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查询技巧:
1、输入单个单词准确查询。
2、使用%模糊查询,匹配任意长度字符:
   %a    以a结尾的单词;
   ab%    以ab开头的单词;
   %ac%    含有ac的单词。
3、使用_模糊查询,匹配单个任意字符:
   _a_    三位且a在中间的单词;
   _ad    三位且ad结尾的单词;
   ac_    三位且ac开头的单词;
   _a    两位且a结尾的单词;
   a_    两位且a开头的单词。
4、带连字符-的单词,需含-字符才能模糊查询,如well-know需输入 well-% 。
5、在手机键盘上,如果g上有%和v上有_,则可长按输入。

cut-rate
商务英语

美 / ˌkʌt ˈreɪt /
adj. 减价的;次等的

1. At the Cut-Rate Drug Store, no one colored was allowed to sit down at the counter or tables, with one exception: my father.
在廉价药店里,任何有色人种都不准坐在柜台或桌子旁,我父亲是个例外。
2. S. investors are venturing across the pond to snap up corporate bonds at cut-rate prices.
但一些胆大的美国投资者正在低价抢购大西洋彼岸的公司债券。
3. Nissan and Chevrolet are getting around sticker shock by using that federal tax credit to deliver cut-rate leases.
日产和雪佛兰正在用联邦税收抵免来提供打折租赁应对sticker shock。
4. The losers have been ordinary citizens, ousted from their homes with cut-rate compensation and scant legal recourse.
普通人一直是输家,他们被从自己家赶了出来,得到的却是打了折扣的补偿和寥寥的法律援助。
5. Even Apple, which has resisted this cut-rate trend, is offering modestly lower prices or higher specs for the same prices as before.
即便一向不愿屈从降价趋势的苹果电脑也推出了低价电脑,或者更高规格但价格不变的电脑。