The technology relies on a tiny computer chip, embedded in each cell phone, which communicates with a reader-device at stores, train stations and vending machines for cashless payments.

这项技术依赖于嵌入在每个手机中的微型计算机芯片，它可以与商店、火车站和自动售货机中的读取器进行无现金支付。

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The maternal strategy evolved by harbor seals may have to do with their small size and the large proportion of their fat stores depleted in lactation.

麻斑海豹进化出的母性策略可能与它们的小体型和哺乳时消耗掉的大部分脂肪有关。

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Some big stores with toys may even have a pink floor for girls and a blue floor for boys.

一些有玩具的大商店甚至为女孩准备了粉色地板，为男孩准备了蓝色地板。

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They had built a town in the valley with sidewalks and stores, banks and schools.

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Today the traditional retail model of an offline business have 200 to 500 brick and mortar stores with one website as a support for the offline stores has been flipped upside down, Green says.

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In other words, people can buy something on, for example, Amazon.com and pay with cash at 7-11 stores, and immediately get credit with that merchant.

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After five years of sales growth averaging 12% compounded annually, Pier 1 was losing momentum and, with 700 stores, seemed near saturation.

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