A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
购买
Purchase
It takes me a long time to make a big purchase.
我花了很长时间才买了一大笔东西。
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
购买力是购买权力的许可证。
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
劳动力是第一个价格，最初的购买——所有东西的钱。世界上所有的财富最初并不是靠黄金和白银购买的，而是靠劳动购买的。
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
从这一进程中出现了一个平行的进程，把传统的工作和生活价值转变为一种新的政治和经济力量- -一种日益建立在金钱和金钱可以买到的物质力量基础上的力量。