W3Day4 Alibaba revenues rise 54% in ‘blowout quarter’
地道表达
- Alibaba blew through analysts’ earnings estimates, lifting revenues 54 per cent to Rmb 53.25bn ($7.7bn) in its quarter to the end ofDecember and prompting the Chinese ecommerce group tolift its full-year growth guidance to 53 per cent.
[blow through]go way beyond it, surpass
v. show off(引申意义); or吹；风吹；擤(鼻子)；(保险丝)熔断；<口>浪费(机会)
eg. Blow out the candles吹灭
eg. A short circuit will blow the fuse.电线板短路会熔断保险丝
eg. It's blowing hard tonight.
[quarter]its quarter to the end of December 年末第四季度
[prompt] v.give an incentive foraction(原句); serve as the inciting cause of;
eg. His curiosity prompted him to ask questions .
eg. Science and technology has prompted the rapid development ofmodern society.
a member of China’s “BAT” tech trinitywith Baidu and Tencent
[trinity] three peopleconsidered as a unit; 用tech trinity来概括了中国三大高科技公司，语言简洁The internet group proved adept at squeezing more profitabilityfrom revenues than Amazon, posting net income of Rmb17.16bn for thequarter.
[adept at doing sth]擅长于；熟练于
[squeezing profitability from sth]从…中榨取更多的利润
[post sth.] proclaim; informpublicly宣告、公告（引）；邮递；通知；布置；派遣（只用被动）；急行
英国人一般用post去表示“寄信”，而美国人则习惯用mail一词；
Eg.He was here on business, so he had to post instead of travelling aroundleisurely.
Eg. She went postto the bank and cashed the cheque.3 Consensusanalyst estimates were for revenues of Rmb50.09bn, according to Bloomberg, and earningsbefore interest, tax, depreciationand amortisation ofRmb24.82bn.
[consensus analyst estimates]
[depreciation]贬值；减价
[amortisation] the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its costover a period of years；payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers折旧；清偿Alibaba shares broke back through the $100 barrier in New York, up 3.2 per centat $101.55 in morning trading on the news.
[break back through the $100 barrier]冲破一百元美元大关，注意此句中up、at、in等介词的运用Boasting a “blowout quarter”, thegroup attributed itsstrength to more users spending more time on its platforms and beingbetter able to monetise those users.
[attribute sth to sth]将…的结果归于…原因
专业知识
- earningestimates 收益预测
- amortization折旧；清偿
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fullyear growth guidance全年增长指引
*morning trading 股市早盘 - blowout quarter井喷季 A "blowout quarter" occurs when a company significantly outperforms earnings expectations.
- accessthe sites访问网站 surf online 上网 browse to a webpage浏览网页
- monthly active user月度活跃用户
- the consolidation of acquisition 统一收购；merge并购
- thecore retail business核心零售业务
- Lazada东南亚地区最大的在线购物网站之一，目标主要是印尼、马来西亚、菲律宾以及泰国用户；2014营收1.543亿美元，净运营亏损达到1.525亿美元
- BATBAT是中国互联网公司百度公司(Baidu)、阿里巴巴集团(Alibaba)、腾讯公司(Tencent)三大互联网公司首字母缩写。
- Bloomberg彭博(Bloomberg)是全球商业、金融信息和财经资讯的领先提供商。1981年创立于NYC曼哈顿，1万3千员工，业务达185多个国家地区。2012年彭博资讯集团全球营收达76亿美元，成为全球最大的财经资讯服务提供商。
