One reason for the expense is perception: students view price as a proxy for quality; universities worry that low fees will signal a second-rate product.

学费提高的原因之一有关人们的看法：学生视学费为教学质量的代表；大学担心学费低让人以为学校是次品。

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Chinese Perception of African businessmen: Chinese Product may be both high and low quality that depends on the price. The matter is reliability.

对中国商品的看法，中国产品有优有劣，产品质量主要取决于价格，更看重合作伙伴是否可信赖。

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However, there is little difference between Chinese and European product in quality. It is just because of the perception that great difference was caused in the huge price difference.

但中国和欧洲的产品的质量存在的差别很小只是由于观念上的差别才导致价格的巨大差别日语口译。

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Price too low, and it impacts the quality perception of the product.

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Tests have shown that even slight changes in paper content will cause people to order more -- or less -- due to their perception of the quality of the product.

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