Think Black Friday Is A Big Deal? You Haven't Seen China's Version 如果你以为美国的“黑色星期五”的超级购物狂欢了不起,你还没有见识过中国双十一呢! big deal:了不起的事,极其重大的事; Thought Black Friday was the shopping holiday of the year? China has its own version, and sales dwarf Black Friday's and Cyber Monday's combined. 以为美国的黑色星期五是一年一度的购物季么?中国有它自己的版本,他们的销售业绩使得黑色星期五和网络星期一加在一起都显得那么微不足道。 Black Friday:美国感恩节的第二天,通常叫做Black Friday,通常标志着Christmas Shopping Season的开始。Black Friday Sales对于美国的消费旺季具有特殊的意义,代表了销售旺季的开始,销售能否有好的表现,要看Black Friday的销售能否开门红。 own version:自己的版本 Cyber Monday:每星期网上疯狂购物的一天,(在美国,商店通常在星期一列出大折扣的商品,发布在网上,为了吸引顾客); combined:加在一起 dwarf vt.(使) 显得矮小; It's officially called the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival. But it's also known as Singles Day because in China, Nov. 11 has informally become a day when bachelors celebrated their bachelorhood. 它的正式名称叫做双十一全球购物节,但是在中国,它又被称作光棍节,因为11月11日被认为是单身汉们庆祝单身生活的节日。 bachelors:单身汉 bachelorhood:单身生活,独身生活 Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba turned the non-commercial holiday into a shopping extravaganza in 2009 when it started offering Singles Day deals. 中国电子商务巨人阿里巴巴将这样一个非常不商业的节日,在2009年变成了一个购物狂欢节,最开始是向单身人士提供一天的优惠购物活动。 turned sth. into:把xxx变为xxx non-commercial:不商业的,非商业的 shopping extravaganza:盛大表演(比赛),盛事; This year, shoppers spent a record $25.3 billion. For context, Black Friday and Cyber Monday's sales last year combined came in at just under $7 billion. 今年,购物者创下了记录,花了将近253亿美元,相比较来说,去年的黑色星期五和网络星期一的销售总和加在一起也不过70亿美元。 That gap may only widen in the future. Forbes notes five years from now, China's expected to have 210 million more people just in its middle class than the U.S. will have in the entire country. 这个差距在未来只会越来越大,福布斯预测,从现在到未来五年,中国还将有预计2亿1千万人口进入中产阶层,而这个数字将超过整个美国的中产阶层的总数。 middle class:中产阶层 Some analysts note China's middle class has adopted a "keeping up with the Joneses" approach to shopping. But while the U.S. can look back at a long history of consumerism, Singles Day points to a relatively new trend in China. 一些分析家认为,中国的中产阶级在购物上步上了“相互攀比”之风。但是,对于美国那种历史悠久的保护消费者利益主义来说,单身汉的消费节日相对来说还是一个比较新的趋势。 "keeping up with the Joneses”: 向邻居看齐; 跟上琼斯 consumerism:消费主义 (认为高消费对个人和社会有利的看法); 保护消费者利益主义;
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