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
accumulated earnings tax
acoustic quantity sensor
Acronol dye
Aicamin
aircraft engine fuel
all-singing all-dancing
allochromacy
ammonium acid oxalate
automatic message
benedicence
Bleulerian
blind stamping, blind-stamping
BVAP
Centaurea ruthenica
Chifley
chinaseptol
Citlaltepetl
coin a phrase
coincidence counting
Colisticina
collapsible drum coiler
conjugated matching
cope level
criniculture
Crouzon's disease
ctenitis eatonii
cyclopropanyl
deaf-points
diabetogenesis
diethyl oxaloacetate
double-strand mill
e-bookstore
ellioff test
enemious
epidemic hysertia
field auditor
finger badge
flaggon
fuel source
furnace reversal control
furtivity
gas velocity
gold's theory
grubbing up
half-power beamwidth of antenna
Hartlib, Samuel
Inari Sami
inner orbit
ionic surface active agent
Jammu Division
jones fracture
mark sensing machine
maximum boiling azeotrope
maximum permitted diameter of aggregate
mendicanting
merges
microchannel plate cathode ray tube
mink coats
Miserere
mpiya
nonforested
nonnormatively
not tear one's eyes off
nozzle swing moment
occur
ought self
out-of-process debugging
phargngomegaly
Pharisean
pilkins
plant hunter
plate culture method
polyless
powghe
preangiotonin
premarital agreement
propyropterus pygidialis
pugnacities
puppet-valve
put about
putting on the ritz
readjustments
reasonable audit assurance
residual charge
ritsuko
shingleton
shunting control position
smoke shutter
source of goods
specific cross reference
specificational
stinkard
sux-
The Facilitation Committee
top-to-toe drilling
typeability
unpenning
vaguely remember
vegetation mosaic
videnov
volcanic water
woven memory