英国网友看中国光棍节1亿购物者大肆挥霍 [英国媒体]

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At dawn on Wednesday an army of 1.7 million foot soldiers and 400,000 vehicles will fan out across towns and cities in China. Its mission? To begin delivering 760m parcels expected to be ordered during a 24-hour orgy of spending that is described as the world’s greatest online shopping fiesta.

周三黎明时刻，中国有170万的步行大军和40万车辆将穿梭于城镇之间。有任务？在24小时的支出狂欢之后，递送预期的7亿6千万包裹，这就是全球最大的在线购物狂欢节。

Singles’ Day – or Double Eleven, as most Chinese call it in reference to the day on which it falls – was reputedly started on 11 November 1993 by singleton students who were seeking an excuse to buy themselves presents.

单身节----或是双十一，正如它到来的那一天，大多数中国人所说的一样，


 

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WalterBMorgan 1h ago
How can double eleven days be bad? The Chinese economy, we are told, need rebalancing or in other words the Chinese middle class need to get spending at home, not at Harrods. And that old commie dictator is turning in his mausoleum as a bonus.

双十一不火才怪吧？据说中国经济正需要调整结构呢，换句话说，中国需要把中产阶级的钱留在国内，而不是让他们到英国的大商场里买买买买买。顺便还能把那个独裁的太祖气得从棺材里爬出来，真是一举多得。

LouSmorels 3h ago
Alibaba: Online Chinese retailer sells $7 billion of merchandise in first 90 minutes of Singles Day sales.
Wow!

阿里巴巴：光棍节网购狂欢，仅90分钟交易额就达70亿。
NB！ 

ByeTor 7h ago
i'll be observing 2 minutes silence at 11am

或许11：00时能消停会儿。 

DrDrakeRamoray 10h ago
The Bilderberg Group Needs You! - To spend money you don't have on stuff you don't need.

彼尔德伯格顶级精英俱乐部欢迎你！真是秃子卖肾买梳子~

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soundofthesuburbs 12h ago
Is China playing a blinder.

中国不是表现的很精彩吗？
 
It is centrally planned, which allows big picture, strategic thinking.
 
她进行总体规划，从而能有大局的战略考量。
 
The West relies on competition to maximise profit for individual players, with no mechanisms for big picture thinking and strategic, long term planning. It’s markets have moved to high frequency trading to make a second a long term investment.
 
而西方国家依赖于个体的利益最大化，缺乏战略考量和长期计划的机制。其市场则通过频繁的交易，进行次长期的投资。
 
After 2008, China noted that it had all the surpluses, while the West was drowning in debt and if there were any big debt write downs, it would effectively miss out. Western debt would be written off giving them a free lunch.
 
2008年以后，中国盈余全部而西方则深陷负债。西方债务达到创纪录的高度，秒杀所有历史记录，让他们领便当走人。

China started building up its debt but engaged in useful investment in infrastructure while the West carried on inflating the prices of stuff that exists already, houses, stocks, fine art ..... etc .....
 
中国也开始出现负债但是都用于有益的基建投资，而西方继续他的存在已久的物价膨胀，房价，股市，艺术品等。
 
China is now ready for the debt write downs when the world recognises it can’t handle its debt.
 
当世界认为中国无法应对债务问题时中国已做好减计债务的准备。
 
China still has scope to lower interest rates to make its debt more affordable, in the West that luxury disappeared seven years ago.
 
中国仍然有降息空间而这种奢侈对于西方来说已是七年前的事了。
 
In the West, the inflated prices of assets that already exist will go down to their pre-bubble levels.
 
在西方，虚高的资产物价将持续增长直至泡沫破灭。
 
China will have its infrastructure and empty cities ready for the future.

中国则使她的基础设施和新建的房子为接纳未来准备着。

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dracflav 13h ago
Kissing China's ass for more trade won't help.

想通过取悦中国来获得更多贸易是行不通的。

Beastcheeks 14h ago
My god, all I see is landfill here...why is this article celebrating this ignorant and destructive greed-fest?
 
 我的天啊，我看到的只是垃圾堆而已，不明白这报道为何还要庆祝这无知又具有破坏性的贪婪盛宴
 
laobaixing07  Beastcheeks 7h ago
Not celebrating, sweetie - just reporting on this social phenomenon. I'm in China and i learned yesterday that the shopping online started at midnight on the 11th. Millions of people stayed up into the wee hours to shop online before the websites might crash or all the goodies would sell out.
 
 不是庆祝，亲，——只是报道社会现象。我在中国并且我昨天了解到这11月11日午夜开始的网购活动。千百万的人们熬夜到凌晨为了赶在网站崩溃前或商品卖完前进行网购。
 
ElpieKay 19h ago
properous market
 
 繁荣的市场啊
 
TheEqlaowaizer  ElpieKay 18h ago
and its obliterating street shops in a far faster manner in China than it ever could in other countries.

中国街上的商铺也比其他任何国家的都要消失的更快。

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Pollik  TheEqlaowaizer 11h ago
Amazon is going in the other direction - it opened its first shop recently
 
亚马逊走了另一条道路——最近它开了第一家实体店
 
ElpieKay  TheEqlaowaizer 6h ago
Street shops are still there. They just sell other stuff not appropriate for online sales.

街头商铺还存在，只是卖其他不适合网购的东西。

Dimitri 19h ago
Elsewhere in China, people have no clean air to breathe...but at least they can click their way to happiness..
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

另外中国没有干净的空气，不过他们可以通过点击鼠标愉悦自己。
“生产太多的有用的产品只会导致更多的没用的人”

Karl Marx
ShanghaiGuy  Dimitri 17h ago
Air purifiers are in the sale... we'll buy new filters :-)

空气净化器售卖中。。。我们要买新的过滤器了。:-)

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Dimitri  ShanghaiGuy 17h ago
Good luck with that...but it's not people that need to buy filters, its your factories that need to filter their pollutants, and clean transport systems in cities as an alternative to so many cars...

祝你好运，但是需要购买过滤器的不是人们，而是你们的工厂需要对污染物进行过滤，在城市里用清洁交通系统来替代过多的汽车。
 
The air in Beijing is so polluted that breathing it does as much damage to the lungs as smoking 40 cigarettes a day, says a new study.

北京的空气污染很严重，一项新的研究说呼吸北京的空气所造成的伤害相当于一天吸40根烟。

The report said air pollution in China kills about 4,000 people every day, about 17 percent of all deaths in China, but noted that connecting mortality to pollution is "complicated."

研究还说中国的空气污染每天杀死约4000人，相当于每天中国死亡人数的17%。同时报告指出将死亡率与污染相联系是“复杂的”。

if the above stats are true, you have an extremely serious problem that is likely only to get worse...hope i'm wrong about that...

如果上述表述是正的话那问题就很严重了，并且很可能继续恶化。希望我是错的。

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Oakland66  Dimitri 7h ago
This particular quote does not necessarily reflect Marx's thinking. It is drawn from an experimental work (The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts) which was never intended to be published. More significantly the mature Marx contradicted this line of reasoning as he seriously got into economic theory. Indeed for the later Marx the very point of capitalism is to drive our productive capabilities, with the market playing a key role in determining the direction of our advances. Anyway who thinks that they have the right to decide on the correctness of other people's desires, unless they believe that they are God?

这段引用并不一定能反映马克思思想，这是从一项实验工作中得来的（《经济与哲学手稿》）。这项研究从未打算出版，更重要的是当成熟的马克思正式涉及经济理论研究时他否认这些东西。后来马克思意识到正是资本主义促使了我们的过度生产性，其中市场在决定我们的前进方向时起了决定性作用。总之，除非认为自己是上帝，否则任何人都没有权利决定我们欲望的正确性。
 
caramel10 21h ago
"one man lamented how in recent years his wife had frittered away 130,000 yuan (￡13,500) of their hard-earned savings on Double Eleven purchases – thus dashing their dreams of buying a new home."
 
“一个男人悲叹妻子如何在双11购物中挥霍掉13万同时也毁掉了他们买房的梦想。”

And you didn't learn after the first time?!!!

怎么第一次没学到教训！

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blowhorn 21h ago

Quick, it's buy one get one free on all white goods!
 
 赶快，所有”白色家电“买一送一！（这是英国叫法，美国称为大型家电—-译者注）
 
TheEqlaowaizer 21h ago

Be great if the place could find one day a year for charity, instead of "looking for any excuse to buy themselves a present".
 
 要是这地方一年能找到一天做慈善就好了，而不是找一个给自己买礼物的借口。
 
burnout02  TheEqlaowaizer 3h ago
In China, the charities are on the take. Might as well spend on yourself instead.
 
在中国，慈善就是接受贿赂，还不如花在自己身上。