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1. shopping spree 大血拼!
Some credit companies kept on sending me blank checks.It was like saying “Go on a shopping spree.”
一些信用公司不斷寄來空白支票，好像在告訴我“瘋狂購物去吧！”
2. recession n.經(jīng)濟衰退；不景氣
Many businesses have closed down because of the recession.
因經(jīng)濟衰退許多企業(yè)紛紛倒閉。
3. splurge vt. & vi. 亂花(錢)；糟蹋(錢)；揮霍
Let's splurge on a fried chicken for one time.
我們就奢侈一次買只炸雞吧。
4. consumption n. 消費，消耗；消費[耗]量
But the consumption even of productive labourers is not all of it productive consumption.
但即令是生產(chǎn)性勞動者的消費也不全是生產(chǎn)性消費。
5. materialism 物質(zhì)主義
6. label vt.貼標簽于；把……列為
The doctor labeled the bottle.
那位醫(yī)生給瓶子貼上了標簽。
He labeled the boastful man a liar.
他把那個好自夸的男人稱作說謊者。
7. paradoxically ad. 反論；自相矛盾
Paradoxically, it's their parents who make up a big percentage of the buyers.
相反，倒是他們的父母構(gòu)成了買房人的大多數(shù)。
8. addiction 成癮；沉溺；癖好
Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction, poverty and murder.
販賣毒品的地區(qū)往往是吸毒上癮、貧困和發(fā)生謀殺的地方。
