"You can tell that these are people who have been struck by the financial tsunami," surmises Chen. As the number of jobless soars, once they have exhausted their unemployment benefits there could very well be another big wave of pawn transactions in May and June of this year.
陳處長預估，隨著失業人口激增，在陸續領完失業補助金之後，今年五、六月起可能會再掀起一波典當潮！