1. A mutual agreement to suspend holiday gifts for at least one season, usually within a single family or circle of friends.

2. The act of replacing useless and pointless merchandise with something more meaningful, such as a charitable donation, service project or holiday party.

3. Wal-Mart's biggest nightmare.
> Due to the recession, we've decided that Degifting is the best plan for Christmas this year. Instead, we're all getting together to serve food at the homeless shelter. I really don't need another Salad Shooter. Do you?

AILSA CHANG, HOST: If you are still looking for gifts for your family and friends, how about a book? Remember those? I have asked WEEKEND EDITION books editor Barrie Hardymon to think about her favorite books from the past year that will make great g

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

今天我们要学的词是regift。Regift, 意思是把自己收到的没用的礼物拿来转送给别人。最新调查显示,36 % of U.S. adults will regift this year, 美国36%的成年人今年都会把收到的礼物转送给别人。Regifti

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今天我们要学的词是regift。Regift, 意思是把自己收到的没用的礼物拿来转送给别人。最新调查显示,36 % of U.S. adults will regift this year, 美国36%的成年人今年都会把收到的礼物转送给别人。Regifti

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今天我们要学的词是 self-gifting。Self-gifting 自己买礼物送给自己。近年来在美国,Self-gifting has been gaining popularity. 自己给自己买礼物变得越来越流行。美国全国零售业协会的调查显示,People a

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albert cloth
aldactones
allois senefolder
amices
antenna rod
Asarum sieboldi Mig.
Aunt Sally/Sallies/Sallys
automatic packing
balneal, balneary
beheaven
big board
biquark
caprock mt.
cavitated
censurably
close-air-support
complementary-angle method
compound plate
condition of self-locking
crack starter technique
criterion-referenced
critical survival temperature
cruising steam turbine
deadmen
desatting
diskshaped
distinguishers
elasticity of supply of labor
etemads
eyler
falciform ligaments
flocculator-settler
gullon
heliotropisms
high-current accelerator
hydrology of bridge and culvert
hyperalphalipoproteinaemia
inflation-linked
infundibulum of lungs
interstratified deposit
ironbody valve
job age
leopardus tigrinus
light-red
Livno
loss of freight
low-level multiplexing
lung-function
magnetostrictive
mauskopf
mcveighs
Microsoft disk operating system
microwave landing aids
mills around
muliebris urethra
non-destrductive read memory
non-instinctive
on the offensive
one step derivation
overspreadeth
paisley
para carbaminophenylarsonic acid
paratyphoid serum
pars sternocostalis (pericardii)
periarticular ligament
phyllocoptruta peregi
preservation of public peace
progressio
pure white pepper powder
queensland grass-cloth plants
rate gyroscope system
rodzinski
roks
safety network
Safranbolu
SAVAK, Savak
screwbean
set up error
sextress
shaked lime
shin-bone protector
shorthandedness
Shultz
signed multiplicand
Simanahan Chan.
solvus
star-navigation
stick one's nose in
supported liquid membrane
toe-pokes
torsional endurace limit
totalement
transistorized register
turtlelike
ultrasonic thickness gauge
undisruptable
valve top cap
variable point numeral
whole tomato
wieldies
works foreman
Zijderveld diagram