英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable - 春节催生“恐聚族”

Topic1 Red Envelopes with BribesWhen China celebrates the Lunar New Year, millions of red envelopes stuffed with cash are changing hands among families, friends and colleagues.

That's perhaps why bribers love the Spring Festival more.

They shower whoever of power and influence in red envelopes by handing out lucky money for their children, something that seems more proper at this time of year.

Many local governments are saying no to such a tradition of graft.

Is it true that giving red envelope has become another channel for bribery?

Topic2 Classmate Reunion All About Flaunting WealthDuring the Spring Festival, Kong Ju Zu(恐聚族)has become a new buzz word among net users. Literally translated as gathering phobia group, it refers to those people who are afraid of attending alumni reunions. They even have their own song.

Basically, instead of remembering the good old school times, the reunion has become an arena for people to compare with each other.

Is it what happens in most of these reunions?

Topic3 Movies Adapted from NovelsRecently, Wanda Group, Huayi Brothers Media and Enlight Media have announced that they will co-produce a film adaptation—Gui Chui Deng, or the Adventure of Three Tomb Raiders. This is the first time that a theater chain, a film production company and a film distribution company jointly make a movie together.

But this is not what film fans are enthusiastic about, is it? they're interested in the fact that it's adapted from the most popular tomb-raiding novel in China. What is the attraction of such a film adaptation?

Topic4 Airport Says No to Taxi Finding APPAs more than 100,000 passengers arrive at the Capital International Airport in Beijing every day the past couple of days, getting a taxi can be a painful battle, not with each other, but with time.

Some of those who arrived at night have turned to taxi-finding apps to get a cab within two minutes instead of waiting for 50 in long queues of hundreds of people.

But the airport says it doesn't encourage such an arrangement which is in violation of the airport's business operation regulation.

Is it a hassle to take a taxi at the airport?

Topic5 Quick marriage of young rural migrant workersMany young people have reasons to frown upon their experience during the past Spring Festival holidays. Being nagged by parents and relatives for having no boyfriend or girlfriend is one thing. But having to go on multiple blind dates arranged for them is another. And this is especially true for people going back to their rural hometowns. In one example, the young ones got engaged after only two dates.

Is this a single example or are there more like this one?

Topic6 When and Why Lovers Break UpValentine's Day is coming, guess many people are expecting to spend some quality time with their partner on this romantic day.

However, the likelihood of a relationship ending on that day is actually very high, according to a recent survey with some breakup figures.