Layaway
保留供将来客户付清货款的商品
📖 牛津释义
layaway
n [U] (US) system of reserving goods by putting a deposit on them until full payment is made 预约购货法（预付定金留货, 付足供款後始予交货的制度）
She buys her Xmas presents on layaway. 她用预约购货法购买圣诞礼物.
🗣️ 情景例句
Better than that.
比那种事更值得高兴。
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
今天能做的事绝不要拖到明天。
There was a tine when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago that to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection.
曾经有一个时期，芝加哥的店主和商行的老板们不得不拿出大笔的钱给歹徒以换取保护。