一年一度的双11购物狂欢节刚刚落下帷幕，小编就想问问各位看官：你也买买买了吗？
作为英语学习者，请允许小编把话题转向略微严肃一点的：你知道双11用英语咋说吗？是Double 11吗？还有，有哪些英文的好词好句可以描述双11呢？小编于是乎带着这两个问题，查阅了各大外国媒体网站，现在把成果做一汇报，希望各位看官能够有所收获，不虚此行。
首先奉上维基百科中对双11的简短解释，看到这解释着实让我是中国人而感到自豪呢！当然，还是要给大家划重点，请注意下面图中双11的英文说法。
Singles’ Day！而且observed by Chinese!自豪感油然而生，有木有？
我们都知道为什么双11被称为光棍节，但是你知道怎么用英语表达吗？看维基百科：
Singles’ Day or Guanggun Jie is a holiday popular among young Chinese people that celebrate their pride in being single. The date, November 11th (11/11), was chosen because the number “1” resembles an individual who is alone.
继续维基百科：
The holiday was named “Singles’ Day” because its date, 11/11 (November 11), consists of four “ones”, representing four singles.
相信各位客官现在已经知道如何用英文介绍双11了。
下面小编继续带着大家看看其他外国媒体的报道，并多多积累有用的英文表达。
美国有线电视新闻网CNN对阿里巴巴双11的销售战况是这样描述的：
Alibaba smashed its record for the online retail blitz known as Singles Day. “打破纪录”我们最熟悉break a record，而此处用的是smash a record，请各位客官自行脑补break和smash哪个力度更大，震撼力更强哈。
上面是美国财富杂志网上的说法。先给大家补充一个背景：感恩节后美国各商家的折扣优惠力度是超级大的，所以“黑色星期五”和“网络星期一”算是美国一年之中销售最旺的时候，但是他们两三天旺季的销售额跟中国双11仅一天的相比，简直弱爆了。While Black Friday and Cyber Monday get all the attention in the U.S., China’s Singles Day puts them both to shame. 各位客官看到put them to shame了吗？小编又为身为中国人自豪了一把！同时也学会了“弱爆”或“使某人 / 某物相形见绌 / 黯然失色”怎么表达了，哈哈。
其他外媒用了不同的词表达了相同的意思：
全球最大的IT互联网媒体集团cnet说：Black Friday is nothing compared to China’s Singles Day. 甚至在报道中用了两个much来强调差距： Alibaba's Singles Day sales is much much bigger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined.
路透社的报道称：Singles' Day, also called 'Double 11', is the world's biggest online sales event, outstripping the sales of U.S. shopping holidays Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. 其中outstrip意为：be better or more successful than someone else。
纽约时报里把阿里巴巴一天的销售额换算成了24小时，更显示出时间之短： Alibaba’s sales on Singles Day, which gets its name from the date, Nov. 11, broke the 200 billion yuan, or $28.8 billion, mark near the end of the 24-hour shopping event on Sunday.
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