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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adent
agrypnocoma
aluminium grease
Aterax
audio frequency therapy apparatus
battens down
bonding pads
bousarde
brake sticking
bulk blasting
can rejecting
centerx central office
Ciba colors
commemorator
conceptual data base design methodology
continuous haulage
contra-related
controll
cyclone of dynamic origin
dalous
demarchelier
diffusion rubber
disposableness
downstates
ear-phones
enrollment of vessel
error data analysis
eutectogenic system
female animal
flatworm
free energy curve
gaspar
gatefold sleeve
geoffrey chaucers
Grândola, Sa.de
heat of combination
hydrosynthesis
hymned
infin.
integrated service digit network (isdn)
inverse mottle
Jim Jones
Kelloggia
Killduff
Kitzbühler Alpen
knavinge
linear ordered relation
lipped channel
loiter away
majuscule writing
make up one's mind
mamilliform
manic-depressive
Mantoum
minivet
minuends
Morus liboensis
mosa
multidimensional index
non magnetic laboratory
nondestructive storage
o'brien's granuloma
offshore currency deposit market
operator chart
orexin tannate
Palazzo, Pta.
Panagyurishte
parater-butylphenol
phaedo
photographic emulson ethods
pitching tank
polypus of lacrymal sac
prismatic beam
programmable pacemaker
pseudopod-like
quick-reaction interceptor
receptor-coder
Red Sea Governorate
resistance movements
Rhamnella wilsonii
scardamyxis
semiclairvoyant
sensitivity reduction
shed loads
shopmen
shout ... down
shuttle changing automatic
sinkablest
slip-ring device
soluble perfume
stern overhang
stuck farm
tael
trinitroresorein
tube
tuomisto
ultimes avertissements
underwoods
unitting of lots
unsold balance
wetting heat
zeropressure