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
Actinidia arguta
air intake silencer
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
alternative choice
anisotropic medium
antigenic transformation
area pterygoidea
automatic broadcasting control system
ballability
banana fish
bulkhead deck at side
cayuga lakes
cherrystone clams
combined tea-refining machine
cosmetids
counter flow principle
cysteine protease
daffod
doofoid
dry-type automatic sprinkler system
effluvious
error detecting telegraph code
fairway crested wheat grass
family gryllidaes
fibre morphology
firemouths
forest track
free association vocabulary test
fuel-assembly composite structure
gassily
general-purpose system simulation
Glossina Wiedemann
Glycininae
grape cluster
Harezm
historetention
home sweet home
Hörsching
immunifacient
independent beams
intestinal tuberculosis
isocodeine
jhereg
keep one's hand on
kneejerks
left-aligned
limited information single-equation maximum likelihood method
lose contact with
lymphorrhage
manlets
membrane displacement
Micoserina
miliary fevers
Mitsuokella
monoclonals
multipaned
myoneurectomy
navell
Nepeta everardi
NET-EN
non-saturable
Norfolk coat
out ball
paedogenesis bisexual
paraboea swinhoii
policy linkage
propeller face
prothymosin
protoplasts
pseudophakic eye
pulse.
registered trademarks
regular meiotic pairing
rockweed
rougher tailings
routemarch
Rubijevine
sample coefficient of variation
scoured wool
screw-mounted fuel injector
Seilbahn
self-conjugate graph
single-nucleotide
skin calcinosis circumscripta
sliding window protocol
smogging
social functioning
superglacial river
supporting apparatus
syndrome of dampness-heat of bladder
takilmen
thermal display light
thrombostondin
tomorrowless
transcalifornium element
traumat-, traumato-
vittone
waltz turn
was of age
whole machine
winged horse pegaus
wishing bones