• In the roaring twenties, a surging economy created an era of mass consumerism, as Jazz-Age flappers flouted Prohibition laws and the Harlem Renaissance redefined arts and culture.
  咆哮的20年代，经济的蓬勃发展创造了一个大众消费的时代。爵士时代的时髦人士藐视禁酒令，哈莱姆文艺复兴重新定义了艺术和文化。

consumerism

• 消费主义, mass consumerism 大众消费主义

surge

• 激增，a sudden large increase

flapper

• 时髦人士，特指美国10年代-20年代

flout

• 藐视，openly disregard a rule, law or convention

Prohibition law

• 美国禁酒令，the Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation and sales of alcoholic beverages.