| 词汇 | example_english_luxury-goods |
| 释义 | Examples of luxury goodsThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In a society with a commercialized economy, luxurygoods would be archaeologically associated primarily, but not exclusively, with high-status individuals. For example, as regards consumption, luxurygoods should be distinguished from goods necessary to reproduce the work force in the narrow sense. Towns with better provision of luxurygoods and services did not tend to be of any one particular type. In this new luxury market paradigm a great number of people can buy luxurygoods. Economists would treat such decisions as luxurygoods purchased rationally when other needs are satisfied. If most consumption taxes were levied on luxurygoods, it would be necessary to conclude that they are fundamentally redistributive. French exports, especially luxurygoods, steadily declined between 1930 and 1936. The image conveyed is one of luxurygoods which become standard goods for the next generation, and absolute needs for the one that follows thereafter. Towns gave different types of gift, from consumables such as wine, to luxurygoods like silverware. The industrial revolution, a concomitant increase in demand for luxurygoods, and transportation improvements9, as well as inefficiencies in the wholesaling system8, helped spur the development of cooperative auction markets. Expensive or ' ' high ' ' cultural artifacts, imbued as they are with exchange values in the market-places of luxurygoods and art, are all the more difficult to domesticate. In a commercial society, in contrast, the equivalent income will be spent on an array of luxury goods, produced by the combined work of many different tradesmen. They are not luxurygoods that are only relevant to a particular gender or only to adults. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We also import some raw materials which we have not got, and which we need for our industries, and some useful and luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He will recognise that we have not been able to confine it to luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This tax will fall at random on all sorts of firms quite regardless of whether they are connected with luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should have welcomed an extra tax on luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that there might have been a cut in road programmes, and that his suggestion on taxes on luxurygoods would have been reasonable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People buy luxurygoods because they have the money to buy them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead of producing utility goods we should be producing luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An enormous number of quite unnecessary luxurygoods come into this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They produce a form of luxurygoods and their business, although it has not been completely broken down, has been slowed down very much. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Very often there is difference of opinion as to what may be luxury articles or luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But that is not a good enough reason for continuing the suffering caused by testing new superfluous toiletries and luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, in present circumstances, the position is so critical that we would be right to introduce them for luxurygoods and semi-manufactured consumer goods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was introduced to stop the manufacture of luxurygoods, and it was confined largely to luxurygoods in those days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The money to be saved by discouraging the purchase of luxurygoods could have been invested in war savings, so helping to win the war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Originally, it was introduced to prevent people from buying luxurygoods, and it never did that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of the pre-packed foods imported are luxurygoods and if they enter in metric packs it does not matter at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do not let us have any luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one wants to reduce the consumption of luxurygoods one is more likely to get people to stop at home if they are happy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The union shop stewards argue, quite rightly, that washing machines are no longer luxurygoods, that they are essentials. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a growing and increasingly dangerous phenomenon concerning not only fashionable luxurygoods but also medicines, toothpaste and skincare products. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There are also increased duties on entertainments and on a wide range of luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are luxurygoods and there are essentials. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our trade is now to a large extent in capital goods and luxurygoods, and these are all marginal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Often the goods advertised are in short supply or are luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The fact is that at the moment there is waste of labour in producing luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It needs to be broken down, and we shall find that it contains luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not really putting luxurygoods on the market; it is putting on utility goods badly needed in a slightly more pleasing form. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Its characteristics are that high quality consumer goods and luxurygoods are in growing demand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the main, purchase tax was payable on luxurygoods on a variable basis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, there seems to be a good case for import controls at the very least on luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no generally agreed definition of "luxurygoods". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That hypothecated tax, which might be based on income or luxurygoods, could be compulsory or binding only on those who volunteered for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that this change will put paid to the widespread rumours that public money is paid out for luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been said that there has been a great inflow of luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These people do not spend their gains on necessities, or near-necessities, but on luxurygoods which could very well have gone to the export trade. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of those, such as washing machines, which are often of foreign manufacture, or video recorders, are considered no longer to be luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Fuel oil, gas and electricity are all basic necessities for heating houses and are definitely not luxurygoods. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English A very low railway rate was given for the bulk carrying of coal, and a high rate was charged on luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our shops now are very full of luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the figures show that luxurygoods are by far the smallest proportion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are talking here not about fancy or luxurygoods, but about staple foods which the consumer buys every day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are goods in the top band of purchase tax—what we call luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Representatives of the trade have particularly complained of reductions in the margins of profit permitted on luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no evidence that a black market will be created, as the luxurygoods affected are mostly in good supply. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are all familiar with the rapidity with which new products change from the category of luxurygoods to everyday essentials. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, we ought not to allow in a critical trading situation luxury imports to come in and luxurygoods to go out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No tax confined to pure luxurygoods could possibly produce the amount of revenue required, or could reduce civil consumption to the extent required. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We seem to be almost the only country in the world which takes in everybody else's luxurygoods although nobody accepts ours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are, in a sense, a supplier of luxurygoods and capital equipment and, in return, we require raw materials and food. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not regard them as luxurygoods in this modern age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Should there be recession in world trade, luxurygoods and capital equipment are the commodities which are most speedily cut. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Anything which merely causes the import of expensive luxurygoods cannot be good for this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An attempt should be made to persuade private capitalists to start to make more luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were no other competing priorities in those days such as mortgage repayments or repayments on luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We seem to accept other people's luxurygoods in a way which the trade feel is not always reciprocated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should like to see a considerable cutting back of imported luxurygoods, but there are difficulties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me develop a little further my suggested solution of selling luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In that year, down went the tax on cars, on jewellery, on binoculars and other luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have argued that in respect of dozens of fundamental chemicals which are tremendously important and cannot be regarded as luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Carpets are not luxurygoods, and we believe that they should be within the reach of the working class. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must give the miner the incentive to work and the opportunity to buy certain luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was thinking of fruits, luxurygoods and that sort of thing—things that we could have done without. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 And what about all these luxurygoods which come pouring in from all over the world? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not mind how high it remains on certain luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Too much will go overseas for luxurygoods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does anyone really object to bringing it to an end if such toiletries and luxurygoods are not really needed? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they are luxurygoods which can be done without and the consumer suspects profiteering he has the obvious remedy of not buying them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They wanted to free domestic essentials, but to leave luxurygoods subject to tax, but they had such extraordinary ideas of what were luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One can understand the taxation of luxurygoods, but for this there is no defence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody buys luxurygoods when in economic difficulties, nor does anyone buy capital equipment at a time of declining trade. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was also asked the reason for my suggestion that luxurygoods would continue to be imported as a result of a high bank rate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Take the manufacture of some luxurygoods for women, for instance, jewels. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot help feeling, however, that we are still faced with the crucial problem that we do not have the defining line between luxurygoods and the essentials drawn correctly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are told that some prices will come down, and no doubt they will—the prices of luxurygoods that carried the luxury rate of purchase tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Distributive workers object to our people being taken out of the shops and directed into factories to produce luxurygoods, like paper caps and other silly things. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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