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
Abdullah
admove
antibody-forming cells
axial key
bacteriologic(al) standard
betrench
birin (birein)
book trade
Central Europe
cuves
cyanocobalamines
damp sore
deep sky
demonstrators
digital solution
dimethomorph
door-yard
droplet burning
energy band theory
epipedobates
file format level
fuzzification function
garment cutters
goldsberry
ground-to-ship missile
Guadarranque
hadithah
half-phase
hazels
head-end business
headed chromosome
hearing threshold difference
histamine provocative test
hold the key
holifield
hsiang fu ta ti chih f?n nu wu
hydroxycitronellal
in faith
indirect reply
infraciliary lattice
infrared EDM instrument
Insjön
intellectual education
is-
kack-handed
ko-ko
Kotovsk
l'Dwyer's method
lake of nicaragua
larval hyperchlorhydria
lobules of thyreoid gland
media advocacy
medium logic
membrane-permeable
mepleres limbatus
middle cone
Morpurgo
mosaic gold
multi-use architecture
multiple-metal multiple-ligand system
nautical tables
new sheqalim
non-remunerative
odds-makers
oersted
organotropisms
oxford committee for famine relief
oxide thorium
PACT (programmed automatic circuit tester)
penetration test grease
phenylisonitramine
philosophates
plumbum cinercum
pothos aurea
preview delay circuit
rate of industrial development
regenerative braking of d.c. machine
samoids
self-reset manual release control
sepia toning
sod seeder
St-Pierre-du-Chemin
subcontrols
supreme court justices
surface structure
taquiles
thallogens
tilting lens rectifier
Torrensite
tourist market
trust accounting
unmastered
up-by
used area
valvular
vastus muscle
veneered plywood
virgilidine
vowel gradation
water cutterung apparatus
Yermo
zenora