Assess the importance of gift giving in your culture.

请评价一下送礼物在你的文化中的重要性。

Of course, this analysis doesn't factor in other implicit benefits of gift giving.

当然，这种分析并没有将赠送礼物的其他隐性好处纳入其中。

When economists study gift giving, they're very concerned with one thing: waste.

当经济学家研究赠送礼物时，他们非常关注一件事: 浪费。

Something similar may be true for feelings of obligation around gift giving.

在送礼的责任感上，也可能发生类似的情况。

So I'm not a big fan of gift giving. Even for birthdays.

所以我不太喜欢送礼物。即使在节日时也是一样。

This argument was popularized by economist Joel Waldfogel who argued that gift giving is inefficient.

经济学家沃德弗格提出一种流行观点，他认为送礼是低效的。

This episode is called " Corporate Gift-Giving." Let's get started.

这一集叫做“公司送礼”。让我们开始吧。

But this doesn’t just happen with gift giving at Christmas.

但这不仅仅发生在圣诞节送礼上。

Use simple gestures like gift giving and thank you notes, that way the people in your life will know just how much you care.

送礼物、写感谢信等简单的举动就能让你生命中的人知道你有多在乎他们。

It involved feasting gift giving day and sing singing and sometimes even theatrical performances.

它包括盛宴、送礼、唱歌，有时甚至还有戏剧表演。

I think it is, I think it is, and I'm not sure that gift giving is as important as many people make it out to be.

是的，我认为很重要，不过我不是很确定送礼真的有很多人所标榜的那么重要。

In this episode, I'm gonna show you how to make three food gift ideas that are perfect for holiday gift giving.

在这一集中，我将向您展示如何制作三种非常适合节日礼物的美食礼物创意。

In this way, the U.S. is very practical; Americans decided that they would organize this gift giving by using something called a " gift registry."

这样看来，美国很实际；美国人决定他们将使用一种叫做“礼物登记处” 的东西来组织这种礼物赠送。

Actually I think the whole gift giving thing has become quite commercial, so shopping centers have glued onto the fact that " hey it's a festival, people have to give gifts."

实际上我觉得送礼这件事现在变得太商业化了，购物中心紧抓着“过节了，人们该送礼了”这个事实不放。

But Christmas was the time where we just, like, went all out with the spoiling and the gift giving and the showing how much we love each other in that way.

但在圣诞节，我们会全力以赴， 赠送礼物， 以此来表达我们对彼此的爱。

Since we are in the middle of gift giving season, this is possibly a timely introduction to a familect that came down from our paternal grandfather in the early part of the 1900s.

由于我们正处于送礼季节，这可能是对我们祖父在 20 世纪初传承下来的家族语言的及时介绍。