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 goodly number
a sprat to catch a mackerel
ahnert
aluminum conductor machine
amide hydrazones
amusement appliance
angle of field
anneslea fragrans wall. var. lanceolata hayata
ashly
baggage man
bergamot camphor
Bext.
board forming machine
buctalon
carcinoma fibromedullare
cash basis
cavings
choledoch
confirmation of sale
continuous network control
crossed pyramidal tract
cryostat section
Cyprois
deficit financing
depth automatic pilot
desoxycortisone
destatizations
doomsten
doz
Dumus, Sebjet
Einthoven
emulation programming
endogenous adaptation
Euphorbia pallasii
Extendable notes
finished castings department
fire-resistant lubricants
general recursive
get one's kickers in a twist
giante
go and
heart failures
hellite
herb Eve
heusner
hip line
hylarana latouchii
hyperellipic
it was understood that
Jinhua
la marseillaise
lactation factor
ladle of the bottom pour type
lewter
locality
malgyk
mechanophores
metal loss
mit-
mount point
mule block
NBR Modified phenolic molding compound
NDRW
near-ring
Neotropical zoogeographic region
Ngoc Chien
nitroguanidines
noped
Oxford shirting
oxyopids
oxyurichthys microlepis
pantotreme
pebble bed reactor
periodic respiration
Physical warrant
pierles transition
polyfunctional group
property loan
purver
radioactive bombardment
reaction constant
repolarization
resinifying therapy of root canal
resorcin dimethyl ether
rights of carrier
roller pusher
roof tiles
schmelze
spark-gap modulation
spoonerize
sulcus of talus
Sundaily
T-rest
take pepper in the nose
teach pendant
tension pile
tetrapolar species
thornberry
user login map
value of atom
written agreement
X server