[ 2010-08-06 09:13 ]



你参加过网络团购吗？是不是感觉砍价更容易了呢？近年来，网上众多志同道合者联合起来，形成集团优势，从商家拿到最低折扣的网络团购正成为越来越多年轻人的消费方式。但在这里也要提醒大家，一定认清资质，小心陷阱。

请看《中国日报》的报道：

Being a team leader can be a lot of work, so  group-buying  websites have sprung up, serving as agents between buyers and sellers and receiving a commission from the sale.

组织大家团购是一件劳心费力的差事，所以众多团购网站迅速涌现出来，成为买家和卖家之间的“代理”，并从交易中获得一定的佣金。

文中的group-buying就是指“团购”，名词形式为group buying，即为一个团队向商家采购，国际通称B2T（Business To Team），是继B2B（Business to Business），B2C（Business to Consumer），C2C（Consumer to Consumer）后的又一种e-commerce（电子商务模式），最核心的优势体现在商品价格更为优惠，也称为group buys。

在group buying活动中，参与者通常能享受到bulk discounts（大幅优惠），获得ultra-discounted tickets（超低价优惠券）。平时在促销活动中，我们也能得到discount coupon（打折券）、rebate coupon（现金券/抵金券），而如果这种优惠券属于cents-off coupons，那就只是“象征性优惠”了。要识别哪家店在打折其实很容易，远远的看见on sale（大甩卖）的牌子就是啦。

Tenacity, a sense of spirit in the most adverse of conditions.

Glory, belongs to he who, in abject hostility, wills on, and never gives up.

文字与修辞，华丽的措辞，让我为之深深着迷。

Strange it indeed is. My understanding of this novel, which I read as part of my degree in college, is now somewhat different from that some ten years ago. The feelings are ineffably more intense, ones that partake of poignancy and catharsis.

Revisiting something of yore allows one a deeper perspective. If I had a second lease of life, would the choice be the same in retrospect?

I wonder…

Why must one give concessions to a claim, and then refute it based on his own reasoning?

He calls this Academic Inquiry. It indeed is!

Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

Every streetlamp
Seems to beat a fatalistic warning
Someone mutters
And the streetlamp gutters
And soon it will be morning

Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I musn’t give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The streetlamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning

Touch me
It’s so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You’ll understand what happiness is

Look
A new day has begun

These are souls whom I have never had the privilege to make their actual acquaintances in the flesh.

It’s interesting how all these ‘friends’ came about in my account. Friendship knows no bounds? Six degrees of separation, indeed!