CNN News:恐怖癥

AZUZ: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. There`s a phobia for that. Now, you might be familiar with arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, or acrophobia, fear of heights. But if you fear fear, you`re afraid of developing any kind of phobia, you may just have phobophobia, and you may just want to stay home this Halloween.Please visit www.chinavoa.com to get more information.

阿祖茲：美國總統(tǒng)富林克林D.羅斯福著名的名言是我們唯一應該恐懼的是恐懼本身。還真有這樣一種恐懼癥。你可能熟悉蜘蛛恐懼癥，也就是害怕蜘蛛，或者是恐高癥，害怕登高。但是如果你恐懼的是恐懼本身，你害怕有任何一種恐懼癥，你可能就患了恐恐怖癥，可能這個萬圣節(jié)你只能呆在家里了。

Now, that`s random.

好吧，并不是每個人都會得這種病。

AZUZ: OK. Now, for years, U.S. retail companies have looked forward to Black Friday, like many Americans look forward to turkey the day beforehand. The Friday after Thanksgiving is traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. It`s called Black Friday because in business, to be in the black is to be profitable. Companies usually sell a lot of merchandise offering deep discounts to encourage people to shop.

阿祖茲：多少年以來，美國的零售公司都在期盼著黑色星期五，就像很多美國人事先盼望感恩節(jié)一樣。感恩節(jié)之后的星期五，按照傳統(tǒng)意義上，是一年當中最忙的一天。這一天被稱作黑色星期五，因為，在商業(yè)上，黑色意味著有利可圖。公司通常會大打折扣，出售大量的商品來鼓勵人們消費。

In recent years, stores have opened earlier and earlier -- some in the middle of the night, some on the afternoon of Thanksgiving. But at least one U.S. retailer has a different strategy this year. It`s not opening at all.

近些年，商店們開門越來越早——有些商店半夜開門，而有些在感恩節(jié)下午就開門。但是今年，至少有一家美國零售商有一個不同的策略，那就是根本就不開張營業(yè)。