时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Competing in Business 


Yoko: We used to be the only game in town. Now we have three competitors and they are luring 1 away our customers. 


Cedric: I know. We need to do something before we go under. What about price matching? 


Yoko: Our prices are already competitive. If we want to focus on price, we’ll need to undercut our competitors. 


Cedric: Slashing 2 prices would be really hard on our profit margin 3, but these are desperate times. What do you think of a two-for-one deal? We could offer it for a limited time. 


Yoko: We can do that if lowering our prices doesn’t work. I’m thinking we could go in another direction. What do you think about offering freebies or gifts with purchase? 


Cedric: I think that’s a good idea. The more frills we include the better our services look. What kind of frills? 


Yoko: I’m not sure, but the more bells and whistles the better. 


Cedric: And if all of this doesn’t work? 


Yoko: Then we’ll be up the creek 4 without a paddle! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 luring
吸引,引诱(lure的现在分词形式)
  • Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
  • Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她:有危险,要出错儿,这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。
2 slashing
adj.尖锐的;苛刻的;鲜明的;乱砍的v.挥砍( slash的现在分词 );鞭打;割破;削减
  • Slashing is the first process in which liquid treatment is involved. 浆纱是液处理的第一过程。 来自辞典例句
  • He stopped slashing his horse. 他住了手,不去鞭打他的马了。 来自辞典例句
3 margin
n.页边空白;差额;余地,余裕;边,边缘
  • We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
  • The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
4 creek
n.小溪,小河,小湾
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
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ace buddies
adjacent dihedral angle
background monitoring station
belladonnas
bevel weld
Boston cream pies
bottom pump
Bradford, William
bump your gums
chromosome fragment
closed type formula
colaptes caper collariss
complete overhaul
critical pulse manifestation
current condition
dagger shore
damping current
delay recorder
dhying agent
diagonal cutting pliers
discriminatively
distortionless dialing
dividend payout ratio
double decompositionreaction
esophagocoloplasty
evening edition
everniastrum subplanum
fascial flap
fatty acyl desaturase
film grain noise
finicalnesses
fluctuation action
formetorex
fountainheads
frequency shifter
fresh-food
funal
gasoline sweetener
glycophosphomutase
grading principle
granule ripple
heredoinfection
Holmavatn
homomorphous nymph
inhibited mode
introns early
inversus
j (a) form
lady diana frances spencers
landing instruction
large-scale industry
LEAU
length bar
loss by burning
macroglomeruli
magnesium acetylsalicylate
mating spines
microcotyledons
MNAS
mock voile
multipurpose furniture
nailset
non-metallic gasket
oil drum stand
oil inflame
olefin copolymer
Osteroporosis
PC bus
pen pusher
pension-schemes
photodegradable
pinkest
Pithecellobium
platform ticket
push-pull output stage
put on a show
reserve for bad loan
ruthenium monoiodide
Santa Cruz do Sul
sawlog
scalped field
schooner rig
sequentialization of design
side-bets
single status
spatial estimator
species hybridization
stopperrod
streptococcus faecalis var. liquefaciens
swinbank
the rocky mountain
thorn letter
trichostachine
tropical monsoon
unknelled
unvain
vandenboschia clathratum shieh
white-ears
work system
x-ray beam
Yenidamlar
zone leveler