时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Competing in Business 


Yoko: We used to be the only game in town. Now we have three competitors and they are luring 1 away our customers. 


Cedric: I know. We need to do something before we go under. What about price matching? 


Yoko: Our prices are already competitive. If we want to focus on price, we’ll need to undercut our competitors. 


Cedric: Slashing 2 prices would be really hard on our profit margin 3, but these are desperate times. What do you think of a two-for-one deal? We could offer it for a limited time. 


Yoko: We can do that if lowering our prices doesn’t work. I’m thinking we could go in another direction. What do you think about offering freebies or gifts with purchase? 


Cedric: I think that’s a good idea. The more frills we include the better our services look. What kind of frills? 


Yoko: I’m not sure, but the more bells and whistles the better. 


Cedric: And if all of this doesn’t work? 


Yoko: Then we’ll be up the creek 4 without a paddle! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 luring
吸引,引诱(lure的现在分词形式)
  • Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
  • Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她:有危险,要出错儿,这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。
2 slashing
adj.尖锐的;苛刻的;鲜明的;乱砍的v.挥砍( slash的现在分词 );鞭打;割破;削减
  • Slashing is the first process in which liquid treatment is involved. 浆纱是液处理的第一过程。 来自辞典例句
  • He stopped slashing his horse. 他住了手,不去鞭打他的马了。 来自辞典例句
3 margin
n.页边空白;差额;余地,余裕;边,边缘
  • We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
  • The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
4 creek
n.小溪,小河,小湾
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
学英语单词
Abbe's sine rule
AMONOL
Anaesthol
aravaipa creek
ass-backward
biochemical spoilage
blade centrifugal tensile stress
blaze a trail
bleocin
board of treasury
brick vault
buried depth of spillpoint
buzzer wavemeter
cathode-return circuit
Catriona
cdr.
clarofusain
code interval
Coluria henryi
coordination catalysis
Coryphoideae
cricopharyngeal muscle
cyphonocerus jenniferae
differential mortality
disomatic
ectopiad
enterorrhaphy circularis
erythrocytic
estimate analysis
external subroutine
face-up feed
feudatory state
fired-process equipment
floating point routine
fume hood
gavelage
giampaolo
give someone the air
graphite cathode block
haemopathology
hapl-
heat flux rise
identity functions
implied output
inadvertent maloperation
indirect reply
initial great-circle direction
ioguneite (scorodite)
Juncus castaneus
Kalaus
Keep her steady!
Klug
kunheim metal
lateralised
Lerch's percussion
litter
loop in
major-leagues
medical exam
milk fat test
mouth aperture
move a peg
neighborhood processing
old-media
ostiolar canal
ovarian hypo-plasia
overhead convection type pipe still
paracusia false
Pauli principle
pink-orange
pitch element
pitocinase
potassium sulfite
practice curve
preferential concession
redox initiate polymerization
rerisen
resplendency
Richard's solder
rocket projector
rotary flowmeter
RP (return on positive)
sacrococcygeal joints
sarcophaga schuetzei
satinashes
screw pin
sennest
sine theorem
single silk-covered wire
soothings
splenitive
standard glassmeter
take bail
tonics
transferor by delivery
trial square
turn the flank of
tyrotoxicosis
uniform machinery
upper wishbone link
water-gas
water-proof test