關注社會:中國人寒夜苦等iPhone 4S

UPDATED with amazing photos from Beijing by Feng Li via the Mercury News.

最新圖片來自Mercury News網站的李峯（音譯）。拍攝地點是蘋果北京的門店，簡直令人歎爲觀止。

Penn Olson's Steven Millward reports from Shanghai that crowds several city blocks long have formed outside Apple's (AAPL) stores in Beijing and Shanghai hours before the scheduled release of the iPhone 4S Friday morning.

科技網站Penn Olson的史蒂文·米爾沃德發自上海的報道：iPhone 4S計劃在當地時間週五早晨開賣，而在正式開賣時間數小時之前，蘋果（Apple）在北京和上海的多家零售店已被無數中國買家團團包圍。

Although China Unicom (CHU) will begin selling the device for heavily subsidized prices at midnight — eight hours earlier — most Chinese buyers seem to be congregating at Apple's own stores, perhaps to get the unlocked versions that only Apple sells.

雖然中國聯通（China Unicom）會在凌晨時分開始銷售合約版iPhone 4S（補貼後價格相當優惠），比蘋果官方還早八小時，但絕大部分中國買家似乎更親睞蘋果的自有零售店，也許是因爲在中國只有蘋果門店是唯一銷售解鎖版iPhone 4S的渠道。

It could be long, cold night. According to Millward, temperatures are supposed to drop to 3°C (37°F) overnight in Shanghai and even lower in Beijing.

漫漫長夜，寒氣逼人。米爾沃德稱，上海的夜間溫度可能低至3°C（華氏37度），而北京的溫度則會更低。

To cut down on line-jumping — and to keep the scalpers in check — staffers at several stores have been handing out tickets to customers who've queued up early.

爲了防止插隊，同時打擊黃牛，多家零售店的店員都向提前排隊的顧客發放了排隊號。