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。
学英语单词
-olatry
a lie made out of whole cloth
aboutit
after side
aided channel repertoire
aluminium sulfate, aluminium sulphate
ambrosial, ambrosian
annual catch
antistall
atmospherictransmission
ballast draft
beside the mark
Bondi, Sir Hermann
buoyancy compartment
button interphone
caesium phototube
cafards
calm alloy
capital adjustment
capusloma
carbon dioxide machine
cellulose acetate series membrane
cerebrasthenia
chapter one
closed-circuit operation
conexus
contingent commodity
cretic
ctenanthe oppenheimiana schunb var. tricolor hort.
cyclic strength coefficient
delphinidaes
descriptive video service
drum ring rubber
Duer.
electronic distance-meter theodolite
elevated freeway
elliptical stair
entoplastic
explosive filler
Ficus harlandii
flange nozzle
flood slack
foreign exchange swap market rate
fruit container
gangliosidosis
gram-force
Great Plague
gymnosophy
Haegumgang-ni
heat-reflective coating
herpes zoster generalisatus
I propose
icia
incompressible volume
independent processor
ionospherist
jackslave
Kipampa
kisir
lanceolate leaf
lewmar
long exposure
lower-plate
LPCC (low pressure combustion chamber)
lyndes
manganese sand
misexpressions
monocotyledonous stem
multicomponent thermochemical treatment
musayyib
name position bond
Navispare
nidulariaceous
non-intersect
nonorthorhombic
oil potential analysis
online community
phylogroup
pink-and-blue
play the hand one is dealt
Potterville
Pylkönmäki
rhinism
rinseability
ruddon
Samoyedologists
situa-tion
smoke shell
spotty market
São José, B.de
take into one's head
text word
thrust race
timber lath and plaster
to spring
triphenylsilyl
tuatera
tub liner
United States Fleet
vibroroller
well-hiddens
yoshimuraute