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🔥 The U.S. Consumer Is Nesting. Will That Last?
美國人消費者冬眠，何時甦醒？
🧐 Clorox Co., Amazon.com Inc. and Domino’s Pizza Inc. can’t ramp up fast enough to meet demand for cleaning products, home deliveries and snack food. More people are streaming videos from Netflix and music from Spotify. Shares of Peloton Interactive Inc. have soared as fitness buffs scrap their gym memberships.
高樂氏(Clorox Co.)、亞馬遜(Amazon.com Inc.)和多米諾披薩(Domino's Pizza Inc.)等公司的增長還不夠快，無法滿足消費者當下對清潔產品、送貨到府和休閒食品的需求。越來越多的人在Netflix看影片，用Spotify聽音樂，健身愛好者們紛紛取消了實體健身房的會員資格，互動健身平台Peloton Interactive Inc.的股票進而飛漲。
- ramp up: 加強；增強
- soar: 高漲；猛增
- buff: 愛好者
- scrap: 廢棄、報廢
✏️ Meanwhile companies that rely on people traveling, being together or venturing out in public are crashing. Restaurant chain Cheesecake Factory Inc. furloughed most of its workers. Air carrier Delta Air Lines Inc. and retailer J.Crew Group Inc. are slashing costs, scrambling for loans and restructuring as they sustain massive losses.
與此同時，那些仰賴人們通過旅行、聚集或外出到公共場所進行消費的公司則受到嚴重影響。連鎖餐廳Cheesecake Factory Inc.讓大多數員工停薪休假、達美航空(Delta Air Lines Inc.)和服飾零售商J.Crew Group Inc.則正在削減成本，想方設法貸款，進行重組，並承受著巨額虧損。
- furlough: 強制…休假
- carrier: 航空公司
- retailer: 零售商；零售店
- slash: 大幅削減
🚨 The big question is how many of these new consumer habits will endure more permanently as the country inches back to something resembling normal life. The answer will have far-reaching implications for industries from food and fashion to travel and technology, forcing companies to rework supply chains, product lineups and relationships with retailers.
現在的大問題是，美國正緩慢逐步恢復到正常生活水平，但哪些新的消費習慣會轉為永久性改變？這個答案將對食品、時尚、旅遊和科技等行業產生深遠影響，迫使公司重新審視和調整供應鏈、產品陣營以及與零售商的關係。
- permanently: 永久地
- inch: 緩慢地移動
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