微信支付首次登陆英国，以后出境游不用换汇了？｜双语阅读
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腾讯于本周三在英国推出了微信支付服务，主要面向中国游客。伦敦卡姆登市场将要求旗下店铺与微信签订合作协议。去英国旅游又多了一种支付方式，方便你的衣食住行。你期待吗？
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In an alleyway in London’s Camden Market, a woman in ripped black jeans and fingerless gloves fiddles with an iPad screen. Like most shopkeepers in this area, Emma Peonia usually sells clothes to tattooed youngsters paying with debit cards or cash but, for the first time, she is using a Chinese payments app to sell an Iron Maiden T-shirt.
在伦敦卡姆登市场(Camden Market)的一条巷子里，一名身着黑色破洞牛仔裤、手戴露指手套的女性在iPad屏幕上不停摆弄。和这里的大多数店主一样，埃玛•皮奥尼亚(Emma Peonia)通常把衣服卖给文身的年轻人，他们用借记卡或者现金支付。但现在，她第一次用一款中国支付应用来卖一件Iron Maiden乐队T恤衫。
fiddle [ˈfɪdl]: v. 神经质地摆弄; 瞎搞
例句：Harriet fiddled with a pen on the desk. 哈丽雅特摆弄着桌上的钢笔。
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WeChat, the popular Chinese messaging app owned by technology group Tencent, launched its payment service, WeChat Pay, in the UK on Wednesday. It is hoping that more shops like Ms Peonia’s will use it to target Chinese consumers, who last year spent £513m in the UK, according to Visit Britain, the tourism body.
中国科技集团腾讯旗下广受欢迎的消息应用微信(WeChat)本周三在英国推出了微信支付(WeChat Pay)服务。微信希望有更多店铺能像皮奥尼亚的店铺那样，使用微信支付来吸引中国消费者。根据旅游机构Visit Britain的统计，去年中国消费者在英国花费了5.13亿英镑。
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As part of a modernisation push by its owners, Camden Market will ask more than 1,000 shops and restaurants to sign up to the app over the next four months, so that people with Chinese bank accounts linked to WeChat can shop in the market using their smartphones.
卡姆登市场将要求逾1000家商店和餐厅在接下来4个月里与微信签订合作协议，这样微信上绑定了中国的银行账户的人就能使用智能手机在卡姆登市场购物。这是卡姆登市场的所有者推动该市场现代化的一部分。
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The idea is to replicate a system that Alipay, the rival Chinese payment app, has already implemented in the Harrods and Selfridges department stores. “In terms of the Chinese market it just offers a very good opportunity to us,” said Ceri Davies, operations director at Camden Market. “They’re currently super attracted by the likes of Selfridges and Harrods and the more ways there are of paying, the better.”
这是为了复制微信支付的对手支付宝(Alipay)在哈罗德百货(Harrods)和塞尔福里奇百货(Selfridges)铺设的支付系统。“在中国消费者市场方面，这给了我们绝佳的机会。”卡姆登市场的运营总监凯里•戴维斯(Ceri Davies)说，“他们现在很受像塞尔福里奇百货和哈罗德百货这样的购物场所吸引，支付方式越多越好。”
replicate [ˈreplɪkeɪt] v. 复制，复写
例句：He invited her to his laboratory to see if she could replicate the experiment. 他邀请她到他的实验室看她能否复制该实验。
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Tencent has already rolled out its payment platform — known in China as WeixinPay — around the world but this is its first foray into the UK. It is mainly targeting Chinese tourists, who can use their phones to pay while on holiday.
腾讯已经在全球各地推广其支付平台微信支付，但这是其首次进军英国。微信支付在英国主要面向中国游客，这样他们就可以在度假时使用手机支付。
“Our primary focus is to better serve Chinese outbound tourists,” Tencent said.
腾讯表示：“我们的首要重点是更好地服务中国的出境游客。”
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WeChat’s messaging service is one of a number of rivals to more popular services, such as WhatsApp.
微信的消息服务是WhatsApp等更受欢迎的消息服务的竞争对手之一。
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“For some of the retailers it’s a very attractive market, Chinese shoppers or foreigners sending money to Chinese accounts,” he said. “The plan is not just Camden. Selfridges, Harrods, they’re all next.”
“对一些零售商而言，这是一个非常有吸引力的市场:中国消费者或者向中国账户汇款的外国人。”他说，“这个计划不仅关乎卡姆登。塞尔福里奇百货和哈罗德百货，它们都在计划的下一步中。”
Currently, 10 per cent of Camden Market’s visitors are Chinese but the figure has grown rapidly, says Mr Davies. The proportion in September last year was only 5 per cent.
卡姆登市场的运营总监戴维斯表示，目前到访卡姆登市场的游客中有10%是中国人，这个比例经历了快速增长。去年9月这个比例仅为5%。
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Some shopkeepers are skeptical: “I’ve never heard of anyone coming and asking to pay by WeChat,” says Davey, who works in a fashion boutique in Camden market. “To be honest there aren’t even so many Chinese people here and, if there are and we tell them we don’t have something, they would find another way to pay.”
一些店主抱怀疑态度：“我从来没听说有人走进店里要求用微信支付。”在卡姆登市场的一家时尚精品店工作的戴维(Davey)说，“老实说，这儿都没有那么多中国人，就算有，如果我们告诉他们我们没有某种支付方式，他们会用别的方式支付。
boutique [bu:ˈti:k] n. 精品店
例句：A boutique and beauty salon are conveniently located within the grounds. 时装店和美容院就在区内，非常方便。
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