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
accumulated earnings tax
acoustic quantity sensor
Acronol dye
Aicamin
aircraft engine fuel
all-singing all-dancing
allochromacy
ammonium acid oxalate
automatic message
benedicence
Bleulerian
blind stamping, blind-stamping
BVAP
Centaurea ruthenica
Chifley
chinaseptol
Citlaltepetl
coin a phrase
coincidence counting
Colisticina
collapsible drum coiler
conjugated matching
cope level
criniculture
Crouzon's disease
ctenitis eatonii
cyclopropanyl
deaf-points
diabetogenesis
diethyl oxaloacetate
double-strand mill
e-bookstore
ellioff test
enemious
epidemic hysertia
field auditor
finger badge
flaggon
fuel source
furnace reversal control
furtivity
gas velocity
gold's theory
grubbing up
half-power beamwidth of antenna
Hartlib, Samuel
Inari Sami
inner orbit
ionic surface active agent
Jammu Division
jones fracture
mark sensing machine
maximum boiling azeotrope
maximum permitted diameter of aggregate
mendicanting
merges
microchannel plate cathode ray tube
mink coats
Miserere
mpiya
nonforested
nonnormatively
not tear one's eyes off
nozzle swing moment
occur
ought self
out-of-process debugging
phargngomegaly
Pharisean
pilkins
plant hunter
plate culture method
polyless
powghe
preangiotonin
premarital agreement
propyropterus pygidialis
pugnacities
puppet-valve
put about
putting on the ritz
readjustments
reasonable audit assurance
residual charge
ritsuko
shingleton
shunting control position
smoke shutter
source of goods
specific cross reference
specificational
stinkard
sux-
The Facilitation Committee
top-to-toe drilling
typeability
unpenning
vaguely remember
vegetation mosaic
videnov
volcanic water
woven memory