时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Bargaining With Store Owners 


Connie: You speak McQuillanese. Ask the store owner the price of this vase. 


Ivan: All right. He says it’s $60. 


Connie: That’s actually a great price, but let’s see if I can talk him down a little. You should never accept the starting price and the prices in these stores are all negotiable. Ask him what his rock bottom price is for the vase. 


Ivan: He said that he’ll take $50, but not one penny less. 


Connie: The vase is really a steal at $50, but maybe he’s still willing to bargain. Tell him that I won’t pay a penny more than $40. 


Ivan: I told him and he says that at that price, he’d be giving it away. I don’t think he’s going to budge 1. I think you should just buy it. He doesn’t look like he’s willing to haggle 2 with you.


Connie: Don’t be impatient. Good things come to those who wait. Tell him that I’m ready to walk away if he doesn’t take $42 for it. Hey, where’s he going? 


Ivan: He says that he’s walking away because he doesn’t sell to cheap Americans. 


Connie: Hmph! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 budge
v.移动一点儿;改变立场
  • We tried to lift the rock but it wouldn't budge.我们试图把大石头抬起来,但它连动都没动一下。
  • She wouldn't budge on the issue.她在这个问题上不肯让步。
2 haggle
vi.讨价还价,争论不休
  • In many countries you have to haggle before you buy anything.在许多国家里买东西之前都得讨价还价。
  • If you haggle over the price,they might give you discount.你讲讲价,他们可能会把价钱降低。
学英语单词
absent on a tour
Almarza
apparent solubility product
audobon
bar bigha
barium orthoborate
bartered bride
bewitching
biospheric
bridge formation
calorify
cawthons
cholera enterotoxin
collacin
continental embankment basin
copper lactate
Corcovado
cracked kernel
cyclopiazonic
dating subroutine
dendroica coronatas
desargues
detsky
dioxazine violet
dribble block
dry-rotting
duplex-bearing
Elatostema longibracteatum
electromagnetic feedback type generator
elliptical scanning
fitness-club
frequency directing
general telegraph service
geological
geomorphometric
gunner's store
Hppler (rolling ball)viscosimeter
hyperpax
hypo solution
hysteretic properties
incorporable
information (in information processing)
initial cooling
ironsides
issue-information
joint airborne training
joruri
Kennelly-heaviside
kettle soap
Lemsid
length backwater
lift sb. out of the rut
lithographic plate
lower side band
meadowvale
mean collision frequency
microfabrications
Momakha
Mondorf
muglet
Mulayjah
natural-color television
nitroglucose
no-tax
non-standard explosion prevention device
nthdifferential
omega-6 fatty acids
optical spectrometry
out-slide
overtime payment
paraneural infiltration
phyllanthus embergeri
physical distribution program
place an order for sth. with
posited
positive-edge
potential dam failures
presentation system
pressure-recording system
primitive magma
psychological anthropology
quietlike
radio uranium
raw water pumps
reformatives
relative bone conduction
rhumb line bearing
rigid-bodies
shiverers
silencer boiler
sillago asiatica
siphonopoda
ski-mask
spheric shell
square error asymptotic efficiency
Suigām
tabloidism
taukei
technoweenie
tsun
waist-to-waist transport
wave velocity