Meanwhile, although a number of factors combined in the first quarter to give retail sales a temporary boost, domestic consumers are coming under pressure.

与此同时，虽然很多因素一起促使第一季度的零售额出现暂时增长，但国内消费者承受的压力越来越大。

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Some people are taking their friends shopping with them, and buying their Christmas presents in the sales—a practical but unromantic way of making sure you get the gift you really want.

有些人会带着他们的朋友一起去购物，在促销时为他们购买圣诞礼物——这种方式实用但不浪漫，能确保你收到真正想要的礼物。

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Worldwide, films get about half their revenues from DVD sales, a market which in Mexico is eaten away by rampant piracy.

世界范围内，电影收入有将近一半来自DVD销售，在墨西哥这是一个被猖獗的盗版侵蚀的市场。

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And it is launching a mobile phone program to gather records on condom sales around Tanzania.

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In Unconventional Success, I did a study of individual behavior in their mutual fund purchases and sales around the collapse of the Internet bubble in March of 2000.

在这本书里,我对2000年3月,网络股暴跌时,共同基金购买,和销售中的个体行为做了研究

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So a very popular thing to do on Boxing Day is go shopping and take advantage of the sales.

所以在节礼日人们通常会趁着促销之际出去购物，这很流行。

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Sales of yarn, fleece and knitwear now represent 60% of its revenue, goat sales a third.

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Moreover, for some originators, fees tied to loan volume made loan sales a higher priority than loan quality.

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Porcelain has now been distributed around several departments which, between them, manage only about a dozen sales a year.

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