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词汇 margin
释义 margin
noun
uk /ˈmɑː.dʒɪn/ us /ˈmɑːr.dʒɪn/

marginnoun (DIFFERENCE)


C2[ C ]
the amount by which one thing is different from another: 差数,差额
The Senate approved the use of military force by a margin of 52 votes to 47.参议院以52票对47票通过了使用武力的提议。
The poll shows that the government is leading by the narrowest of margins.民意调查显示,政府以极其微弱的优势领先。
The election was won by the very narrow margin of only 185 votes.仅以185票的微弱优势赢得了选举。
She won the presidency by a wide margin.她以高额票数当选总统。
The president won the election by a razor-thin margin.总统以极微弱的优势赢得大选。
The Democrats are ahead by a very narrow margin.
The vote was passed by a margin of 13 to 9.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Different and difference
altered
alternative
anomalous
another
anything
disjunctive
disparate
disparately
disparity
dissimilar
make a distinction between something
make the differenceidiom
misc.
misfit
new
unrecognizably
unreflective
unrepresentative
unrepresentativeness
unstandardized

marginnoun (PROFIT)


C2[ C or U ]
the profit made on a product or service: 利润
Our increased profits are due to improved margins and successful cost control.我们盈利上涨,是因为改善了利润并成功地控制了开支。
Using cheap labour increases profit margin.使用廉价劳动力可提高利润。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Profits & losses
anti-profiteering
anti-speculative
be a licence to print moneyidiom
buoyancy
buoyant
cash cow
deficit
ka-ching
lose
lose your shirtidiom
non-profit-making
out-of-pocket
pi
pocket
profit from something
profit warning
rake-off
trade surplus
winnings
yield

marginnoun (OUTER PART)


C2[ C ]
the empty space to the side of the text on a page, sometimes separated from the rest of the page by a vertical line: 页边空白,白边
If I have any comments to make, I'll write them in the margin.如果我有评语,就会写在页边的空白处。
 
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[ C ]
the outer edge of an area: 外围,周边
The plant tends to grow in the lighter margins of woodland areas.这种植物往往生长在植被较稀疏的林地边缘。
Synonyms
brink
edge(OUTER POINT)
periphery
 on the margins of something
If someone is on the margins of a group of people, they are part of that group, but different in important ways, and if someone is on the margins of an activity, they are only slightly involved: (某人)处于…的边缘,对…稍有涉足
He spent the 1980s on the margins of British politics.20世纪80年代他曾稍稍涉足英国政治。
We need to reach out to those on the margins of society.政府需要关注处于社会边缘的人。
Each new paragraph should be indented about two centimetres from the margin.每新起一段都应缩进约两厘米书写。
She made some jottings in the margin of the book she was reading.她在所读书的页边空白处作了些笔记。
She ornamented her letters with little drawings in the margin.她在信的页边空白处画上小图案来作装饰。
Write your comments in the margin of the report in pencil.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Books & parts of books
acknowledgment
acknowledgmentsphrase
addendum
artwork
bibliographical
bibliographically
concordance
edition
epigraph
epilogue
errata
erratum
ISBN
jacket
library
monograph
non-biographical
omnibus
tsundoku
verso

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Edges & extremities of objects
Organizations - position & status

marginnoun (POSSIBILITY)


[ C or U ]
something that makes a particular thing possible, such as an extra amount of money, time, etc. allowed that makes it possible to deal with an emergency: 备用的(金钱,时间等)
There is not much margin for creativity in a job like this.这样的工作没有什么空间让人施展创意。
They allow an additional safety margin of five minutes between planes taking off.他们多给了5分钟时间作为飞机起飞之间的安全间隔。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Also, extra, and in addition
added
additional
additionally
again
along
else
et al.
et cetera
etc.
excess
hand
premium
prepend
rate
regardless
same
secondly
side
suchlike
touch

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Possible and probable

margin | American Dictionary


margin
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmɑr·dʒɪn/

marginnoun[C] (BORDER)


the border of empty space around the written or printed text on a page:
She was in the habit of making notes in the margins of her textbooks.

marginnoun[C] (AMOUNT/DEGREE)


the amount or degree of difference between a higher amount and a lower amount:
He was reelected by a wide margin.
A margin for error is the amount by which you can make a mistake without risking complete failure:
There is no margin for error – it’s got to work the first time.
A margin of error is the degree to which a calculation can be wrong without changing how accurate the final result is:
The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4%.

margin | Business English


margin
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈmɑːdʒɪn/us
the amount by which one thing is more or less than another:
by a margin of sthThe president won the election by a tiny margin.
a wide/large/comfortable marginThey are the largest building society by a comfortable margin.
a narrow/small/slim margin
a 40-vote/5-point/2-to-1, etc. marginOn the New York Stock Exchange, declines outpaced gainers by a 4-3 margin.
Kennedy's margin of victory was only 719,000.
ACCOUNTING, COMMERCE
the difference between the total cost of making and selling something and the price it is sold for:
a low/poor marginIntense competition leads to lower prices and margins.
a high/good marginThey wanted to produce higher margin products.
a margin on sthThe company will make a whopping 80% margin on this sale.
Our increased profits are due to improved margins.
BANKING
the difference between the amount of a loan and the value of the collateral (= property to be given to the lender if the money is not paid back):
The risk of default needs to be correctly priced in the bank's loan margins.
FINANCE, STOCK MARKET
money, shares, etc. that a client gives to a broker to hold, that protect the broker from loss on a contract
Compare
margin account
 on margin
FINANCE
If you buy shares on margin, you borrow money in order to do this:
Executives bought stocks on margin, putting up cash for only 10 per cent of the purchase price.

See also


gross margin
net interest margin
net margin
operating margin
profit margin

Examples of margin


margin
The promotion of civic thought in this context might prove to be consistent with the claim that such ideas flourished in the political margins.
She stresses how much she wants to reject the thinking behind terms such as ' winners and losers, centers and margins, progress and regress ' (p. 5).
Lithospheric buoyancy and collisional orogenesis: subduction of oceanic plateaus, continental margins, island arcs, spreading ridges, and seamounts.
Additional notes in the margins of the plan show other possible orderings of the materials or insertions into the main body of the piece.
Based on the unfinished margins of some of the irregular beads, these were made from the whorl of marine shells.
Substitutions often involve grotesque imagery of bodily disintegration, and they focus on strange margins close to humans' positions.
In this context, there are several arguments in favour of transcending locality, or stretching the margins of the geographical nexus between land and locality.
Daily estimates involve averaging the trial ballot margins from surveys released on a given date.
The lake margins are convoluted giving rise to numerous shallow bays fringed in many parts by large tropical swamps.
The book is published without love : it has narrow margins, variable print size and unaccountable changes in font style.
The following section of this paper is devoted to coping with this lack of accurate stability margins.
Living in the intellectual space between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, colonizing the margins of erudition was a difficult and hazardous place to inhabit.
Recent research20 has demonstrated that none of the static stability margins are suitable for measuring robot stability when robot dynamics are relevant.
Most importantly, the margins separating the various candidates are very small and are rarely statistically significant.
Instead, strain was accommodated in narrow zones on thrust block margins.
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Collocations withmargin


margin

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adequate margin
An adequatemargin policy fairly prices the exchange performance guarantee within an (economically insignificant) neighborhood.
ample margin
In spite of all this we have an amplemargin.
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anterior margin
Muscular anterior collar continuous, 123-271 (181 30) wide located 80-231 (135 32) from anterior margin.
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