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Pedro: Why are you changing the prices on all of those items in the store?
佩德羅：你為什么要改變店里所有商品的價格?
Elisa: Haven’t you heard? There’s a hurricane coming. People will be stocking up on basic necessities.
艾爾莎：你沒聽說嗎？一場颶風馬上就來了。屆時，人們會囤積基本的必需品。
Pedro: I know that, but that still doesn’t explain why you’ve decided to jack up prices.
佩德羅：我知道，但這跟你決定抬高商品價格有什么關系。
Elisa: There’s nothing wrong with taking advantage of a spike in demand during emergency situations. We’re in business to make money.
艾爾莎：在緊急情況下利用一下激增的需求無可厚非。我們做生意不就是為了賺錢。
Pedro: That’s price gouging and you know it. There are laws against that. And plus, we shouldn’t be exploiting people’s fear.
佩德羅：你知道的，這是哄抬物價。這種行為是法律明令禁止的。再說了，我們不應該利用人們的恐慌心理。
Elisa: I’m not responsible for that hurricane and I didn’t tell people to hoard. I’m not hiking prices so high that people can’t afford it. I’m just increasing them to discourage hoarding, that’s all.
艾爾莎：颶風又不是我召喚來的，我也沒指使大伙囤貨。我也沒有把價格定到大家都消費不起。我只是抬高物價避免民眾囤貨罷了，就是這樣。
Pedro: I don’t know. It still doesn’t feel right. It feels like we’re profiteering.
佩德羅：我不知道。我還是覺得不對勁。感覺我們在牟取暴利。
Elisa: No, we’re not. We’re making a sound business decision. Hey, where are you going with those?
艾爾莎：不，不是的。我們只是在做明智的商業決定而已。嘿，你拿著那些商品打算上哪兒？
Pedro: I’m putting some of these items in the back to reserve for people who can’t afford your new prices, the poorest and the most vulnerable in our community.
佩德羅：我把這些商品放在后面存著，給那些負擔不起新價格的人，還有咱們社區里最不富裕和最弱勢的群體。
Elisa: You’re not suggesting we give those items away!
艾爾莎：你該不會打算直接送人吧！
Pedro: You’ll thank me later for helping you to assuage your guilty conscience.
佩德羅：日后你會感謝我幫你減輕這種負疚感的。
Elisa: Hmph!
艾爾莎：哼！
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