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
acne pustulosa
action
after-mature
allotment for annual expenditures
aneuhaploidy
annicks
Antiflamisonum
artesian water circulation
be partial
best glide speed
big dippers
blood arkshell
bluesily
broken country
Būbīyān, Jazirat
capstan lathe
cefuroxime
celebenses
closing the bank account
coating screen by centrifugal sedimentation
collection of deposits
complete adjustment
comprehensible
continent building
core phase
Cortalone
coupling quantumefficiency
cross density
dispersed fault
dissolved substances in seawater
dry zirconium metal
effective address
efficient method
error in performance comparison
Everest theodolite
family Canidae
ferraria undulata l.
ganske
high temperature electrostatic precipitator
hinged rotor
I-governor
impulse-reaction turbine
ipomoea pes-capraes
ischemic contracture due to war injury
joint-filling material
leak valve
linear waveform response
majority trading partner
maximum conversion
microlithographic
misfashioned
Moslem calendar
multi-expert system
mysticising
natural food conditioned reflex
natural-convection
Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
non-aqueous reprocessing
non-rising-stem valve
noniodized
nonmucinous
nucleonic structure factor
Okohon
pinup girl
post-vaccinal encephalomyelitis
production of smoke
promotional study
pyrometer cone
rhombic tetrahedron
Rocca di Papa
scheduling network
Schiller-Christian disease
septanoside
settle to do sth
sharing criterion
silicate fibre
slowin
stencil film
stirred bed agitator-conveyor
stirup
straw mulch
string lines
stump cutter
subglossitis diphtheroides
sun-belts
supply line
tacitness
Takua Pa
tee-fitting
time axis shift
time polarity control code
transverse maximum-to-average-power ratio
turn the cat in the pan
unearths
unpreachy
vegetative disorder
Wade-Giles romanization
water hydraulics
whip cord
wqttmeter
yanking