The way consumers now approach the process of making purchase decisions means that marketing's impact stems from a broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.
消费者现在在做出购买决策时所采取的方式意味着，营销的影响来源于许多超出传统付费媒体范畴的因素。
get permission to purchase a power plant.
获得购买电厂的许可。
may prove to be a worthwhile purchase
可能被证明是值得的购买
Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for ＄ 13.5bn, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn’t have any physical product at all.
亚马逊刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购高端杂货连锁店Whole Foods，但两年前Facebook为了收购WhatsApp信息服务，支付的金额甚至更多，而WhatsApp本身没有任何实体产品。
The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer's purchase to a state where the business didn't have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, the business didn't have to collect sales tax for the state.
最高法院推翻的案件中指出，如果一家企业将客户的购买商品寄送到其没有实体存在（如仓库或办公室）的州，那么该企业无需为该州征收销售税。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。