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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 117. The noun phrase today is

  • sticker shock. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. Sticker shock is the shock

  • someone feels upon discovery of learning the price of something that was much

  • higher than expected or could also be used with bills that have were

  • unexpectedly high or much higher than you imagined it should be. You say ' Oh my God. "

  • Kind of like that, where your eyes almost pop out. In that sense, we say that

  • somebody gets sticker shock or has sticker shock or experiences sticker

  • shock. You might be able to use all these verbs with it. All right. Let's continue. The

  • origin of this term started in the 1970s when the price of cars suddenly

  • substantially increased in cost due to government regulations or new government

  • regulations. So they got some extra ones and high inflation. So it was a combination of

  • both. The extra government regulations made the cars companies have to charge

  • more money and there was a lot of inflation during the 1970s too,

  • especially during the Jimmy Carter era. And of course the two of them combined

  • together suddenly the price .... (people would start to say) Oh my God ! Cars cost that now. So they said

  • that's when the term first started appearing. We said sticker shock. You know

  • so stickers, sticker sometimes refers to like you know, like a price tag. So that's

  • where the idea of this sticker came from. So and looking at it was shocking. So

  • sticker shock. Okay. And let's ... we have three examples to cover this. When John

  • received his yeah, received his hospital bill from a 10-day stay due to an

  • accident, he receive... received sticker shock. Yes, especially if you're uninsured. If...

  • you have no insurance or a lot of times your insurance might not cover all of us

  • and it could be many thousands of dollars. A ten-day stay, it might be

  • more money than you earned in a year could be your hospital bill. Like that. Ahhhh ! Again

  • your eyes would pop out. You experienced or you received sticker shock.

  • All right. Number two here. Many people claimed to experience sticker shock when

  • the health care coverage cost vastly increased due to Obamacare. Yeah. I

  • remember when that was happening. Reports on the news, they were offering. They were

  • often using the term "sticker shock" that people were shocked that you know, and it

  • seemed like every year their health care bills were going up twenty, thirty, forty

  • percent per year. So they were they were experiencing sticker shock due to that.

  • All right and now the last one here. I was thinking of buying a house in that

  • neighborhood but when I checked out the prices I experienced sticker shock. Like (gasping )

  • "oh well sorry" I don't think I can afford to live in that neighborhood. So it was

  • much more than expected or much more than you thought, so you received sticker

  • shock. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it is clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-

  • bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 117. The noun phrase today is

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英語外教Nick P名詞短語(117)貼紙震盪(Sticker Shock) (English Tutor Nick P Noun Phrase (117) Sticker Shock)

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