Just this week, we learned that retail sales have fallen off a cliff, and so has industrial production.

在这一周，零售额和工业品产量急剧下降。

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Retail sales during the week beginning on lunar new year’s eve were up 13.8% nationally on the comparable week in 2008.

始于农历新年前一夜这周的零售额在全国范围内比08年农历新年前夜一周上涨13.8%。

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Our source has indicated to us that Saturdays are the busiest day of the week for wireless retail stores, of course, and the source does not believe a Saturday launch is unrealistic.

消息人士表示，星期天是无线零售店一周最忙碌的一天，当然，消息人士认为星期六作为发行日也并非不可能。

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The U.S. reported stronger than expected retail sales last week, proving the country still has signs of life post-QE2.

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And as we're seeing from retail figures this week, people focus their spending power more on what they need, starting with food.

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Figures released by the British Retail Consortium earlier this week suggested that food and drink was the only category in which UK retail sales rose in August from the previous month.

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