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I got this free subscription of financial text message from Taiwan Mobile. I searched this sentence from the internet and found it in many financial news articles. I’m trying to practice explaining the grammar and vocabulary in this sentence. I hope you can help me point out any mistakes in my explanation especially the grammar part.
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Financial News 0807: Toyota’s hugely popular Prius hybrid ranked as Japan’s top-selling car in July, clinching the spot for the third consecutive month.
台灣大哥大我的VIP財經報0807：豐田汽車最受歡迎的油電混合動力車Prius於七月登上日本汽車銷售冠軍寶座，連續三個月蟬連第一。
名詞和片語釋義：
1.Toyota Prius hybrid: 日本豐田汽車於1997研發完成，使用汽油引擎和動能馬達混合的技術，比傳統汽車減少50%的汽油消耗量，達到「省油、動力、環保、靜謐」的節能減碳效果。
資料來源：Toyota Prius hybrid: http://www.toyota.com/prius-hybrid/
http://www.toyota.com.au/home
Hybrid科技館: http://www.toyota.com.tw/4F_hybrid/4F_index.asp
2. hugely adv. 巨大的；非常
hugely用來形容popular這個形容詞，意思是非常受歡迎。
3. ranked as (被) 排名
根據麥克米倫字典的定義：to be good, bad, important, unimportant etc compared with other similar things
例句：This program ranked as the most violent TV show ever seen on television has become more and more popular among teenagers. 這個被視為最暴力的電視節目愈來愈受青少年的歡迎。
4. hybrid
根據麥克米倫字典的定義：hybrid: a mixture of different things or styles (不同物質和風格的) 混合物、合成物
根據維基百科的定義：Hybrid vehicle is a vehicle which uses a mixture of power or fuel sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid
5. clinch在…得勝；最終贏得 clinching the spot for 在…競賽中得到成功的位置
根據麥克米倫字典的定義：clinch: to manage to win or achieve something by doing one final thing that makes it certain
相關片語：clinch a victory/game/deal 例句：Tom Johnson scored the goals that clinched the victory. 提姆‧強生踢進勝負關鍵的幾個球。
6.spot (競賽等中的) 成功的位置
根據的麥克米倫字典的定義：spot: a position of success when compared with others, for example in a competition
例句：The team has no chance of a spot in the top five. 該隊沒有前5名的機會。
7. consecutive連續不斷的
根據的麥克米倫字典的定義：consecutive: following one another in order with nothing else in between
例句：He has been late now on three consecutive days. 他已經連續三天遲到。
幾件事：
1. 新聞英文的文法 不同於一般的 所以關於clinching並不是因為句子裡已經有一個動詞 in fact, 句子裡沒有動詞喔--> 新聞
2. rank這個字的用法 大都是被動 因為是 "被排名" 不是自己排--> 例句錯囉
3. consecutive的第一句例句 這句沒有動詞 要修改的話 我會把following改成follow 然後把and去掉 因為"and的前後要接相同的東西"
謝謝Alice的指正！我也學到了很多！
這樣改有沒有好一點？
If I have money, I will consider buying this type of vehicle. I believe more and more cars like this will be manufactured in the future. We should cut down fuel consumption to save the environment.