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单词 marginal
释义
marginalmar‧gin‧al /ˈmɑːdʒɪnəl $ ˈmɑːr-/ ●○○ AWL adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a marginal increase in sales
  • Large cities in America had become the home of the poor and socially marginal groups.
  • The difference between the two cars is marginal.
  • There has been only a marginal increase in sales.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Above $ 75, 000, the marginal rate would jump, again, to 34 percent.
  • Businesses can already buy from suppliers in different countries, and exchange costs are marginal.
  • But when films are taxed we have just seen that the marginal social benefit of another film exceeds its marginal cost.
  • In Sussex they are much more important for their breeding birds than reservoirs as they generally have much more marginal vegetation.
  • Instead it allows for the discovery of both marginal gainers and losers.
  • Some crimes were acts of protest, but within the overall context of illegal activity they were marginal.
  • The result is a marginal increase in the risk of infection.
  • Thus, beyond a certain point the marginal social benefit of further risk reduction will exceed the marginal social cost.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorless important than something else
less important than the main subject, problem etc: · The government sees unemployment as a secondary issue.· The study found that women were often reduced to secondary roles in the workplace.secondary to: · Tourism is secondary to oil revenues as a source of income.
formal a subsidiary idea, question, subject etc is less important than the main one but it is connected with it: · If you take the English literature course, you can do linguistics as a subsidiary subject.subsidiary to: · The formulation of a lasting peace settlement was the main objective, and everything else was seen as subsidiary to it.
happening or existing in connection with or as a result of something else that is more important: · The Red Cross will provide money for food, housing, and incidental expenses.incidental to: · The puzzles are fun, but are incidental to the plot of the book.purely incidental: · The concert is just for fun, really. Any profit we make from it will be purely incidental.
too small and unimportant to have any useful or noticeable effect: · The difference between the two cars is marginal.· a marginal increase in sales
relating to the main activity, question, or subject, but much less important than it: · It is a society in which women's rights and concerns are still treated as peripheral.· Too much money is being spent on peripheral programs when our kids can't read or do basic math.peripheral to: · The romance was peripheral to the movie's main plot.
to be not very important compared to other things: · It's the perfect job for him - the salary is of secondary importance.· Police are increasingly regarding cannabis use as being of minor importance compared with other forms of crime.· We must stop treating mental illness as being of less importance than physical disabilities.
a subject or question that results from or is connected with the main one being considered, but is much less important: · The meeting seemed to focus on side issues, without ever really addressing the main point.· One of the side issues that arose was what to do with the old equipment when the new things arrived.
if someone's problems or achievements pale into insignificance when they are compared to something else, they are clearly much less important: · Our difficulties pale into insignificance when compared to the problems of the homeless.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
British English (=one that a party might easily lose)· The party also successfully targeted marginal seats in key areas.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· But to see them as marginal or peripheral is something else again.· But what happens at school can then further define the child as unusual, as marginal.· Women's political life is characterised as marginal, shallow and inauthentic in comparison with that of men.· Yet the shift is perceived by many as marginal.· Its implications for women and families have been explored, rather than dismissed as marginal phenomena.
· A more marginal case is where the defendant is seen to be raising his fists in anticipation of the fight.· In the age of mass communications, politics is becoming ever more marginal.· In Sussex they are much more important for their breeding birds than reservoirs as they generally have much more marginal vegetation.· Then, as now, population pressures pushed cultivation into ever-steeper and more marginal growing regions.· However, SERPs has become a more marginal system as a result of recent changes in the legislation relating to pensions.
· One of the country's two most marginal seats, Brecon and Radnor, also declares today.· The simple reason for that is that farmers put their most marginal and least productive land into set-aside.
· These political costs, moreover, produced only marginal gains in terms of local government expenditure control.· Other companies have had only marginal success.· But it seems only marginal to our treatment of them and, not surprisingly, highly informal.· However, the Soviet initiative attracted only marginal support from the states in the region.· The consensus on full employment lasted as long as measures to achieve full employment involved only marginal changes to society.
· Economic analysis of this scheme, however, showed it to be very marginal.
NOUN
· Catholics and Protestants in marginal areas were burnt out of their homes and forced to move into their respective ghettoes.
· The issue is to estimate the marginal benefit from the increased frequency of screening examinations against the marginal increased cost.· It shows the marginal benefit to the individual.· The market ensures that the price equals the marginal benefit and the marginal cost, and hence equates the two.· Your marginal costs are also society's marginal costs, but society's marginal benefits exceed your own.· D 2 D 2 shows the marginal benefit of purer water to the second individual.· Thus at the output Q the social marginal benefit is.· What is the social marginal benefit of the last unit to the group as a whole?· Inpart this reflects the genuine difficulty in measuring marginal benefits.
· A more marginal case is where the defendant is seen to be raising his fists in anticipation of the fight.· Just as the greater includes the less, so a provision for the marginal case must include the central case.
· Even with marginal changes, assumptions about incidence are crucial and these are discussed in more detail below.· In the incremental approach, choices are typically marginal changes from existing policies.· That is to say, policy changes more frequently take the form of relatively marginal changes to existing policies.· So marginal changes in time allocation to sport may be difficult.· The consensus on full employment lasted as long as measures to achieve full employment involved only marginal changes to society.· Break-even charts are useful for their indication of the effects of marginal changes in sales volume or costs on profit figures.· The story of marginal change is not dissimilar in the health service.· They imagine if they make subtle and marginal changes in tax rates everyone will notice.
· Hand in hand with this measure goes an equally bold re-focusing of Labour's strategy concerning marginal constituencies.· She said Darlington had been chosen because it was a marginal constituency.· Another factor not taken into account before the election was the number of expatriate Tory voters registered in marginal constituencies.· During a General Election, Party members might be encouraged to lend a hand in nearby marginal constituencies.· Kensington was now a marginal constituency.
· But when the average cost curve is falling the marginal cost curve lies below average cost.· Pricing at marginal cost might equate marginal cost and benefit but would entail losses.· Equating marginal cost and marginal revenue, each firm will produce an output at which price exceeds marginal cost.· Pricing at short-run marginal cost, the industry will charge a price P 2.· Any new in-house benefits an employer provides should be computed on a marginal cost basis.· Other market proxies have laid down rules for pricing according to marginal cost.· Social efficiency requires that prices be close to marginal cost but this will imply losses for the natural monopolist.
· Similarly, accurate estimates of the marginal costs of production are often very difficult to obtain.· If factor prices are equalized, each firm will have the same marginal costs.· Your marginal costs are also society's marginal costs, but society's marginal benefits exceed your own.· That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs.· Calculations of the social marginal costs and benefits of cutting back pollution tend to be conspicuous by their absence.· If marginal costs are non-constant then no equilibrium price exists unless outputs are non-homogeneous, i.e. there is product differentiation.· This means that, to compete, rail prices have to be pitched at these marginal costs.
· Racing shoes are designed specifically for élite runners, for whom marginal differences weigh heavily.· But it will make only a marginal difference to the stagnant housing market.
· This term has subsequently been used to designate the marginal group in relation to the dominant order.
· The marginal impact on the local economy left few traces on the record.· As any Economics 101 student could have warned beforehand, none of these schemes has had more than a marginal impact.· The overwhelming conclusion emerging from any assessment of these programmes is that they have only a marginal impact on inner-urban problems.· Currency movements had only a marginal impact on the results.
· On Tuesday Invergordon Distillers reported a marginal improvement in underlying profits, no mean feat given the difficulties facing the whisky sector.· A depressing picture, but nevertheless I would argue that there has been a marginal improvement over the years.· At best, the Bill is a marginal improvement.· The earnout payment should reflect marginal improvements above this base.· It may thus transpire that a marginal improvement is insufficient to justify the increase in complexity associated with this algorithm.
· For a start, subsidies themselves encourage over-intensive farming by making it economic to farm marginal land.· This in turn led to increased degradation that has been exacerbated by the subsequent use of marginal lands for cultivation.· These are lean times for the poor small farmers who work marginal lands in the coastal districts.
· That Bible contained marginal notes and special references that were irreplaceable.· How could he make them see there was nothing to his scheme but the marginal notes of a diehard and fool?
· To attain efficiency, it would be expected that factors of production would be allocated so that their marginal products would be equal.· By skill, diligence and training, the individual could raise his marginal product and hence the wage he could claim.· Unless there is any redress to this distortion, the marginal products of labour will not be equal.· Each worker receives the value of his marginal product under competition.· Hence the angle of the arrowhead measures the marginal product of labour.· Capital, like labor, was compensated at a rate corresponding to its marginal product.· Many workers in the private sector receive some payment as a fixed fee independent of the value of their marginal product.
· To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.
· An important point to remember is that the size of the multiplier depends on the marginal propensities to save and import.· For example, the marginal propensity to make bequests out of lifetime income may rise with the level of income.
· This would permit a much lower marginal rate of tax. 4.· Our tax lodestar has been low marginal rates.· He has looked at marginal rates in some cases, but not in others.· Above $ 75, 000, the marginal rate would jump, again, to 34 percent.· Relief is paid at the tax-payer's top marginal rate of income tax, provided the investment is bed for five years.· Tax bases were broadened; marginal rates were cut.· Table 16-2 picks out the most controversial aspect of the tax system, the marginal rate of income tax.· The marginal rate of income tax is the percentage taken by the government of the last pound that an individual earns.
· Equating marginal cost and marginal revenue, each firm will produce an output at which price exceeds marginal cost.· In equilibrium this higher marginal revenue exactly offsets transportation costs.· This excess of price over both marginal revenue and marginal cost is a convenient measure of the firm's monopoly power.· The left-hand side represents marginal revenue.· The profit-maximizing policy involves setting marginal revenue equal to marginal cost.· Let R be the ratio of price to marginal revenue for good i as perceived by firms in some country.· The monopolist produces an output Q M at a price P M thus equating marginal cost and marginal revenue.· As usual, marginal revenue equals the price times one minus one over the elasticity of demand.
· One of the country's two most marginal seats, Brecon and Radnor, also declares today.· The Prime Minister rounded off his campaign by visiting two Tory marginal seats in south London.· Mr Devlin's constituency was a marginal seat before Parliament was dissolved last week, having a majority of 774.· I won a marginal seat and have held it on five successive occasions.· In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing.· Yet London contains around 25 Labour-winnable marginal seats.· But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones.· There is a core vote-a traditional solid Labour support-in every constituency in the land, including marginal seats.
· But Table 16-2 shows that marginal tax rates also rise with income.· What marginal tax rate applies to taxable income which falls between $ 16, 000 and $ 20, 000?· And it could encourage harder work by reducing marginal tax rates.· The tax rates shown in column 2 of Table 8-2 are marginal tax rates.· Table 16-2 shows that the first Thatcher government was able to reduce marginal tax rates substantially, especially for the very rich.· A marginal tax rate is the tax paid on additional or incremental income.· To recap the method, direct taxes have a legal framework facilitating the assessment of the overall effective marginal tax rates.· This means that marginal tax rates for some elderly taxpayers are 85 % higher than for younger taxpayers.
· Given diminishing marginal utility of income, more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period.· Alfred Marshall called this marginal utility.· Many of its workers and functions were of marginal utility and at the cost of a better price to cocoa farmers.· He compares the price to the marginal utility.· Figure 15-3 shows that at the equilibrium point E the marginal utility of the last film equals its marginal cost.· Above Q *; the marginal utility of films is less than the marginal utility of meals sacrificed.
· The marginal value product of labour in the two locations is illustrated by M r and M s, respectively.· Firms still choose the quantity of labour demanded to equate the gross wage to the marginal value product of labour.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Another factor not taken into account before the election was the number of expatriate Tory voters registered in marginal constituencies.
  • Hand in hand with this measure goes an equally bold re-focusing of Labour's strategy concerning marginal constituencies.
  • In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing.
  • Mr Devlin's constituency was a marginal seat before Parliament was dissolved last week, having a majority of 774.
  • One of the country's two most marginal seats, Brecon and Radnor, also declares today.
  • She said Darlington had been chosen because it was a marginal constituency.
  • The Prime Minister rounded off his campaign by visiting two Tory marginal seats in south London.
  • There is a core vote-a traditional solid Labour support-in every constituency in the land, including marginal seats.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounmarginmarginalizationadjectivemarginalmarginalizedverbmarginalizeadverbmarginally
1a marginal change or difference is too small to be important OPP  significant:  a marginal increase in the unemployment figures a marginal improvement in profits2technical relating to a change in cost, value etc when one more thing is produced, one more dollar is earned etc:  marginal revenue3marginal seat/constituency British English a seat in a parliament or similar institution, which can be won or lost by a small number of votes4marginal people or groups are not considered powerful or important OPP  mainstream:  The album contains too many songs by marginal bands.5[only before noun] written in a margin:  marginal notes
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