Commodity
[kə'mɒdɪtɪ] or [kə'mɑdəti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.
(n.) That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.
(n.) A parcel or quantity of goods.
整理:玛丽斯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Article of merchandise.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Staple, ware, article, stock
ANT:Drug, offal, refuse, garbage
編輯:米兰达
例句/造句/用法:
- It is in England taxed at three shillings and fourpence a bushel; about three times the original price of the commodity. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The real price of this commodity, therefore, naturally rises in the progress of improvement. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- When we compare the precious metals with one another, silver is a cheap, and gold a dear commodity. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They will do this, I say, more nearly than equal quantities of almost any other commodity; for even equal quantities of corn will not do it exactly. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The quantity of every commodity brought to market naturally suits itself to the effectual demand. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Such taxes, therefore, are really equivalent, they say, to a tax upon every particular commodity produced at home. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This lowest price is that which barely replaces, with a moderate profit, the stock which must be employed in bringing the commodity thither. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The greater part of people, too, understand better what is meant by a quantity of a particular commodity, than by a quantity of labour. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The nature of the commodity renders it not quite so proper for being transported to distant markets as wool. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is because high or low wages and profit must be paid, in order to bring a particular commodity to market, that its price is high or low. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Every commodity, besides, is more frequently exchanged for, and thereby compared with, other commodities, than with labour. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The operation of the bounty upon corn must have been wonderfully different, if it has lowered the money price of that commodity. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If it is a commodity of home growth or manufacture, less labour comes to be employed in raising and producing it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I reckon on being able to get out of you a little of that precious commodity called amusement, which mamma and Mistress Snowe there fail to yield me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The labour of the menial servant, on the contrary, does not fix or realize itself in any particular subject or vendible commodity. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But though labour be the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities, it is not that by which their value is commonly estimated. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The profits of stock vary with the price of the commodities in which it is employed. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The expense, too, which is laid out in durable commodities, is favourable not only to accumulation, but to frugality. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The high price of such commodities does not necessarily diminish the ability of the inferior ranks of people to bring up families. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In the purchase of foreign commodities, this enhancement in the price of corn may give them some little advantage. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Their expense is taxed, by taxing the consumable commodities upon which it is laid out. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Rent, it is to be observed, therefore, enters into the composition of the price of commodities in a different way from wages and profit. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Upon the exportation of the greater part of commodities to other countries, half the old subsidy was drawn back. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- All commodities are more or less liable to variations of price, but some are much more so than others. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Labour therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In consequence of its being the measure of value, we estimate that of all other commodities by the quantity of money which they will exchange for. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets are marine stores, hard-bake, apples, flat-fish, and oysters. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The non-enumerated commodities could originally be exported to all parts of the world. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Many different commodities, it is probable, were successively both thought of and employed for this purpose. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
校對:诺琳