【词汇大师】圣诞大血拼（2/2）

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圣诞购物季，意味着“rad”还是"black”？如人饮水，冷暖自知啊。
TIPS
本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话①"How convenient."
HINTS
Philadelphia

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"My hunch is that storekeepers had heard that a lot of people were using this term jokingly to talk about that day, and my feeling is that they may have been a little afraid that this would keep shoppers from downtown Philadelphia.
"So I sense an effort on the part of retailers to try to convince the public that the black actually referred to a very bright day of sales for merchants. And therefore we get back to the old accounting practice of going from the red to the black."
"Yes, but the problem with that theory is, first of all, it's clear that that explanation for the meaning of Black Friday comes well after -- by about fifteen years -- the earliest citing we have for police using Black Friday with reference to the day. Another problem is, a huge financial disaster that took place in American history -- I think it was eighteen sixty-nine -- where there was a complete destruction of the gold market, and that is referred to as Black Friday.
"So why would merchants sort of gleefully adopt, out of the blue, this expression Black Friday when it actually has a bigger, larger meaning in American economic history as a complete failure of the economy."