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11 月热词：Double Eleven 双十一
一年一度的“双十一”，你是否加入了疯狂抢购行列？支付宝昨日交易 1.7 亿笔，成交金额
350 亿，比阿里巴巴集团执行主席马云的预估更高。请看这篇来自 South China Morning
Post 的报道
Singles’ Day discounts prompt online shoppers to spend 30 billion yuan
The mainland’s online shoppers set
another record yesterday as major retailing
retailing: the b usiness of selling goods to the public, usually
through shops/ stores 零售
websites offered massive discounts on
Singles’ Day.
Taobao and Tmall, the two main online
retailing platforms of Alibaba Group,
exceed: to b e more than a particular numb er or amount 超过
smashed last year’s combined record of 19.1
天下午一时就已打破去年创造的 191 亿元销售记录。
阿里巴巴集团旗下的两个主要网上零售平台——淘宝和天猫，在昨
billion yuan (HK$24.17 billion) sales for
the whole day in the first 13 hours
yesterday. By 9.20pm, the total exceeded
30 billion yuan, the company said on its
weibo account.
The online shopping spree comes as the
government is eager to find new ways to
spree: a short period of time when you do a lot of one activity,
promote domestic consumption as its new
economic driver.
疯狂玩乐
especially spending money or drinking alcohol（通常指花很多钱的）
economic driver: the force that drives economic growth 经济发展
的驱动力
November 11, widely referred to as “double attribute: regard sth as b elonging to, caused b y or produced by
eleven” in China, is a day attributed to and
celebrated by single people due to the
sb ./ sth. 认为某事物属于某人（某事物），常见搭配 attrib ute sth. to
shape of the Arabic numerals “11/11”.
11 月 11 日，在中国被称为“双十一”，因为阿拉伯数字 11.11 的缘
sb . / sth.
故，是为了庆祝单身的一个节日。
The Tmall site began marketing the day as
自 2009 年起，天猫商城把这一天作为一年一度的销售盛会。
its biggest sales event in 2009.
Rivals then jumped on board, and the day
has since turned from an opportunity to
seek out a partner - or celebrate being
rival: a person, group, or organization that you compete with in
single - into a booming online shopping
bonanza.
a lot of money 暴富或幸运之源；利润的增加
At midnight Tmall’s vendors began cutting
merchant: wholesale trader, esp. one who trades with foreign
sport, b usiness, a fight etc 竞争对手
bonanza: a lucky or successful situation where people can make
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prices by 50 per cent or more on selected countries 批发商，（尤指）外贸批发商
products from 20,000 Chinese and
international merchants, including Gap
and Steven Madden.
Smaller rival 360buy
Jingdong began
pledge to: to make a formal, usually pub lic, promise that you will
offering half-price Pampers diapers from do something 保证，担保
November 1 and pledged to slice as much
as 70 per cent off some items, including
slimming belts and facial moisturisers,
slice: to cut meat, b read, vegetab les etc into thin flat pieces 切成
according to its website.
help with weight loss or tighten muscles 减肥腰带
片，这里指砍价、削价
slimming belts: a b elt that fits around the waist and vib rates to
facial moisturiser: 面部保湿产品
US consumers last year spent US$1.46 Cyber Monday: a marketing term for the Monday after
billion on Cyber Monday, or the Monday Thanksgiving in the United States. The term "Cyb er Monday" was
after Thanksgiving when e-retailers offer created b y marketing companies to persuade people to shop
big promotions.
online. The term made its debut on November 28, 2005 in a
Shop.org press release entitled "'Cyb er Monday Quickly Becoming
One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year" 网络星期一
Jack Ma, Alibaba’s founder and chairman,
told the media before the sales that he
expected this year’s Singles’
transactions to top 30 billion yuan.
transaction: a b usiness deal or action, such as buying or selling
something 交易
Day
Elsie Chang, an associate partner with
overtake: to develop or increase more quickly than someone or
consulting firm McKinsey & Co, said she something else and become more successful, more important, or
believed it would not take long for China to more advanced than them 超过
overtake the United States to become the
No 1 e-commerce market worldwide.
“The robust online sales have reflected the robust: vigorous; healthy and strong 有活力的；强健的
strong growth momentum of China’s
e-commerce sector, although the overall
retailing sector in China slowed down this
year,” Chang said.
Mo Daiqing, a researcher with the China contribute to: increase sth.; add to sth. 增加到某事物中，促进
e-Business Research Centre, said the 了„„
traditional retailers also contributed to the
day’s record online shopping spree.
“More and more Chinese people are using
cell phones to shop online and a lot of
brick-and-mortar:
describ es the
physical
presence
of a
building(s) or other structure. The term b rick -and-mortar business
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brick-and-mortar store operators decided is often used to refer to a company that possesses buildings,
这 里 的
to join the online sale this time, which also
helped boost the sales figure,” Mo said.
production
Figures
account for: if a particular thing accounts for a part or proportion
from
the
China
e-Business
facilities,
or
store
for
operations
b rick-and-mortar store 指传统的实体店
Research Centre show that online sales on of something, that part or proportion consists of that thing, or is
the mainland accounted for about 6.8 per
used or produced b y it 占„„（百分比）
cent of total retail sales by June this year,
compared to 6.3 per cent last December.
In a meeting with private entrepreneurs surf: to look quickly through information on the Internet for
and state enterprise chiefs late last month,
anything that interests you 浏览（网站、网页）
Premier Li Keqiang told Jack Ma that he
had surfed some of the Taobao vendors’
online stores and praised the hard-working
spirit of the young online shop owners,
state radio reported.
Li said he was impressed not just by the
李克强总理说，令他印象深刻的不仅仅是销售数字。
sales figures.
“Nine million online vendors [on Taobao] courier: a person or company whose job is to take packages or
could mean another 10 million jobs,”
Xinhua quoted Li as saying. “If we take into
important papers somewhere 快递员
logistic: relating to the logistics of doing something 物流的
account [downstream] couriers and
logistics sectors, it has created even more
jobs.”
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