be absorbed into 专心致志于

consumption 消费

launch 发起

department store 百货公司

atmosphere 氛围

People are absorbed into “a culture of consumption” launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere.

人们融入到了，有19世纪百货公司所发起的一种消费文化当中，这个百货公司是在优雅的环境中提供了商品。

从句：that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere（定语从句