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
abathochroally
absorption test of greases
age-graded
al-afghani
Algeria
angiokinases
antimonopolist
artificial tooth
asarum geophilum hemsl.
at ... desk
auslander
automorphism of group
backstair
bagrams
be programmed
Becov
block control
borduring
brawlier
brown hematite
bullion broker
bundle-sheath
burn-up compensation
carbetapentane citrate
chlorotribromomethane
claim for liability
Cleisostoma uraiense
confined groundwater, confined water
counterguards
cydippeas
dabble with
Dalton's law
de Valera
downstage
ebliss
economic well-being and performance
enstrophies
equicorrelated disturbances
ethnogeneses
EUMS
fan inlet
Fangeron kiln
fasciculus occipitofrontalis inferior
Faso
forest-deterioration
gendlin
genus popillias
group consensus
harness wire
heat insulation plate
homosulfathiazole
hot straightening
ilobolo
inner sphere complexation
key stroke
kolyphrenia
Kurenga
laser font
lower slice
manila tamarind
Meter In
methylethylmalonic acid
mixed melting point examination
morbus miseriae
mortar masonry
mousefish
muster roll
n-fet
naunton
neritina crepidularia
northshore
nozzle dribble
openaccess
ophiuroids
overspeed and axial displacement trip
Paraboea neurophylla
PCGIAP
perpendicular radiation
photo-electromagnetic cell
pit silo
powerdry
profile shifted gear
psychogeographics
quantal summation
question(n)aire
sealed electrolytic cell
search mission
selfrecursion
shopping cart software
silicon carbide refractory
slag occlusion
Sleepinal
snaffles
sounding plummet
steering axis inclination
temperature coefficient of resistance
temptative
thaiest
underhold
unresuscitable
unsalvagable
ventilating systems