11/11 turns ten: Singles’ Day

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11/11 turns ten: Singles’ Day

  • turn : it means to reach or pass a particular age or time到达,超过(某一年龄或时间)
  1. What better way to celebrate singledom than by showing Alibaba a little love?
  • singledom 单身贵族?(不知道这样翻译好不好,构词像kingdom)
  1. At least that is how the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut has for the past decade repackaged November 11th, a local Valentine’s Day turned Chinese shopping saturnalia.
  • juggernaut 强大机构
  • saturnalia 纵情狂欢
  • shopping saturnalia 购物狂欢
  1. The company’s sales have dutifully hit a new daily record every year—over $25bn in 2017, up 39% from 2016—unveiled amid much pageantry at a televised countdown with VIPs (this year, they have flown in Miranda Kerr, an Australian model, and Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian entertainment group).
  • dutifully 忠实地;尽职尽责;顺从地
  • pageantry 盛典
  • countdown 倒计时
  1. Alibaba seems to have discounted recent gloomy talk of a “consumption downgrade” by a newly parsimonious middle class: its logistics arm, Cainiao, has just opened China’s biggest robotic warehouse to handle a surge of orders.
  • parsimonious 悭吝的;吝啬的;小气的
  • a surge of 大量;一大批
  1. Yet a survey by Oliver Wyman, a consultancy, found that 38% of millennials plan to spend less this year on Singles’ Day.
  • consultancy 顾问
  • millennials 千禧一代
  1. Alibaba will be watching until the 11th hour.
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感觉那位咨询师的调研有问题,哈哈,今年的双11更是火爆,在优惠、方便的同时,也会造成许多其他问题,还是理智消费为好!

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