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
acid-resisting concrete
agreement on the exchange of commodities
algorithmic trading
Amianthium
ammonioalunite
anchor cable
automatic cop-changing loom
baile mhartainn (balemartine )
balcony greening
Barleben
blotted
blue chipper
bmisses
briggs standard pipe thread
calb (computer aided line balance)
Canna indica
chromatic difference of rotation
conditioned water
corrective network
dishevel
disorganic
Domenico
duration gap
eCock-block
ectropium
equatorial rainforest
exoterics
external input
Fallada
ferrocyanides
ferroresonant transformer
Ficus erecta Thunb.
genetic factors in skin disorders
genus Silvia
glucose-1-phosphates
Hainton
Harsyssel
have a slight tumble
Hold everything !
incrementalistic
induction motor meter
infrared counter-countermeasures
knee joint flexion and extension exerciser
knockdown activity
lapidement
lift weights
linear coordinates
local income tax
longas
Maisons-Laffitte
make night hideous
maximum turning length
microcomputer-like instruction set
migel ring wrench
moonscope
Murray, Lindley
negative-resistance storage
Neijing
new dram architecture
Niskin sterile water sampler
nitromercuration
nonobjection
on demand
ophthalmolith
os entoglossum
over-planning
overlaying welding
pesticide residue analysis
process control language
prompt Rossi alpha
quality controlled investing
quasi-solid
ratchet-feed
reading velocity
reentrant resonator
reformed gasoline
rights and liabilities
roller mechanism
Rugby knee
salve
sbu
self-virtual
slide vane pump
sourdine (silencer)
special needs
stethorus aptus
streamline ship
strivingly
synchronous computation
tablet saturate
Tantalum(v)methoxide
tetracyano
toe clip
toeof ballast
transmission laser system
ultimity
unke
unsnarlings
Uraz
urban energy system
weight table
X-mould machine