（英译中）Ten years ago, Pirre Omidyar took time out from his Silicon Valley day-job to create a new kind of online trading system, now called eBay.
That opening day was not exactly a roaring success. In fact, the site attracted no visitors at all in its first 24 hours. (71)【But within weeks, a few dozen items were already being offered for sale.】 (72)【By the end of 1995, several thousand auctions, attracting more than 10,000 bids, had taken place.】 Now eBay has 157million users in 34 countries, and its annual profits will reach $1 billion this year.
(73)【The next step is for eBay to become a business-to-business platform as well, offering a channel for large-scale supply and procurement.】(74)【The company intends to make the site more user-friendly for businesses trading in bulk.】 (75)【Despite eBay's dominant market position in many countries, the company is not complacent about the future.】
71.
但在几周之内,已经有几十件商品上线销售。
