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英语听力讲解:消费者行为中的频率与价格表达

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本文讲解了在英语听力和口语中,如何表达消费者行为相关的频率和价格,包括常用词汇、数字发音、估算表达及价格范围的用法,并配有实际例子帮助理解。

小技巧:选中单词后按放大器可以翻译单词哦

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In the previous interviews, the survey questions didn't ask anything about people's favorite brand of chocolate, just whether they liked premium chocolate. Were you surprised about that? Notice the expressions we used to talk about frequency, something happens, and also price. Once means one time, twice means two times. After that, we say three times a month or four times a month. To show that we're just estimating, we say about, this means that it is not exact. We also use adverbs of frequency like usually or always or almost never to talk about how often something happens. Every day means all the days. Every other day or every two days means that you skip a day or maybe two days. You can also say every other week or every two months or every other year to show that something alternates. For example, you do something one week but not the next week.

Notice the vocabulary related to price. We say it costs ten dollars a box or I spent four dollars for each bar. If you want to emphasize the individual item in a more formal business setting or in a price list, we use the word per to mean for each item, two dollars per bar. It's often difficult to hear the difference between numbers like thirteen and thirty. Thirteen usually has stress on the second syllable. If you can remember this, it's because the three is in the second position in the number. You can hear that sound because the syllable is stressed, thirteen. Thirty has stress on the first syllable. So you hear the sound third clearly but you have a softer sound for the T. It's kind of between a T and a D. Thirty. Which number do you hear? Repeat and see if you were correct. Forty. Forty cents. Sixteen people. Seventeen dollars. Eighteen times. Ninety dollars.

Here's some ways that we express a limit. I sometimes pay up to five dollars a package. I never spend more than four dollars on coffee. The most I spend is ten dollars a week. So again, as you've seen above and in many examples in this lesson, we use about to show that an amount or frequency is not exact. For example, you can say, I go about once a month and I spend about thirty dollars. We also give a general estimate by expressing a range. When we write a price range, we put the currency symbol, like the dollar sign, before each amount. But when we talk, we only say the word dollars one time. I spend between three and four dollars. The word somewhere and anywhere in this case just emphasize that there's a range. It costs somewhere between twenty and thirty dollars. I pay anywhere from ten to fifteen dollars. Notice that we say between X and Y, but from X to Y.

部分单词释义

  • range

    名词范围; 射程; 类别; (山脉,房屋等的)排列

    不及物动词搜索; 变化; 延伸; 漫游

    及物动词排列; (按一定位置或顺序)排序; 把…分类; 徘徊

    形容词牧场的,放牧区的

    1. (同类事物的)一系列,一连串
    A range of things is a number of different things of the same general kind.

    e.g. A wide range of colours and patterns are available...
    各种颜色和样式都有。
    e.g. The two men discussed a range of issues...
    那两个人讨论了一系列问题。

    2. 幅度;等级;范围
    A range is the complete group that is included between two points on a scale of measurement or quality.

    e.g. The average age range is between 35 and 55.
    平均年龄在35岁到55岁之间。
    e.g. ...properties available in the price range they are looking for.
    在他们寻求的价格范围内的房产

    3. 最大范围;射程
    The range of something is the maximum area in which it can reach things or detect things.

    e.g. The 120mm mortar has a range of 18,000 yards...
    口径为120毫米的迫击炮的射程是1.8万码。
    e.g. The trees on the mountains within my range of vision had all been felled...
    山上我视野范围内的树木都被砍倒了。

    4. (在一定幅度内)变化,变动
    If things range between two points or range from one point to another, they vary within these points on a scale of measurement or quality.

    e.g. They range in price from $3 to $15.
    它们的价格从3美元到15美元不等。
    e.g. ...offering merchandise ranging from the everyday to the esoteric.
    供应从日常用品到专业用具等各种商品

    5. (文章或讲话)涉及,包括
    If a piece of writing or speech ranges over a group of topics, it includes all those topics.

    e.g. The conversation ranged over the desirability of such restaurants, the shortcomings of men, and why it had only taken 15 minutes to cross a continent.
    谈话涉及了这类餐馆的吸引人之处、男人的弱点,还有为什么只用15分钟就跨越了一个大洲。

    6. 使(人或物)排成行或列
    If people or things are ranged somewhere, they are arranged in a row or in lines.

    e.g. Some 300 trees have been ranged along the perimeter hedge...
    沿着绿篱栽种着大约300棵树。
    e.g. More than 1,500 police and troops are ranged against them.
    1,500多名警察和士兵列队与他们对峙。

    7. (人或动物)漫游,自由活动
    If animals or people range somewhere, they move around in a place without having a particular destination in mind.

    e.g. Feeding is not a problem because the birds range over such a large area...
    这种鸟活动的范围很大,因此觅食不成问题。
    e.g. They range widely in search of carrion.
    它们在广阔的区域内搜寻腐肉。

    8. 山脉
    A range of mountains or hills is a line of them.

    e.g. ...the massive mountain ranges to the north.
    向北延伸的巨大山脉
    e.g. ...an impressive range of hills topped with trees.
    山顶覆盖着树木的绵绵山峦

    9. (尤指美国的)牧牛场,牧区
    A range is a large area of open land, especially land in the United States where cattle are kept.

    10. 射击场;靶场
    A rifle range or a shooting range is a place where people can practise shooting at targets.

    e.g. It reminds me of my days on the rifle range preparing for duty in Vietnam.
    它使我想起了在靶场练习射击准备去越南服役的日子。
    e.g. ...an Army firing range.
    陆军射击场

    11. (旧式)炊具
    A range or kitchen range is an old-fashioned metal cooker.

    12. 炉灶
    A range or kitchen range is a large metal device for cooking food using gas or electricity. A range consists of a grill, an oven, and some gas or electric rings.

    in BRIT, usually use 英国英语通常用 cooker
  • estimate

    名词估计,预测; 报价,预算书; 评价,判断

    及物动词估计,估算; 评价,评论; 估量,估价

    The verb is pronounced /'est?me?t/. The noun is pronounced /'est?m?t/. 动词读作 /'est?me?t/,名词读作 /'est?m?t/。
  • frequency

    名词频繁性; [数][物]频率,次数; 频率分布

    1. 频率;发生次数
    The frequency of an event is the number of times it happens during a particular period.

    e.g. The frequency of Kara's phone calls increased rapidly...
    卡拉的电话飞速增多。
    e.g. The tanks broke down with increasing frequency.
    坦克越来越频繁地熄火。

    2. (声波或无线电波的)频率,周率
    In physics, the frequency of a sound wave or a radio wave is the number of times it vibrates within a specified period of time.

    e.g. You can't hear waves of such a high frequency.
    如此高频率的声波是无法听到的。
    e.g. ...a frequency of 24 kilohertz.
    24 千赫的频率

  • syllable

    名词音节

    1. 音节
    A syllable is a part of a word that contains a single vowel sound and that is pronounced as a unit. So, for example, 'book' has one syllable, and 'reading' has two syllables.

    e.g. We children called her Oma, accenting both syllables.
    我们这群小孩叫她Oma,两个音节都重读。

  • adverbs

    语副词( adverb的名词复数 );