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
8-track tape
acidic odor
again and again
antrophyum sessilifolium
aquatic community
asporulate bacteria
atmospheric pollution monitoring
b-minus
band saw blade tensioner
black body coefficient
bore interferometer
bow structure
bricks and mortar
CBEMA
channel group separating and combining equipment
chronic symptom
circumferential grate producer
circumvert
compound average
concomitant
cone and plate viscometer
confinement cattle feeding
cost of renovation
coupling agent of organic titanate
cunctatory
cyberindustries
cylinder-processing machine
dams up
danish blues
design-construction team
die of laughing
Dikanda
embryonic developement
euhaploid
european rabbits
exmigrex
flews
force sensing element
frost thawing
gazella dama
gullett
handle for grinding wheel dresser
have rats in the upper storey
huiscoyol
hydrophobic interaction chromatography
hypoferric
i-lithered
input source program
isoentropic procedure
j. e. johnstons
jades
jazz-dance
juniper moss
Liebermann test for phenol
matsumuraja rubicola
mearmayde
menids
mesian
monofuel emergency power unit (mepu)
multipoint consistency curve
neolyn resin
non-repudiation policy
nonkeratinous
North Carolinians
Nukundamite
Ockertskraal
of great weight
oid
oil free marine air compressor
oral dosing
pantelegraphs
passive sources
penthe
pinpoint arrester
Prantdl-Meyer flow
program abort
Pöchlarn
radices plexus (brachialis)
Rallbaline
remote sensing satellite
reproducibly
resolution requirement in the primary image
retrociliary
rosy about the gills
run of gold
second session
serts
Seshcha
single-twist knotter
stethorus muriculatus
sudoriparous
supply grille
tax-breaks
template following
three-dimensional boundary layer
toe box
transmissive optic tachometric transducer
W36695
whaleback dune
wooden sheave block
zona incerta
Zonikha