Boycott
聯合抵制
Do you know what a boycott is?
你知道什么是抵制嗎?
A boycott means that people don't buy certain products.
抵制意味著人們不買某些產品。
Sometimes people boycott products because they believe that the company or the country which made the product is behaving badly.
有時人們抵制產品是因為他們相信制造產品的公司或國家行為不端。
Here's a simple example.
舉個簡單的例子。
There is a book store in your town, the owner of the store sells books at a higher price than other bookstores,
在你的鎮上有一家書店,店主賣書的價格以比其他書店高,
so the people in your town decide to boycott the bookstore.
所以你們鎮上的人們決定抵制這個書店。
In other words, people stop buying books from the store.
換句話說,人們不再從這個書店買書了。
In order for this to be a real boycott, a lot of people should participate.
為了讓這成為真正的抵制,很多人都應該加入進來。