It seems as if people today spend more time planning the holiday gifts they're going to buy or the next vacation they're ready to take than they do preparing their own lives.

今天，人们花大量的时间准备节日礼物或为计划中的假期做准备，但是在人生规划方面花的时间却是极少的。

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All people love to receive gifts; it's not just children that do at this time of year.

每年这个时候，人人都喜欢收到礼物，不仅只是小孩子。

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Do people give gifts to the boss?

人们给老板送礼吗？

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Indeed, we do a pretty good job of selecting gifts for close friends and significant others people we are more likely to "get" and have some good reason for choosing the items we buy, notes Joel Waldfogel, an economist at the University of Minnesota.

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