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
a matter of common practice
age life method
alarming device
alpha-saphylolysin
aluminosilicate fibre
anchor rope
Annsborough
approximate absolute temperature
archontates
armature of relay
artery of the penis bulb
as-is
barnies
beadworking
board insurer
bruchuss
bulboventricular loop
calcium bentonite
capitals of italy
carbon-free stainless steel
Chijiwa
chin bristle
colour lighting
contracting officer
cumulative failure
curved isobar
Czecho-Slovakian
density of flux
diphetarsone-spiramycin
dropping vial
earth-friendly
Ecarazine
elective culture
electric resistance thermometre
fascia massetrica
fetwah
fiber communication
finite dimensional compensator
French knickers
Hishimonus sellatus
identification cards
insurance funds
jump list
knock the bottom out of
Kusan-ni
laughen
less than normal refraction
Maytenus garanbiensis
median control chart
musculi papillares septales
Nazimova, Alla
New Zealand spinaches
Newton's formula
nonconservative waste effluent
Normal-form
one who knows all the answers
organizations of the oppressed on earth
organs of hearing
overcompensate
OVTR
para-relations
pentacetylglucose
pentapetes phoenicea l.
pickup points
piquets
polyphas
polysomaty
polysulfone
Prajekan
Presbyterian Church
pulse dispersion
quotidially
radionavigation mobile station
realistic capacitor
reference to my radio
retarded fundamental solution
Rosselli-Guilenetti
rpg (radiation protection guide)
sabous
shinguard
slushy
spring off
tapered foot roller
Taxillus kaempferi
templepatricks
terminal tentacle
tetronic acid
the first reading
theopompus
thiol-modified rubber
thioltransferases
thioproperazine
train dispatching telephone
ullman reaction
unamerican
Vaala
value of the game
vendor part number
White Sunday
Whitmore
X-ray picture
Zelah