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 priori theories of law and justice
abomasal
affain
approved account
automatic hydraulic brake device
backordered
banana skin
banh
bank endorsement
be in want of
beam flange
bevel siding
blue meanies
bullists
business computer
canonical conjunctive form
castel goffredo
cofacilitators
collapsing cloud
column number
conflicts resolutions
conturex
Cortixyl
cross-validated
dalf
decelerated flow
destoolments
discal bristle
enemy to
finish node
fondaco
forced auction
Forefathers' Day
furling line
gammel
gaullistes
gemoetric tolerance
gill furrow
guarujas
halen (haelen)
host-to-satellite
illaqueated
in-n-out
kalmijn
Kanbyin
Kola Peninsula
lamp-holders
ledger card
light application
linear etching
luggage cart
manageesh
masculine ending
master gyrocompass
microglitches
min max system
molette
morphological change
multiple recording medium word processing equipment
oddity learning
ogilvie-grant
part-load diagram
passive computer element
phascum cuspidatum schreb.
precision hand tapping
print to tape
prophialide
pyschology
Qezel Bulāq
quick-closing valve
radix(pl.radices)
rate action element
remelting hardness
rotary blasthole drilling
sea goddess
seigniorages
self-protective transformer
siphonic closet
SOCKS server
solid core post insulator
solventless varnish
southsayers
space expenses
Sphagneticola
stabilized winding
superfemales
sway the sceptre
swept aside
symmetric configuration
telelectrotherapeutics
term stucture of interest rate
total angular momentum
toxochelyid
transgendering
uncaptured
under the protection of
urinary sediment
violinoes
Viramune
wame
Willstätt
wine cake