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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Act of Settlement,Act of Succession
air-sicknesses
Aldabra Ridge
allothimorph
amplitude-squeezed light
analyt
antiferroelectric phase transition
antioxidant MB
Aplataer process
aschaffite
Atomic Energy Act
bagging cement
baynes
blow money on...
bracketlike
bruckart
C-78
carryings out
CDISC
certificate of payment of profit tax
Chinese kungfu
cine turret
coal spout
compensating phase shift
complete analysis
county sessions
desheathing
equivalent Bragg spacing
estuarine geomorphology
finger lickin' good
fisheries inspection vessel
four barrel
Frequency Converters
Gauripur
gentibobiose
gobbing
governor booster piston rod
hard running track
head drum motor
homooctamers
hour of right occension
hypnotherapists
influence of vibration
insulin injection
isobucaine
lignin-carbohydrate linkage
Lindefallet
little fish
macroexpansion
magnetic stirrer installation
milley
money capital maintenance concept
moral minimums
Nagāhān
nanograins
nonanucleotide
nutations
ogmores
peas and rice
pharyngeal catarrh
photoelectric apparatus
poliencephalomyelitis
polyspire
polytropic bees
precursor
priming yarn
programmatical
proscenium frame stage
Pütürge
records dept
reinsuring for common account
relativistic electron beam
Roybridge
sazda
sea breezes
sebald
See you on the big drum
segment limit clause
self-operated control valve
semantic association
sheave boss
solar systems
spindle level
staple
stock withdrawal form
subfamily Carduelinae
superdiamagnetic
swing caisson gate
tar cuts
Torreglia
touch on the raw
tournament-tough
towanite (chalcopyrite)
transposition of pterygium
universal hoist
unsteady state condition
VC (video correlator)
verandahless
visible oil flow gauge
Wendte
wider-range investment
X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy