英語角-圓桌會議 RoundTable0808 - 第一份工資是怎么花的？

Topic1 Spending your first paycheckThe first paycheck is one of the most important rites of passage into adulthood. It is a symbol of your financial independence, a declaration of your readiness to become a productive member of society, and probably the beginning of your life-longhatred of the payroll tax.

How did you spend your first paycheck?

Topic2 Nostalgic PopsiclesWhat is old is new again.

This summer, food manufacturers are playing the nostalgia card to attract urban consumers by branding products with a sweet childhood memory. The biggest winner here is the popsicle called Dong Bei Da Ban.

What is the Dongbei Daban? How popular?

Topic3 Brave DongbeirenIf you walk on the street and see a guy stealing from a young lady, would you do you anything to help?

A recent online program shows that 11 out of 15 men in the Northeast would do so, while in Shanghai, the result is very different.

What is this program? What did it show us?

Topic4 Care for some bullet curtain movies?

A new type of movie showing has tested the waters among Chinese moviegoers who can leave real time comments on the film screen for everybody else to see.

This kind of movie showing is called a bullet curtain screening and it has got the industry talking.

What is it?

Topic5 The inexplicable "V"The V sign, a gesture commonly used by Chinese people while taking photos, is a hand gesture in which the index and middle fingers are raised and parted, while the other fingers are clenched. It has various meanings, depending on the cultural context and how it is presented.

So where did it start? Is it just a China thing?

Topic6 Back up boyfriendA backup literally is a spare copy of a file, file system, or other resource for use in the event of failure or loss of the original. But now, there is a group of people calling themselves "backups. In this case they are the people kept in reserve to serve as arebound lover or spouse.

What exactly are these "backups?"