On some measures, such as purchasing-power parity, the greenback still looks cheap against the euro.

在一定程度上，比如根据购买力平价汇率，美元对欧元依然贬值。

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Recently, there has been a trend towards multi-channel retail, allowing new models such as purchasing online and picking up in store.

最近，有多渠道零售的趋势，允许在线购买并且在商场提货。

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Certain cultural habits, such as purchasing live birds at local markets and slaughtering at home, also involve moments of intensive contact.

某些文化传统，如在当地市场购买活禽，然后在家中进行宰杀，也会带来密切接触。

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There are other online auction sites, but they are much smaller. eBay's real competition, however, is increasingly coming from all over the internet, not least from people selling directly off their own websites and using online marketing methods, such as purchasing search terms on competing sites such as Google, to promote themselves.

ECONOMIST: eBay

Agencies are also evaluated on demonstrating continuous progress towards implementing additional statutory or Executive Order targets and goals reflected in their annual Sustainability Plans, such as green purchasing and electronics stewardship.

WHITEHOUSE: OMB Sustainability and Energy Scorecards

Were they fully merged--they remain distinctly separate despite sharing a chief executive and such tasks as purchasing, tech networks and some car chassis, engines and transmissions--the amalgam would be the fourth-largest carmaker on the planet.

FORBES: The Impatient Mr. Ghosn