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 試圖
The Government has already closed down two newspapers in a bid to silence its critics.
政府已經查禁了兩家報紙,試圖壓制批評人士的言論
。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.
跟上迅速的變化是很困難的
。