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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actual current signal
aerodrome forecast
Allardia stoliczkae
allelopathically
ameas
antiknock compound
antipodally
back pressure operation
benzyl disulphide
boarded
bottom falls out
cable-angle indicator
cansado
carrot ?
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chiloe strawberry
chilomastix mesnili
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coastal port industry
condensationrubber
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dumb brace
Eisingen
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equipment operationally ready
eusuchians
experimental population genetics
Famenne
fan-out node
fibronectin(FN)
flash wheel
flat-flame burner
flozoxacin
footbank
forced filtering rate
Frances R.
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fulminating gold
funditae
GCFBR
glycymeris spurca
Gore Point
grain fracture
grassed spillway
grating diaphragm
hand-operated pump
hengs
hereditary abnormal prothrombinemia
ice scooter
indicator horizon
inkworks
inner callipers
introductory remark
kalfax film
Kasai procedure
kill you
knight sleeve valve
lacanian
lead tight
liquorice allsorts
long cesium beam standard
media subclass
mental healths
meter gauge railway
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neild
network order
non elastic collision
nonagenarian
normal end rake angle
nozzle blade
old thalamus
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osteologers
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pathobiologies
pico-joules
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rank-size
realizings
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sciaras
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sectional coil
self acting boring machine
semi-doubles
single-exposure
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strip coiling apparatus
struthionids
taken you up on
thermal de Broglie wavelength
transilluminates
transit vehicle
unflame
up to one's neck in
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xcvii
zooblasts