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。
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air-leg drill
alien to the subject
antiresonating
arclike
Barbadosed
barker code
battey
benzepine
berylliums
blown joint
blue aviation gasoline
brain worker
bretheling
broperamole
cancel if duplicate
cardio-aortic reflex
chantresses
convertible hydrocarbons
counting-meter
cyclocarbothiamine
dactylopodium
dater
dissolution partnership
dockins
drink back
ecommerce
fast-neutron reaction
float type carburetor
flow potential
frights
gage seal
gas refrigerating machine
germfree chamber
hendryxes
hlavinka
Hollywoodite
homo erectus officialis
hyoid canal
i'm ok- you're not ok
job setup
KL model (Kunii-Levenspiel model)
Laxenburg
Ligamentum mediale
local reduction
managerial approach
Mancera de Arriba
mandales
manipulation of accounts
mariy el
marmee
matrix of unknown parameters
microhemisphere
neonatologies
oculus simplex
oilpresser
ophthalmic microbiology
phenolsulphotransferase
photogravuring
plot of ground
poopskins
portal-systemic
potential competition doctrine
precise radar significant location
prey upon someone's mind
prosopopesis
prototropic tautomerism
purchase average cost
renal dropsy
repunctuates
residual error
ring martingale
Roget's Thesaurus
s wife
seller's
sewing efficiency
shimply
shorter straw cultivars
slappings
sod revetment
soil sliding length
spermal
supersaturates
sweated off
swell-neck pan-head rivet
tail section heating line system
trans-activator
translating program
trees have been planted to fix the sand
tremelliform
Tridentine
tunnel Diesel locomotive
turbinate sinus
unbilled
underlaps
undetected failure time
unmoved mover
Vinigon
Virtanen, Artturi Ilmari
water round torpedo tank (wrt)
went round and round
witterick
Zeeman split