时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2015年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

Bidding on Online Auctions 2 


Jermaine: Wait! You shouldn?t bid on that auction 1 right now. Wait until the last minute. 


Bethany: This auction has a buy-it-now price of $25 and free shipping 3


Jermaine: Don?t pay the buy- it-now price. The minimum bid on this item is $10 and the current bid is only $12.50. There?s no reserve, so if you wait to bid, you may snag it for a much lower price than $25. 


Bethany: Okay, I guess I can wait, but why can?t I place a bid of $15 right now? 


Jermaine: First of all, the bidding on this auction goes up by increments 4 of 50-cents, so the next bid would be $13.00. You could place a maximum bid of $15.00, but someone might outbid you at any time. 


Bethany: But couldn?t that happen anyway? Even if I wait until the last minute someone could sneak 5 in and bid a higher price. 


Jermaine: You mean they could snipe you? They could, but not if you snipe them back. It?s all in the timing 6


Bethany: You seem to know a lot about online auctions. 


Jermaine: That item you?re bidding on, guess who listed it? 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
2 auctions
n.拍卖,拍卖方式( auction的名词复数 )
  • They picked up most of the furniture at auctions in country towns. 他们大部分的家具都是在乡村镇上的拍卖处买的。 来自辞典例句
  • Our dealers didn't want these cars, so we had to dump them at auctions. 我们的承销商都不要这些车子,因此我们只好贱价拍卖。 来自辞典例句
3 shipping
n.船运(发货,运输,乘船)
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
4 increments
n.增长( increment的名词复数 );增量;增额;定期的加薪
  • These increments were mixed and looked into the 5.56mm catridge case. 将各种药粒进行混和,装在5.56毫米的弹壳中。 来自辞典例句
  • The Rankine scale has scale increments equal to the FahrenheIt'scale. 兰氏温标的温度间距与华氏温标的相同。 来自辞典例句
5 sneak
vt.潜行(隐藏,填石缝);偷偷摸摸做;n.潜行;adj.暗中进行
  • He raised his spear and sneak forward.他提起长矛悄悄地前进。
  • I saw him sneak away from us.我看见他悄悄地从我们身边走开。
6 timing
n.时间安排,时间选择
  • The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
  • The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。
学英语单词
2-Phenyl-6-chlorophenol
Advie
air picket
Amberlite(resin)
antilysin
anytiiing
appropriate a fund
Armco
Atamanovo
attains
Auderville
azoproteins
beef-jerky
beglerbeg
berthages
blackmailing
blood-worm
brzesc kujawski
bureaucratic mind
buyer's right to route
cable resplicing
city plannings
codomains
community zone
compass sensibility
compression beginning pressure
Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
crux ansata
dog's fennel
effective target area
elastometric
electro-thermostat
eucamptodromous
every last bit of
excision of turbinates
fine glass rod
fixed bed roasting
gammabufogenin
griliches
humus stratum
impolitical
instant distortion
intermediaterange
Li Shanlan
luminaire for explosive gas atmospheres
luminarias
lunar satellite
mahogany gaspipe
mercurous carbonate
minority language
monometric equivalent
mooring shack
Mucrospirifer
Nansei-shotō Trench(Ryūkyū Trench)
neke name
neonationalisms
Nkula
nonelect
NSND
obstacle
opinative
ouabaigenin
paraoptometric
Pedras Salgadas
pinus echinatas
polysilicates
port-o-potty
postgavage
PSYCHOSMED
punch into
purple sand
Rayer's disease
rhythmetic
ryoutou gekishu (japan)
scamps
scutellinia nigrohirtula
sea heaths
sequential program development paradigm
Shirahama
skirt lift equipment
solid propellant binder
speed-torque curve
spring-greens
ST_chance-and-possibility_uncertainty
statto
synthetic oriental lacquer
take up one's livery
the populace
Tia Maria
top-level domain
tour-operator
trailing space
transuranics
tresse
triavils
turbomill
uk choreographer
unagainstandably
uniform level of liability
unphotogenic
vacuum and sub-atmospheric system
well-strand