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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 ACT阅读素材：微信支付首次登陆英国  ACT考试技巧：ACT阅读素材：微信支付首次登陆英国  ACT考试经典名师课堂  在伦敦卡姆登市场(Camden Market，见文首照片)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1次用一款中国支付应用来卖一件Iron Maiden乐队T恤衫。  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.  “我的老板觉得这会派上用场——她刚刚建了一个新网站。”皮奥尼亚说，“她想把更多商品卖给中国游客。”  “My boss thought it would be useful — she has just created a new website,” she says. “She wants to sell more to Chinese tourists.”  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。  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.  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。  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.  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。”  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