chain
英 [t?e?n]
美[t?en]
- n. 鏈；束縛；枷鎖
- vt. 束縛；囚禁；用鐵鏈鎖住
考試真題
- On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 轉向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In a multi-state study of assisted living , for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline, hospitalizations or mortality.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Big fast food chains in New York City have started to obey a first-of-its-kind rule requiring them to post calorie counts right on the menu.
出自-2016年6月聽力原文
- The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts ( ' , 催化劑 ), but the big food companies—which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking—made the home cook an endangered species.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- But their beds were provided by private individuals, rather than a hotel chain
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t
2016年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- That's the vision of a hotel chain that plans to send digital keys to guests' phones via an app instead of making them check in and get the traditional plastic swipe cards.
2015年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- cut the salary of senior executivesrelocate some of its chain storesadjust its promotion strategiesreduce the size of its staffTo experiment on its new business concept.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- It's also pushing ahead in 2016 with an expansion of Bluemercury, the beauty chain it bought last year.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- 2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wideranging challenges.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In less-developed countries, such as those of sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, wastage tends to occur primarily at the farmer-producer end of the supply chain.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- They run chain stores in central London.
出自-2011年12月聽力原文
- Iced coffees sold by some popular chains are contaminated.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) conducted a survey of iced coffees sold by some popular chains in Britain including Starbucks, Caffe Nero and Costa Coffee to gauge the calories as studies increasingly link obesity with cancer
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- But after General mills bought Epic in 2016, Collins and Forrest suddenly had the resources they needed to expand their supply chain.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- In addition to supplying milk from their own 85-head herd, they began to help other farmers in the area convent from conventional to certified organic and grass-fed in order to enter the Maple Hill supply chain.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Macy's reported its sales plunged 5.2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wide—ranging challenges.
2017年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Once one person looks at their phone, other people feel compelled to do the same, starting a chain reaction.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- Penguins, like other seabirds and marine mammals, occupy higher levels in the food chain and they are what we call bio-indicators of their ecosystems.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- The partnership benefits both sides by allowing unconventional partners for example, two companies from two different industries to work together on a specific aspect of the value chain, like, in this example, an engine firm with an accessory one.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- When they started researching the supply chain, they learned that only 2-3% of all Bison is actually grass-fed.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Although the main attraction was the soup, Roze's chain shops also set a new standard for dining out.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me
2018年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ