时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

 


Shopping for a Used Car 


Mario: Do you want to go with me to test drive a car I’m thinking of buying? 


Danica: Sure. Which dealership 1 are we going to? 


Mario: I’m not buying a used car from a dealership. I’m buying it from a private party. Dealerships rip you off. 


Danica: Are you sure about that? My sister bought a certified 2 used car from a dealership and she even got a one-year warranty 3. She’s very happy with it. 


Mario: Dealerships jack 4 up the price. Buying from a private party means getting a better deal. 


Danica: If you say so. What kind of car is it, and how much is the owner asking for it? 


Mario: It’s a McQ Racer and the owner is asking $12,000, $3,000 below blue book value. 


Danica: That is a good price. In fact, that’s too good a price. Doesn’t that raise some red flags? 


Mario: Like what? 


Danica: Well, the car could be have been totaled and is now considered salvage 5. Its odometer could have been rolled back. It could have major mechanical problems... 


Mario: You can be skeptical 6, but I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth. If this guy wants to sell his car for much less than its value, who am I to ask questions? 


Danica: You’ll do a title search and ask to see the pink slip before you buy it, right? 


Mario: I think you’d better stay here. With you along, I see this great deal going up in smoke! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 dealership
n.商品特许经销处
  • The car dealership has a large inventory of used cars. 这家汽车经销商拥有数量庞大的二手车。
  • A key to this effort is the experience in the dealership. 达到这个成果的关键是销售的体验。
2 certified
a.经证明合格的;具有证明文件的
  • Doctors certified him as insane. 医生证明他精神失常。
  • The planes were certified airworthy. 飞机被证明适于航行。
3 warranty
n.担保书,证书,保单
  • This warranty is good for one year after the date of the purchase of the product.本保证书自购置此产品之日起有效期为一年。
  • As your guarantor,we have signed a warranty to the bank.作为你们的担保人,我们已经向银行开出了担保书。
4 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
5 salvage
v.救助,营救,援救;n.救助,营救
  • All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
  • The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。
6 skeptical
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
学英语单词
a jit
a still sow
Abies excelsa Poiret
acxiom
affective development
aftertimes
air conditioning inductor
allen-bradley
Anglo Iranian Oil Co.
antisecession
Antsiafabositra
Araucaria L.
assignation
bank vault
berganol
bioware
bootstrap methods
boron/epoxy composite (bec)
casing cleaning machinery
control rod servosystem
cycling thermal
cyllans
darvell
Dedham
diisocrotonoyl
eicosanoic
endotherapies
enzyme substrate
extended operating system magnetic drum
extreme-value distribution
fine artss
fjord-like
frumping
furogen yellow
gabbitas
geometric form
gravity wind
heat pick-up
horizontal parallax slide
imported polar effect
International Mercantile Marine Company
interval resolution
into halves
Iro, L.
keycorp
large groups
law-abidding
leading off
letterbombs
little's result
lunar calender
mail room
main mayang (malaysia)
migliori
minute jump clock
neosphincters
neuropteral
nonreactive condition
Nyabingi
opening-week
Parfitian survival
paronyms
patatas bravas
polling ID number
Porterandia sericantha
pulsed guidance beam
quercetagenine
re-condole
real storage page table
recordeth
reel motor
renneker
repromotion
ROIP
rostroventrolaterally
sauldyer
sciametry
second-waves
sesterterpene
shattering zone
short cataloging
snow bunnies
Souilly
splenemia
stand your ground
symmedian
technospeak
toe mounter
Torrens titles
total heat input
touch with a barge pole
track buckling
tracking and telemetry data
transmatted
triisopropylphenylsulfonyl chloride
tuchas
twezers
us stock
vaeyrynenite (v?yrynenite)
viola blandas
wirelessed
yack on