I have a
cat.
我有一只猫。
The
cat has nine lives.
猫有九条命。
Curiosity kills the
cat.
好奇心害死猫。
The
cat purred contentedly as it lay on its owner's lap.
这只猫满足地在主人的腿上打着呼噜。
My neighbor's
cat is always climbing trees and getting into mischief.
我邻居的猫总是爬树，捣蛋。
She has a soft spot for stray
cats; she can't resist adopting them.
她对流浪猫有特殊的感情，忍不住会收养它们。
Cats are known for their agility and ability to land on their feet.
猫以敏捷和能四脚着地而闻名。
The kitten played with a ball of yarn all afternoon.
小猫整个下午都在玩一团毛线球。
A
cat's reflexes are incredibly quick, allowing them to
catch small prey.
猫的反应速度极快，能捕捉到小猎物。
The
cat groomed itself meticulously, licking each paw in turn.
猫仔细地给自己梳洗，依次舔舐每只爪子。
Cats are independent animals, often preferring their own company.
猫是独立的动物，通常更喜欢独处。
The
cat sat on the windowsill, watching the birds outside with curiosity.
猫坐在窗台上，好奇地看着外面的鸟儿。
I love waking up to the sound of my
cat purring in the morning.
我喜欢早上听到猫咪在我床边打呼噜的声音。
For instance, following the pet-loving trend among the Gen Z, Lucifer, the cat of Cinderella's stepmother, has been developed into a popular toy with a cool personality that young people adore.
例如，随着Z世代喜爱宠物的趋势，灰姑娘继母的猫路西法已经发展成为一种受欢迎的玩具，具有酷炫的个性，深受年轻人的喜爱。
During the June 18 shopping festival last year, Royal Canin cat food topped the category list of bestselling items at JD.
在去年6月18日的购物节上，皇家犬类猫粮荣登京东最畅销商品排行榜榜首。
Export business aside, Beijing-based China Railway Sixth Group Co Ltd, a subsidiary of China Railway Group Ltd, delivered the Cat Linh-Ha Dong Metro Line project-Vietnam's first metro line－to its client in Hanoi earlier this month.
除了出口业务外，总部位于北京的中国中铁第六集团有限公司，中国中铁集团有限公司的子公司，于本月早些时候在河内向其客户交付了Cat Linh-Ha Dong地铁项目——越南的第一条地铁线路。
Purina plans to further invest in production lines for new high value-added products, such as veterinary diet and wet cat food categories, to provide pets with richer and high-end food options.
The company produces a dozen series and over 1,000 varieties of pet food, including dry pet food, wet pet food, pet snacks, dog biscuits, dental snacks and cat litter.
More than 40,000 bags of cat litter and 50,000 bags of cat food have been sold during the epidemic.
Four interactive games featuring the cartoon characters — polar bear Captain Barnacles, pirate cat Kwazii, medic penguin Shellington and biologist sea otter Shellington — were installed along the visiting route and a 4D version of an episode from the cartoon will be shown at the aquarium.
com, a portal that tracks the pet community, the average annual spending on a pet dog or cat was 5,016 yuan ($746.6) in 2018, up 15 percent from the corresponding period in 2017.
Han Jing, owner of Meowland, a Shanghai-based cat breeder, has already started to stock the products on the day it was launched.
Chinese pet owners on average spent 1,826.7 yuan per dog and 1,721.2 yuan per cat for pet supplies in 2018, with toys, collars and cat litters among the most popular categories.
The company also sold out all 1,000 original cat's paw glasses shortly after launch on Feb 28.
"Caterpillar started to develop the smart device, the Cat Watch, several months ago, when a Chinese customer proposed such an idea.
In addition, with China's efforts to strengthen public-private partnerships or PPPs to better manage various risks facing society, Swiss Re is able to participate in the Beijing Municipal Agricultural Insurance Pool, as well as the Heilongjiang Weather-index Agricultural Nat Cat Insurance program.
Haidilao is best known among mainland consumers for its high-quality service, including staging performances of tableside handmade noodle dances, offering free manicures, providing giant teddy bear partners for solo diners, and even hosting feline-themed parties for new cat owners.
"We see growing appetite for premium and craft beers and have expanded by investing in Boxing Cat Brewery in Shanghai.
But his wife's favorite is cat.
Foreign-made CAT mini excavators were initially introduced into the China market in 2003.
The CAT mini hydraulic excavator is one of achievements of Caterpillar's Chinese R&D team, in collaboration with the company's global R&D team.
A still of Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties [Photo/VCG]The president of Six Flags International Development Co, a US-based theme park company, has announced Garfield, the orange cartoon cat from the Garfield comic strip, will be the face and hero of China's first Six Flags theme park.
The transaction volume for pet training treadmills rose more than eightfold last year, while sales of cat houses with a small coffee table quadrupled compared with a year earlier.
- Ever bought your cat food made from squab?
"Cat food is usually made from chicken, beef, or fish.
We are the first producer to make cat food from squab to cater to cats' taste," said Jin Guoqing, CEO of Jia Pets, a pet food producer.
A type of kopi luwak coffee, also known as civet cat coffee, was one of the most popular products at the fourth China International Import Expo in Shanghai, which ended on Nov 10.
For example, Starbucks released a limited-edition "cat paw cup" in China in 2019.
The cup is a double-walled tumbler with an interior shaped like a cat's paw.
Overseas pet owners are willing to pay more for premium products, as the transaction volume of cat litter boxes and pet feeders jumped 102 percent and 128 percent year-on-year, respectively.
"Every time I come home from work, my beloved pet cat crouches at the door waiting for me.
The pet cat has given her companionship through lonely times.
Trying not to be outdone, a Tianjin-based pet food company called Yuanchuangpinzhi has established two automated production lines for pet food, including canned cat food, running at full capacity since September 2022.
Likewise, when US coffee chain Starbucks launched a limited edition cat paw mug, the mugs were sold out within minutes after the product went on sale.
"Normally, the daily cat boarding fee is around 120 yuan.
Some reports showed in 2021, there were 112.35 million cats and dogs in China's urban areas, surging 11.4 percent year-on-year, while cat and dog owners in China increased by 8.7 percent on a yearly basis last year to 68.44 million, Liu said, attributing the expansion in the pet population mainly to the increase of pet owners.
As consumption demand rises, more focus given to marketing, quality, innovationOn a typical day, Coco, a British shorthair cat, or the "daughter" of Jiang Hai and Yang Yi, wakes up to get some water from a smart drinking machine.
This is the typical day of a young family in Beijing with a cat, using technology to improve the lives of their fur babies.
The 2021 Pet Industry White Paper further illustrated that cat vaccination rates are usually higher than those of dogs.
According to the report, more than 70 percent of pet dog and cat owners were born in the 1980s and 1990s.
报告显示，超过70%的宠物狗和猫主人出生于1980年代和1990年代。
Tracy Yang, a 29-year-old pet cat parent based in Beijing, is interested in displaying professional photos of her cat.
北京29岁的宠物猫主人 Tracy Yang 希望展示她猫咪的专业照片。
During the past two years, she's spent nearly 2,000 yuan on photos of her with the cat from Elefoto, a fledgling photography studio in Beijing.
过去两年里，她已在新兴摄影工作室“Elefoto”花费近2000元，拍摄了她与猫咪的合影照片。
"My cat is part of the family," Yang said.
“我的猫也是家庭的一部分，”杨说。
"I was given extra discounts for an order of cat litter because the transaction was made within the first two hours of Nov 11 (Singles Day).
因为在11月11日（光棍节）的头两小时内完成交易，我买猫砂时获得了额外的折扣。
Liu began to prepare a shopping checklist well in advance, which included six bags of 5.4-kilogram Orijen's Six Fish, a cat food product featuring a protein-rich diet that costs around 550 yuan ($83) for each bag after discount, 20 cans of canned cat food costing some 200 yuan in total plus nutrition bars, hairball remedy products, toys, pest repellent products and several categories of dog products.
刘开始提前准备购物清单，其中包括六袋5.4公斤重的Orijen's Six Fish猫粮。这种富含蛋白质的猫粮打折后每袋售价约550元（83美元），20罐猫罐头总计约200元，还有营养棒、化毛产品、玩具、驱虫产品以及几类狗产品。
Among the total, sales of cat snacks rocketed by nearly 700 percent year-on-year, while sales of dog snacks surged over 1,400 percent year-on-year.
“其中，猫零食的销售额同比增长了近700%，而狗零食的销售额同比增长了超过1400%。”
"Consumers like Zhang are driving the growth of the pet industry, which now no longer sells just necessities like food and water bowls, but also lifestyle products such as pet wine, pet milk tea, pet quilt and even intelligent robots that can provide company for one's dog or cat.
像张这样的消费者正在推动宠物行业的发展，这个行业中不再只销售食品和水碗等必需品，而且还销售宠物红酒、宠物奶茶、宠物被子甚至可以为狗狗或猫咪提供陪伴的智能机器人等生活方式产品。
During the Nov 11 shopping festival last year, the most sought-after item on Tmall Global, the e-commerce platform that Chinese consumers use to procure overseas products, was no longer milk powder but cat food.
去年的双十一购物节期间，在中国消费者用来购买海外产品的电商平台天猫国际上，最抢手的商品已经不再是奶粉，而是猫粮。
In another report, the 2019 Chinese Pet Industry White Paper Consumer Report said the market size for dog and cat products reached 202.4 billion yuan in 2019, a year-on-year increase of 18.5 percent.
另一份报告，《2019年中国宠物行业白皮书消费者报告》显示，2019年狗和猫产品的市场规模达到了2024亿元人民币，同比增长了18.5%。
Meituan's report also noted that more than 40,000 bags of cat litter and 50,000 bags of cat food have been sold in the past one month.
美团的报告还指出，在过去的一个月中，已售出超过4万袋猫砂和5万袋猫粮。
Pet food, cat litters, dog masks, sanitary products, medical consulting services are ordinary products and services which have seen a surge in demand during the outbreak as people scrambled to care for their furry family members.
"I love my cat so much, and it has become a full-fledged member of my family," said 28-year-old Cathy Liu, who lives in Beijing.
"Liu has spent more than 6,000 yuan ($860) on her cat in the past six months.
Other expenses include medicines, snacks, toys, vaccines, a cat climber and a bed.
"My cat provides me companionship and teaches me responsibility," Liu said.
"My cat takes up most of my spare time.
The annual average spending on each pet cat was 3,117 yuan.
Peng Kunyi, a researcher at Qianzhan Industry Research Institute, noted that cat-owning households are becoming more willing to pay for their cats, leading to greater prosperity in the cat economy.
"China has witnessed a significant surge in the number of pet cat owners," Peng said.
Cat owners are mainly young females who are more likely to purchase some expensive high-quality items for their pet cats, the report added.
"Currently, China is still at the very early development stage of a cat economy," Peng added.
The report also said that unmarried people are the biggest online buyers of dog and cat food and related services, while the majority of owners of aquatic animals and exotic pets, such as birds, mice and rabbits, are married.
It is noteworthy that the unmarried groups are major contributors to the online consumption of dog and cat food and related services, while consumers who purchase aquatic animals and exotic pets, such as birds, mice and rabbits, are mostly married.
值得注意的是，未婚群体是线上购买狗粮、猫粮及相关服务的主要消费群体，而购买水族类动物和诸如鸟类、鼠类、兔子等异域宠物的消费者大多数为已婚人士。
From T-shirts printed with an adorable version of the Gayer-Anderson Cat to aprons inspired by the Book of the Dead of Hunefer from ancient Egypt, for any museum savvy person, the British Museum's souvenir shop is always a delight to conclude a careful exploration of one of the best museums in the world.
From January to May, the year-on-year growth rate of China's film box office (excluding service fees) and the number of viewers both saw a decline for the first time since 2011, according to Cat's Eye, a leading Chinese ticket platform.
"According to Frost & Sullivan's research, services counted for about 15 percent of the pet dog and cat market, totaling 24.1 billion yuan.
The report also showed that the average annual cost of medical care stood at 1,557 yuan for dog owners and 1,446 yuan for cat owners.
"I bought a 418-yuan insurance package for my cat that could reimburse me as much as 15,000 yuan," said a cat owner in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province.
The pet cat market segment, worth 60 billion yuan, is the second largest after the pet dog segment (98.5 billion yuan).
Reasons abound as to why the cat economy is flourishing in China.
"Every time my cat purrs at me, head-butts my face, and rubs against my leg, I want to hug him and kiss him all over.
"I get lonely sometimes, but my cat has always been good company," Huang said.
I don't have to walk my cat every day, but I play with him whenever I find some spare time.
Cat-owners spend about 3,117 yuan per cat each year on average, while the corresponding number for a dog is 4,723 yuan, said the report.
For a cat, it is about 1,340 yuan, with medical care requiring 742 yuan on average.
This has spawned a cat culture of sorts, spanning a variety of business activities.
For instance, specialist apps offer a service called "cloud petting" for those who do not own a pet cat.
The latter can follow "cat celebrities" on social media platforms.
"Erdou" and "Guazi" are two such cat celebrities on Douyin, one of China's most popular video-sharing platforms.
That's just one form of making money in the cat economy.
An electric scalp massager retails for about 120 yuan, and a FURminator (cat grooming comb) for over 100 yuan, with a freebie thrown in, in the form of a comb for the cat owner!
一款电动头皮按摩器的零售价大约为120元，而一把FURminator猫用护毛梳的价格则超过100元，并且还附赠一个给猫主人使用的梳子作为免费赠品！
Still, they are just the tip of the cat economy iceberg.
不过，它们只是猫咪经济这座冰山的尖端部分。
Beijing-based Liu Ronghuan, 35, a college teacher, said she was quite satisfied with the pet hotel she chose for her cat.
北京的35岁大学教师刘荣欢表示，她对自己为猫咪选择的宠物酒店非常满意。
"Compared with the price, I cared more about whether my cat was having an enjoyable time during the family reunion time," Liu said.
刘女士说：“相比于价格，我更关心的是我的猫在家庭团聚期间是否过得开心。”
Beijing-based Liu Ronghuan has no problem paying almost 5,000 yuan ($746) for her cat to spend seven days in a luxurious pet hotel, while she leaves Beijing for a family reunion during China's traditional Spring Festival.
I'm happy to finally find a decent place for my cat to stay, after two weeks on the waiting list.
"For example, we charge cat owners about 150 yuan per night per boarding kennel during the Spring Festival, but normally the price would be about 100 yuan," she said, adding that costs varied per breed, and their prices are around average among local providers.
A five-direction scalp massager, indoor slides, and swing bed－this collection is not intended to make Huang Xinyi's life better, but to make her cat's life a little fancier.
The 27-year-old Beijing-based film production assistant spends almost one-third of her monthly salary on online shopping for her cat, at roughly 3,000 yuan ($441).
He has healing powers and offers me good company in this new city 1,200 kilometers away from home," Huang said, while grooming her cat.
Some of them are not expensive to get from Taobao, but create so much fun for me and my cat," Huang said.
"I just couldn't help buying toys for my cat when I find interesting ones," she said.
Chen's mother Qin Liu, in her late 30s, an engineer with a Beijing-based internet company, said her son is still learning the English alphabet at the kindergarten, but can assemble Lego-like kits into a beetle, a cat and a frog in a jiffy.
"The video of a cat playing with 'dancing flower' toy makes me laugh every time I watch it, and I just can't stop myself buying the same one for our cat," she said.
StarMoly, another IP developer that owns the IP rights to more than 30 emoji symbols, including Moer the raccoon, Quby the baby, Waang the egg and Xiao the cat, has developed its own derivative products including smartphone cases, coin purses and books.
Mao Xiaomei, who has adopted a 6-month-old cat born to a feral cat on an online cat adoption forum eight years ago, perfectly fits the description of a typical cat owner in contemporary China in the China Pet Industry 2018 White Paper: female white-collar worker with a high academic background.
As an employee of a Shanghai-based multinational enterprise, she started to raise the cat soon after she got her first job in Beijing.
Her white cat named Maorong is almost a 9-year-old "elderly" cat today.
A 'responsible' pet ownerMao regards herself not only as a "responsible" pet owner but also as a reasonable consumer, who buys quality cat food and snacks, and sticks to a "scientific" cat-raising method but seldom buys luxurious products for her cat.
In fact, she has never thought about living without Maorong, and whether a man will accept her cat would be an important factor for her when choosing her boyfriend.
They began raising a cat as a pet when their only daughter moved to another city for higher education more than one decade ago.
The white paper also said on average a pet owner in 2017 spent 5,016 yuan a year on one cat or one dog, 15 percent more than the previous year.
The "white paper" estimates that pet service accounts for about 30 percent of a dog's "consumption" and 20 percent of a cat's "consumption", with the biggest pet service demand being medical care.