What's wrong with Price Gouging

[地道表達(dá)]##

• in a frenzy###

[解釋]
[uncountable and countable] a state of great anxiety or excitement, in which you cannot control your behaviour
[原文出處]
So she kept herself busy instead lecturing vendors not to increase the price of the bottled water that tens of thousands of consumers were suddenly in a frenzy to buy

• business###

[解釋]
[可數(shù)]公司，店面，工廠 [countable] an organization such as a company, shop, or factory that produces or sells goods or provides a service
[原文出處]
Businesses and individuals cannot and should not take advantage of this public emergency to unfairly charge consumers . . . for water.

• intone###

[解釋]
to say something slowly and clearly without making your voice rise and fall much as you speak
[原文出處]
he intoned, “especially not during times like this.’’

• go through the roof###

[解釋]
to ?rise to a very high ?level
[原文出處]
When the demand for bottled water goes through the roof

• headline###

[解釋]
verb. To supply (a page or passage) with a headline; 給（書頁或文章）加印大字標(biāo)題
[原文出處]
“After storm come the vultures’’ USA Today memorably headlined a story about the price hikes that followed Hurricane Charley in Florida in 2004.

• vulture###

[解釋]
someone who uses other people’s problems and suffering for their own advantage
[原文出處]
Coakley hasn’t called anybody a vulture, at least not yet

• drop a dime###

[解釋] 通風(fēng)報(bào)信;To snitch on someone. Often, to save their own ass. Comes from the old cost for a payphone call, ten cents
[原文出處]
but her office has dedicated a telephone hotline and is encouraging the public to drop a dime on “price gougers.’’

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• It never fails.

[分析]在這里的翻譯需要做特殊處理。這里的 it 指的是后句描述的現(xiàn)象，每一次都會(huì)發(fā)生。

• No sooner does some calamity trigger an urgent need for basic resources than self-righteous voices are raised to denounce the amazingly efficient system that stimulates suppliers to speed those resources to the people who need them.
  [分析] no sooner A than B 表示A與B緊挨著發(fā)生

[專業(yè)知識(shí)]##

• Price Gouging###

[解釋] 抬高價(jià)格
The act of retailers increasing prices when no alternative is available. For instance, many spectators believe that oil retailers participate in price gouging.