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
abyssoconite
angiospermatous
ante-chamber
backsword
balbarid
beneficium divisions
bilboe
blast analogue
blue tongue disease
brittle bladder ferns
brought before
campyloneurus cingulicauda
catamount
cicloheximide
colonial trade
common limpets
decentralization of population
Demetraciclina
detector balanced bias
double knife mower
drive mapping
environmental therapy
explosion temperature
face template
fail to see the wood for the trees
Falkenhausen
founder's stock
gap-lathe
genus harpullias
gnophomyia (gymnastes) shirakii
granulocyte-macrophage colony
harvesting implements
high-carbo
high-speed serial printer
hypercorrections
impacting tester
induced labor
initial charges
injection process
inner carrier
inner-ring
intensity in transmission
interest claim
joy pad
Kremmen
lap-welded mill
leukokinetics
macroindentation
magneto-beamed tube
matrix inverse
mechanical square
meliola knowltoniae
name-calling
Nodi lymphatici intraglandulares
noplace
norlaureline
normal number
of choice
on deposit
Paralagarosolen
pedobarography
porphyrotope
portrait mode
potassium ethylsulfate
pounds per minute
pressure-fired boiler
prinze
profit-and-loss
pull something out of the bag
rational algebraic variety
refined petroleum product tax
revenues and expenditures are in balance
rich Internet application
rockscapes
run off one's legs
rury
saddle-point method of integration
San Emilio
Sand-Dancer
security cultures
shade-pull
Slavia Orthodoxa
soft start type
spaniolith (schwatzite)
stable operation power
strain state
stream-discharge record
taluses
tempur
throttle pressure setpoint
toggle plate
tube skin temperature
Tutonchana
ultor
vera
vesicular scarlet fever
vicenin
visor storage
way-mark
web-fed letterpress rotary machine
well-sprungs
wheel setting gauge