考研英語時文賞讀：斗魚直播赴美上市

考研英語來源：同源外刊 2019-08-02　

Chinese Esports Group Backed by Tencent Raises $775 Million in US IPO

騰訊支持的一家中國電競集團赴美首次公開募股，融資7.75億美元

A Chinese video-streaming service raised $775 million through a Nasdaq listing, capitalizing on the growing popularity of watching others play games on the internet.

一家中國視頻流媒體服務公司抓住了在線游戲直播越來越受歡迎的機會，通過在納斯達克上市籌集了7.75億美元的資金。

The initial public offering by DouYu International Holdings Ltd was the biggest this year by a Chinese company in the US, ahead of the $645 million IPO of cafe chain Luckin Coffee Inc.

斗魚國際控股有限公司的首次公開募股是今年中國企業最大規模的赴美上市交易，超過了瑞幸咖啡6.45億美元的IPO籌資額。

DouYu offers both desktop and mobile apps, and counts China’s Huya Inc and Amazon.com Inc’s Twitch among its peers.

斗魚直播同時提供電腦端和移動端的服務，它將中國的虎牙和亞馬遜公司旗下的 Twitch 等直播平臺視為競爭對手。

DouYu, which is backed by Chinese internet heavyweight Tencent Holdings Ltd, sold 67.39 million American depositary shares at $11.50 apiece, at the bottom of an indicative price range of $11.50 to $14 a share, it said in a statement. Its shares in the US ended their first day of trading Wednesday flat at $11.50.

由中國互聯網巨頭騰訊支持的斗魚在一份聲明中表示，此次IPO共發行6,739萬份美國存托股票，每股的價格為11.50美元，是11.50美元至14美元的指導價格區間的下限。其股票在周三發行首日收于11.50美元，與發行價持平。

The IPO values the company at nearly $4 billion, including restricted shares issued to employees under a share-based compensation program.

此次IPO后，斗魚的估值接近40億美元，其中包括股權激勵機制下向斗魚員工發行的限制性股份。

China’s esports industry is the world’s largest by revenue and number of gamers, according to iResearch. Last year, some 683 million people, or roughly half the country’s population, played games on phones, computers or game consoles.

據艾瑞咨詢的數據顯示，按照收入和游戲玩家人數來計算，中國電子競技行業在全球是規模最大的。去年中國的手游、電腦游戲及主機游戲的玩家數量約為6.83億人，幾乎達到中國總人口的一半了。

The market-research firm forecasts that number will reach 878 million—or nearly a third of videogamers globally—in 2023.

這家市場研究公司預計，到2023年中國游戲玩家人數將達到8.78億，幾乎達全球游戲玩家總數的三分之一。

Rival Huya’s shares have more than doubled since it listed on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2018.

自2018年5月斗魚的競爭對手虎牙在紐約證券交易所上市以來，其股價已經上漲一倍多。

(全文共236個詞，華爾街日報)

重難點詞匯：

depositary n. 受托人;受托公司;儲藏所 adj. 存款的;用作儲藏所的

indicative adj. 象征的;指示的;表示…的 n. 陳述語氣;陳述語氣的動詞形式

compensation n. 補償;報酬;賠償金

console n. 控制臺;操縱臺;支撐架 vt. 安慰;慰藉