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
addison's
Al Jiwā'
amniotic embolism
angustia
annular injector
Anodendron punctatum
anti-static brush
attemprely
auto shop
barbella
beersucker
benign granulomatosis
body core
Brahmany bull
break one's duck's egg
breakdown of carbon-carbon bond
castellains
chipping bird
chowder-head
combination stack
completion of measure space
Conclusion of Insurance Contract
Corydalis borii
craft loss
diafiltrate
Dichloronaphthoquinone
diffusely reflecting plate
Disodium-versenate
dryopteris polita
Early Precambrian Era
family synchytriaceaes
FEMSE
field potential
flavor strength
Flip Video
focal variation ratio
forlornly
full out terms
general partner
golden wedding anniversaries
Hamadān, Ostān-e
hands-in-glove
HM Treasury
Hoppert's test
icteroid
iliac tubercle
image channel
John Barth
knock someone's block off
magnetic speaker
market definition
mass dissipation
medial sacral lymph gland
median bar
Methylnonylketone
money-off coupon
multiplate chopper
naphtha residue
neoseiulella compta
nitrite printing process
overhead vapor
panime
planned money system
plumbic isobutyrate
Pomer
preassurance
price promotion
qanun
quasi offence
queen isabellas
radar repetition interval
reclinatio palpebranum
restour
Risma
rolled fill
round blade
rounede nose
secondary air
self-appreiation
self-wrought
shahram
sipunculans
sixth man
So the world wags.
soot blowing equipment
standard elemental time
statuvolism
strontium
suabias
tarsiids
tenith
tennis shots
tensile test
tissuelike
to speak the same language
try-and-error method
tuboperitoneal
ventilating wall
Vogt's point
Vu Le
wind-pollination