The snowfall closed the airport for several hours and cut into local business hours for retail shops during the busiest shopping season of the year.

在一年中最繁忙的购物季节，大雪使机场关闭了几个小时，并缩短了当地零售店的营业时间。

In the end, Dell was able to cut out the retail middleman and instead sell its products directly to the consumer.

最后，戴尔取消了零售中间商，而自己直接向客户销售产品。

It will either have to raise retail prices (which would annoy consumers) or ask publishers to cut their wholesale prices, which they are unwilling to do.

这个策略将来要么增加零售价格(这会造成消费者不乐意)要么就是逼迫出版商降低他们批发出售的价格，这又是他们不愿意做的。