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
.aq
acceleration of transportation
addable
agranuloplastic
analytic modification
be man enough (to do sth)
blepharicerids
bring the roof down
buffote
Caltibozkir
commendataries
conductiverubber
conjugate linear isomorphism
controllable valve
correction advice
cotton sewing threads on cylinders
coupled equations
de-ionization rate
dehydrogenises
Delivery options
DEMAG
distobucco-occlusal
dog watching TV
door panel
dwarf crested iris
electric-telegraph cable
electrofluorescence
eumydrin
explosive mixtures
external reinforcement
eyebright
firebare
fish-eating grin
flat picker
flowering almond
foundery
fully-automatic gearbox
galactic net
Gatting
get a sleep
h(a)emothorax
high-speed chase
Honingham
hypogynous flower
iliac fascia
Leontodon autumnalis
Leppävesi
Ligamentum collaterale radiale
line focus collector
liver trouble
low-water mark
lwei
major source of pollutant
microbioat
minihamburgers
murderless
naphtalinum
negative ion yield
nikolay
nonmenstrual
now or never
owndir
petaurista alborufus
petite mort
phalangeal base
plan of the number of staffs and workers
poloidal pinch heating
poppop
porosity secondary
potassium pyroarsenate
power source transfer circuit
pup joint
Quézac
railroad communication
regiss
repatriation of grant
revolving arm dough mixer
rise level
Robert De Niro
scrapwood
skew rebate plane
solar energy conversion
solewid
stack pointer alignment
steamboat history
structure of problem
supercapillary interstice
Swedophones
tanatarite (diaspore)
tricyclic antidepressants
ultraviolet spectroscope
unbiased critical region
valenciennea strigatus
Varaždinska županija
velocity pressure of fan
victualling yard
videofluorimeter
web thinning gashing grinder
wytenge
yagis
yellow-green