考研The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

自2002年该公司收购佛蒙特州唯一的核电站——弗农一座老化的反应堆以来，这场冲突就一直浮出水面。

考研Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year – about 64 items per person – and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

她发现，美国人每年大约购买200亿件服装——每人大约购买64件——不管他们赠送多少，这些多余的服装都会导致浪费。

考研And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

死气沉沉的市场在一定程度上反映了银行的瘫痪状态，这些银行因担心账面损失而不愿出售资产，但又不愿意购买所有那些所谓的便宜货。

四级Food-import anxiety is even leading to new efforts by food-importing countries to buy or lease farmland in other countries.

粮食进口焦虑甚至导致粮食进口国在其他国家购买或租赁农田的新举措。

六级It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array of internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy.

它是为那些越来越多地使用互联网连接工具来改变搜索、购物和购买方式的人们设计零售模式。

六级But the boost in investor confidence needed for the plan to work will take time, time that Rosen says still requires him to buy food and make monthly mortgage payments.

但该计划实施所需的投资者信心提升需要时间，罗森表示，这段时间仍需要他购买食品和每月支付抵押贷款。

考研But a group of researchers at Stanford University, led by Ilan Kroo, has suggested that airlines could take a more naturalistic approach to cutting jet-fuel use and it would not require them to buy new aircraft.

但是，由Ilan Kroo领导的斯坦福大学的一组研究人员建议，航空公司可以采取更自然的方法来减少航空燃料的使用，而不需要他们购买新飞机。

考研Second, customers may be willing to buy a company’s products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.

第二，顾客可能愿意购买一家公司的产品，作为一种间接的方式，为它所帮助的公益事业捐款。

高考For whom does the woman buy the T-shirt?

这位女士为谁买这件T恤衫？

考研Second, customers may be willing to buy a company's products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.

第二，顾客可能愿意购买一家公司的产品，作为一种间接的方式，为它所帮助的公益事业捐款。

高考Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

大约一个月前，他买了一款流行的文字游戏，游戏中使用了一些小木片，上面有不同的字母。

四级A 16-year-old asked a stranger at a grocery store to buy him and his mother some food in exchange for carrying the man's groceries to his car.

一个16岁的男孩在一家杂货店请一个陌生人给他和他母亲买些食物，作为交换，他把这个人的食品拿到他的车上。

六级The solution: set priorities—add up the annual cost of each item, then consider what else you could buy with the same money.

解决方案：设定优先顺序将每个项目的年度成本加起来，然后再考虑用同样的钱买什么。

高考My husband and I were thinking of buying something.

我丈夫和我想买点东西。

高考You can buy food for it.

你可以为它买食物。

高考He buys cooking materials for her.

他给她买烹饪材料。

四级Still, 60% of drivers would like to get some kind of self-driving feature, such as automatic braking or self-parking the next time they buy a new car.

尽管如此，60%的司机希望在下次购买新车时获得某种自动驾驶功能，如自动刹车或自动停车。

高考He bought a smartphone a couple of months ago and he took it on our recent ski vacation to Colorado.

几个月前，他买了一部智能手机，在我们最近去科罗拉多州滑雪度假的时候带着它。

高考He could have bought it at a lower price.

他本可以以更低的价格买下它。

高考Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened (蔓上成熟的) promise, I've refused to buy winter tomatoes for years.

许多人失望了，葡萄树已经成熟(蔓上成熟的) 答应我，我已经多年不买冬番茄了。

高考Recently, we bought a twenty-eight-foot travel trailer complete with a bathroom and a built-in TV set.

最近，我们买了一辆28英尺长的旅行拖车，配有浴室和内置电视。

考研By watching what people search for, click on and say online, companies can aim "behavioural" ads at those most likely to buy.

通过观察人们搜索的内容、点击和在线发言，公司可以将“行为”广告瞄准最有可能购买的人。

高考I let a salesclerk fool me into buying a discontinued model.

我让一个售货员骗我买了一个停产的型号。

高考We are addicted to buying new things.

我们沉迷于买新东西。

四级More and more Britons buy recycled toilet paper to protect the environment.

越来越多的英国人购买再生卫生纸来保护环境。

考研You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.

正如老话所说，你买不到阶级，这些暴发户也买不到他们的奖品——贵族的威望。

四级Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, Millennials ( ' , 千禧 一代), will continue to put off buying a house.

2015年另一个看起来很重要的趋势是美国最大的人口群体千禧一代（“，千禧 一代), 将继续推迟买房。

高考If you don't own a camera, you can buy one.

如果你没有相机，你可以买一台。

高考After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family.

在他因背部不适而被判残疾后，他在乡下买了一个小农场，刚好够养家糊口。

高考That was why he had bought the papers with all his money.

这就是他用所有的钱买报纸的原因。

考研In other words, it is up to the buyer, rather than the seller, to decide what to buy.

换言之，买什么取决于买方，而不是卖方。

六级Or head out to the mall, or Main Street, look and shop, and buy.

或者去购物中心，或者大街，逛逛，买东西。

六级In Spain, many people buy a whole leg for special group events such as Christmas.

在西班牙，许多人会为圣诞节等特殊的团体活动买整条腿。

高考Buying, storing, and cooking fish isn't difficult.

购买、储存和烹饪鱼类并不困难。

四级When travelling overseas, do you buy water in plastic bottles or take your chances with tap water?

在海外旅行时，你是用塑料瓶买水还是用自来水冒险？

考研That would be the people who buy advertising from them-and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.

这将是那些从他们那里购买广告的人，而Facebook和谷歌这两个虚拟巨头主宰着数字广告，对所有其他媒体和娱乐公司不利。

高考I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

一年多前，我买了它，因为我的亲戚给了我生日礼物，而不是不合身的衣服。

考研That s because they inevitably put the costs of cleaning the air on to individual drivers-who must pay fees or buy better vehicles 一rather than on to the car manufacturers whose cheating is the real cause of our toxic pollution.

这是因为他们不可避免地把清洁空气的费用加在了个别司机身上，他们必须支付费用或购买更好的车辆一而不是汽车制造商，他们的欺骗才是我们有毒污染的真正原因。

高考He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was determined that he would not tell a lie.

他想到了他的鸟没有种子和他想给他妈妈买的蛋糕，但决心不说谎。

六级It is important to buy the insurance from companies that are financially sound and that are represented by honest, well- trained agents.

从财务状况良好、由诚实、训练有素的代理人代表的公司购买保险很重要。

高考In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one.

在我们的现代世界，当某些东西磨损时，我们会扔掉它，然后买一个新的。

高考A neighborhood girl had bought a new bike.

附近的一个女孩买了一辆新自行车。

高考He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a cake for his mother and some seeds for his bird.

他本来希望今晚能卖出更多的报纸来赚更多的钱，为他的母亲买一个蛋糕，为他的鸟买一些种子。

高考For more information about buying senior/disabled farecards, farecard or smartrip cards and passes, please visit metroopendoors.com.

有关购买高级/残疾票价卡、票价卡或智能RIP卡和通行证的更多信息，请访问metroopendors.com。

四级It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.

这几乎是常识：你想买食物，而不是像食物一样无法辨认的东西。

六级Electronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish (翻新) old electronic components and parts into new products.

过去几年，百思买（Best Buy）和三星（Samsung）等电子巨头提供了旨在翻新的电子垃圾回收计划(翻新) 将旧的电子元器件改造成新产品。

四级After new legislation demanded their removal from the roads, a low interest loan scheme was set up with three Egyptian banks so drivers could buy new cars.

在新的立法要求将他们从道路上移除后，埃及与三家银行建立了一个低息贷款计划，以便司机可以购买新车。

六级Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.

这条信息不是要让不良行为正常化，而是要将其边缘化，比如说，如果一个人再买一辆SUV，就会降低我们独立于能源的能力。

考研Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year-about 64 items per person一and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

她发现，美国人每年大约购买200亿件服装，每人大约购买64件一不管他们付出了多少，这些过剩都会导致浪费。

四级Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets.

由于无法购买粮食或自己种植，饥饿的人们走上街头。

六级It's also pushing ahead in 2016 with an expansion of Bluemercury, the beauty chain it bought last year.

2016年，该公司还将扩大去年收购的美容连锁店Bluemercury。

高考We bought one on the Internet actually.

实际上，我们是在网上买的。

高考Then one night, gene told me he didn't have enough money to buy the feed.

一天晚上，吉恩告诉我他没有足够的钱买饲料。

高考Buy the best-fitting running shoes you can find.

买你能找到的最合适的跑鞋。

高考He bought it when he married mum.

他和妈妈结婚时买的。

六级I wish I could buy more organic produce from here, but I find the kids don't like it.

我希望我能从这里买更多的有机农产品，但我发现孩子们不喜欢。

四级You can buy lots of gorgeous Italian clothes.

你可以买很多漂亮的意大利衣服。

六级For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

例如，当被问及今年是否会购买一部新智能手机时，只有48%的人表示愿意——比2015年下降了6个百分点。

高考However,he would have to buy chicken feed with the money he made from the eggs.

然而，他将不得不用从鸡蛋中赚来的钱来买鸡饲料。

高考I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would buy the eggs from him.

我告诉他那是他自己的鸡，我们会从他那里买鸡蛋。

高考That's when a fantastic life-changing idea popped into head: if I could get more money, I could buy more books l liked, buy anything l wanted.

就在这时，一个奇妙的改变生活的想法突然出现了：如果我能得到更多的钱，我就能买更多我喜欢的书，买任何我想要的东西。

六级Best Buy, for instance, has been bearing the lion's share of e-waste volume since two of its largest competitors, Amazon and Wal-mart, do not have their own recycling programs.

例如，百思买（Best Buy）在电子垃圾量中占有最大份额，因为它的两个最大竞争对手亚马逊（Amazon）和沃尔玛（Wal-mart）没有自己的回收计划。

六级It's no wonder that new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet.

毫不奇怪，物联网的新应用正在快速发展，因为我们购买的几乎每一款新设备的末端都有插头或与互联网的无线连接。

考研Buy all your clothes once with a stylist instead of shopping alone, one article of clothing at a time.

与设计师一起一次性购买你所有的衣服，而不是一个人购物，一次只买一件衣服。

高考I'll go to the market tomorrow to buy all the things we'll need.

明天我要去市场买我们需要的所有东西。

考研By watching what people search for, click on and say online, companies can aim “behavioural” ads at those most likely to buy.

通过观察人们搜索的内容、点击和在线发言，公司可以将“行为”广告瞄准最有可能购买的人。

六级The video camera that one single mother bought for a special occasion, for example, is not much fun now.

例如，一位单身母亲为特殊场合买的摄像机，现在已经没有多大乐趣了。

高考Then I guess we can buy her a birthday cake.

那我想我们可以给她买个生日蛋糕。

六级And these big food corporations have so much money to spend on clever tactic design to make young children want to buy their products.

这些大型食品公司有很多钱可以花在聪明的策略设计上，让孩子们想买他们的产品。

六级since the launch of its program, Best Buy changed its policy to add a $25 fee for recycling old televisions in order to keep the program going.

自推出该计划以来，百思买改变了政策，增加了25美元的旧电视机回收费，以保持该计划的正常运行。

六级Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

即使在购买了某种连接设备的人中，37%的人表示，他们在未来使用这些设备和服务时会更加谨慎。

高考It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

它意味着任何便宜的报纸；也许更重要的是，这意味着可以在街上买到单张报纸。

高考That's a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.

如果你买了一个带计时器的咖啡机，你可以多睡一刻钟。

高考They know that customers who buy the food first will feel happy so that they will buy more junk food later in their trip.

他们知道先买食物的顾客会感到高兴，这样他们在旅行的后期会买更多的垃圾食品。

考研America's new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find attractive.

美国收购有毒资产的新计划将不起作用，除非银行将资产标记到买家认为有吸引力的水平。

六级In a 2011 study, she investigated the effects of implementing a Results Only Work Environment ( ' , ROWE) on the productivity and well-being of employees at Best Buy's corporate headquarters.

在2011年的一项研究中，她调查了实施只注重结果的工作环境（’，ROWE）对百思买公司总部员工的生产力和幸福感的影响。

六级Products which are potentially embarrassing to buy also do well in the virtual environment.

在虚拟环境中，那些可能让人难堪的产品也表现良好。

四级Once driverless cars are actually for sale, the early adopters will be the people who can afford to buy them.

一旦无人驾驶汽车真正上市销售，早期采用者将是有能力购买的人。

高考See, your computer has broken down again! It doesn't make sense to buy the cheapest brand of computer just to save a few dollars.

看，你的电脑又坏了！仅仅为了节省几美元而购买最便宜的电脑品牌是没有意义的。

六级People don’t just go in a local grocery store and buy these supplements.

人们不只是去当地的杂货店买这些补充剂。

高考It had been possiblebut not easyto buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer's office to purchase a copy.

1830年以前，买一份报纸是可能的，但并不容易，但这通常意味着读者必须到印刷厂的办公室去买一份。

高考My mother bought the beautiful basket and put it safely in some hiding place I couldn't find.

我妈妈买了一个漂亮的篮子，把它安全地放在我找不到的地方。

四级Ask yourself, Would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.

问问自己，奶奶会考虑这些食物吗？它看起来像自然界中可能发生的事情吗？这几乎是常识：你想买食物，而不是像食物一样无法辨认的东西。

考研Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones.

金钱未必能买到幸福，但富裕国家的人通常比贫穷国家的人更幸福。

高考You have to buy food for dogs.

你必须给狗买食物。

四级To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple: Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself.

对那些关心金钱的美国人来说，我的建议很简单：买你能买得起的，自己煮。

四级For the past several decades, it seems there's been a general consensus on how to get ahead in America: Get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy your own home.

在过去的几十年里，人们似乎对如何在美国取得成功达成了普遍共识：接受大学教育，找到可靠的工作，买自己的房子。

六级Rosen says he'll use the last of his savings to try to hang onto the home he worked for more than 20 years to buy.

罗森说，他将用最后一点积蓄，努力保住他工作了20多年才买的房子。

高考Buy it from a fare card machine in metro stations.

在地铁站的车票刷卡机上购买。

考研Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

需求主要来自两个来源：独立的夫妻食品杂货店，与大型零售连锁店不同，它们太小，无法直接从生产商那里购买；以及食品服务运营商，它们在消费者不在家吃饭的情况下为他们提供服务。

六级Few of us can fill up the tank without buying a few snacks, cigarettes, soft drinks or other items we can live without.

我们中很少有人能在不买零食、香烟、软饮料或其他生活必需品的情况下加满油箱。

四级After graduating with a degree in business and accounting, she joined a public accounting firm, married, bought a house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby.

在获得商业和会计学位毕业后，她加入了一家公共会计师事务所，结了婚，买了一栋房子，在里面放了很多东西，然后生了一个孩子。

高考I certainly could enjoy the exercise, but I've agreed to go with Alice to buy some clothes.

我当然可以享受锻炼，但我已经同意和爱丽丝一起去买衣服。

六级If you can afford to buy prestige, that's your choice.

如果你买得起prestige，那就是你的选择。

四级Environmental protection is not much of a concern when Britons buy toilet paper.

当英国人购买卫生纸时，环境保护不是什么大问题。

六级One should buy the policies to give the most protection at the least cost, ensure the right family members and consider the family's financial needs.

一个人应该购买政策，以最低的代价给予最大的保护，确保合适的家庭成员，并考虑家庭的经济需要。

四级To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.

为了吃得好，又能省钱，人们应该购买新鲜食物，自己做饭。

考研America’s new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find attractive.

美国收购有毒资产的新计划将不起作用，除非银行将资产标记到买家认为有吸引力的水平。

四级Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand.

自工业化以来，维持如此缓慢的文化代谢变得更加困难，漫长的午餐时间缩减到可以塞进午餐桶或在食品摊上买到的任何东西。

高考Another time, he lent a friend money to buy a house.

还有一次，他借给一个朋友钱买房子。