From car dealerships to Gap outlets, sales have been lagging for months as shoppers temper their spending.

由于购物者节约们支出，从汽车代理商到 Gap牌零售折扣店，数月以来销售一直滞缓。

You recall afternoons talking on the phone while crouching in the bedroom closet, and being convinced your child would be the first Ivy League college student to graduate wearing pullovers at the ceremony.

你记得那些蜷缩在卧室壁橱里与朋友通电话下午，深信你孩子将是第一个身着套头衫出席毕业典礼常春藤牌大学毕业生。

I just can't resist the allure of all those prestigious goods.

我就是无法抗拒那些牌商品诱惑。

Notice-boards are festooned with information introducing children from primary level upwards to that aspiration.

学校布告栏上贴满其学生从小学一路考入牌大学各种信息。

They had robbed the bodies, stripped from the coffins gold and silver name plates, silver trimmings and silver handles.

们抢劫尸体上东西，撬掉棺材上金银牌，也不放过上面银饰品银把手。

His name tag says he is a doctor.

牌上说是一医生。

You can have a leading brand, a major brand, well-known brand, a brand identity, which are the visible elements of a brand such as color design and logo and brand awareness, which is how aware people are of your brand?

你可以说领头品牌，大牌，牌，品牌身份。它指是某个品牌可以看到元素，比如颜色设计，标识，还有品牌认知度，意思是人们对你品牌知晓程度。

You know, you may think that you need someone who's handy and who can cook and who loves camping and who wears designer clothes and, well, nowadays plays pickleball.

你知道，你可能会认为你需要一个手巧、会做饭、喜欢露营、穿牌服装人，最近还得加上一条会玩匹克球。

You don't have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on expensive name brands.

不必耗资数十万购买昂贵牌。

The lead author of this study was Marcia Levin Pelchat, a sensory psychologist.She says that the finding of the study is " consistent with the idea that cravings of all kinds, whether for food, drugs, or designer shoes, have common mechanisms."

这个研究主要作者是感觉心理学家马西娅·列文·佩尔莎。她说，这项研究发现" 符合各种各样渴求，无论是食物、药物还是牌鞋，都有共同机制。"

I made name tags for him and his staff.

我为和工作人员制作牌。

That's a good idea. When did you buy it? Is it a name brand?

不错！这毛衣什么时候买啊，牌吧？

No, not at all. That's not my style.

不，我不买牌。那不是我风格。

It is best to keep to hot drinks, bottled or canned drinks of well-known brand names- international standard of water treatment are usually followed at bottling plants.

最好仅饮用开水，牌瓶装或罐装水 --装瓶厂通常遵循国际水处理标准。

The stores often carry famous brands and sell them at low prices.

这类商店经常出售牌古着，并以低价出售。

Wealthy parents allegedly bribed coaches and others to get their children accepted to prestigious schools.

据称，富有父母贿赂教练和其人，让们孩子被牌大学录取。

Well, I know a store that carries maternity clothes with designer labels.

我知道有一家专卖孕妇装店是牌。

Or would be if you had one.

或是说如果有牌 你会写上去。

This leads us to the million (or really trillion dollar) question: Why are brand-name drugs and biologics more expensive within the U.S. than they are in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and a host of other European nations?

这就带来一个价值百万美元(或者万亿美元)问题：为什么牌药品和生物制品在美国比在澳大利亚、加拿大、新西兰和许多其欧洲国家贵？

All the staff members in the office are required to wear name tags.

办公室所有职员都被要求要挂上牌。