| 单词 | margin |
| 释义 | margin (mɑːʳdʒɪn ) Word forms: margins 1. countable noun A margin is the difference between two amounts, especially the difference in the number of votes or points between the winner and the loser in an election or other contest. They could end up with a 50-point winning margin. The Sunday Times remains the brand leader by a huge margin. The margin in favor was 280-to-153. Synonyms: gap, amount, difference, majority 2. countable noun B2 The margin of a written or printed page is the empty space at the side of the page. She added her comments in the margin. 3. variable noun If there is a margin for something in a situation, there is some freedom to choose what to do or decide how to do it. The money is collected in a straightforward way with little margin for error. [+ for] Courts and parliaments have a wide margin of discretion in enforcing convention rights. Out in front, Clarke had built up such a sizeable safety margin that he eased the pace and started cruising. Synonyms: room, space, surplus, allowance 4. countable noun The margin of a place or area is the extreme edge of it. ...the low coastal plain along the western margin. These islands are on the margins of human habitation. Synonyms: edge, side, limit, border 5. plural noun To be on the margins of a society, group, or activity means to be among the least typical or least important parts of it. Students have played an important role in the past, but for the moment, they're on the margins. ...signs of the party's rapid retreat to the political margins. 6. See also profit margin Collocations: boost a margin Other tickets come from corporate holders or promoters who want to boost the margin on cheaper cover prices. Times, Sunday Times Yet while mortgage rates are going up, savings rates are falling, as banks target other ways to boost their margins. Times, Sunday Times However, this crisis exposes the tradeoff between efficiency and resilience: while efficiency saves cash and boosts margins, it leaves little slack. Times,Sunday Times It said that the improvement had been due to administrative savings, which boosted margins. Times, Sunday Times Lenders have therefore boosted their margins by 0.56 points or 1,120 a year on a 200,000 home loan. Times, Sunday Times This will be the toughest game of the lot, by a considerable margin. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It ranks, by a considerable margin, as the largest feathered dinosaur yet found. Times, Sunday Times (2015) 'We lost the race by a considerable margin but there was a huge party afterwards,' she recalls. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The luxury marques have fought back by cutting margins, but the pain remains. Times, Sunday Times (2011) At a similar meeting last year, companies agreed to cut profit margins. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The economic downturn has left too many companies chasing too little work and forced to cut margins to keep their workforces in place. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Emboldened by the swollen profits of mining companies that finance the billion-dollar bids, miners are demanding a slice of the fat margins. Times, Sunday Times The fat margins on mortgages also explain why savers are being offered rates as high as 5%. Times, Sunday Times Revenues last year were north of 10m, on fat margins. Times, Sunday Times Are the big, bad supermarket chains really taking it on the chin and trimming their grotesquely fat margins? Times, Sunday Times That will increase funding costs and squeeze profits they have been making by borrowing cheaply from central banks and lending out at fat margins. Times, Sunday Times Its luxury products business was the only leading division to improve margins. Times, Sunday Times This, along with other efficiencies, helped to improve margins. Times, Sunday Times The company's drive to improve margins provides support. Times, Sunday Times Falling costs could either be passed on to consumers to stimulate demand or retained to improve margins. Times, Sunday Times The company would reduce some of its discounting to improve margins, he said. Times, Sunday Times When the price of silver dropped below their minimum margin requirement, they were issued a margin call for $100 million. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Note that the amount of gain or loss was bigger than the margin requirement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He can sell if the share price drops below the margin requirement, at least 50% of the value of the stocks in the account. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The margin requirement establishes a minimum ratio of the value of the securities to the amount borrowed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The exchange sets the additional margin requirement at $2, which the holder of a long position pays as collateral in her margin account. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite the narrow margin of their first victory in the group, Scotland will head for Poland full of confidence. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Another narrow margin between the teams seems likely this afternoon. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The panel of nine judges convicted him by the narrowest margin, 5-4. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Topping the list by an overwhelming margin were my spouse and my family. Christianity Today The referendum was held as planned, and in the absence of opposition participation it passed by an overwhelming margin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although the act was heavily protested by left-leaning members of congress, it passed by an overwhelming margin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was elected by an overwhelming margin to the provincial assembly a month later. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He resigned, appealing to his constituents, who immediately reelected him by an overwhelming margin of 7,469 to 383 in the special election to fill his seat. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She was re-elected in the 2004 election by a razor-thin margin of 53 votes, and was voted out of office in the 2006 election. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If shoppers continue buying goods at a similar rate, razor-thin margins in the food industry will result in price rises. Times,Sunday Times It operates on razor-thin margins so has been hit hard by council spending cuts. Times, Sunday Times In a continent where razor-thin margins delineate the difference between hero status and national embarrassment, such things matter. Times, Sunday Times The price of salmon slumped because of oversupply, hitting its already razor-thin margins. Times, Sunday Times But by then it was a case of reducing the margin of defeat rather than seriously thinking about winning. The Sun (2006) I see two ways to reduce profit margins. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The volume will reduce sharply, margins will be hard to sustain and in-house counsel will be concerned about their budgets. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The need to keep the 'reserve margin' of back-up generation at an appropriate level may require a redesign of the power market. Times, Sunday Times Even with a low reserve margin, maintenance still needs to be carried out. The Star (South Africa) The apparently wide reserve margin conceals the vulnerability to hydrology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Early in 2012 the reserve margin stood at the high level of 32%. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The nominal reserve margin for the system in 2004 was 36%. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By having to pay the central bank to hold money on account, commercial banks struggle to make profits from deposits, which squeezes their margins. Times, Sunday Times And she agrees that the austerity programme may offer rich pickings for outsourcers, even if others think it could squeeze their margins, too. Times, Sunday Times Manufacturers suffered the biggest jump in costs for nearly two decades last month as rising oil and commodities prices squeezed their margins. Times, Sunday Times There can be no shame, surely, in losing by such a thin margin to Argentina. Times, Sunday Times (2008) National Grid published figures predicting an unusually thin margin between electricity supply and demand. Times, Sunday Times (2008) There's a thin margin between a good team and a really good team. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Meanwhile, the 'gasoline crack', the trading margin between the cost of a barrel of crude oil and the price of a barrel of gasoline (petrol), has risen above $30. Times, Sunday Times Trading margins were already off last year, from 8.9 per cent to 8.2 per cent. Times, Sunday Times It mirrored a similar performance at other investment banks which have all been struggling to cope with a lower activity and thinner trading margins as new regulations bite. Times, Sunday Times The change was because of an improvement in the estimate of trading margins at the banks that identified more financial service exports. Times, Sunday Times His business model was essentially discounted trading margins and a no-frills service -- he applied a 10% markup as opposed to the standard 25% from his competitors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The defense had a plus nineteen turnover margin and allowed fewer than thirteen points a game and just three rushing touchdowns all season. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The team's turnover margin went from being ranked 8th in the nation to being 120th in the nation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In his first year it improved to 11th and led the country in turnover margin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were seventh in the nation causing fumbles (16), fueling the team's 16th ranking in turnover margin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The victory margin was small, but the significance huge. Times, Sunday Times (2013) England win by two runs - the smallest victory margin in Ashes history. The Sun (2006) Yet optimism proves to be a brilliant predictor of victory and victory margin. Times, Sunday Times (2009) He has elected as second time with a large vote margin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She increased her vote margin again in 2011 election to over 15,000 votes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In her re-election she won by a 28,500 vote margin, which was substantially more than the 4,300 vote margin in 2000. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because the vote margin was within 0.5%, the state will pay for a recount. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While a parish councilman, he was re-elected twice without opposition and two other times with large vote margins. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 France is by a wide margin the world's most visited country. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The death penalty was rejected by 158 votes, a wide margin. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The bishops and the clergy are likely to support change by a wide margin. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The winning margin was fewer than 30,000 votes on a turnout of 56 per cent. Times, Sunday Times (2014) A five-point winning margin looks comfortable but, let's be honest, it was looking a bit dodgy there for a while. The Sun (2014) The 10-0 scoreline is far from the biggest winning margin in a World Cup qualifier. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Translations: Chinese: 差数 Japanese: へり |
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