Seattle is known for its rainy weather, but the city also enjoys plenty of sunshine throughout the year.
西雅图以多雨的天气而闻名，但这座城市一年中也有很多阳光明媚的日子。
The Space Needle is an iconic landmark in
Seattle, offering stunning views of the city and its surroundings.
空间针塔是西雅图的一个标志性地标，可以俯瞰城市及其周边地区的壮丽景色。
Seattle has a thriving tech industry with major companies like Amazon and Microsoft headquartered there.
西雅图拥有蓬勃发展的科技产业，亚马逊和微软等大公司总部就设在那里。
The Pike Place Market in
Seattle is a popular tourist destination famous for its fresh seafood and street performers.
西雅图的派克市场是一个受欢迎的旅游目的地，以新鲜的海鲜和街头艺人表演而闻名。
Seattle's music scene played a significant role in the development of grunge rock in the 1990s.
西雅图的音乐场景在90年代的垃圾摇滚发展过程中起到了重要作用。
The
Seattle Seahawks, a professional American football team, have a passionate fan base known as the "12th Man.
西雅图海鹰队，一支美国职业橄榄球队伍，拥有一个被称为“第12人”的热情球迷群体。
The Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit in
Seattle showcases the incredible glass artwork of artist Dale Chihuly.
西雅图的奇胡利花园和玻璃展览展示了艺术家戴尔·奇胡利令人惊叹的玻璃艺术作品。
Seattle's ferry system is one of the busiest in the United States, providing convenient transportation to nearby islands and communities.
西雅图的渡轮系统是美国最繁忙的之一，为附近岛屿和社区提供便利的交通。
The
Seattle Great Wheel, located on the waterfront, is a giant Ferris wheel offering breathtaking views of Elliott Bay.
位于海滨的西雅图大轮是一个巨大的摩天轮，可以俯瞰艾略特湾的壮丽景色。
The annual
Seattle International Film Festival attracts filmmakers and movie enthusiasts from all over the world.
每年的西雅图国际电影节吸引了来自世界各地的电影制作人和电影爱好者。
US aircraft manufacturer Boeing delivered a new B787 Dreamliner plane to Chinese private carrier Juneyao Airlines on Thursday in Seattle, the plane maker's first delivery of wide-body aircraft to Chinese mainland carriers in nearly three years.
周四，美国飞机制造商波音公司在西雅图向中国私人航空公司吉祥航空交付了一架新的B787梦想客机，这是该飞机制造商近三年来首次向中国大陆航空公司交付宽体飞机。
At a global investor meeting held in mid-September, the Seattle, United States-based coffee company announced that it will open 3,000 new stores in China by 2025, which comes to one new store every nine hours.
在9月中旬举行的全球投资者会议上，这家总部位于美国西雅图的咖啡公司宣布，到2025年，它将在中国开设3000家新店，即每9小时开设一家新店。
Two flights originate in Seattle, travel via Seoul and terminate at Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
两架航班从西雅图起飞，经首尔中转，最终抵达上海浦东国际机场。
Two flights will originate in Seattle, travel via Seoul and terminate at Shanghai Pudong Airport.
两架航班将从西雅图出发，经首尔中转，最终抵达上海浦东机场。
With a final destination of Shanghai Pudong via Seoul for both, Delta provides flights from Seattle and Detroit.
With a final destination of Shanghai Pudong International Airport via Seoul for both, Delta will provide weekly flights from Seattle and Detroit.
Starting Thursday, it will operate two flights weekly via Seoul to Shanghai, with one leaving from Seattle and another from Detroit.
The aircraft, which took off from Everett, Washington state, flew almost four hours before it landed at Seattle's Boeing Field, said the company.
Delta, the airline with the top sales revenue globally, said on Monday that in March 2020, it will move both of its two direct daily flights from Beijing to Detroit and Seattle to the new Beijing Daxing International Airport.
Currently, Delta operates six daily direct flights between the two countries, with two connecting Beijing and four connecting Shanghai with Detroit, Seattle, Atlanta and Los Angeles.
Boeing, which builds the 737 south of Seattle, said it will not lay off any employees during the production freeze, though the move could have repercussions across its global supply chain and the US economy.
Boeing plans to outline the return of its 737 MAX jetliner to commercial service to airline industry members and analysts who have been invited by the aircraft manufacturer to meet this week in the Seattle area.
"We are honored to take delivery of this special airplane," said Wang Junjin, chairman of Juneyao Airlines, a Shanghai-based private carrier, at the delivery ceremony in Seattle, Washington state.
Despite the worldwide grounding, Boeing has continued to produce the 737 MAX at the rate of 42 planes per month at its plant in Renton, Washington, near Seattle.
In the Seattle, Washington area, Microsoft announced it would dedicate $500 million to affordable housing.
The Seattle Times reported that the FAA plans to issue standards for pilot training in September.
That gave the Seattle company far more control over the shipping process.
Amazon Restaurants was launched in 2015 in Seattle and was designed to give Prime members a way to order meals, apart from products and groceries, through the e-commerce giant.
To better serve its global clients, Anker has opened offices in Seattle, Tokyo, Dubai, Jakarta and other cities overseas.
If its Seattle headquarters gives more operating and decision-making power to the China unit, the situation might be much better," Chen added.
The store will be located at University Place in Seattle and operated by a joint venture between Sweetome and US-based UHS Holding LLC.
In July 2015, it launched the first intercontinental flight between Xiamen and Amsterdam, and later launched flights from Xiamen or from the nearby Fuzhou in Fujian province, to Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver, Seattle, New York and Los Angeles.
"The Seattle, Washington-based company, an independent subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that is also known as Brooks Running, designs and markets high-performance men's and women's running shoes, clothing and accessories.
Tencent has three offices in the US — Palo Alto, Seattle and New York.
The company said it would maintain operations in cities such as San Diego and Seattle, where it faces fewer regulatory challenges, CNN reported.
The move by the world's largest coffee house chain comes one week after its hometown of Seattle became the first major American city to ban plastic drinking straws and utensils.
The CFO of Chinese-owned company that makes plastic straws at a plant near Allentown, Pennsylvania – Fuling Plastics USA – said last week that sales haven't fallen in the wake of Seattle's ban on single-use plastic straws and utensils.
Environmental concerns were behind the Seattle prohibition, which went into effect on Sunday.
Seattle's ban outlaws the straws and utensils at "all food service businesses, including restaurants, grocery stores, delis, coffee shops, food trucks, and institutional cafeterias".
One of every four planes Boeing currently assembles in the Seattle area goes to China.
Boeing employs about 69,000 people in Washington state and virtually all are in the Seattle area, noted Cohen.
US ride-hailing leader Uber is going to launch its new e-bikes sharing service in Seattle, the largest city in the west US state of Washington state, next month, a media report said Saturday.
The new Uber service, to be provided by JUMP, a bike-share startup acquired by Uber in April, will be immediately available soon after the Seattle City Council approves a bike-share permit program in the city in July, The Seattle Times newspaper said.
San Francisco-based Uber is poised to face strong challenge from three other rivals, Spin, ofo and Lime, which are already operating in Seattle on one-year permits that expire in July.
We do hope to launch in Seattle," Uber spokesman Nathan Hambley said.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) plans to present a proposal on the permit program to the City Council for approval next month.
Name: Annabelle VulteeNationality: United StatesAt present: COO, EF English Centers, Education FirstPreviously: President of Smithsonian Student Travel, EF; and joined EF in 2010 as director of business analysis and strategy for EF Educational ToursBefore 2010: Worked for Coca Cola's marketing division in San Diego, Seattle and Honolulu; and COO of a high-end fractional aircraft ownership businessBachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University MBA from Harvard Business School
US online retailer giant Amazon is closing a 130-person delivery support unit in Seattle on the west US coast and moving the jobs to less expensive Phoenix city in the southwest US state of Arizona, a media report said Thursday.
Amazon has announced the closure to workers at its central operation center in Seattle, the largest city in Washington state, where the minimum hourly salary is about 75 percent more than in Phoenix city, The Seattle Times newspaper said.
The 130 people in Amazon's Seattle unit were mainly responsible for supporting the online retail company's contract-delivery drivers who deliver groceries and other items, the newspaper quoted an employee as saying.
The Seattle logistics unit employee said salaries at the dispatch center in Seattle was $15.45 an hour, while a similar job in Phoenix starts at $11.25 an hour.
The Amazon move came amid a heated debate in Seattle about a head tax on large companies, after the city council passed a tax bill early this month to fund affordable housing and homelessness services.
Earlier this year, Amazon laid off hundreds of employees at its headquarters in Seattle.
Established in 2014, Coding now runs offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Seattle.
Boeing will continue assembling 737s at its plant near Seattle, but send some planes to China for completion at the new plant, the report said.
The Seattle Times daily in the Washington state said that an engineer at Boeing Commercial Airplane sent out an alarming alert about the virus Tuesday, which he warned could bring down vital airplane production equipment in the company.
In December, Starbucks opened a Roastery location in Shanghai, an economic and financial hub in East China, its second after the one in Seattle in Washington state on the US west Pacific.
On its very first day of operation, the Shanghai Roastery became the highest grossing Starbucks store in the world, averaging more than double the number of transactions of its highly successful Seattle Roastery.
On the opening day, the Shanghai Roastery became the highest grossing Starbucks store in the world, averaging more than double the number of transactions of their Seattle Roastery.
The Shanghai Roastery is the company's largest cafe of its kind and comes three years after the company launched a roastery in Seattle.
"We are looking for at least a 30 to 40 percent growth in Seattle.
Inspur has about 150 employees in Greater Seattle focused on software and IT.
For better communications and ease of business with Microsoft, Inspur set up the Seattle office.
"We are looking for 30 to 40 percent growth minimum in Seattle.
The firm, based in Seattle, in the United States, guarantees the quality of products it sells--and some 80 percent of the Chinese who use Amazon cite that guarantee as a primary reason for their choice.
In 2008, Hainan Airlines started its first China-US direct flights between Beijing and Seattle.
Hainan Airlines launched direct flights between Shanghai and Seattle, as well as direct flights between Beijing and San Jose, California.
海南航空开通了上海至西雅图的直飞航班，以及北京至美国加利福尼亚州圣何塞的直飞航班。
Hainan Airlines launched its first China-US direct flights between Beijing and Seattle.
海南航空开通了首条中美直飞航线，航班往返于北京和西雅图之间。
The HKRI Taikoo Hui is also the location of the newly opened Starbucks Reserve Roastery in China, the only such Starbucks of its kind except for Seattle, also home to the company's headquarters.
The Starbucks Reserve Roastery, which is the company's largest store of its kind, opened three years after the chain launched its first Roastery in Seattle.
Learning that China had set up a company to develop its own commercial aircraft, Breard joined COMAC upon completion of his MBA degree in technology management from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2011.
The 2,700-square-meter Roastery on west Nanjing Road will be the company's second high-end cafe, twice the size of the first Starbucks Roastery in Seattle, according to Cui Fuqiu, vice president of Starbucks China.
Li Zongling, president of Okay Airways, gives a model aircraft 787-9 with Okay's logo to Ihssane Mounir, senior vice-president of global sales and marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, at a signing ceremony in Seattle.
[Photo/China Daily by Linda Deng]A signing ceremony was held at Boeing's headquarters in Seattle.
It was in 2008 that Hainan Airlines launched its first direct flight to the United States between Beijing and Seattle.
In the United States, it has opened offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.
He Dongfeng, president of COMAC, said: "Zhoushan and Seattle are located at the two sides of the Pacific Ocean.
In the past, most people living in Seattle didn't know about Zhoushan, but now they come to work here.
TIANJIN — China's bike-sharing company ofo has launched services in Seattle, after acquiring the permission from local authority, according to a company press release on Friday.
A total of 1,000 of ofo's signature yellow bikes will be placed on the American city's streets, and the number is expected to grow to cater to the needs of Seattle residents and visitors, said the press release.
The press release cited Dai Wei, ofo's founder and CEO, as saying that the company chose Seattle partly because of its "infinite possibilities. "
Dendreon, a biotechnology company based in Seattle, a city in Washington state of the US Pacific Northwest, received FDA approval for Provenge in April 2010 and since has reportedly treated more than 20,000 prostate cancer patients with the therapy to curb tumors and prolong life expectancy.
All the company's hotels in North America now have similar rooftop gardens with beehives, including the Fairmont hotels in Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, and the Fairmont at Yangcheng Lake.
Ground crew members escort a Boeing 737 MAX as it returns from a flight test at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, Jan 29, 2016.
Emirates Airlines, the world's biggest operator of the Airbus A380 superjumbo (94 units in service), currently flies with 244 passenger jets and 15 freighter aircraft made by the European aircraft producer Airbus and Boeing from Seattle, United States.
Its first roastery opened in Seattle about two years ago to display premium coffee beans and demonstrate unique brewing techniques.
Schultz said the Shanghai roastery will be twice the size of the one in Seattle and he cannot wait for it to open.
Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz speaks at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in Seattle, Washington on March 22, 2017.
The experiential coffee cafe and retail location is twice size of the company's first roastery in Seattle.
Boeing Co delivered a new B787 aircraft to Chinese private carrier Juneyao Airlines on Thursday in Seattle (the United States), indicating recovery in the both US aircraft manufacturer's production capacity and China's international air travel market following the COVID-19 outbreak.
Currently, Delta operates four weekly flights, connecting Detroit and Seattle with Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
Nobaday, a snowboard brand created by Auxue Culture Co Ltd, started as a winter sports gear provider in Seattle, the United States, by Auxue founder Liu Fengxi, also known as Ricky among veteran skiers and snowboarders in China.
Delta Air Lines said it will add one more flight each week between Detroit and Shanghai and Seattle and Shanghai, both via Seoul, as of Monday.
达美航空表示，从周一开始，将每周增加一班底特律经首尔至上海以及西雅图经首尔至上海的航班。
"We are pleased that this agreement puts a hold on the increasing tariffs and retaliatory tariffs between the United States and China and hopeful that this initial agreement results in additional reductions in tariffs over the coming months," said Peter McGraw, media officer at the Port of Seattle.
China is the top trading partner to the Port of Seattle in terms of imports and exports.
As of November 2019, exports to China from the Northwest Seaport Alliance, a marine cargo operating partnership between the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, plunged 5 percent year-over-year by dollar value, while imports from China dropped 19 percent.
In September last year, the six largest West Coast ports — the Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach, Port of Oakland, ports of Seattle and Tacoma, and the Port of Portland,xa0jointly appealed to the Trump administration in a letter warning that the escalating trade conflict between the two countries "will create irredeemable economic harm".
In a keynote speech to the 2019 US-China Tourism Leadership Summit held in Seattle, Li Yaying, chief of the Chinese tourism delegation to the event, said the two countries are each other's important source country of tourists and destinations, with Chinese tourists spending a total of more than 30 billion US dollars in the United States in 2018.
"He claimed that the technology is being experimented in Los Angeles and Seattle," Wu saidShanghai has been operating a maglev train line based on Sino-German technical cooperation between a metro station in Pudong new area and Pudong International Airport since 2006.
In July, the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco issued a travel warning to Chinese tourists, asking them to be cautious about burglaries while visiting San Francisco, Las Vegas, Seattle and other popular tourist destinations across the US.
From HNWIs' perspective, the top six cities for overseas property purchases are Los Angeles, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle and London, according to another report entitled Immigration and the Chinese HNWIs 2018, which was jointly released by the Hurun Research Institute and Visas Consulting Group.
Last month, the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco issued a travel warning to Chinese tourists, alerting them to use caution while traveling in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Seattle and other popular tourist destinations across the United States.
BMW and Daimler said Wednesday they plan to exit the North American car-sharing market, with the joint venture partners halting operations in Montreal, New York, Seattle, Washington DC and Vancouver, as they focus on the European market.