阿里巴巴集团投资新浪微博

　　阿里巴巴集团投资新浪微博

　　E-commerce giant Alibaba has purchased an 18-percent stake of China's popular micro logging service Sina Weibo for 586 million US dollars.

　　Alibaba also holds the option of increasing its share of Weibo to 30-percent at a later date.

　　Sina has also announced it's getting involved with Alibaba to tap into the e-commerce field through Taobao and Tmall.com.

　　Collaborations are to be seen in the fields of user accounts sharing, data exchanges, online payment and marketing¹.

　　Weibo users surpassed the 500-million mark by the end of 2012, up 74-percent from a year earlier.

　　For more on this, Paul James earlier spoke² with Cao Can, CRI's Financial Commentator³.

1 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 commentator   

n.注释者，解说者；实况广播评论员

参考例句：

• He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
• The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。