鲁达 双十一，你的钱包还好吗？
今天很应景地挑了一篇关于淘宝的文章，发表于一年前的经济学人。当时知新共学翻译群还拿这篇文章练过回译。现在看来，依然是一篇值得反复研读的好资料。这篇文章挑选其中一些句子，做一些剖析拓展。
评论区置顶处有获取这篇文章的双语和音频的方式哦。
SHOPPERS will spend record sums online in the next few weeks—in China for Singles Day on November 11th, in America on Black Friday and around the world in the run-up to Christmas.
接下来的几周买家们的网上消费要创纪录了：中国有11月11日的光棍节，美国有“黑色星期五”，全世界也都在为圣诞节热身。
“创纪录”的英文表达还可以有：
Set a record, push sth. To a new high, Reach a new high, hit a record, break a record
一些例句供参考这些词组的用法：
Now that the average price of a gallon of gasoline has hit a record above $4 a gallon, expectations could climb further.
Moscow hit a record summer temperature of 38.2 degrees Celsius (101 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday.
说某月某日是某个节日，可以有的表达有：
Singles’Day falls on November 11th in China.
或者日期is/marks/is known as 节日；
或者如果原文中有说是哪个国家的节日，可以是哪国人celebrate节日on日期。
或者用节日做主语，被动态，比如节日is celebrated/observed on 日期。
Observe这个用法注意一下：If you observe an important day such as a holiday or anniversary, you do something special in order to honour or celebrate it. 庆祝
...where he will observe Thanksgiving with family members.…在那里他将与家人一起庆祝感恩节。
至于节日前加不加the，在中国传统节日前加the ，一般以 Day 结尾的节日和一些西方传统节日前，都不加冠词。例如：May Day, Mother's Day, Children's Day, Father's Day, National Day, Easter, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving Day; The Spring Festival春节, The Dragon Boat Festival端午节, The Mid-autumn Festival中秋节。
Nowhere does debate rage more fiercely about what this means than in America, where thousands of stores have shut this year and where retailing accounts for one in nine jobs.
至于这意味着什么，没有哪个地方兴起的争论比美国更激烈——在美国，今年有成千上万家实体店关门，而零售业占了所有就业岗位的九分之一。
我们以前说哪里在热议什么事情，除了文中debate rages这样的表达之外，还可以是：
Sth is hotly debated; Sth is a hot/heated issue, there is a hot/heated debate about...there is a buzz about...
Amazon’s challengers should learn from China, where Alibaba’s rivals are teaming up.
亚马逊的挑战者应该向中国学习：在那里，阿里巴巴的竞争对手们正抱团合作。
抱团合作，还有一个词组用在这里也可以很传神：huddle together:
if a group of people huddle together, they stay very close to each other, especially because they are cold or frightened〔尤因寒冷或恐惧而〕（使）挤作一团，（使）聚成一堆
We lay huddled together for warmth. 我们紧紧挤在一起取暖。
It now has a thriving digital-payments business and is the biggest shareholder in JD.com, Alibaba’s closest e-commerce competitor.
腾讯最初是一家游戏和即时通讯公司，如今其数字支付业务也在蓬勃发展。
蓬勃发展，如果是业务做主语，就用Thrive，还可以是prosperous, booming。
还有一个小词很容易被忽略，a flowering of，formal when something develops in a very successful way某事物的顶峰时期[繁荣时期]。如果文中有出现时间，而且用时间做主语的话，那么可以考虑这个词：
The 19th century saw a flowering of science and technology. 19世纪见证了科学和技术的繁荣。
当然，这个flower本身也有动词性： to develop in a very successful way繁荣，兴旺
the economic and social conditions that will allow democracy to flower将促进民主繁荣的经济和社会环境