Walmart Lowers Prices
沃爾瑪調降價格
Introduction
Walmart has lower prices for many things. You can buy these items in stores and online.
沃爾瑪降低了許多商品的價格。您可以在實體店或網上購買這些商品。
Main Body
Walmart lowered prices for thousands of items. Corn and cherries are now much cheaper. Drinks and other foods are also cheaper. This helps people buy things for summer.
沃爾瑪調降了數千項商品的價格。玉米和櫻桃現在便宜許多。飲料和其他食物也變得更便宜。這有助於人們購買夏季用品。
President Trump says he asked Walmart to do this. He wants to celebrate the 250th birthday of the USA. Walmart does not say this. Walmart says they want to help customers.
川普總統表示他要求沃爾瑪這樣做，因為他想要慶祝美國建國 250 週年。沃爾瑪並未提及此事，而是表示他們希望幫助顧客。
Prices for many things are going up in the USA. This is called inflation. Energy and oil are expensive because of problems in Iran. People hope the problems stop soon so prices go down.
美國許多商品的價格正在上漲，這被稱為通貨膨脹。由於伊朗的問題，能源和石油價格昂貴。人們希望問題能儘快停止，以便價格下降。
Conclusion
Walmart lowered prices. The government says it is their idea, but prices in the country are still high.
沃爾瑪調降了價格。政府稱這是他們的想法，但全國物價依然高漲。
Vocabulary Learning
📉 Talking about Prices
In this text, we see a pattern for describing things that cost more or less money. For an A2 learner, these are the most useful words to know:
The Basics
- Cheaper → Costs less money. (Example: Corn is cheaper now.)
- Expensive → Costs a lot of money. (Example: Oil is expensive.)
- Go up → To become more expensive. (Example: Prices are going up.)
- Go down → To become cheaper. (Example: Prices go down.)
Quick Tip: Comparing Things When we want to say something has a lower price than before, we often add -er to the word:
Low Lower Cheap Cheaper
Example from text: "Walmart has lower prices." "Cherries are now much cheaper."