mark-up
mark-up — 名詞
1. the extra amount or percentage a seller adds above cost before setting the final
加價幅度
售價比成本多出的部分
the extra amount or percentage a seller adds above cost before setting the final price.
The cafe puts a twenty-five percent mark-up on bottled juice from Japan.
那家咖啡館對來自日本的瓶裝果汁加了百分之二十五的加價幅度。
pattern: a mark-up on + product
A tiny mark-up on each badge covered the club's printing costs.
每個徽章只加上一點加價幅度,就足夠支付社團的印刷費。
Parents were shocked by the mark-up on uniforms at the school shop.
家長們對校內商店制服的加價幅度感到震驚。
The owner keeps the mark-up low so local families can still buy fruit.
老闆把加價幅度維持得很低,好讓當地家庭還是買得起水果。
- discount
reduces the selling price instead of adding to it
文法句型
a mark-up on + product
a mark-up of + amount/percentage
keep the mark-up + high/low
用法筆記
Often appears with 'on' to name the product and with a number or percentage to show size. Distinguish from verb sense 1: this sense names the extra amount itself, while the verb names the act of adding it.
常見錯誤
mark-up — 動詞
1. to put a higher selling price on something, usually so more profit is made.
加價
把商品售價訂得更高
to put a higher selling price on something, usually so more profit is made.
Before the holiday weekend, several hotels marked up their rooms by fifteen percent.
假日前的那個週末前,好幾家旅館把房價加了百分之十五。
pattern: mark up + product + by + percentage
The corner shop marked up bottled water after the concert crowd arrived.
演唱會人潮一到,轉角商店就把瓶裝水加價了。
Our supplier warned us not to mark up school uniforms too heavily.
供應商提醒我們,不要把學校制服加價得太多。
The chain marked up imported cheese to cover higher shipping costs.
那家連鎖店把進口起司加價,好補回較高的運費。
To boost profits, the seller marked up every phone case near the till.
為了提高利潤,那名賣家把收銀台旁的每個手機殼都加價了。
文法句型
mark up + product
mark up + product + by + amount/percentage
mark up + product + to + price
用法筆記
Usually takes the goods being sold as its object and often appears with a percentage or amount. Distinguish from phrasal verb 2 under this entry: sense 1 is about pricing goods, while that phrase sense is about writing correction marks on a text.