金融英语阅读 1 :“The Market”Is aConcept
Is the market a place? Or a thing? Neither, really. It's a concept. If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale, you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some in your little stand by the roadside and some to the manager of the local supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are being directed by the market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them. If you mow lawns to earn money, you are producing a service for the market. If your father a steelworker or a bricklayer or a truck driver or a dentist or a grocer, he is producing goods or services for the market.
市场是一个地方吗?是一样东西吗?都不是,真的。市场是一个概念。如果你在自家的后院种番茄出售,你是在给市场提供产品。你可以将一些蔬菜卖给邻居,将一些蔬菜摆在路边的小摊上出售,将一些蔬菜卖给当地超级市场的经理,在任何一种情况下,你都是在给市场提供产品。你的努力都是在市场的引导下作出的。如果人们不买你的番茄,你就不会种番茄。如果你割草挣钱,你是在为市场提供劳务。如果你父亲是钢铁工人,或者是瓦匠,或者是卡车司机,或者是牙医,或者是开食品杂货店的,他也正在给市场提供商品或者劳务。
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