时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

 


Shopping for a Used Car 


Mario: Do you want to go with me to test drive a car I’m thinking of buying? 


Danica: Sure. Which dealership 1 are we going to? 


Mario: I’m not buying a used car from a dealership. I’m buying it from a private party. Dealerships rip you off. 


Danica: Are you sure about that? My sister bought a certified 2 used car from a dealership and she even got a one-year warranty 3. She’s very happy with it. 


Mario: Dealerships jack 4 up the price. Buying from a private party means getting a better deal. 


Danica: If you say so. What kind of car is it, and how much is the owner asking for it? 


Mario: It’s a McQ Racer and the owner is asking $12,000, $3,000 below blue book value. 


Danica: That is a good price. In fact, that’s too good a price. Doesn’t that raise some red flags? 


Mario: Like what? 


Danica: Well, the car could be have been totaled and is now considered salvage 5. Its odometer could have been rolled back. It could have major mechanical problems... 


Mario: You can be skeptical 6, but I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth. If this guy wants to sell his car for much less than its value, who am I to ask questions? 


Danica: You’ll do a title search and ask to see the pink slip before you buy it, right? 


Mario: I think you’d better stay here. With you along, I see this great deal going up in smoke! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 dealership
n.商品特许经销处
  • The car dealership has a large inventory of used cars. 这家汽车经销商拥有数量庞大的二手车。
  • A key to this effort is the experience in the dealership. 达到这个成果的关键是销售的体验。
2 certified
a.经证明合格的;具有证明文件的
  • Doctors certified him as insane. 医生证明他精神失常。
  • The planes were certified airworthy. 飞机被证明适于航行。
3 warranty
n.担保书,证书,保单
  • This warranty is good for one year after the date of the purchase of the product.本保证书自购置此产品之日起有效期为一年。
  • As your guarantor,we have signed a warranty to the bank.作为你们的担保人,我们已经向银行开出了担保书。
4 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
5 salvage
v.救助,营救,援救;n.救助,营救
  • All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
  • The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。
6 skeptical
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
学英语单词
act incurring liabilities on the treasury
advanced wastewater treatment
afterswarms
Alpinia Zerumbet
amplification characteristic
appraised capital
at breakneck speed
audit trails
base of tongue
big-bang hypothesis
blandish
celebrity
closed-cycle control system
compendious
count-based
danger coefficient
Danish cultivalor
Dharuk
dimly-lit
discharging for refloat
disgracia
dislocation of small joint of thoracic vertebrae
dismayingly
distributor-spreader
domatic class
doomists
dynamo wave
econazi
ensaigne
ephedran
false lily of the valley
full mould process
gipsydom
go for a blow
graphicalities
half-sibling
hatchet-men
head leader
height series
high abrasion furnace black
hispidissimum
hypoliquorrhea
ikke
imparlances
interconnecting transformator
interior capacity
interknit
interplanetary telemetering
invaginating
invariant class of groups
irims
Iyevkovo
klarreich
loader mechanism
localization of law
man-handling of materials
meaking
mean velosity
medical statistics
moldboard plough
morphogenetic field
Mullen tester
Mulovskogo, Mys
naffertons
ned (nuclear engineering department)
noncommunicational
normative jurisprudence
Parostrophan
pea gravel
phonesats
pixelation
plaiting machine
polyphyletically
Ponceau 4R
printed character recognition
production allocation
scolecite
setaside
shill bidder
silicon compound
special purpose ingredient
spectrophotometric cell
statutory income
syndrome of deficiency of liver blood
system diagram
tabloidizes
target trajectory
three essential nutrients
transcendental transfer function
ultrahigh-speed particle
underlying index
universal postal union
vacuum degasifer
vibration measurement of driver cab instrument board
Vir.
well-cut
while the going is good
windspeeds
Wolf Creek
wrist pin end
Zolpidam