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9. Complaints that milk bottlers take enormous markups on the bottled milk sold to consumers are most likely to arise when least warranted by the actual spread between the price that bottlers pay for raw milk and the price at which they sell bottled milk. The complaints occur when the bottled-milk price rises, yet these price increases most often merely reflect the rising price of the raw milk that bottlers buy from dairy farmers. When the raw-milk price is rising, the bottlers’ markups are actually smallest proportionate to the retail price. When the raw-milk price is falling, however, the markups are greatest.

If all of the statements above are true, which one of the following must also be true on the basis of them?

(A) Consumers pay more for bottled milk when raw-milk prices are falling than when these prices are rising.

(B) Increases in dairy farmers’ cost of producing milk are generally not passed on to consumers.

(C) Milk bottlers take substantially greater markups on bottled milk when its price is low for an extended period than when it is high for an extended period.

(D) Milk bottlers generally do not respond to a decrease in raw-milk prices by straightaway proportionately lowering the price of the bottled milk they sell.

(E) Consumers tend to complain more about the price they pay for bottled milk when dairy farmers are earning their smallest profits.

不明白题目在说什么，尤其是第一句中when least warranted...是什么意思，阅读实在太滥了，麻烦高手给翻译一下

COMPLAINTS在最不JUSTIFIED的情况下出现:
有人抱怨瓶装牛奶在卖给顾客时赚取巨大利润, 这种抱怨往往在最显得最不正当的时候出现，这里, 判断是否正当的标准是: 瓶奶商付RAW MILK与出售瓶奶的价格差

STIMULUS 的大概意思是, 人们抱怨的时候其实是瓶奶利润相对低的时候，因为他们往往在瓶奶价格高的时候抱怨, 而这个时候往往是RAW MILK价格高的时候，也是生产商利润相对较低的时候

有翻译高手的话出来给大家翻译翻译，我当初翻译专业没读完就跑到美国来了，修炼不够

我的理解是:对于瓶奶大幅涨价的投诉有可能上升.至少瓶奶买进生奶的价格与卖出瓶奶的价格差(即瓶奶厂赚的利润)就证明了这一点.瓶奶价格的上升反映了生奶价格的上升.(原材料涨价了嘛,可以理解).不可忍受的是,生奶价格上升时,瓶奶利润下降最小,生奶价格下降时,瓶奶的利润是最大的.就是说,瓶奶厂原本定的价格就高的离谱,以至于原材料生奶的涨价可以使它毫发无损,所以人们当然要complain 了.

main point :  complaints are likely to arise when (it is )least warranted by the spread.between the price and the price....

warranted : 使成为理由,证明 spread : 价格差

还是新手,请指正

1。答案D来源于原文最后一句话。

2。原文意思：当买进卖出的差价最不合理时，最可能出现对瓶装牛奶厂家赚取巨额利润的埋怨。当瓶装牛奶的价格上升，而这上升常常仅仅反映原奶的价格上升时，抱怨就出现。当原奶价格上升时，厂家所赚的利润占零售价的比例最小，当价格下降时，利润最大。

感谢两位斑竹！

swimmingfrog，我觉得这里的arise是“产生”的意思，不是“上升”的意思，你觉得呢？chelseayang的理解和翻译是非常精准的。

呵呵,俺比较菜,经常看错单词,arise 是产生的意思.俺当时和cheseayang是一起发的帖子,没看见她的解释.

唉,差距是大大的,所以要赶快努力努力的!

现在知道了自己的理解都错在哪里了.还有继续加油!!

Why C is not correct? who can explain clearly?

只因为一个词：substantially。在老美的逻辑归纳题里，有这类词一般都不正确。太绝对了。

Thanks a lot.