1.a method of buying goods from a store by which a customer pays a small amount of money so that the store will keep the goods for them until they pay the rest
1.For a $5 service fee and a refundable $10 cancellation fee, customers were able to layaway presents without going deeper in debt.
只要支付5美元服务手续费和可偿还的10美元取消手续费，顾客就可以使用这一方法进行购物，而且不会加深负债。
2.And layaway is now taking online orders for Valentine's Day jewellery, just as many neighbourhood jewellery stores once did.
另外，正如邻近的珠宝商店曾经的计划一样，eLayaway目前正在推行在线订购情人节珠宝计划。
3.But layaway fell out of favor during the last decade as lower-income Americans gained access to credit.
但是十年前随着低收入美国人也得到了信用准许，预约购物开始失宠。
4.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。
5.That day my mother picked me up early from daycare for 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。一路上，我被商场里花花绿绿的灯饰吸引住了。
6.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。
7.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。
8.Nevertheless, as a financing option, layaway is decidedly worse than most credit cards.
尽管如此，作为一种支付方式选择，预约购物肯定比大多数信用卡支付要差得多。
9.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。
10.One fledgling e-commerce company is betting that layaway will gain in popularity amid a deepening recession.
2005年刚成立的电子商务公司Elayaway.com坚信，在衰退日益加深之际，分期预付会得到普及。