單詞
price
英 [pra?s]
美[pra?s]
基本信息
- n. 價(jià)格；價(jià)值；代價(jià)
- vt. 給……定價(jià)；問……的價(jià)格
- n. (Price)人名；(英)普賴斯；(法)普里斯；(葡、瑞典)普里塞
CET4TEM4考研CET6高頻詞基本詞匯
考試真題
- The house prices are currently too high.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Luxurious features add much to the price.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Highly superior autobiographical memory' ( ' , or HSAM for short), first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named Jill Price.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Britons have cut their spending on itits prices have gone up over the yearsits quality has seen marked improvementBritons have developed the habit of savingIt will expand in time.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- To lower domestic food prices, some countries limited or stopped their grain exports.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The surge in world grain prices in 2007 and 2008—and the threat they pose to food security—has a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The more recent steep climb in grain prices partly results from the fact that more and more people want to consume meat products.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In contrast, the recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven, making it unlikely to reverse without a reversal in the trends themselves.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- But this and other price shocks were event-driven—drought in the Soviet Union, crop-shrinking heat in the U.S.Corn Belt.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- As a result, wheat prices elsewhere more than doubled, pulling rice and corn prices up with them.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- And the rises were short-lived: prices typically returned to normal with the next harvest.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- They reduce production drastically to boost oil prices.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The reasons behind the plunge of oil prices.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The effect of falling oil prices on consumer spending.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- People the world over are afraid of a further plunge in oil prices.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Oil prices may rise or fall but economic laws are not subject to change.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Many oil producers built up huge reserve funds when prices were high, so when prices fall they will draw on their reserves to support government spending and subsidies ( ' , 補(bǔ)貼) for their consumers.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Lower oil prices have always given a big boost to the global economy.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- In Venezuela, collapsing oil prices have sent its economy into free-fall.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Economist Carl Weinberg believes the negative effects of plunging oil prices are overwhelming the positive effects of cheaper oil.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Does that mean the link between lower oil prices and growth has weakened?Some experts say there are still good reasons to believe cheap oil should heat up the world economy.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Both options were priced the same.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- They say it is healthier than green tea and could be sold for a price that is three to four times higher than the price of green tea.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- He says?the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- He says the market for the tea is unstable and he is often forced to sell his purple tea for the same price as green tea leaves.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- But Mr.Kibara says he has not received a higher price for his purple tea crop.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- If you think so, you're not alone, because energy independence has been the dream of American president for decades, and never more so than in the past few years, when the most recent oil price shock has been partly responsible for kicking off the great recession.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- It will bring oil prices down.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- The other measures include restricting portion sizes, taxing and prohibiting special price deals for junk foods, and placing warning labels on the products.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- The special features can add $25,000 or more to the purchase price of a house
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- But the 1980s brought new competition from Japanese film company Fuji Photo, which undermined Kodak by offering lower prices for film and photo supplies.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- Facebook is a handy site, but I'm upset by the idea that my information is in the hands of people I don't That's too high a price to pay.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- Getting Away with it - Or Not Those who don't get caught pay an even higher price
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
- While using quality ingredients, David Tamlyn insists that the dishes should be offered at reasonable prices .
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- be offered at reasonable prices
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- She always argued about prices in shops.
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
- The fuel price has skyrocketed.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- It's only 799, half the usual price and it's very tasty.
出自-2012年6月聽力原文
- "highly superior autobiographical memory" or HSAM for short, first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named jill Price.
2017年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- It's a great opportunity to try some of the more expensive restaurants at a discounted price and try something new.
2018年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- Potato chips in Japan are being sold for 6 times their normal price.
2018年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- Starting last Saturday, chains big enough to fall under the rule will face penalties of up to 2, 000 dollars for not showing calorie information in a prominent spot on their menus, preferably next to the price.
2016年6月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- They have special set menus for the week, usually in spring, at a number of different price points.
2018年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- To promote sales of its products by lowering prices.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The hope is that the success of COP 21 opens the door to future international agreement on carbon prices.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The dynamic adjustment to low oil prices may, however, be different this time around.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The North American shale gas boom has resulted in record low prices there.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Setting the right carbon price will therefore efficiently align the costs paid by carbon users with the true social opportunity cost of using carbon.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Pricing carbon proves the most economical way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Policymakers should not allow low energy prices to derail the clean energy transition.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Oil prices have dropped by over 60% since June 2014.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Notwithstanding important recent progress in developing renewable fuel sources, low fossil fuel prices could discourage further innovation in, and adoption of, cleaner energy technologies.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- In order to maximize global welfare, every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technologyIf fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time, it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Futures markets, which show only a modest recovery of prices to around $60 a barrel by 2019, support this view.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay low for long.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附帶的) costs.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- By raising relative demand for clean energy sources, a carbon price would also help align the market return to clean-energy innovation with its social return, spurring the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new ones.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- A commonly held view in the oil industry is that the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The House bill would authorize the secretary of health and human services to negotiate drug prices in Medicare and Medicaid.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Contrary to analysts' doubts, the author believes drug prices may be lowered through negotiation.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Just half a dozen holiday-makers have reached orbit since then, for similarly astronomical price tags.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Given the high price of room and board and the closeness of the school to his family, he chose to live at home and worked between 30 and 40 hours a week while taking a full class schedule.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- 5 million worth of young Bison that will be raised according to its grass-fed protocols, with a guaranteed purchase price.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- A small percentage, about 1% and that can be built into the price of the bike.
2015年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- Among large traditional retailers, Walmart recently reported the best results, leading its stock price to surge, while Macy's, Target; and Nordstrom's dropped.
2019年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- Another factor is the squeeze that conventional dairy farmers have felt as the price of grain they feed their cows has gone up, tightening their profit margins.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- By replacing expensive grain feed with regenerative management practices, grass-fed farmers are insulated from jumps in the price of feed.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmo
2017年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- given the high price of room and board and the closeness of the school to his family, he chose to live at home and worked between 30 and 40 hours a week while taking a full class schedule.
2015年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Governments should set safety requirements and then let insurers price the risk of the robots based on the manufacturer's driving record, not the passenger's.
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- Grass-fed milk can fetch up to 2.5 times the price of conventional milk.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- In exchange, he guarantees an above-market price for each animal and a calf-to-customer electronic ear tag ID system like that used in the European Union.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Maple Hill signs a contract pledging to buy the farmer's milk at a guaranteed base price, plus quality premiums and incentives for higher protein, butter fat and other solids.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Price, for one, is an issue.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Reducing waste by incorporating med materials into production can cut costs and decrease the price of procurement: less to be procured from the outside and more to be re-utilized from the inside.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Such courses, Hacker argues, are a remedy for the numerical illiteracy of adults who have completed high-level math like algebra but are unable to calculate the price of, say, a carpet by area.
2018年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- That would definitely fall within the price adjustment window.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- This is opposed to just price and performance they were concerned about in the past.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- This is partly driven by the rising price of raw materials and metals.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- We do offer price adjustments within seven days of purchase to ensure our customer satisfaction.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- Although her description sounded wonderful, the price was beyond our range, so we declined.
2015年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文
- And doubling a buffet's price led customers to say that its pizza was 11 percent tastier.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- As for crowds, a Hong Kong study found that they increased a restaurant's reputation, suggesting great food at fair prices.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us.
2015年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文
- At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents.
2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn't touch the price per pound offered by California farms.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- But driverless car ownership could increase as the prices drop and more people become comfortable with the technology.
2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- But our funds were limited, and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.
2015年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文
- Days later, we made an offer—far below the asking price.
2015年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文
- Far from charging consumers high prices, many of these services are free users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Good advice is beyond all price.
2016年高考英語浙江卷（6月） 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項(xiàng)
- He could have bought it at a lower price.
2015年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 選項(xiàng)
- He told us to consider the difference in the price "an early wedding present".
2015年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文
- It was also much more than we could afford, but far less than the original asking price.
2015年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文
- It's sold at a discount price.
2017年高考英語全國卷2 聽力 選項(xiàng)
- It's very nice, but I think your prices seem very high.
2015年高考英語湖南卷 聽力 原文
- Meanwhile, things that you might expect to discourage spending— "bad" tables, crowding, high prices — don't necessarily.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Rani, my faceless agent whom I'd never met in person, got me rock-bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels.
2016年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文
- Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- The next day, we got a disappointing message that another buyer had offered a much higher price.
2015年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文
- The price is with a registration fee of just $50 per child?
2015年高考英語福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- The purchase price could also be a signal that an established company is buying a new-born threat.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- The real reason why prices were, and still are, too high is complex, and no short discussion can satisfactorily explain this problem.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 單項(xiàng)填空 原文
- The tasters move down the line with surprising speed, tasting from a spoon and deciding what is a fair price for each tea.
2015年高考英語全國卷2 聽力 原文
- We choose this hotel because the price for a night here is down to $20, half of what it used to charge.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 單項(xiàng)填空 原文
- More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests Directly to the public , ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.
出自-2009年考研閱讀原文
- Today they argue that market prices overstate losses, because they largely reflect the temporary illiquidity of markets, not the likely extent of bad debts.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- These rules say they must value some assets at the price a third party would pay, not the price managers and regulators would like them to fetch.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- And, unless banks carry toxic assets at prices that attract buyers, reviving the banking system will be difficult.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- By offering on-trend items at dirt-cheap prices, Cline argues, these brands have hijacked fashion cycles, shaking an industry long accustomed to a seasonal pace.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- And if Peretti were in charge at the Times? “I wouldn’t pick a year to end print,” he said, “I would raise prices and make it into more of a legacy product.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文
- Upcoming reforms might bring the price to a more reasonable level.
出自-2017年考研閱讀原文
- Since the beginning, this price tag has been PreCheck’s fatal flaw.
出自-2017年考研閱讀原文
- Likewise,automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- If the sky, and the share price is falling, outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.
2011年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests directly to the public, ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.
2009年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- On the other hand, putting your faith in the wrong place often carries a high price.
2018年考研真題（英語一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- since the beginning, this price tag has been PreCheck's fatal flaw.
2017年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Until this century, university libraries were not very price sensitive.
2020年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- When there is rapid improvement in the price and performance of technology, jobs that were once thought to be immune from automation suddenly become threatened.
2014年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ