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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a gambling hell
Acer griseum
acrylamidine
angular increment
babywearing
blind trust
boat whistle
Bound.
brondbies
cattle-cake
chancellery
chandrasekhars
codirectors
commensurates
communication region cell
connectivity transparency
cosmeticising
dam break
Data Propagator
decinary
diaphragmpiezo microphone
dragonised
drawback and recovery of customs duty
electric capacity altimeter
entrepot trade
financial services export
flexodomain
for realsies
formalize
freaking me out
funiculus anterior
Glen Gebhard
gosbanks
helzer
high pressure air bottle
higher up
hook up wire
ice making
ijfs
information crime
introductory discussion
ketoreductases
Krümmel
kurile current
lateral line system
lazy coil
lower-bound
macgruder
Mainhausen
Maleseet
maneuverings
mawashi
maximum permitted gap
maximum relieving travel
Micromerol
mitotypes
molestered
multi jet operation
mutato-chrome
nahhs
native mail facility
Nervus cutaneus surae medialis
non-additive effect
non-persons
nonterminal character
notice to contribution
official short-term capital movement
overpampers
postdigital
primary lamella
public acceptance
regrinds
renewle
rickford
rising slopes
rotary dry vacuum pump
seeded plasma
selfstarting
Senecan stage
severat
shaoyao decoction
shoulder-launched
silver wattles
snowberg
spinnbar
stabilization for sands by afforestation
stoure
stroboscopic polarimeter
superficially porous particle
teleoroentgenograph
Teucrium omeiense
thyroid stimulating antibody
tractographies
Travelling Community
Vacquier Seamount
Valdosta
Vectarion
vertical magnetism
Vicki
water capacity of radiator
what do you call it
wraak