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
a hotel
acid oxalate
agar jelly
agounni jefal
air-delivereds
anchored sheet-piling
balneotherapeutics
bank note handling fee
bond price
busama
capital projects funds
cardamoms
centram
co-agent
concurrent microoperation
CorneliadeLange
crude oils
cutting thread
deoxyribonucleotide
description attribute matrix
detinning corrosion
dinkas
discludes
discordious
draw period
elfstorpite
emma hart willards
epacris families
essential mineral
evendown
expansionary budget
fast-food clamshell
favaloro
flash illumination
forlorn hope
formaldehyde-treated
genus saururuss
girth gear
gnomishness
governor with sleeve
helical-path mass spectrometer
high-bush blueberries
ihleite (copiapite)
informatized
inspection gage
karume
Kāsimpur
Laghouat
lantern chuck
lift pit
Ligamentum cricothyroideum medianum
linguocervical
localized stress
loners
Makhubo
mandura
maraschino liqueur
marine disposal
methylsiloxane
military clinical medicine
mis-sware
multiple drill press
nervi thoracales
nuclear magnetic double resonance
nullifier
numerix
ornella
ovetts
pemberton-billings
pennyburns
phosphoric acid fuel cell
Pirogoff's amputation
plastic based paint
pole reversing key
polyamide resin
postglacially
Pregrada
processus coronoides
puppet-show
radial scanning
radio forecast
reactors
receptiblity
salt a mine
sarokin
saturating force
semicupia
skailly
songthaeo
spina(spine)
stationary chafing plate
subcrepitation
supplementary exposure
textrovert
TG curve
thermocouple restorer
traffic-control
twanging
walensee
wavelength selecting unit
wingert
work blank