【词汇大师】圣诞大血拼（1/2）

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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。
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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 "So here's a question we got by e-mail. It says, 'I've been living in the United States for almost twenty-nine years. Why do people call the day after Thanksgiving Day "Black Friday"?' And I understand you've done a little research into this."
主持人对话②"Which refers to the color of the ink that was used."
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North Carolina
Chapel Hill

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"I'm actually a neuroscience researcher at the University of North Carolina, which is in Chapel Hill. I have an amateur's interest, though, in linguistics and folklore and history."
"I should back up just for a second, though, and explain that he's in good company, because a lot of Americans were unfamiliar with the term Black Friday until about a decade ago. Its more modern application is in regard to profitability for the day. So a lot of people think that the black in Black Friday refers to ledger books going from negative values, which would be in the red, into positive values, which is into the black."
"Exactly right. And that's absolutely true and it's a perfectly valid explanation, though it may not be historically correct. Some research I did sort of indicates that this term probably originated in the late fifties, early sixties, and it was probably used as a term, sort of a pejorative term, a sort of tongue-in-cheek term to refer to the day after Thanksgiving. "