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Baidu is selling about a third of its stake in online travel site Ctrip.com International, generating around $1 billion to counter a slowing economy amid intensifying competition in its key advertising business. Baidu over the past years has sold its food-delivery arm to Alibaba Group Holding’s Ele.me, and merged its music streaming service with Chinese record label Taihe, allowing the search giant to focus on its key units such as advertising, smart speakers and autonomous cars. More recently, the 19-year-old company has expanded its investment into content needed to attract and keep users, backing social media platforms including Q&A app Zhihu.

generatecreate vt. 產生；發生（produce/create）
· produce/generate income: 產生收益
· produce/generate profit: 產生利潤
· generate electricity/heat: 發（產生）電/熱
counter vt. 抵消；抵制（后面通常接不好的事情）
· counter a slowing economy
intensifying adj. 增強的，加劇的（increasing）
· intensify vt. 使加劇，強化（to increase)
· intensifying violence: 中東的暴力沖突加劇
· intensifying attack: （打仗時）敵方的攻擊加劇
arm n.部門，分部，分支機構；手臂
· the research arm of the company: 公司的科研部門
merge vt. 合并，融合
· merge cells: 合并單元格
merge A with B: 把A和B合并或融合
· Our company will merge sales arm with market arm.
我們公司的銷售部和市場部要合并了。
expand vt. 擴大，擴展
· We've expanded the business by opening two more stores.
我們增開了兩個商店以擴展業務。
attract and keep users: 引流和圈粉

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