时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:新概念优美背诵短文50篇


英语课

03 The Definition of “Price”


Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed 1 among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad 2 of services, including labor 3, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else.


If one were to ask a group of randomly 4 selected individuals to define “price”, many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words that price is the money values of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid 5 as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that apply to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully 6 aware of all the factors that comprise the total “package” being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.


 



1 rationed
限量供应,配给供应( ration的过去式和过去分词 )
  • We were rationed to two eggs a day. 每天配给我们两个鸡蛋。
  • The army is well rationed. 部队给养良好。
2 myriad
adj.无数的;n.无数,极大数量
  • They offered no solution for all our myriad problems.对于我们数不清的问题他们束手无策。
  • I had three weeks to make a myriad of arrangements.我花了三个星期做大量准备工作。
3 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
4 randomly
adv.随便地,未加计划地
  • Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内,分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
  • Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句
5 valid
adj.有确实根据的;有效的;正当的,合法的
  • His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
  • Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗?
6 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
学英语单词
a stretch of high land from which water drains
acephalorrhachus
acidic industrial waste
Address group.
analysis of covariance (ancova)
associate reference direction
basic sulfate
be few and far between
brass off
breed society
Bureau of Land Management
cheret
chorion epithelioma
chromoisomer
chronic sclerosing glomerulonephritis
company clinic
copper(ii) bromide
cylinder key broach
decrunchers
defyer
DIALOG Information Service
document-originating mechine
dole-
dolerophane (dolerophanite)
dust burdening
early specialization
eccyclema
Elcolor
extracoelenteric
fault tolerant system evaluation
funds in State Treasury
gekker
genus sagittarias
give someone the go-by
gleocystic stage
grandsire
gyniolatry
Hashtgerd
head-strict
high impact pipe
historical view
Hypericum hengshanense
ichthium
Immenhausen
in line with x
indicative price
initial start-up
intake hose
interface with the computer
inventory recorder level
iterative computing
jolt-headed
koret
law-review
liggett
Liparis formosana
locale data markup language
low and behold
metroplasty
modern novel
molded liner
night-thoughts
noncontradiction
nuclear burning
numbering device
Old Kingdom
operation detail
optimal stratification sampling
parapoynx insectalis
pastoritious
patu
pheochrome cells
Phormidium purpuraecens
port-sale
primitive recursive attribute
repeatable process
resuits
rhachithecium perpusilum (thwait.etmitt)broth
scavenger enzyme
shale break
sodomies
special-purpose -oriented language
starter gear shifting fork
static lateral stability
stutters
subendothelial
subinde
ta chang
to hit the fan
tolgabide
topside line
transposition weighing
triamylphosphine oxide(TAPO)
turn thumbs down
twenty percents
valedictories
vehicle registration
veronico
vertov
vocaloid
wide range oscillator
windthorne