实用英语对话:消费观
心涛：你说的是法国的知名品牌吗?
洋洋：对呀，这个牌子的服装、皮包特别高档，尤其是皮包我超喜欢。
心涛：这个牌子的东西很贵的。
洋洋：那当然了，一分价钱一分货嘛。
心涛：你怎么突然想起来问我这个了?
洋洋：我看中LV的一款皮包，可是太贵了，我的钱不够，想找你借点钱。
心涛：洋洋，我说一句你别不高兴啊，咱们是工薪阶层，你这样有点儿太奢侈。
洋洋：怎么是奢侈，这叫超前消费。你看咱们单位的小刘用的包就是LV的，她还跟我说超前消费是现在的潮流。
心涛：我觉得你的消费观不对，我们应该学会节俭，不能盲目攀比，人云亦云。
洋洋：可是你上次不是还说我们要顺应时代嘛。
心涛：我说的是咱们的思想观念要与时俱进，在物质上一味地追求高档次是不对的，而且我们的收入也不多啊。
洋洋：你说的有道理，我不应该和别人比的。
心涛：这就对了，而且我觉得你现在用的那个包就挺好的。
YY: Xin Tao, have you heard of LV?
XT: Are you talking about the famous French brand?
YY: Yep, clothing and handbags from this brand are of exceptional quality, I'm especially fond of their handbags.
XT: Their goods are very expensive.
YY: Of course, one gets what one pays for.
XT: Why did you suddenly raise this topic?
YY: I'm in love with one of LV's handbags, it's really very expensive, I'm short on money and was wondering whether you can loan me some.
XT: Yang Yang, I'm going to say something, but please don't be unhappy (when you hear it), we're wage-earners (lit. working class), what you're doing is kinda too extravagant.
YY: It's not extravagant, it's called premature consumption. Just take a look at our colleague Xiao Liu, she's using an LV bag and she told me that premature consumption is the in thing right now.
XT: I feel that your concept of consumption is rather unbecoming, we should learn to be thrifty. We shouldn't keep up with the Joneses blindly and simply parrot what others say.
YY: But didn't you say before that we should flow with the times?
XT: What I meant was that we should keep our thinking abreast with modern developments. Being materialistic and blindly chasing after superior goods is not right. Also, we don't earn that much.
YY: You have a point, I shouldn't compare myself with others.
XT: Now you get it. Moreover I think the bag you're using right now is just fine.
