疯狂购物

    中国人日益拥抱商品消费主义，而国内广告也时常见到西方面孔。请看本报周五对此所做的有趣解读：

    As Chinese embrace consumerism, Western actors are in high demand for TV commercials. The roles they play reflect on the changing state of the Chinese economy.

    Steven Weathers isn’t a doctor, but he has played one on TV — in China. He has also played an engineer, a pirate and a man who watched a pretty girl go by.

    China is newly wealthy, and consumers have been on a shopping spree. That means plenty of TV ads and an unexpected opportunity for foreigners in China to become the stars of those commercials.

    报道中的on a shopping spree就是“疯狂购物”。Spree就是“无节制的狂欢”，例如an eating spree(大吃大喝), a drinking spree(纵酒), a spending spree(大把花钱)。