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n. 购买，购买行为大纲外11 次
In the early 2010s, a wide range of businesses started processing purchases with iPads and other digital payment systems.
2010年代初，各行各业开始使用iPad和其他数字支付系统来处理消费。
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Then, unbeknownst to the students, the researchers studied their anonymized meal-card purchases for that semester — nearly 14,000 receipts for almost 500 students.
然后，在学生不知情的情况下，研究人员研究了他们那学期匿名化处理后的饭卡消费记录——近500名学生的近14,000张收据。
But among student subjects who discussed meat ethics, meal purchases containing meat decreased from 52 to 45 percent — and this effect held steady for the study’s duration of several weeks.
但在讨论过肉类伦理的学生受试者中，含肉餐食的购买比例从52%降到了45%——而且这一效果在为期数周的研究期间一直保持稳定。
Purchases from the other group remained at 52 percent.
另一组的购买比例仍保持在52%。
States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.
根据最高法院周四作出的一项裁决，各州将能够迫使更多人在网购时缴纳销售税，这项裁决会让购物者的钱包变瘪，但对各州来说是一场重大的财政胜利。
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And placing too much emphasis on their opinions can ruin a fantastic home purchase.
而过分看重他们的意见可能会毁掉一次绝佳的购房机会。
advises that home purchases should not be based only on children's opinions.
建议购房不应仅仅基于孩子的意见。
The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing — Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5bn, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn’t have any physical product at all.
数字经济巨头的实力和野心令人震惊——亚马逊刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购高端连锁杂货店全食超市，而两年前脸书为收购WhatsApp即时通讯服务付出的代价甚至更高，而WhatsApp根本没有任何实体产品。
Pricing is vital to environment-friendly purchasing.
定价对环保型购物至关重要。
The way consumers now approach the process of making purchase decisions means that marketing's impact stems from a broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.
消费者如今做出购买决定的方式意味着，营销的影响来源于传统付费媒体之外的诸多因素。
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The decisions made it more difficult for states to collect sales tax on certain online purchases.
这两项判决使各州更难对某些网购商品征收销售税。
The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer’s purchase to a state where the business didn’t have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, the business didn’t have to collect sales tax for the state.
被最高法院推翻的判例规定，如果一家企业将顾客购买的商品运往一个它没有仓库或办公室等实体存在的州，该企业就不必为该州代收销售税。
The ruling is a victory for big chains with a presence in many states, since they usually collect sales tax on online purchases already.
这项裁决对在许多州都有实体存在的大型连锁店来说是一场胜利，因为它们通常已经在对网购商品征收销售税。
Big chains have been collecting sales tax nationwide because they typically have physical stores in whatever state a purchase is being shipped to.
大型连锁店一直在全国范围内征收销售税，因为无论商品运往哪个州，它们通常都在当地有实体店。
Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly.
然而，购买这些物质商品带来的满足感消退得相当快。
These purchases often become more valuable with time — as stories or memories — particularly if they involve feeling more connected to others.
这些消费往往会随着时间推移变得更有价值——化作故事或回忆——尤其是当它们让人感到与他人联系更紧密时。
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According to Dunn and Norton, which of the following is the most rewarding purchase?
根据邓恩和诺顿的观点，下列哪一项是最有回报的消费？
may prove to be a worthwhile purchase.
可能会被证明是值得购买的。
v. 买，购买6 次
They cannot be compared to works of art produced for sale which can be passed from hand to hand and place to place by purchase.
它们不能与那些为出售而创作、可以通过买卖在不同人手中和不同地方之间流转的艺术品相提并论。
Having said that, I do feel that whatever artifacts find their way to public museums should, in fact, be sanctioned as having been obtained on loan, legally purchased, or obtained by treaty.
话虽如此，我确实认为，任何进入公共博物馆的文物，实际上都应当被认定是通过借展、合法购买或依据条约获得的。
"Speaking with your children before you make a real estate decision is wise, but I wouldn't base the purchasing decision solely on their opinions," Hampson said.
“在做出房产决策之前和孩子们谈谈是明智的，但我不会仅凭他们的意见来做购房决定，”汉普森说。
It may be that the value of Whole Foods to Amazon is not so much the 460 shops it owns, but the records of which customers have purchased what.
也许全食超市对亚马逊的价值与其说是它拥有的460家门店，不如说是哪些顾客买了什么东西的记录。
Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.
买礼物或做慈善往往比给自己买东西更令人愉快，而奢侈品在节制享用时最令人享受。
get permission to purchase a power plant.
获准收购一座电站。