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【词汇讲解】
1. shopping spree 大血拼!
Some credit companies kept on sending me blank checks.It was like saying “Go on a shopping spree.”
一些信用公司不断寄来空白支票，好像在告诉我“疯狂购物去吧！”
2. recession n.经济衰退；不景气
Many businesses have closed down because of the recession.
因经济衰退许多企业纷纷倒闭。
3. splurge vt. & vi. 乱花(钱)；糟蹋(钱)；挥霍
Let's splurge on a fried chicken for one time.
我们就奢侈一次买只炸鸡吧。
4. consumption n. 消费，消耗；消费[耗]量
But the consumption even of productive labourers is not all of it productive consumption.
但即令是生产性劳动者的消费也不全是生产性消费。
5. materialism 物质主义
6. label vt.贴标签于；把……列为
The doctor labeled the bottle.
那位医生给瓶子贴上了标签。
He labeled the boastful man a liar.
他把那个好自夸的男人称作说谎者。
7. paradoxically ad. 反论；自相矛盾
Paradoxically, it's their parents who make up a big percentage of the buyers.
相反，倒是他们的父母构成了买房人的大多数。
8. addiction 成瘾；沉溺；癖好
Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction, poverty and murder.
贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
