consumer
英 [k?n'sju?m?]
美[k?n'sum?]
- n. 消費者；用戶，顧客
考試真題
- While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Penny-pinching UK consumers choose cheaper products from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl rather than luxury alternatives.
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- Consumers are loyal to certain brands.
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- As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption is huge.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The effect of falling oil prices on consumer spending.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Many oil producers built up huge reserve funds when prices were high, so when prices fall they will draw on their reserves to support government spending and subsidies ( ' , 補貼) for their consumers.
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- Manufacturers can produce consumer goods at a much lower cost.
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- Investing in research to find ways to adapt to consumers' needs.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Consumers, in the U.S. at least, are acting cautiously with the savings they're getting at the gas pump, as the memory of the recent great recession is still fresh in their mind.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Consumers will spend their savings from cheap oil on other commodities.
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- Consumers have more money in their pockets when they're paying less at the pump.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- By contrast, a Danish tax on foods high in fats was abandoned a year after its introduction, amid claims that consumers were avoiding it by crossing the border to Germany to satisfy their desire for cheaper, fattier fare.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains? Not necessarily, says economic researcher Sara Johnson.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Today’s consumers want beautiful handcrafted objects to wear and to have for their home environment.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- They often involve consumers in trying the craft themselves.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- State arts councils help sponsor local arts and crafts festivals which draw crowds of tourist consumers.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- Craftsmen have helped educate consumers to make wise choices.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- The name Healthy Choice was chosen for the positive implication it held for consumers.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文
- The Healthy Choice product line was carefully tested with consumers before being introduced to the general public.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文
- Rachel Botsman, the author of a book on the subject, says the consumer peer-to-peer rental market alone is worth $ 26 billion
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- The danger is that although some rules need to be updated to protect consumers from harm, existing rental businesses will try to destroy competition
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- J) The sharing economy is the latest example of the internet's value to consumers
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Food labels may mislead consumers in their purchases.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy（破產）protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- Consumers who borrowed too much?
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- is but a dream for average consumers
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- And that is what put Mr Jobs on the right side of history, as technological innovation?（創新）has moved into consumer electronics over the past decade.
出自-2012年12月閱讀原文
- As our special report in this issue (printed before Mr Jobs's death) explains, innovation used to spill over from military and corporate laboratories to the consumer market, but lately this process has gone into reverse
出自-2012年12月閱讀原文
- Many people's homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gadgets and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies'ystems
出自-2012年12月閱讀原文
- Familiar consumer products are being adopted by businesses, government and the armed forces
出自-2012年12月閱讀原文
- It originates in the consumer market.
出自-2012年12月閱讀原文
- In the process he brought about great changes in computing, music, telecoms and the news business that were painful for existing firms but welcomed by millions of consumers.
出自-2012年12月閱讀原文
- Meanwhile, the number of consumers hungry for such gadgets continues to swell
出自-2012年12月閱讀原文
- According to the same study, efforts to reduce consumption should focus on improving consumer awareness and behaviour.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- The immediate cause for the collapse has been Britain's slide toward recession, which has cut into consumer spending.
2015年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- It reflects a shift of their interest in consumer goods.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Well, my current research is really about consumer behaviour.
出自-2017年6月聽力原文
- While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Mr.Wilhelm said the excess of labels made it difficult for businesses and consumers to know which labels they should pay attention to.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Manufacturers of products that claim to be environmentally friendly will face tighter rules on how they are advertised to consumers under changes proposed by the Federal Trade Commission.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- It misled consumers to believe that its products had been certified by a third party.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- It is clear that consumers don't always know what they are getting.
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- It gave consumers the impression that all its products were truly green.
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- Farmers and consumers may be affected by harmful bacteria.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Consumers grow wild with products labeled green.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come, said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association ( ' , CTA).
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The Consumer Technology Association is the sponsor of the annual Consumer Electronics Show.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The Consumer Electronics Show in recent years has begun to focus more on the practical value than the showiness of electronic devices.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- That seems to be what consumers are demanding, after all.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Scan the highlights of this year's Consumer Electronics Show ( ' , CES), and you may get a slight feeling of having seen them before.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Plain packaging would be another step in the reclassification of cigarettes from inviting consumer products to narcotics ( ' , 麻醉劑).
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Many consumers wonder about the necessity of having their fitness monitored.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Consumers are often hesitant to try smart-home devices because they are worried about compatibility problems.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Consumers are becoming more worried about giving personal information to tech companies to get customized products and services.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized solutions that companies need to improve their services.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文
- Advertising informs consumers about the existence and benefits ofproducts and services and attempts to persuade them to buy them.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文
- "There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come," said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association CT.
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- A stronger relationship between the retailer/producer and the consumer isn't just about financial incentives.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized so
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- But some companies are realizing that placing the burden of recycling entirely on the consumer is not an effective strategy, especially when tossing something away seems like the easiest and most convenient option.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Currently, I teach consumer behaviour to undergraduates in their second year, and we look at all kinds of things in consumer behaviour and particularly how consumers are presented in advertising.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.
2019年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- Scan the highlights of this year's Consumer Electronics Show CES, and you may get a slight feeling of having seen them before.
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- So they get involved by looking at advertising and really critically assessing the consumer behaviour aspects of it and getting involved sometimes doing primary research.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord&Taylor.
2017年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- The key thing about consumer behaviour is that it's very much about how consumers change.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- The report doesn't really say how that information would affect consumer buying decisions.
2015年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Their philosophy is that extending the life of a pair of jeans is not only great for the environment, but allows the consumer to get more value out of their product.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Yet, more and more businesses are thinking about how to reduce consumer waste.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- And in modern day consumer society everyone is considered to be middle class.
2015年高考英語廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- But consumers do have a choice.
2015年高考英語陜西卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Companies could be forced to consumers what information they hold and how many money they make form it.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Consumers could better protect their privacy.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項
- Far from charging consumers high prices, many of these services are free users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Hod Lipson, a professor at Columbia University, said, "Food printing could allow consumers to print food with customized nutritional content, like vitamins."
2018年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Phone carriers and consumers need to work together to find ways of determining and communicating what is real.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- The giants' success has benefited consumers.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- With a new farm bill to be debated in congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- 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.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- At any rate, this change will ultimately be acclaimed by an ever-growing number of both domestic and international consumers, regardless of how long the current consumer pattern will take hold.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.
出自-2011年考研閱讀原文
- The way consumers now approach the broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.
出自-2011年考研閱讀原文
- The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more ( ' , and more diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways.
出自-2011年考研閱讀原文
- Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.
出自-2011年考研閱讀原文
- If that happens, passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products, putting the reputation of the target company at risk.
出自-2011年考研閱讀原文
- Consumers passionate about a product may create “owned” media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Web site.
出自-2011年考研閱讀原文
- These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable-meant to last only a wash or two, although they don’t advertise that –and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- Overdressed is the fashion world’s answer to consumer-activist bestsellers like Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- Bob Liodice, the chief executive of the Association of National Advertisers, says consumers will be worse off if the industry cannot collect information about their preferences.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- Previous studies on CSR have had trouble differentiating these effects because consumers can be affected by all three.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文
- First, consumers may take CSR spending as a “signal” that a company’s products are of high quality.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文
- And third, through a more diffuse “halo effect,” whereby its good deeds earn it greater consideration from consumers and others.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文
- "Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns," said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter and Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of tide, Crest and other products last year.
2010年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Because electronic payments are immediate, they eliminate the float for the consumer.
2013年考研真題（英語二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- From career to community and family, these contrasts suggest that in the aftermath of the searing Great Recession, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations that will increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of Amer
2016年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs grade—point averages over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.
2019年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face, we can take a moment before buying.
2013年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- They're part of a bunch of celebrities starring in a new video for World Environment Day—encouraging you, the consumer, to swap out your single-use plastic staples like straws and cutlery to combat the plastics crisis.
2019年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ