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

　　腾讯支持的一家中国电竞集团赴美首次公开募股，融资7.75亿美元

　　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.

　　一家中国视频流媒体服务公司抓住了在线游戏直播越来越受欢迎的机会，通过在纳斯达克上市筹集了7.75亿美元的资金。

　　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.

　　斗鱼国际控股有限公司的首次公开募股是今年中国企业最大规模的赴美上市交易，超过了瑞幸咖啡6.45亿美元的IPO筹资额。

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

　　斗鱼直播同时提供电脑端和移动端的服务，它将中国的虎牙和亚马逊公司旗下的 Twitch 等直播平台视为竞争对手。

　　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.

　　由中国互联网巨头腾讯支持的斗鱼在一份声明中表示，此次IPO共发行6,739万份美国存托股票，每股的价格为11.50美元，是11.50美元至14美元的指导价格区间的下限。其股票在周三发行首日收于11.50美元，与发行价持平。

　　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，斗鱼的估值接近40亿美元，其中包括股权激励机制下向斗鱼员工发行的限制性股份。

　　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.

　　据艾瑞咨询的数据显示，按照收入和游戏玩家人数来计算，中国电子竞技行业在全球是规模最大的。去年中国的手游、电脑游戏及主机游戏的玩家数量约为6.83亿人，几乎达到中国总人口的一半了。

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

　　这家市场研究公司预计，到2023年中国游戏玩家人数将达到8.78亿，几乎达全球游戏玩家总数的三分之一。

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

　　自2018年5月斗鱼的竞争对手虎牙在纽约证券交易所上市以来，其股价已经上涨一倍多。

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　　重难点词汇：

　　depositary  n. 受托人；受托公司；储藏所 adj. 存款的；用作储藏所的

　　indicative  adj. 象征的；指示的；表示…的 n. 陈述语气；陈述语气的动词形式

　　compensation  n. 补偿；报酬；赔偿金

　　console  n. 控制台；操纵台；支撑架 vt. 安慰；慰藉

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