的，热烈的” red-hot growth 即“迅速发展，激进发展”

• out-manoeuvre [ˌaʊtməˈnuːvər] v. If you outmanoeuvre someone, you gain an advantage over them in a particular situation by behaving in a clever and skilful way. 智胜；比 … 技高一筹 ◇ He has shown once again that he's able to outmanoeuvre the military. 他再次证明了自己能够智胜军方。

• in the midst of sth if you are in the midst of an event or situation, it is happening around you 在某事的进行过程中 ; 正值某事发生的时候 ◇The government is in the midst of a major crisis. 政府正处于重大危机时期。 与 in the midst of sth 类似的表达还有 in the middle of sth 。

• [经济学人] India is in the midst of a data-price war that has hugely benefited consumers. 印度正在开展的数字价格战令消费者大为受益。 [写作推荐 ]