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
additional combining
allocation of labour
almanc
Amerasia Basin
antistrikers
autoregulation voltage compensator
barge cargo
bath surface
be rusty
Camellia scariosisepala
carballoy
cercospora deightonii
cheating at common law
class B auxiliary power
comatic circle
contra-flow regenerator
cored hardening
cryptic satellite DNA
D meason
detective time constant
detotalization
dorsal plate
dripdry
dust settler
ectobatic
exterior stucco
fists
fouge
front power take-off
genus pholiotas
gouvernment
Gross-Hehlen
Hafnarfjall
hallams
healing sore and relieving pain
Hemptinne
high altitude air-traffic control
high pressure oil lifting device
houseshare
hydrostaticks
Igbira, Igbirra
in dictione
incidental science experience (ise)
industrial tube
industry title
it might
kurung
lateral wind bracing
le monde
light naphtha
loeweite
longitudinated
manned spacecraft system
Melloussa
monogeosyncline(Schuchert)
multi arch
Narcinidae
national service of legal metrology
nettech
neutron transport equation
newer
Palestinian Authority
partially occupied band
Parvularcula
passel
Physaliastrum heterophyllum
polar stratospheric vortex
Populus purdomii
portable processor unit
print information form
psych someone up
Pyracantha crenulata
red states
responsive time constant
revolutionary proletarian armies
roughing scale breaker
saltpond
scanning device
scheduled down-time
scissors kicks
scoliomete
seriflux
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
slip one's memory
sole licence
Spirillum tenue
SRLB
stone ball
striking proof
swda
syntonically
Takatshwaane
throughgang
Tigrinia
tipped cigarette
tri-services
udexes
Verdet constant
wire-rod mill
Yedogon
Yuzovka
zingibers