discount
n. 折扣, 贴现率 vt. 打折扣 vi. 贴现
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教材释义与例句
折扣；贴现率
a reduction in the usual price of something
贴现；打折扣出售商品
to reduce the price of something
打折扣；将…贴现；贬损；低估；忽视
释义与例句
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A reduction in price.
折扣
For the summer sale, there was 40% discount in all the stores at the mall.
This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
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A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
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The rate of interest charged in discounting.
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A lack or shortcoming.
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The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
心理学
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To sell at a reduced price.
及物Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.
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To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.
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罕用 及物Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
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To disregard or regard as unimportant.
及物Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.
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To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
及物The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
The company's directors were chagrined to learn that banks were suddenly refusing to discount its notes.
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To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
及物The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.
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To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
心理学
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Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.
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Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“to deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“to reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- + count.
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