reap, reaper, reap the benefit/reward, therapy, 'Retail Therapy' , Grim Reaper

'Retail Therapy' Might Really Work
BusinessWeek
By Amanda Gardner WEDNESDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) --
A shopping trip-a-day may help keep the doctor away, not to mention the Grim Reaper, a new study from Taiwan suggests. Researchers there found that elderly people who go shopping daily live ...

'Retail Therapy' 購物治療 哈哈

keep the grim reaper away?

looks department, Grim Reaper

IBM dishes out some retail therapy

每日一詞：retail therapy，購物療法。即便經濟下行，也擋不住中國人的網購熱情。但對於阿里巴巴“雙11”破紀錄的銷售額， 時報寫道 ，這並不是對當前形勢如何影響中國中產階級“購物解憂”(retail therapy)胃口的完美衡量。 Retail therapy指為排解憂愁、使自己感到快樂的購物行為，類似中文語境裡的“包”治百病。

Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise, September 1889. Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Microsoft's Windows Mobile: Time to Hang Up?
BusinessWeek
By Jack Gold Since the early days of the smartphone market in the '90s, Microsoft has been a key player. But the company's goal of reaping more revenue from ...

keep the grim reaper away?

The Billionaire Who Is Planning to Be 125

By FRANK BRUNI

How many blueberries a day does it take to keep the grim reaper away? An 87-year-old’s quest.

grim reaper 死神

reap
verb [I or T]
to cut and collect a grain crop

reap the benefit/reward, etc.
to get the benefit, etc. that is the result of your own actions:
She studied every evening and reaped the benefit at exam time.
We sold them most of their modern weapons and now we are reaping the bitter harvest.

reap

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Pronunciation: /riːp /VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Cut or gather (a crop or harvest):many men were employed to reap the harvestFIGURATIVE in terms of science, the Apollo programme reaped a meagre harvest

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1.1Harvest the crop from (a piece of land):farmers agreed to continue reaping the land by traditional means

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1.2Receive (something, especially something beneficial) as a consequence of one’s own or another’s actions:the company is poised to reap the benefits of this investment

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Origin

Old English ripan, reopan, of unknown origin.

Phrases

reap the harvest (or fruits) of

Suffer the results or consequences of:we are now reaping the harvest of our permissive ways

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you reap what you sow

PROVERB You eventually have to face up to the consequences of your actions.

Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
IBM is working with one grocery chain in the United States to issue stickers embedded with RFID chips that shoppers can put on their mobile phones, he says. ...

此THERAPY可能創新用法，意 為solutions。

therapy

(thĕr'ə-pē) 

n., pl. -pies.

1. Treatment of illness or disability.
2. Psychotherapy.
3. Healing power or quality: the therapy of fresh air and sun.

[New Latin therapia, from Greek therapeia, from therapeuein, to treat medically. See therapeutic.]

therapy
noun [C or U]
a treatment which helps someone feel better, grow stronger, etc., especially after an illness:
occupational therapy
speech therapy
group therapy
Joining a club can be a therapy for loneliness.

therapist noun [C]
a speech therapist
I'm seeing my therapist on Friday morning.