广播电视英语短句 第 229 课：电子产品展-1

This year's Consumer Electronics Show opened Thursday in Las Vegas. 今年消费电子产品展周四在拉斯维加斯开展。

The event is the world's biggest technology trade show. 这一展会是世界最大的技术贸易展。

More than three hundred companies are presenting more than twenty thousand new products. 300 多家公司展出 2 万多种新产品。

The goal is to build excitement, make deals -- and hopefully get good reviews in the media. 其目的是引人注目，达成交易，并且希望获得媒体的好评。

Industry sales dropped eight percent last year during the recession. 在经济衰退期间，去年电子行业的销售下降 8% 。