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。
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a shedload
adjustment index of the weighted average
altocumulus clouds
amount of shares
anarchias allardicei
Andrychow
angiotenin
angular gyrus
astrospheres
autoenrollment
autoflag
ball-shapeds
Benedict-Murlin's method
Bernecebarati
binary output file
butteriness
cench cure
chivari
circinella rigida
Coerebidae
compensated current comparator
count of indictment
deconjugated
diarrhea ablactatorum
disciplinary hearing
double pulse recording
doubles service court
drum something up
easiness of bearing
eigenelement
energy consumption revolution
esalon
factory overhead incurred
fall into disrepair
finite canon
fishdom
goof off
goose neck
grows into
halloo
harmonic leakage reactance
hate each other like poison
hemology
high density data
Hy Brasil
hypophllium
inert diluent effect
infarciate
ingravidate
intellectual ability
interim provisions
Ircon
kamalsky
konjak mannan
Lallans
lazuline
Lodrino
loonie
magnetic-flux
man record analysis chart
maskelles
membrana cerebri
money-forms
Morsiglia
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nitrogen dioxide gas
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Phaseolus radiatus L.
photodynamic effect
pornographic movie
praeterita
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pulse counter
Quinquerhabdus
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ramonense
relative injectivity
reporting relationships
river water quality monitor
roller slewing ring
shakabler
ship's engine
Shipping Conference Law
single coil selector
soup stocs
spatial conjugation
splenemphraxis
steam generator tube rupture accident
steeloscope
sufficiencies
takeos
the Great War
Tuhelj
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unvesseling
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value insured rail traffic
vaporiliquid equilibrium
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