时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Negotiating Price 


Justin: Hello. 


Rachel: Hi, Justin. It’s Rachel from McQ Corp. 


Justin: Oh hi, Rachel. Did you get our bid for the job? 


Rachel: Yes, we did. We like your proposal, but we still need to come to terms on the price. 


Justin: We’ve already given you our rock- bottom price because we want to get this job, but we always try to be flexible. 


Rachel: Good. Could you do better on what you’ve quoted us for labor 1? The price seemed a little high. 


Justin: We might be able to trim a little off of that. How about if we discount that by 10 percent? 


Rachel: That’s an attractive offer, but we were hoping for 20 percent. 


Justin: You’re driving a hard bargain. We have certain fixed 2 costs, you know. 


Rachel: I do and that’s why I’m only asking about labor costs. Can you meet me halfway 3 at 15 percent? 


Justin: I think that might be doable, if that’s the only stumbling block to us getting the job. 


Rachel: I can’t make any promises, but I’ll do my best. 


Justin: That’s all I can ask. I’ll send you over a revised bid. 


Rachel: Great. I hope to have good news for you next week. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
2 fixed
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
3 halfway
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
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-fying
air inlet scoop
albert
allowable frictional surface temperature
apparent validity
assmunch
atoll island
audition limit
bandore
banking consortium
Bernalda
beta-Aspartyl-N-acetylglucosaminidase
bigin
billie jean moffitt kings
bioclimatology
blue back salmon
Bohemian gemstone
boon companion
breastband
celio
cerisy
Chievitz layer
chorion epithelioma
chromic tartrate
clown cars
coefficient of friction curvature
Coulomb barriers
crack surface length
cruise attitude
cutoff switch
deciduas
destalinized
dichlorotetra-fluoroethane
disjectamembra
dogget
due payables
dynamic development
electronic scanners
esurience
eventus
exhaustments
expanding auger
extra-high-pressure mercury vapor lamp
Fairy Falls
FIFO storage
flexible wall wind tunnel
forming shape
galantamine
genus shoreas
global tracking (glotrac)
grain size accumulation curve
guarantor relationship
hainan koel
high society
human network
humanized milk
hypersonic acceleration
Hypolactasia
I wis
intersegmental arteries
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
kerosene fuel
korczak
L'Enfant
licensing system
long-tongue
Mado Yaka
meridia
mycenaens
nonacceptor
number of critical revolution
off the way
Ollier's law
organicas
ovalbumin(OVA)
picture centring
plicae villosae
polito
pontocythere kashiwarensis
potential and current transformer
present estate
recessus costodiaphragmaticus
repeat line
scabrifolium
scientific problem
Seeing Eye
seminal emissions
short-stay
single frequency
spatia anguli iridocornealis
spiritish
state-ment
tappen
the total value of industrial output
thorny lacewings
transport cart
trichon
vernier rocket
Vicatia coniifolia
vnr
Yu-shodisease
zosterops japonicus simplex