layaway

noun

1. 预付订金购货法（余额结清后取货）
   a system of buying goods in a store, where the customer pays a small amount of the price for an article and the store keeps the goods until the full price has been paid

1. After overhearing another shopper say she may not be able to afford her outstanding bill, Mr Parady wandered over to the layaway department to see what he could do to help.
   在偶然听到一个购物者说她可能没办法支付掉未付账单时，帕拉第先生走进分期付款商品保留部，他想知道自己是否能帮上一点忙。
2. That day my mother picked me up early from daycare because we were going to Sears& Roebuck to pay on a Christmas Layaway.
   那一天我妈妈提前到了托儿所来接我，因为我们要去西尔斯商场拿我们预定的圣诞礼物。
3. But elayaway used an affiliate online shopping mall to demonstrate sufficient demand for layaway on big-ticket electronic goods.
   但elayaway利用旗下在线购物中心，证明了对大件电器分期预付的充足需求。
4. So I can get my presents out of layaway.
   这样才买的起我的礼物。
5. You're worried about layaway.
   你还在那担心自己的礼物。
6. And maybe you can put that Bentley on layaway, huh?
   或者你把那本特利放在预付账单里，怎样？
7. Bought a suit on layaway.
   以预约定购法买了套西服。
8. If their only problem was getting their gifts out of layaway.
   如果问题仅仅是把礼物取回来。
9. If you haven't enough money to buy the piano, you can use the layaway plan.
   如果你的钱不够买这架钢琴，那你可以零会后取。
10. During the holiday season, Kmart, owned by Sears holdings and the third largest US discount chain, started drawing attention to its layaway service in television advertising.
    在假日销售季，西尔斯（searsholdings）旗下的美国第三大连锁折扣店凯马特（kmart）开始在电视广告上宣传其分期预付服务。
11. Such big-ticket items were excluded from traditional layaway because of the cost of taking them off the shelves against an uncertain future sale.
    考虑到下架以备将来出售的成本，这些大宗商品不在传统的分期预付之列。
12. Given its comparatively limited demographic appeal, she says, "layaway has significant limitations as a strategic move to increase sales and increase consumer activity".
    她表示，鉴于这种方式所能吸引的年龄段相当有限，“作为提高销售额和消费者热情的战略举措，分期预付有很大的局限性”。
13. Layaway makes sense, he says, when an item is scarce and consumers do not have access to adequate credit.
    他表示，如果一种商品稀缺，而消费者又无法获得充足的信贷，那么分期预付就是合理的。
14. Finish Line, an athletic footwear company, has also maintained a layaway programme.
    运动鞋公司FinishLine同样保留了这种服务。
15. Sears department stores also responded to the prevalent mood of thrift by introducing a layaway service in the run-up to Christmas, having ended the service for products other than jewellery two decades ago.
    西尔斯百货商店亦对普遍的节约风气做出了回应，在圣诞节前推出了分期预付服务&20年前，西尔斯对珠宝以外的产品终止了这项服务。
16. Buckle which has been using its layaway programme in its limited store advertising online dramatically outperformed the rest of the retail sector in November and December, reporting double-digit gains in comparable sales.
    buckle在其有限的网络店铺广告中一直使用分期预付服务，去年11月和12月的业绩明显好于零售业其它企业，同店销售额增幅达两位数。
17. She buys her Xmas presents on layaway.
    她用预约购货法购买圣诞礼物。
18. Financial hard times have brought back many people's layaway purchases.
    财政困难使许多人又回到分期累积付款的购买方式。
19. But K-Mart, another huge chain, which never dropped the service, recently made layaway the centrepiece of its festive-season advertising.
    但另外一家巨型连锁&凯马特（K-Mart），从未放弃这一服务，并且最近还将分期预付购物计划作为其欢乐季节广告的重点。
20. In the bricks-and-mortar world, Sears holdings was unavailable to comment on the usage patterns at the Kmart and Sears layaway programmes.
    现实世界中，记者无法联系到西尔斯，请其就凯马特和西尔斯分期预付服务的使用模式置评。
21. I started to think about things you couldn't put on layaway.
    我开始思考无法零付整取的东西。
22. But as the downturn takes hold and consumers find credit harder to obtain, some retailers are taking advantage of layaway as a marketing tool.
    但随着经济低迷深入，以及消费者获得信贷难度加大，一些零售商开始将分期预付作为一种市场营销工具。
23. And I also hate that I put some presents on layaway to give to my family.
    我也讨厌把要送给家人的礼物存在商店。
24. Administering a layaway programme also presents challenges for modern retailers 'inventory and sales management systems, Ms Hoffman adds.
    霍夫曼补充道，提供分期预付服务也对现代零售商的库存和销售管理系统提出了挑战。