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。
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'rt
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abrina lunella
administrative readjustment
angle of departure
apple seed file
asdu (asdhu) i.
authorling
bank discounts
blebbiest
burn in period
bymodered
cadit quaestio
camera scanning pattern
closed loop cryogenic
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coryza oedematosa
coupled amplitude approximation
Crepis rigescens
cross-validate
defy someone to do something
degrammaticalization
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Diospyros oleifera
Disepalum
display buffer storage
dry-footing
earth's equator
egg whites
eleotrograving
employee insurance
Escape codes
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fonso
gretful
hand-drawing method
have itchy feet
hexachloro endoethylene tetrahydrophthalic acid
homalographic projection
horocyclic
Inflamil
intercepted station
Jayanca
job knowledge test
Kaiser, Henry John
kurri
lactocytes
land-beaver
lightshifts
Livani
louage
malachite green agar
manitous
margin layer
medical bionics
mental tension
misinvestment
modulation capability
nino rota
optic aphasia
ordai
Oxford unit
painter's tape
palmate
parental education
Paria, G.de (Paria, G.of)
peko
penalizing
physical capital goods
plough the waves
polyblastiopsis pertusarina
pyridinoline
rank correlation analysis
right to be redress
RLD R.L.D.
Selenoyeast
servo-mechanism
set in your ways
shackelford
Sidney, Sir Philip
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signal gun
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silipide
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soil maturation
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sparge pipes
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spring water
square-nosed slug
target-tracking radar
thigs
treatment effects linear model
tri-sets
unconnection
uromyces alopecuri japonicus
Urubamba River
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