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
acute febrile jaundice
Aramco,ARAMCO
area cribrosa papillae renallis
autarky
beater rotor
Bi'r Rubāq
Bonackers
booze up
bosompiece
brake pull rod
bright sparks
burger number
carried
central stimulation
Cicarija
coccygodynia
cocycle
control print character
cosurveillance
counterkillings
cross cut arch saw blade
crotonal
cylinder sleeve service tool
data byte
direct axis synchronous reactance
Doppler speed log
e-campaigning
electric amalgam
erythema marginatum
eupatorin
expansionistic
floating-point input format
Fort Lupton
free-air tunnel
frequency-hopped (fh)spread spectrum signals
gear pitch measuring instrument
gold metallurgy
gray-faced buzzard
harbouring
hero complex
hot pressed ceramics
hyperpipecolatemia
Itata and Baltimore incidents
jumbo tanker
Justicia neesiana
kling
lagging phase angle
leaf variegation
lightning protection sand-box set
lipoma of scrotum
localization functor
man-to-machine relation
mannonic acid
Milovaig
mss (manufacturers standardization society)
murakami
my treat
n-Morpholinomethyl-Pyrazinamide
national issues
neoreserpina
Nevyansk
non-reinforced brick masonry
oenophobia
Ourém
perspiration-inquiring
phase shift decoder
phenolic-resin glue
physical scrip
planned agriculture
progestogenic
propulsion control
redawn
rewalds
Rockwell hardness A-scale
Schaffer's acid
shortest remaining service time
skillion
sofficis
stationary stripper
sub dealer
submetatarsal
sulukast
superior extremity
survice medium
table board
take a lot out of somebody
temporary boarded fence
ten-thousand
thiocyanate value
thyrocervical ducts
toluene diamine
tragacanth glycerite
transparent mineral
trata
tub size press
uks
unashamedness
urban soil
visual grading
voice novel
whole night lamp
wire-cutter