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Consumers already planning the purchase of a new car, appliance, or other big- ticket item may go ahead, but forget those who had only begun to think about buying, says Marian Friestad, president of the Society for Consumer Psychology22. “This would be a time when people would not be particularly open to changing their purchase behavior or trying new things,” she says. Frivolous purchases, like perfume and fashion, will probably decline. Indeed, high-end-goods firm Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy23 issued an earnings warning.

The main idea of the paragraph

The terror attacks will particularly affect those who began to think about buying big-ticket items and those who did frivolous purchases.

恐怖袭击特别影响到了那些开始考虑要购买大件商品以及购买奢侈品的人群，使他们打消了购买的念头。

句子分析

Consumers already planning the purchase of a new car, appliance, or other big-ticket item may go ahead, but forget those who had only begun to think about buying.

在此句中

1）“but”连接了两个不同种类的句子，前面是个陈述句，而后者是个祈使句

2）“already planning the purchase of a new car, appliance, or other big-ticket item”是现在分词短语，作定语，修饰名词“consumers”

3）“who had only begun to think about buying”是个限制性的定语从句，修饰代词“those”

词语解释

big-ticket

having a high price or cost 高价的，昂贵的 e.g.

1）He said that, if the boss gave him a year-end bonus, he would buy a big-ticket stereo 他说，如果老板给他年终奖的话，他就去买一台昂贵的立体音响。

2）That was really a big-ticket government program. 那正是个代价高昂的政府计划。

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