You should wash your sock by yourself.
你应该自己洗袜子。
The results knocked my
socks off.
这结果让我太震惊了。
He gave him a sock on the head.
他朝他的脑袋猛击了一拳。
For example, when a sock maker finds no room for profit, it would soon start producing tents.
Branded accessories like lighters, toothbrushes, caps, rings, necklaces and socks are also sought after by male consumers.
For instance, by co-designing with Japan's Mitsui & Co and Sweden's Happy Socks, Neiliangsheng has made its products more global, to be appealing for the young while preserving its core values and craftsmanship.
The Irvine, California-based Wong sells self-designed merchandise, including coloring books, cooking books, soaps, candles, bath bombs and socks, through the website danktank.
Yang is the owner of Haina Textile Technology Co Ltd, a company that specializes in producing socks, with major export markets being Europe and North America.
In the first quarter, Haina exported over 10 million pairs of socks, a year-on-year increase of nearly 87 percent.
In fact, Yang's company is one of over 6,000 enterprises－which would number nearly 10,000 if individual businesses and family mills were counted－producing and processing socks in Datang, a small town located in Zhuji, Zhejiang province.
Datang may well be unknown to the vast majority of people outside of China, but the socks and stockings that people wear around the world most likely hail from this place.
Statistics show that the town's hosiery industry currently churns out as many as 27 billion pairs of socks worth 75 billion yuan ($11.14 billion) every year, accounting for 70 percent of the national market and 35 percent of the global market.
In other words, one-third of all pairs of socks worn on this planet sport the "Made in Datang" tag, and the town has long been known as the "Sock Capital of the World".
The story of the town goes back to the late 1970s, when locals first saw business opportunities in making socks.
They bought used hosiery equipment, refashioned them into manually operated machines, and were soon churning out socks to sell along roadsides.
In 2004, Datang produced 9 billion pairs of socks to become the world's largest sock producer.
At present, it launches over 1000 types of high-end socks annually, integrating elements of traditional Chinese culture and arts.
"What we are making," says Qi Jianjun, the company's founder and CEO, "are socks that are not just to be worn, but to be showcased as an article of fashion and identity.
Starting as an ordinary factory worker, in the following two decades, she has worked all the way up, got married and now has two children, just as the company has grown from a family workshop to one producing some 25 million pairs of socks a year.
These could include even street-level businesses-say, a humble old woman's "shop" on the sidewalk selling socks, umbrellas and hair clips, a mobile fast food xiaotan or stall on an electric tricycle, or a neighborhood florist.
At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the self-heating ski socks in Chinese athletes' bags were produced in Liaoyuan.
Developed with special technology, these socks can achieve an average temperature increase of eight degrees.
At the Ice and Snow Sportswear Industrial Park in Liaoyuan, workers make ski socks.
Over the past two years, more than 100,000 pairs of ski socks have been sold from the city.
Dubbed "sock city", Liaoyuan is a major cotton sock production base in China.
Before 2020, around eight million pairs of cotton socks were sold from here and shipped all over the world every day.
Although athletes from Liaoyuan have not yet stood on the podium of the Winter Olympics, 3,600 pairs of ski socks produced here built their reputation at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Developed with special technology, these socks can achieve an average temperature increase of eight degrees Celsius.
Over the past two years, more than 100,000 pairs of ski socks have been sold from here.
Just take hiking socks, for instance.
On Taobao, the online marketplace of Alibaba, the top three Christmas-themed items are socks, LED lights, and window stickers.
"Smaller Christmas gifts like headbands and socks are preferred by domestic buyers, compared to overseas buyers who prefer large plush Santa toys and Christmas trees," said Zhu Guohua, a Christmas gift store owner in Yiwu who has been in this business for about 15 years.
More than five years ago, Zhejiang Mengna Socks & Hosiery Co Ltd provided a debt guarantee of 260 million yuan ($38.4 million) for Zhejiang Weihai Zipper Co Ltd, a former leading zipper manufacturer in China, under a mutual guarantee that aimed to help each participant receive bank loans without collateral.
They concluded that the company had been focused on the manufacturing and selling of socks for a long time and had basically complied with financial norms.
The local government made arrangements for the socks manufacturer to repay 52 million yuan to creditor banks for Weihai Zipper's guaranteed loans.
Now the company is trying to upgrade its socks manufacturing business to smart manufacturing to reduce labor costs.
I will connect our socks manufacturing equipment to a wireless network so that banks will have access to the data on our production and sales in real time," Zong said.