Today pawnbrokers will give you a hard time over a brand-new color television set--because prices are falling so quickly that in three months 'time a new one will cost less than the one you pawned.
今天有人提著嶄新的彩色電視機「上當」，老闆推三阻四，避之唯恐不及。因為現在產品變得太快，過了三個月的當期，買新的就比贖當划算；所以比較受歡迎的當品是不容易貶值的黃金與珠寶。