Online shopping for the holiday season remained just a drop in the ocean of the estimated US$450 billion spent by US consumers.

在美国消费者估计花费的4500亿美元中，假日网购只是沧海一粟。

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It was a few years ago, and I had taken a part-time holiday-season job in a video store at the local shopping mall.

那是几年前的事了，我在假期期间在当地购物中心的一家音像店做了一份兼职。

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Online shopping has always been a seasonal market and there are promising signs for the upcoming holiday season.

在线购物通常具有季节性，在即将到来的假日季节在线购物的前景不错。

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Google (GOOG) should be a beneficiary of what appears to have been a strong holiday shopping season for online retailers, according to Kaufman Bros. analyst Mayuresh Masurekar.

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However, we continue to see AAPL as a likely stand-out this holiday shopping season, with a stable of new and what we consider best-in-class products, including the iPhone 5, fourth generation iPad, and iPad Mini.

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Meanwhile, the nation's retailers had a strong start to the holiday shopping season, according to results announced Saturday by a national research group that tracks sales at mall-based stores.

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