Are you ready to participate in the mad shopping frenzy that we partake in every year, not only on Black Friday but all holiday season long?

不只在“黑色星期五”而是在所有节日季都加入我们每年都会参加的购物狂潮，你，准备好了吗？

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Ariel Winter wore these Charlotte Olympia black pumps at the 2012 Golden Globes. The small bows on the front of each shoe are pretty in a subtle way that looks ladylike a la "Mad Men."

2012年金球奖上，阿芮尔A·温特穿着夏洛特·奥林匹亚的黑色高跟，鞋前方的小蝴蝶结很可爱，还带有一种微妙的“广告狂人”式的淑女气质。

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And yet we find ourselves entering another holiday season of familiar Black Friday headlines about shoppers being trampled in a mad effort to get their mitts on the latest offline deal.

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Unsurprisingly, horse racing-mad Australians have taken the champion thoroughbred to their hearts, with diehard Black Caviar fans even traveling to the other side of the world to cheer her on at Britain's Royal Ascot.

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The current wave of viral panic is of course the most recent chapter in a very long history of epidemics: Ebola in the 1990s, mad cow disease in the 1980s, polio in the 1930s and 1940s, the black death in the 14th century, and so on.

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