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双十一购物英语作文 In the United States，the lonely have Reddit and cats. In China，they have Singles Day，which falls on Nov. 11 -- 11.11，the four ones symbolizing bare branches， Chinese slang for bachelors. Thought to have originated about 20 years ago as a joke on college campuses，Singles Day was once an occasion for confessing ones feelings to that special someone. But since 2021，online retailers have transformed the holiday， also known as Double 11， into an epic online shopping extravaganza akin to Americas Cyber Monday. China has 271 million online consumers， meaning that almost half of Chinas 591 million Internet users buy products online. E-commerce sites Taobao and Tmall， which saw a combined $$1 trillion in sales in 2021，will both be running promotional campaigns during Chinas Singles Day. Among the offers：50 percent discounts on products like boyfriend body pillows and hoodies that read I am single because I am fat. Adeclared that the site would sell 20，000 products discounted by as much as 90 percent. That includes a wedding ring，which singles can presumably buy， just in case. Jack Ma， founder of Internet giant Alibaba， told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang late last month that Alibabas sales on Singles Day 2021 were nearly $$3.3 billion -- more than double the roughly $$1.5 billion purchased on Cyber Monday in 2021. For Singles Day 2021， Ma expects sales to exceed $$4.9 billion. The rise of singletons as a consumer group is not without its own costs. Chinese business magazine Caijing reported that big delivery companies were forced to scramble to find over 100 extra airplanes to handle the 323 million parcels they needed to deliver over the Singles Day shopping period. The holiday strains the logistics system：Products frequently sell out or arrive late. Even when everything moves smoothly，consumers complain about commercial gimmicks. According to the Beijing Evening News，a popular local paper，some online retailers quietly raise prices before slashing