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Everybody

So today we're going to talk about shopping now in china

This is one of the biggest topics

You hear 剁手党all the time it's same for the uk as well wewe'always been a nation of shop hoholigues shoper 就是剁手holigudopeople

Who

Who are obsessed with shopping

Yeah

So we would say these type people will shop to day drop shop tell you drop so shop tell you a completely exhausted if you fall on the floor or go on a shopping spray

A shopping spray means a lot of impulsive purchases

Yeah

Just spend lots of money

Buy lots of things

And we also see as a type of therapy

Some people say i need some retail therapy

Retail 是retail erasase is a retail therapy is especially for women

I think when we're not happy with buy things

And we feel a lot more relax

A lot more parks out 叫购物疗法

So it's the same really around the world

So when we buy things

We say to go shopping yeah

Shipping 购物also heard do the shopping um so to go shopping and to do the shopping in england

Are they the same thing no

Not quite go shopping is when you're doing it for like an activity

Because you want to a fun activity

So go shopping is a chore

That's when you're going go buy food

Go to the soup

So for shoday things that you have to buy

Yeah

Absolutely so go shopping is

Is for fun do the shopping is because you have to 购买日常的杂货

Yeah

I think americans would say do some grocery shopping

Yeah

You don't use grocery

No wwon't say grocery one thing that i think a lot of chinese learners probably have trouble understanding is whenever you talk about shopping in the uk

You often hear the word

The high street yeah

Now this is quite english

Because americans don't really say the high street yeah

What is high street yeah

Yeah

Most every english or british town town

They a street street in the middle of the town and ask called the high street

That's where all the shops are

It's the center of the town

Like a commercicial street

Business

Business with the businesses yeah

像一个商业街

So if you think about it in the past

That most towns would have just one main street

And on that street would be all the shops and the houses would be behind that street

So this was something from the history

And they just stayed yeah

So especially

Towns

The high street is normally the main route in an out of the town go into bibigger city

So high high street in uk golt yet is not just one particular street is actually the name of a street

That almost every town has yes the main business or commercial street was out a shops

Restaurants

Restaurants

You know

Lately some of the english or british brands

Especially fashion brands are coming in there called the high street fashion

Al high street brands usually not very expensive and ready to wear 高阶时尚

To excepple like action m yeah

So these are they quite cheap and pretty much

They are train shops

Their train stores that every little town would have

But

But do do follow fasfashion

They do follow the latest trarends

So they are very popular among younger crowd yeah

And it's also a more practical fashion

If you think about high fashionists allow closer people wouldn't wear in everyday life high fashion 高端的就时尚models would wear high fashion yeah

Normal people high street fashion

So the high strestreet in uk

That's not the only difference between britain and america

You can also say in the names of the shops as well yet this i have noticed

I think in the uk you still use a lot of veolder terms

So for example

In america you probably have the grocery store or food and vegetable store

Yeah

We you call that the green grocerses

The green grocerers and in america you have liquor store with a sell alcohol

We will call that an off license

What does that mean off license

I see it quite often

But i don't really know what that means off license

It's because pops in the uk they have to have a license to sell

Alcohol

To sell and also consume alcohol

So an off license is a centuries

A place that it can sell alcohol

You cannot drink it on the premises

Also with a bottleshop

Yeah

In america you have drug store

So we ccalall out the chemists um and fish store

The fish mongers

The fish mongers that's something

That's so old sounding

Very new very traditional sounding

But we still say it

And if you go into a british suounmarket

You'still see the science

Because the fish count very would be called the fish mongers

Yeah

Fish mongers 听起来有点像鱼贩子

Yeah

And also another thing that's quite different

In china

You don't really you see a lot of shopping malls

You don't really see department stores

That much any more department stores 一般是百货商场

We have more shopping malls

Where you have different brands

But in the uk still have some very old very long established department stores

No Yeah

You have department stores like john lewis for example

Which is very well known

Also depenonms

Which selselstores

But also sells other things

These are more more mdranch

Yeah

But we also have shopping centres

So we don't call them shopping malls

We call them shopping centres

Another thing that i have noticed in china

You don't really see them is on any high streets or in any town

In the uk

You see a lot of charity shops

Yeah

Like oxslam obviously these are second hand shops

Yeah

These are very very common uka lot people see them as good value for money as well

And they also helping out charity

So whatever you pay in these stores

The money is go into certain types of charity

Yeah

So for example

At charity for heart disease

They might have their own shop

Oxygm would have their own shop

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Oxham is a charity for overseas rid um

So a charity shops are quite popular

Because people donate their clothes

And people go in a new by clothes discounted rate

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And in the uk is very popular

所以就是这种慈善商店也是一个互助的

So people helping other people

Yeah

So for example

When i go to the uk

Sometimes go to characy shops

And have a look at the books

People donate books and second bine books very cheap ly

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It's not just second hand shops

You also have particular markets as well

A oold lea markets

Which ells old furniture as close

啊 旧货市场

跳蚤市场

Ah that's where comes from flee litererally ans

跳跳蚤 Yeah

Flee market i have not seen that many of them as it's so popular in the uk

Yeah

For example

Will also have jumble sales as well

Car boot sales is it like american yard sales well

Yeah

Because we don't have yard sales

No

Me because our yard is not big enough

So we would have car boot sales

Where people just drive boot salt at a certain day

They would open the boot of their car

And they would sell what they want to get rid off

就是那种车后备箱里装着自己不用的东西然后卖掉

Yeah

In china we have not car boot sale

But people do sell things out of their boot 后备箱箱are boot in british english

So these are quite popular

Because people we like to go bargain hunting in these type of haces talking about bargain hunting

Talking about bargain hunts in london

Like cananda market portaaballow road admarket

Oh Yeah

Y're quite a few

And these are quite pounting so one question though in china

You know it is quite normal for people to bargain or to haggle

Yeah

就是在中国讨价还价

Bargain or hagle is acceptable what about in the uk less

So british people generally don't huggle that ah ah might hgle a car booth sale or jumble sale

But the personal sell in it

But it's going

Going give you aa vagous price

They not going to say five percent here of what they acactually ll it for yah

I have seen you trying to bargain here in china

You always look really embararasassed

And i think that is an english thing

Thing abababsotely ii still get incredibly embarassed

When i'm bargaining but have to in certain cultures

So we talked about different types of shops

The high street will talk about department store and a markets

But there are also some famous shopping streets in london

London is too big to have one high street yeah

And many of these i think people are interested in london

But have been to london have heard of

So you have ox third street yeah

And you have several role yeah

Several roo is famous for suits and yet all taylor shops

So if you have a several vote suit

That's essentially saying i got a suit the highest quality several role

And i think it's really expensive

It's starts at ten thousand or one thousand pounds a not yeah now absolutely so if you want a very good suit mate probababseveral al le

Yeah

Ah is a choice 魔果

And you know that in china now online shopping is really big

Really popular

Yeah

About in the uk

If it's becoming more popular

I don't think it's reached the same level as china

Because delivery costs slightly higher er

And it's i would say is not as not accepted us in china

And i guess a lot of english

People they still like to go window shopping

Window shopping is when you just walk around

Look at things without buying them

Because people like the whole activity

Your shopping lots of people still go to shops

For example you're buying someone a present

A you might give them a gift voucher for a particular shop

A gift vture

A vouture is like a card or a piece of paper

Yeah

That you can use as store credits is 购物券

Yeah

That's very common gift among family members friends

Sometimes yeah

Because gicascash to seeseesomesomewhat little bit impersonal

And if you buy people things they might not like it

Yeah

So gift vulture is somewhere between good thinking

So next time when you're in the uk

Perhaps

This is a good choice of a gift among friends definitely so i think we'll wrap up here today

And for more about shopping in the uk

We will develop in an advaned episode

So until then if you have any comments

If you have shopping in the uuk

Let us know what you k

And maybe you can also recommend us a few stores

A few shopping centers

You go to so until next time see next time bye bye