万花筒 2013-11-25&11-30 美国节日血拼拉开序幕

 As you brace¹ yourself for holiday shopping, know this, black Friday is apparently² now a week-long event. In fact, it's already started. So how can play this to your advantage. ABC's Rebecca Jarvis has much more now.

 

If Black Friday is the superball of shopping, consider this: the tailgate party, complete with the week-long free-game show.

 

“It's game time. It is game time.”

 

Walmart kicking things off with deals like this Lepad 2, original price $79, now $39.99. And select

 

PS4 Xbox 1 video games, including Call of Duty, Ghost and Battlefield 4, which worth $59.96, new price 49 bucks³.

 

“You want to shop early for great Black Friday gifts. You are gonna be able to do it all week.”

 

Amazon rolling out deals online every ten minutes, starting this Sunday. This 58-inch flatscreen $229, laptop as low as $239.99. 

 

Target, KMart and Sears also getting in on the act. Sears beat the rush ahead already underway with major discounts on appliances like this camel stainless⁴ dishwasher now 350 bucks down from 700.

 

Every store hoping to lure⁵ you in this weekend, in case you'd rather skip out on the turkey time chaos⁶. This year, about 13% of us plan to shop the real Black Friday, that's down from 20% four years ago.

 

And the CEO of Best Buy sum it up like this for us. He says

 

basically this year, this week, every day is like Black Friday. So you don't have to camp out overnight in front of a store to get the best deal.

1 brace   

n. 支柱,曲柄,大括号; v. 绷紧,顶住,(为困难或坏事)做准备

参考例句：

• My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth. 我的女儿得戴牙套以矫正牙齿。
• You had better brace yourself for some bad news. 有些坏消息,你最好做好准备。

2 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

3 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 stainless   

adj.无瑕疵的，不锈的

参考例句：

• I have a set of stainless knives and forks.我有一套不锈钢刀叉。
• Before the recent political scandal,her reputation had been stainless.在最近的政治丑闻之前，她的名声是无懈可击的。

5 lure   

n.吸引人的东西，诱惑物；vt.引诱，吸引

参考例句：

• Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
• He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。

6 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。