22.11.9【地道美语257】购物疗法：买买买治愈不开心Retail therapy

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今日主题：Real Life English【地道美语257】购物疗法：买买买治愈不开心Retail therapy

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dialogue 1

Jingjing:　Mark, have you got anything ________________________?

Mark:　I have to ___________________ this week, like any other, even though____________.　What about you?

Jingjing:　You know, it's a good time to_______________.　I'll consider some additions for my winter wardrobe.　But I don't need much _______________.

Mark:　Same here.　Socks and Legos are the only thing___________________.

Jingjing:　Your wife told me about ________, and how she needs to _____________________.

Mark:　Oh, OK.　Do you ever go to_________________?

Jingjing:　Of course!　My dance studio is in a shopping mall.　And my gym is very near a different one.　It's so hard to ___________ that I doubt _____________ anytime soon.

Mark:　Yeah, and _______________ are getting filled up with restaurants and _______.

Jingjing:　Which is another reason______________________—even on the way to the subway!

Mark:　I know, right.　Do you go shopping ____________?

Jingjing:　I used to, especially back when I was___________ and made a daily run ________.

Mark:　Lots of people do that.　When you've spent 28 yuan _____________, then 128 for a shirt sounds like____________.

Jingjing:　Don't I know it.　And then______________ or more and have to think about how to ___________ for the rest of the week.

Mark:　Do you think a lot of people______________ as a result of their ____________?

Jingjing:　I just read something about that.　It seems to be ____________.

Mark:　How so?　_________________________.

Jingjing:　Well, according to the article I saw, 68 percent of millennials said _____________, while only 53% of Gen-X'ers and 26 percent of Baby Boomers ______________.

Mark:　That__________ for Baby Boomers.　Their parents _________________.　As a Gen-X'er myself, I'd say those people who talked to researchers might only have been talking about things they did recently.

Jingjing:　When you________________ as a young adult, you'd buy lots of stuff to _____________?

Mark:　Sure.　And I knew_______________________.

Jingjing:　Everyone should_________ when they're young, I guess.　I just hope it doesn't _________________.

Mark:　______________________.　Tell me more about the article when I come back.

dialogue 2

Jingjing:　Mark, now that you have your______________, are you ready to hear about how many people have _____________________?

Mark:　You don't want to wait for my coffee to cool______________________?　OK then, how many?

Jingjing:　_________ percent of respondents to the survey_______________ I read.

Mark:　That sounds like what I've been hearing in the news.　It might ____________—say, if someone _________________________________.

Jingjing:　I wouldn't know.　Those respondents only said they ____________________________.

Mark:　Then again, I heard that a huge number of people ____________________.

Jingjing:　What now?

Mark:　Revolving their debt: they_________________ from one credit card to pay off another one.　With three banks, one person can manage their debt that way, as long as they _______________________.

Jingjing:　__________________.　But yeah, if someone just graduated and started working in the city, it might be what they have to do for a year or two until they__________________.

Mark:　That's what too many people tell themselves: _______________—when I get promoted or something, this debt _______________.

Jingjing:　Don't tell me you're one of t___________________ that thinks any debt you can't ________ shouldn't be borrowed.

Mark:　OK, I won't tell you that.　Back to ________, though.　It sounds like it ______________, rather than __________.

Jingjing:　If people get themselves into __________, it can be.　But there's plenty of evidence that___________.

Mark:　I definitely feel __________________.

Jingjing:　Does it____________ whether or not___________?

Mark:　It definitely does.　I __________________where everything was too expensive or __________.

Jingjing:　Same here.　That article said that shopping ____________________, many times over.　People had _____________.　They were three times less likely to feel sad after buying something.

Mark:　That sounds about right.　Hopefully ______________.

Jingjing:　82% of people reported____________ about what they had bought.　So, it looks like shopping can _______________.

Mark:　Well, I'm glad shopping malls are _________, ___________.

Jingjing:　Right, we can always go there to have coffee or milk tea at least, _______________________.

Mark:　Ha ha.　That's twenty-first century________________!

new words and phrases

in that department:　

keep <someone> on a tight leash:　

<be> out <a certain amount of money>:

impulse purchase:　

stress spending:

<be> on the same page <with someone>:　

max out a credit card:　

revolving debt:

a debt cycle:　

retail therapy: