时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2015年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

Bidding on Online Auctions 2 


Jermaine: Wait! You shouldn?t bid on that auction 1 right now. Wait until the last minute. 


Bethany: This auction has a buy-it-now price of $25 and free shipping 3


Jermaine: Don?t pay the buy- it-now price. The minimum bid on this item is $10 and the current bid is only $12.50. There?s no reserve, so if you wait to bid, you may snag it for a much lower price than $25. 


Bethany: Okay, I guess I can wait, but why can?t I place a bid of $15 right now? 


Jermaine: First of all, the bidding on this auction goes up by increments 4 of 50-cents, so the next bid would be $13.00. You could place a maximum bid of $15.00, but someone might outbid you at any time. 


Bethany: But couldn?t that happen anyway? Even if I wait until the last minute someone could sneak 5 in and bid a higher price. 


Jermaine: You mean they could snipe you? They could, but not if you snipe them back. It?s all in the timing 6


Bethany: You seem to know a lot about online auctions. 


Jermaine: That item you?re bidding on, guess who listed it? 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
2 auctions
n.拍卖,拍卖方式( auction的名词复数 )
  • They picked up most of the furniture at auctions in country towns. 他们大部分的家具都是在乡村镇上的拍卖处买的。 来自辞典例句
  • Our dealers didn't want these cars, so we had to dump them at auctions. 我们的承销商都不要这些车子,因此我们只好贱价拍卖。 来自辞典例句
3 shipping
n.船运(发货,运输,乘船)
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
4 increments
n.增长( increment的名词复数 );增量;增额;定期的加薪
  • These increments were mixed and looked into the 5.56mm catridge case. 将各种药粒进行混和,装在5.56毫米的弹壳中。 来自辞典例句
  • The Rankine scale has scale increments equal to the FahrenheIt'scale. 兰氏温标的温度间距与华氏温标的相同。 来自辞典例句
5 sneak
vt.潜行(隐藏,填石缝);偷偷摸摸做;n.潜行;adj.暗中进行
  • He raised his spear and sneak forward.他提起长矛悄悄地前进。
  • I saw him sneak away from us.我看见他悄悄地从我们身边走开。
6 timing
n.时间安排,时间选择
  • The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
  • The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。
学英语单词
actuation time
advertising costs
artificial stabilization
authentication of document
average phasor power
baby cereal
be for nothing in
beetled hemp
bithiodine
boltzmann theory
break up of catalyst
Brownists
cercospora bidentis
chlorazol violet n
circular extension table
cirino
cladosporium laricis sawada.
coaxwitch
compound green compact
compressed solar wind
contemptible
core interlocking safety device
crop failure
dark-orange heat
dc output
Diamanus mandarinus
disanalogously
dog-biscuit
drift effect
duck grass
duration of frost-free period
Esbjerg
facing about
fag(g)ot sausage
family Endamoebidae
fiber optic processor
field of point
foxtrel
goal-seeking behaviour
gray noise
hana no mai (japan)
hatrick
have a fine finger
helicat
hematochylocele
high-speed hydraulic hammer
implanted pacemaker
intercalated pinnule
jury pump
kaolin
key information
lanater
lead-poisoning
length of fracture
lens disk
lepechinia calycinas
less invasive
linear motor car
mandarin dialects
marquisy
Mastigocladaceae
medical sociology
methylthione chloride
minimum-power speed
misperceiving
montiform
MSPHED
multipunch press
Mutbīn
netherstocks
nimbler
no subject
non recurring expenditure
oleum salviae sclareae
oligometastases
oliviformis
one-dimensional cycle
ordering up
palmately-lobed
pc-xt
planer-type surface grinder
potassium cyanide
proliferation of Leydig's cell
resistance to uv-rays
sacrococcyx
search track
Seekoegat
single-operand instruction
slet
sodium amital
standard swivel
system monitor
tela cellulosa
tissue dose rate
track main link
treetise
veranthridine
war-horns
weak semicomplex
worked your butt off
worse-than-average
zirconium ores