2020-03-20
5 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome to the podcast where I try to help you understand english expressions, idioms, phraseology and english grammar, so you can communicate in a better way when you travel or when you're on business.
So what do I have for you now?
Well, in this particular podcast, we're going to look at colocations and colocations using the word price.
The price of something, the price of petrol, the price of nothing.
Okay, so let me give them to you.
And all of these collocations are with the word price.
P r I c e.
A price boom.
So a price boom is when something goes up and up and up or explodes.
Yeah.
So the.
Perhaps as a price boom in the price of oil because of a shortage or a war or some little issue that has happened in some far flung land.
Okay, so we end up with a price boom.
That's usually a good period for people selling products and a bad period for people having to buy.
So it's when prices are rising quickly.
Price boom.
We can have price controls.
Price controls are put in place, usually by governments in an effort to put a cap or to limit the price increases.
It could be price controls on petrol, could be price controls on alcohol, anything where they believe people might be benefiting too much, and that the general public are having to pay excessive prices for ordinary items like petrol and oil and gas and other issues like that.