day 35how much more?
unit 6 · shopping, money & the internethow much more?
Say prices and numbers that go up and down, with per cent, fractions, decimals and “times”.
today’s words
- 倍 bèi · times, -fold
- 分数 fēnshù · score, mark; fraction
- 之 zhī · of (written); in fractions
- 数 shù · number
- 数字 shùzì · number, figure, digit
- 数量 shùliàng · quantity, amount
- 价格 jiàgé · price
- 价钱 jiàqián · price (spoken)
- 高价 gāojià · high price
- 低价 dījià · low price
- 超过 chāoguò · exceed, be more than
- 低于 dīyú · be lower than, below
- 高于 gāoyú · be higher than, above
- 增加 zēngjiā · increase, add
- 增长 zēngzhǎng · grow, rise
- 下降 xiàjiàng · fall, drop, decline
- 降低 jiàngdī · lower, reduce
- 大大 dàdà · greatly, hugely
sentences
- 新电脑的价格是旧电脑的两倍。 · The new computer costs twice as much as the old one.
- 今年的价格比去年下降了百分之十。 · Prices this year are ten per cent lower than last year.
- 网上买东西大大方便了我们的生活。 · Buying online has made our lives much easier.
- 即使价格高于五千块，我们也要买。 · Even if it costs more than five thousand, we’ll buy it.
- 这个数字是二点五，不是二十五。 · This number is 2.5, not 25.