Valentine's Day gives way to Spring Festival |
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| Special streets can be seen everywhere in China selling Spring Festival goods. |
| Chinanews, Kunming, Feb. 13 – The Spring Festival (lunar New Year) falls very close to the Western Valentine's Day this year. When the two festivals come near, businesspeople and tourist agencies in Kunming choose to promote their sales season with products more related with the Spring Festival than the Western festival.
In the past when Valentine's Day arrived, the shelves of all supermarkets in Kunming were filled with chocolate and stuffed animals, gifts that people normally buy during Valentine's Day. This year, however, things like these are rarely seen at this particular time.
“New Year's gifts, like alcohol, tea, and other things that people often buy during the Spring Festival have been placed in the most conspicuous1 places in our supermarket. Yet there is only one stand set aside for Valentine's Day gifts, much fewer than previous years,” said Ms. Luo from the Haoyouduo Supermarket in Kunming.
Things are much the same in Kunming Department Store, where most goods on sale are related with the Chinese Spring Festival.
“The holiday sale (for the Spring Festival) might account for 30-40% of the sales of a whole month, while it is already good enough if sales of the Valentine's Day can take up 10% of the monthly sale,” a manager from the department store told this reporter.
The Spring Festival holiday can boost the sales of all kinds of goods, while Valentine's Day can promote the sales of only a limited number of things, like cosmetics2 or women's necessities. Therefore businesspeople rely their sales more on the Spring Festival, he said.
For travel agencies that launch a variety of promotion3 activities during Valentine's Day, the Western festival has also given way to the Spring Festival this year.
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conspicuous
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| adj.明眼的，惹人注目的；炫耀的，摆阔气的 |
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- It is conspicuous that smoking is harmful to health.很明显，抽烟对健康有害。
- Its colouring makes it highly conspicuous.它的色彩使它非常惹人注目。
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cosmetics
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| n.化妆品 |
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- We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price. 我们以公道的价格出售各种化妆品。
- Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature. 化妆品未能掩饰天生的缺陷。
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promotion
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| n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传 |
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- The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
- The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。
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