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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-asis
Aglypha
allocation of duties
Amphicentrum
audiovisual media services directive
bank-clerks
bauhauss
binded
bioabsorption
broken open view
cesium-134
Chinese font
citals
cities of the angels
content-rich
covelline
daptazole
Dayia
defeat the purpose
double -entry compressor
electro-hydraulic servo loop
electronegativation
elephant-like
Everone
expelling wind and relieving convulsion
extra rays
false respect
family Scolytidae
fighting flag
fixed liquid phase
founding father
frowardness
fuel transient response
fuenzalidaite
gamily
generator frequency
googlers
Haley, Alex(Palmer)
heavy duty cutaway disc harrow
hot stuffed tomato
hydro oil sump tank
improved land
independence of trial and decision
infeftment
inflamable cargo
interface documentor
interlocked equipment shut
Jahvey
Jimmy Doolittle
Languineo
lever pusher
line plate
logic expander
lymphopoieses
manufacturer's
metle
migo
monotonic loading
multiple step pattern
nonverbal memory
organochlorine compound
Ostwald's universal-photometer
Otto Jespersen
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paying bank(er)
Pharos of Alexandria
pleurapophysis
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priority built-in function
purser's name
quality inspection department
radial thermal flux
rate of return on common stock equity
retireth
sacraments
set afoot
sphenozygomatic
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surface conduit
Svilajnac
swazzle
Tangeumdae
tariff of abominations
temperature transmitter
three-fingered caliper
timeperiod
token export
tripylean
trumpet-woods
unbounded space
URW
use-related
vibronic transition
Vienne-le-Château
vitreous table
weak pressure gradient
weighted average index
wetting and drying cycle
whale watching
Window Dressing Dates
wrisoun
zone of slippage on the delivery side