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
absolute precision
Adelair
ALGOL-like construction
ambrette-seed oil
antianhedonic
arms supplies
aucklandiae radix
beagle b.
bohem
Borcka
breakout character
Brygittane
Calcium-Sandoz
calculable capacitor
cascade condenser
cephalmin
communeship
compensation agreement
Coolangatta
cotton textiles
Criquetot
cryosleep
culiseta (climacura) taiwanica
Customs Simplification Act
daily accounting
darkened glass spheres
destabilizing agent
door code
downdraft furnace
erection bay
eucatropine hydrochloride
experience table
farcis
fiber-optic hydrophone
fibrinolyses
fopp
general-service
Geneva
genotypic milieu
gouvernment
Hals, Frans
high-alumina basalt
homogeneous canonical transformation
in color
integral square error method
interracialists
INTRAVEINEUSE
iron buffer spring
isopropylphenylbiphenyloxadiazole
jx
kaminsky
lengthening pipe
level regulator
lichenoid
malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone
micro motor
Minjujisan
multiple images
multiscanning monitor
Musloids
nadjita
nationalizings
neoconvallatoxoloside
nervus ciliaris
new sheqel
nopalxochia ?
omission of examination
order opilioness
overwaxed
perfective tense
piston velocity
plutonyl(vi) chloride
podzolizes
pot head tail
Priamus
pricedcatalogu
pull a train
put sb on to
reception clerk
rosanoff crystal
S/N curve (stress-number curve)
self-sufficience
sensitive relay
series circuit
SERVHEL
setiferous
shifting current
sithens
species diureticae
splash lubrication system
stable
that's the shot
three-position four-way valve
time delay analyser
Tofieldia nutans
tupilak
um-hm
unjaunty
vote by secret ballot
wave-topped wall
Yakasi
Yearly Meeting