Tuesday's filing sets the stage for the technology industry's biggest initial public offering since short messaging service Twitter and its early investors collected $1.8 billion in its stock market debut last fall. Alibaba could still try to raise more money and even surpass the $16 billion that Facebook did two years ago, depending on investor demand for its stock。

周二，阿里巴巴申请赴美上市，这是自去年秋天Twitter上市募集18亿美元后，科技行业最大的一桩IPO了。阿里巴巴可以尝试募集更多资金，甚至超过两年前Facebook的160亿美元的金额。到底能募集多少资金，这就取决于投资需求了。

For now, Alibaba isn't specifying how much stock will be sold in the IPO or setting a price range. Those details will emerge as the IPO progresses, a process is likely to take three to four months to complete before Alibaba's shares begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange。

目前，阿里巴巴并没有具体说明会在IPO中募集多少资金，也没有给出具体的价格区间。这些细节会在阿里巴巴IPO的过程中陆续公布，而在阿里巴巴在纽交所上市之前，这一过程会持续3-4个月的时间。

Although it's not nearly as well-known as Facebook, Alibaba has emerged as an e-commerce powerhouse that has been making more money than Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. combined. What's more, the company is still growing at a rapid clip as its network of online services, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, mine a Chinese Internet market that already has twice as many Web surfers as the U.S。

尽管没有Facebook那么有名，阿里巴巴在电商领域赚的钱已经比亚马逊和eBay加在一起还要多了。而且，阿里巴巴还在高速发展中，其在线服务包括淘宝、天猫、支付宝等在中国的用户是美国所有网民数量的两倍。

沪江英语快讯：5月7日，阿里巴巴集团董事局主席马云通过内部邮件向阿里巴巴员工宣布，阿里巴巴集团正式向美国证券监管委员会递交上市注册登记书，并提醒全体阿里巴巴人，感恩过去，敬畏未来。他在邮件中写道“我们深知，我们生存下来不是因为战略多么的宏远，执行力多么的完美，而是我们十五年来坚持了‘让天下没有难做的生意’这个使命，坚持了我们‘客户第一’的价值观，坚持了相信未来，相信相信，坚持了平凡人一起做非凡事。”