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
-florous
abare
action film
ad hoc basis
anestrin
Aphanocapsites
Aunt Thomasinas
autoadaptation
azatropylidene
batch order
belligerent state
board of treasury
brevipinna
carl gustaf mossanders
catch someone off balance
cell protein
Chinese arborvitae
Chlorazone
chrysanthemum coccineums
chrysomyxa rhododendri (dc.) de bary
clean full
continuous horizontal thin layer chromatography
cucurbita pepo melopepoes
cytherella posterotuberculata
Davis, Jefferson
decutient
diethylenetriamine
dimethylisopropylamine
distributed interconnection
divertissement
ear-wax
elaeocarpus argenteus merr.
eutectic diagram
fault-locating method
Fergus
generic resource member
ghanta
gnotobiologist
gunpowder plots
hs?eh ch'iang
hydrogen-ozone reaction
Hylodesmum laterale
indicated thermal efficiency
International Cargo Transportation Insurance Clauses
jean bernoullis
Korea Strait
kreyling
liberal-humanists
millimeter wave fet integrated circuits
monomyelocytic
musculus levator glandulae thyreoideae
namik
natural feature
neuroprotectant
no-feer
nodding vibration
non-harmonic method
nonbinary switching theory
optical phase modulator
paratesticular
pate de foie gras
pegmatoid
pentamethylene diamine
phosphorus (p)
photoelectric light wave comparator
pit hardening stage
platinum(ii) platinum(iv) sulfide
pollinar
proserpine
pteroid
pulvis lycopodii
release negative
renucleation
repealer
rightism
rod control drive mechanism
Rosholt
rotary grinding machine
sailing yacht
self-synchronized
single head organization
sinuses rectales
sliding form work
snatch at sth
special consignment
sprodiamide
squirrel cage induction motor
statisitics
stored logic telemetry
stress map
strobe edge
stylophore
suspensory platysma ligament
test translator (testran)
think fit to do sth
Thomas Kid
timber connector
vertical roll
water rats
wet unit weight
wisteria
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