market

1. N-COUNT A market is a place where goods are bought and sold, usually outdoors. 市場

He sold boots at a market stall. 他在市場的一個攤位上賣靴子。

2. N-COUNT The market for a particular type of thing is the number of people who want to buy it, or the area of the world in which it is sold. 需求量; 商品行銷地區[商業]

The foreign market was increasingly crucial. 國外的市場越來越關鍵了。

3. N-SING The market refers to the total amount of a product that is sold each year, especially when you are talking about the competition between the companies who sell that product. 年縂銷售量[商業]

The two big companies control 72% of the market. 這兩家大公司控制了72%的市場份額。

4. ADJ If you talk about a market economy, or the market price of something, you are referring to an economic system in which the prices of things depend on how many are available and how many people want to buy them, rather than prices being fixed by governments. 市場的[商業] [ADJ n]

Their ultimate aim was a market economy for Hungary. 他們的最終目標是爲匈牙利建立市場經濟。

He must sell the house for the current market value. 他必須按照目前的市場價格出售這套房子。

5. V-T To market a product means to organize its sale, by deciding on its price, where it should be sold, and how it should be advertised. 營銷[商業]

...if you marketed our music the way you market pop music. …如果你按照營銷流行音樂的方式營銷我們的音樂。

6. N-SING The job market or the labour market refers to the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do. 就業市場[商業]

Every year, 250,000 people enter the job market. 每年有250000人進入就業市場。

7. N-SING The stock market is sometimes referred to as the market. 股票市場[商業]

The market collapsed last October. 股票市場去年10月崩磐了。

8. →see also black market , market forces , open market

9. PHRASE If you say that it is a buyer's market, you mean that it is a good time to buy a particular thing, because there is a lot of it available, so its price is low. If you say that it is a seller's market, you mean that very little of it is available, so its price is high. 買方市場; 賣方市場[商業]

Don't be afraid to haggle: for the moment, it's a buyer's market. 別怕討價還價：目前是買方市場。

10. PHRASE If you are in the market for something, you are interested in buying it. 很想購買

If you're in the market for a new radio, you'll see that the latest models are very different. 如果你想買台新收音機，你會發現最新的款型很不同。

11. PHRASE If something is on the market, it is available for people to buy. If it comes onto the market, it becomes available for people to buy. 在市場上出售[商業]

...putting more empty offices on the market. …把更多的閑置辦公間投入市場。

12. PHRASE If you price yourself out of the market, you try to sell goods or services at a higher price than other people, with the result that no one buys them from you. 要價過高而未能成交[商業]

At $250,000 for a season, he really is pricing himself out of the market. 一個賽季要25萬美元，他確實要價太高，讓別人不敢問津了。