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  • 文法跟讀 In-Tense #009: 現在完成進行式 Present Perfect Continuous Tense
    文法跟讀 In-Tense #009: 現在完成進行式 Present Perfect Continuous Tense
     
    Welcome to 15mins.today the home of English Shadowing. I'm your host Gavin and this is InTense episode 9. Hi guys, today we're going to be looking at a very interesting tense, it is called the present perfect continuous if you're English or if you're American the present perfect progressive and it's an interesting little tense, because it is basically a “has” with a “been” and an “ing.” So it's quite interesting that people use it and we use it the same ways we use the actual perfect, present perfect tense. It’s basically for actions that started in the in the past and still continue in the present. So it's basically like the perfect tense.
     
    So if I can do an example of both things, “John has worked in Taiwan for 7 years. John has been working in Taiwan for 7 years.” So you can see both of them mean exactly the same thing, but one is using the perfect, plain perfect, present perfect tense and the other one is using the present perfect continuous. So that is how you use it and if you want to know if it's being used you will always notice it because it's got the, “has been or have been plus the ing.” Great so without further ado let's get cracking with a questions.
     
     
    Sentence Drills: 
    Has Jane been sending the email? Yes, she has been sending the email.
    Has Jane been sending the email? No, she has not been sending the email.
     
     
    Has the conference bring finishing on time? Yes, it has been finishing on time.
    Has the conference been finishing on time? No, it has not been finishing on time.
     
     
    Have you been attending the meeting? Yes, I have been attending the meeting.
    Have you been attending the meeting? No, I have not been attending the meeting.
     
     
    Has Peter been completing the report? Yes, he has been completing the report.
    Has Peter been completing the report? No, he has not been completing the report.
     
     
    Have you been staying at a hotel? Yes, I have been staying at a hotel.
    Have you been staying at a hotel? No, I have not been staying at a hotel.
     
     
    Have John and Jane been booking the tickets? Yes, they have been booking the tickets.
    Have John and Jane been booking the tickets? No, they have not been booking the tickets.
     
     
    Have you been visiting the museum?Yes, I have been visiting the museum.
    Have you been visiting the museum? No, I have not been visiting the museum.
     
     
    Has Jeff been rebooting the computer? Yes, he has been rebooting the computer.
    Has Jeff been rebooting the computer? No, he has rebooting the computer.
     
     
    Has Anna been backing up the files? Yes, she has been backing up the files.
    Has Anna been backing up the files? No, she has not been backing up the files.
     
     
    Have you been up to the drivers? Yes, I have been updating the drivers.
    Have you been updating the drivers? No, I have not been updating the drivers.
     
     
    Well guys that's it. Remember keep practicing, repeat the questions and repeat the answers. Have a great day and catch you on the next episode! Bye!
     
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    6 min
  • 精選詞彙 Vocab #015: What school-age live streamers do
    Summary:
     
    The article tells about the story of Byrce Xavier, a school-aged internet live streamer who, after a year of live streaming only Live.ly has become popular amongst teenage girls. After becoming popular, he now is homeschooled to accommodate his busy social media and entertainment work. He hosts a show called “A bite with Bryce” where he live streams his lunch as if he is having them with his fans.
     
    Full article: https://www.15mins.today/blog/564-the-teenage-life-streamed-live-and-for-profit
     
    Vocabulary and sample sentences:
     
    Push notification: 
    For all my news reads, I would always activate the push notification for the news channels that I subscribe to.
    Emoji
    Sometimes people get really lazy and they rely on emojis to convey their feelings.
    Live streaming – online broadcasting technology used by Twitch, Youtube Gaming, and Facebook Live
     
    Internet handle / nickname / id : your username online
     
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    21 min
  • 精選詞彙 Vocab #015: What school-age live streamers do
    Summary:
     
    The article tells about the story of Byrce Xavier, a school-aged internet live streamer who, after a year of live streaming only Live.ly has become popular amongst teenage girls. After becoming popular, he now is homeschooled to accommodate his busy social media and entertainment work. He hosts a show called “A bite with Bryce” where he live streams his lunch as if he is having them with his fans.
     
    Full article: https://www.15mins.today/blog/564-the-teenage-life-streamed-live-and-for-profit
     
    Vocabulary and sample sentences:
     
    Push notification: 
    For all my news reads, I would always activate the push notification for the news channels that I subscribe to.
    Emoji
    Sometimes people get really lazy and they rely on emojis to convey their feelings.
    Live streaming – online broadcasting technology used by Twitch, Youtube Gaming, and Facebook Live
     
    Internet handle / nickname / id : your username online
     
    更多跟讀練習單元,就在http://www.15mins.today
    用email訂閱就可以收到所有15mins.Today最新節目通知。
    21 min
  • 每日跟讀#602: Are You Ready for Drive-Thru Botox?
    每日跟讀#602: Are You Ready for Drive-Thru Botox?
     
    There’s nothing secretive about getting Botox and fillers at Ject in the West Village.
     
    在紐約西村地區Ject注射「保妥適」肉毒桿菌素和填充劑,沒什麼好遮掩的。
     
    The 3-month-old injectable beauty bar has a glass front with its name hand-painted in 23-karat gold. Treatment spaces are separated only by curtains. There’s a photo booth, with a swirly gold, black and green mural that incorporates the company name, for customers who want to show off their freshly filled faces on social media. As the company recently Instagrammed: “Adieu, Taboo.”
     
    這家注射美容酒吧開幕三個月,玻璃正面用23克拉黃金手繪店名。治療空間只用簾幕分隔。有個自拍站,掛著一幅金、黑、綠三色成渦旋形伸展寫出店名的壁畫,提供給想上社群媒體炫耀自己新填充臉龐的顧客。就像這家店最近在Instagram上宣傳的:「跟忌諱說掰掰。」
     
    Indeed.
    確實如此。
     
    In 2018, injections of Botox — the No. 1 aesthetic procedure since 1999, according to according to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery — were up 16.3% from the year before. Fillers were up 12% in the same time frame. Both procedures require regular top-ups.
     
    根據美國美容整形外科學會的資料,注射保妥適從1999年以來一直是最熱門的美容療程。2018年,注射保妥適的人次比前一年增加16.3%,同一時間,注射填充劑的人次增加12%。兩種療程都需定期施打。
     
    With that popularity comes, almost inevitably, a wave of places that specialize in these injections, aiming to make them as accessible (walk-ins welcome!), acceptable and fun (in name, if not in needle) as a Drybar blow-dry.
     
    隨著注射保妥適的高人氣而幾乎不可避免地出現的,是一波專門從事這類注射的地方,目的是讓這種注射像美國連鎖吹髮沙龍Drybar的吹髮造型服務一樣,平易近人(沒預約也歡迎!)、廣受認可和好玩(就算不在注射針上,也是在名義上)。
     
    “Injectables don’t need to be scary, and they don’t need to be done in a secret garage,” said Gabrielle Garritano, a physician assistant and a founder of Ject. The curtains, she said, were a choice, to make the place feel more salon, less medical office — and so clients may see others getting injected.
     
    醫師助理、Ject創辦人嘉布瑞兒.葛里塔諾說:「注射劑不須讓人害怕,注射也不須在秘密車庫裡完成。」她說,選擇簾幕是要讓人覺得這個地方比較像沙龍,不太像診間,如此一來,客戶可以看到別的客戶注射。
     
    “You see people getting their hair blown out,” she said, as if the two are equivalent.
     
    她說,「就像你看到別的設計師幫客人吹頭髮」,彷彿兩件事差不多。
     
    Ject — the short name was chosen, in part, so it would look better on the forthcoming booking app — has plenty of competition. At Plump, in Chelsea, which is designed to look like a bistro, with dark wood floors, bar stools and a tea bar (serving anti-inflammatory elixirs), patrons can choose the $1,099 “Instaready Cheeks” or $240 “Goodbye Gummy Smile.”
     
    選擇Ject這個簡短店名,部分原因是要讓它在即將上線的預約應用程式上看起來更棒。Ject競爭對手不少。紐約雀兒喜地區Plump設計得像法式餐酒館,有暗色木地板、酒吧高腳凳和提供消炎酏劑的茶吧,顧客可選擇1,099美元的「IG隨時上鏡臉蛋」,或240美元的「露齦笑掰掰」。
     
    Alchemy 43, which has four cucumber-and-lime-scented locations in Los Angeles, opened in the Flatiron neighborhood on April 24. The company, which says it has raised more than $5 million in funding, including from the Drybar founders, provides clients with fruit-garnished sparkling water in Champagne flutes (preprocedure alcohol is not recommended), and has a granite tabletop co-working space in the lounge. (À la Drybar, Alchemy also offers memberships.)
     
    在洛杉磯有四個洋溢小黃瓜與萊姆香氛據點的「煉金術43」,4月24日進軍紐約熨斗商業區。這家公司宣稱募到500萬美元,包括Drybar創辦人的資金,讓客人享用裝在細長香檳杯的水果裝飾氣泡水(不建議療程前飲酒),休息區還有花崗岩桌面的共同工作空間。(煉金術跟Drybar一樣設有會員制。)
     
    And BotoxLabb (the double Bs stand for “beauty bar”), a sea-foam-green-bathed chain based in Miami from the founders of the 1990s makeup brand Joey New York, is eyeing New York after introducing sea foam green outposts in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Los Angeles.
     
    還有BotoxLabb(兩個b是指「美容酒吧」),以海水泡泡綠為標誌色的連鎖體系,總部設在佛州邁阿密市,由1990年代美妝品牌「紐約.祖兒」創辦人創設,在亞利桑納州斯科茨代爾鎮和洛杉機成功建立海水泡泡綠灘頭堡之後,準備向紐約進發。
     
    The company says that most of its clients are younger than 35, and many say they like the atmosphere of these places, and the focus on injectables.
     
    這家公司說,客戶多半不到35歲,許多人說喜歡注射美容酒吧的氣氛和對美容注射的專精。
     
    更多跟讀練習單元,就在http://www.15mins.today/daily-shadowing
     
    用email訂閱就可以收到所有15mins.Today最新節目通知。
    5 min
  • 每日跟讀#602: Are You Ready for Drive-Thru Botox?
    每日跟讀#602: Are You Ready for Drive-Thru Botox?
     
    There’s nothing secretive about getting Botox and fillers at Ject in the West Village.
     
    在紐約西村地區Ject注射「保妥適」肉毒桿菌素和填充劑,沒什麼好遮掩的。
     
    The 3-month-old injectable beauty bar has a glass front with its name hand-painted in 23-karat gold. Treatment spaces are separated only by curtains. There’s a photo booth, with a swirly gold, black and green mural that incorporates the company name, for customers who want to show off their freshly filled faces on social media. As the company recently Instagrammed: “Adieu, Taboo.”
     
    這家注射美容酒吧開幕三個月,玻璃正面用23克拉黃金手繪店名。治療空間只用簾幕分隔。有個自拍站,掛著一幅金、黑、綠三色成渦旋形伸展寫出店名的壁畫,提供給想上社群媒體炫耀自己新填充臉龐的顧客。就像這家店最近在Instagram上宣傳的:「跟忌諱說掰掰。」
     
    Indeed.
    確實如此。
     
    In 2018, injections of Botox — the No. 1 aesthetic procedure since 1999, according to according to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery — were up 16.3% from the year before. Fillers were up 12% in the same time frame. Both procedures require regular top-ups.
     
    根據美國美容整形外科學會的資料,注射保妥適從1999年以來一直是最熱門的美容療程。2018年,注射保妥適的人次比前一年增加16.3%,同一時間,注射填充劑的人次增加12%。兩種療程都需定期施打。
     
    With that popularity comes, almost inevitably, a wave of places that specialize in these injections, aiming to make them as accessible (walk-ins welcome!), acceptable and fun (in name, if not in needle) as a Drybar blow-dry.
     
    隨著注射保妥適的高人氣而幾乎不可避免地出現的,是一波專門從事這類注射的地方,目的是讓這種注射像美國連鎖吹髮沙龍Drybar的吹髮造型服務一樣,平易近人(沒預約也歡迎!)、廣受認可和好玩(就算不在注射針上,也是在名義上)。
     
    “Injectables don’t need to be scary, and they don’t need to be done in a secret garage,” said Gabrielle Garritano, a physician assistant and a founder of Ject. The curtains, she said, were a choice, to make the place feel more salon, less medical office — and so clients may see others getting injected.
     
    醫師助理、Ject創辦人嘉布瑞兒.葛里塔諾說:「注射劑不須讓人害怕,注射也不須在秘密車庫裡完成。」她說,選擇簾幕是要讓人覺得這個地方比較像沙龍,不太像診間,如此一來,客戶可以看到別的客戶注射。
     
    “You see people getting their hair blown out,” she said, as if the two are equivalent.
     
    她說,「就像你看到別的設計師幫客人吹頭髮」,彷彿兩件事差不多。
     
    Ject — the short name was chosen, in part, so it would look better on the forthcoming booking app — has plenty of competition. At Plump, in Chelsea, which is designed to look like a bistro, with dark wood floors, bar stools and a tea bar (serving anti-inflammatory elixirs), patrons can choose the $1,099 “Instaready Cheeks” or $240 “Goodbye Gummy Smile.”
     
    選擇Ject這個簡短店名,部分原因是要讓它在即將上線的預約應用程式上看起來更棒。Ject競爭對手不少。紐約雀兒喜地區Plump設計得像法式餐酒館,有暗色木地板、酒吧高腳凳和提供消炎酏劑的茶吧,顧客可選擇1,099美元的「IG隨時上鏡臉蛋」,或240美元的「露齦笑掰掰」。
     
    Alchemy 43, which has four cucumber-and-lime-scented locations in Los Angeles, opened in the Flatiron neighborhood on April 24. The company, which says it has raised more than $5 million in funding, including from the Drybar founders, provides clients with fruit-garnished sparkling water in Champagne flutes (preprocedure alcohol is not recommended), and has a granite tabletop co-working space in the lounge. (À la Drybar, Alchemy also offers memberships.)
     
    在洛杉磯有四個洋溢小黃瓜與萊姆香氛據點的「煉金術43」,4月24日進軍紐約熨斗商業區。這家公司宣稱募到500萬美元,包括Drybar創辦人的資金,讓客人享用裝在細長香檳杯的水果裝飾氣泡水(不建議療程前飲酒),休息區還有花崗岩桌面的共同工作空間。(煉金術跟Drybar一樣設有會員制。)
     
    And BotoxLabb (the double Bs stand for “beauty bar”), a sea-foam-green-bathed chain based in Miami from the founders of the 1990s makeup brand Joey New York, is eyeing New York after introducing sea foam green outposts in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Los Angeles.
     
    還有BotoxLabb(兩個b是指「美容酒吧」),以海水泡泡綠為標誌色的連鎖體系,總部設在佛州邁阿密市,由1990年代美妝品牌「紐約.祖兒」創辦人創設,在亞利桑納州斯科茨代爾鎮和洛杉機成功建立海水泡泡綠灘頭堡之後,準備向紐約進發。
     
    The company says that most of its clients are younger than 35, and many say they like the atmosphere of these places, and the focus on injectables.
     
    這家公司說,客戶多半不到35歲,許多人說喜歡注射美容酒吧的氣氛和對美容注射的專精。
     
    更多跟讀練習單元,就在http://www.15mins.today/daily-shadowing
     
    用email訂閱就可以收到所有15mins.Today最新節目通知。
    5 min
  • 每日跟讀#601: Climate Breakdown Could Send Crabs And Octopuses Blind
    每日跟讀#601: Climate Breakdown Could Send Crabs And Octopuses Blind
     
    Climate breakdown is already having a massively negative impact on the world’s wildlife. Marine biologists have just demonstrated for the first time that low oxygen levels in the water can send marine invertebrates blind. The research has been published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
     
    「氣候崩壞」已對全球野生生物產生巨大的負面影響。海洋生物學家已首次證明,水中的低含氧量將導致海洋無脊椎動物失明。該研究刊登於《實驗生物學期刊》。
     
    The changes in the animals’ vision were striking. As soon as the oxygen levels dipped below what is typically found at the surface of the ocean, their eyesight declined - most notably in the rock crab and the squid larvae, which were almost completely blind by the time oxygen was at its lowest point - 20 percent of surface levels.
     
    這些動物的視力變化驚人。只要水中含氧量降至低於海水面一般溶氧量,牠們的視力就會下降—視力下降最顯著的是黃道蟹和烏賊幼仔,其置身於最低含氧量(海水面的20%)環境時幾乎全盲。
     
    The oceans have lost a significant amount of oxygen in the last 50 years, with a significant portion of this due to nutrient pollution that leads to algae blooms that deplete the oxygen, and rising temperatures. This could lead to a situation whereby the crabs and cephalopods can no longer easily see the prey they need to catch, nor the predators they need to avoid.
     
    海洋在過去50年內已失去大量氧氣,其中很大一部分肇因於營養鹽污染造成的「藻華」現象,導致氧氣消耗、溫度上升。這些可能讓螃蟹和頭足類動物不再能順利看見牠們需要捕捉的獵物,也無法躲避捕食者。
     
    更多跟讀練習單元,就在http://www.15mins.today/daily-shadowing
     
    用email訂閱就可以收到所有15mins.Today最新節目通知。
    3 min
  • 每日跟讀#601: Climate Breakdown Could Send Crabs And Octopuses Blind
    每日跟讀#601: Climate Breakdown Could Send Crabs And Octopuses Blind
     
    Climate breakdown is already having a massively negative impact on the world’s wildlife. Marine biologists have just demonstrated for the first time that low oxygen levels in the water can send marine invertebrates blind. The research has been published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
     
    「氣候崩壞」已對全球野生生物產生巨大的負面影響。海洋生物學家已首次證明,水中的低含氧量將導致海洋無脊椎動物失明。該研究刊登於《實驗生物學期刊》。
     
    The changes in the animals’ vision were striking. As soon as the oxygen levels dipped below what is typically found at the surface of the ocean, their eyesight declined - most notably in the rock crab and the squid larvae, which were almost completely blind by the time oxygen was at its lowest point - 20 percent of surface levels.
     
    這些動物的視力變化驚人。只要水中含氧量降至低於海水面一般溶氧量,牠們的視力就會下降—視力下降最顯著的是黃道蟹和烏賊幼仔,其置身於最低含氧量(海水面的20%)環境時幾乎全盲。
     
    The oceans have lost a significant amount of oxygen in the last 50 years, with a significant portion of this due to nutrient pollution that leads to algae blooms that deplete the oxygen, and rising temperatures. This could lead to a situation whereby the crabs and cephalopods can no longer easily see the prey they need to catch, nor the predators they need to avoid.
     
    海洋在過去50年內已失去大量氧氣,其中很大一部分肇因於營養鹽污染造成的「藻華」現象,導致氧氣消耗、溫度上升。這些可能讓螃蟹和頭足類動物不再能順利看見牠們需要捕捉的獵物,也無法躲避捕食者。
     
    更多跟讀練習單元,就在http://www.15mins.today/daily-shadowing
     
    用email訂閱就可以收到所有15mins.Today最新節目通知。
    3 min
  • 每日跟讀#600: Jobless rate hits 19-year high in April
    每日跟讀#600: Jobless rate hits 19-year high in April
     
    According to job figures released by Statistics Korea, the total number of jobless people surpassed 1.24 million as of April for the first time since the government started compiling the data in June 1999.
     
    根據南韓「統計廳」發布的就業數字,截至4月,南韓失業人口總數超過124萬人,係自該國政府1999年6月開始彙編該數據以來的第一次。
     
    The jobless rate stood at 4.4 percent, up 0.3 percentage point from a year earlier and marking the highest for any April since 2000, when Asia’s fourth-largest economy was reeling under the aftermaths of the Asian Financial Crisis.
     
    失業率為4.4%,年增0.3個百分點,乃自2000年以來,每年4月的最高數字。而亞洲第4大經濟體南韓於2000年時,正因「亞洲金融危機」的餘波而步履蹣跚。
     
    The latest jobless rate was partly attributable to the increased number of applicants to take the civil servant test. About 380,000 took the test in April this year, while 200,000 had applied in March last year. Taking the heaviest blow from the sluggish employment trend was the retail and wholesale sector, which lost 76,000 positions in April.
     
    該最新失業率部分歸因於參加公務人員考試的考生人數增加,今年4月約有38萬人,但去年3月為20萬人。因就業趨勢低迷而受創最重的是零售及批發業,4月減少7.6萬個工作。
     
    更多跟讀練習單元,就在http://www.15mins.today/daily-shadowing
     
     
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    2 min
  • 每日跟讀#600: Jobless rate hits 19-year high in April
    每日跟讀#600: Jobless rate hits 19-year high in April
     
    According to job figures released by Statistics Korea, the total number of jobless people surpassed 1.24 million as of April for the first time since the government started compiling the data in June 1999.
     
    根據南韓「統計廳」發布的就業數字,截至4月,南韓失業人口總數超過124萬人,係自該國政府1999年6月開始彙編該數據以來的第一次。
     
    The jobless rate stood at 4.4 percent, up 0.3 percentage point from a year earlier and marking the highest for any April since 2000, when Asia’s fourth-largest economy was reeling under the aftermaths of the Asian Financial Crisis.
     
    失業率為4.4%,年增0.3個百分點,乃自2000年以來,每年4月的最高數字。而亞洲第4大經濟體南韓於2000年時,正因「亞洲金融危機」的餘波而步履蹣跚。
     
    The latest jobless rate was partly attributable to the increased number of applicants to take the civil servant test. About 380,000 took the test in April this year, while 200,000 had applied in March last year. Taking the heaviest blow from the sluggish employment trend was the retail and wholesale sector, which lost 76,000 positions in April.
     
    該最新失業率部分歸因於參加公務人員考試的考生人數增加,今年4月約有38萬人,但去年3月為20萬人。因就業趨勢低迷而受創最重的是零售及批發業,4月減少7.6萬個工作。
     
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  • 每日跟讀#599: Viewing China through the coffee cup
    每日跟讀#599: Viewing China through the coffee cup
     
    Once acclaimed as a “Starbucks destroyer” and “superpower brand,” Chinese start-up Luckin Coffee has, within the short space of one year, opened almost as many outlets as its American rival, which entered the Chinese market nearly two decades ago. However, Luckin Coffee has, in the process of this rapid expansion, burnt through more than NT$14bn (approximately US$454m) in capital. Recently it was revealed that the company has been using the coffee machines within its stores as collateral for loans. The company has begun to be dubbed “Unlucky Luckin” with some saying the coffee chain has already reached the end of the road. Starbucks isn’t doing much better though, achieving only 1 percent growth in sales in China during the first quarter of this year — compared with the global average of 4 percent — and the company’s annual growth rate in the Americas.
     
    曾被追捧為可打敗星巴克的「強國品牌」瑞幸咖啡,短短一年,據點數雖直逼進軍中國近二十年的星巴克,但燒掉逾新台幣一百四十億元資金後,近來遭踢爆拿咖啡機等設備當抵押擔保,被形容是「瑞幸不幸、山窮水盡」;而星巴克也好不到那裡去,其二○一九財政年度第一季中國銷售額僅微增百分之一,不如全球平均值與美洲的年增百分之四。
     
    The US has Google and IBM, while China has created Baidu and Lenovo. However, not only has Luckin Coffee failed to supplant Starbucks, it may also become the next Ofo, a Chinese bike sharing company currently teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
     
    美國有Google、中國就該有百度,美國有IBM、中國就有聯想,但瑞幸不僅無法取代星巴克,反可能成為下一個ofo(瀕臨破產的中國共享單車品牌)。
     
    If one inspects the financial numbers, Luckin Coffee appears to be China’s newest “lame unicorn.” In the third quarter of last year, the company racked up a net loss of 850m yuan. In the final quarter, it hemorrhaged a further 700m yuan. Chinese media has reported that if one disregards sales costs and focuses just on rent, wage and raw material costs, it is possible to calculate that each cup of coffee costs the company at least 10 yuan to make, while sales revenue estimates show that the company is selling coffee at an average price of only 8.3 yuan per cup. This means that the faster Luckin Coffee opens new stores and the more coffee that it sells, the greater its losses will become. If Luckin Coffee is unable to attract sufficient revenue to cover its losses, the company will eventually run out of road.
     
    從財務數字來看,瑞幸已是中國新一隻跛腳的獨角獸。瑞幸去年前三季淨虧人民幣八點五億元、最後一季大虧逾人民幣七億元;依中媒報導,不計行銷成本,光店租、薪資及原材料等推算,瑞幸一杯咖啡成本至少十元,但從銷售收入估算,平均一杯僅賣八點三元,也就是瑞幸開店速度越快、賣越多,就賠越大,假如吸金趕不上失血速度,瑞幸真得要山窮水盡。
     
    The US-China trade war has been rumbling on for over a year. US President Donald Trump is closing in on victory while Chinese President Xi Jinping is beating a retreat. From this coffee example, we can see that the trade war has degraded China’s consumer buying power. Chinese citizens originally began drinking fewer cups of Starbucks coffee, switching to the more affordable Luckin Coffee. As China’s investment-led bubble economy wanes, Luckin Coffee and other Chinese unicorns are falling by the wayside and are between themselves creating a vicious cycle for China’s economy.
     
    美中貿易戰打了一年多,美國總統川普節節進逼、中共領導人習近平步步退守。從一杯咖啡看中國,貿易戰打到中國消費降級,少喝星巴克改買瑞幸,但資金泡沫退潮,瑞幸等獨角獸不支倒地,彼此間已形成經濟的惡性循環。
     
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