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。
学英语单词
2-Methoxy-p-Cresol
accidental bleeding
affect spasms
anguillicolaosis
Aonyx
aquaporin-4
automatic feed control
avalanche cone
Blepharipa tibialis
brain physiology
celaenorrhinus major
cerian
charact
Chris Brown
context restoration
crewcuts
cystotomy
d-amino acid oxidase
dangerous goods mark
deed-polls
diminished seconds
direct-operated
dispatcher's board
double beam grating spectrophotometer
douceur
dress-coated
dryjector
earth-return system
ebaumsworld
emperor francis iis
enmew
escape combination
filicollis
firmiana simplex (l.) w. f.wight
fish havens
fly-leaves
forehanded
fort st. john
fourth engineer
fowl choleras
fund raising capacity
fundament instrument
gallium(iii) telluride
gelatinising
ground truth site
Hartia obovata
hazardous rapids
headcount
hepatic calculus
high modulus glass fibre
humanly
iamfes
ilmaiokite (ilmajokite)
immediate social form of labor
indeterminancy
industrial graphic display system
jamming stroke
kid-sizest
kindships
light-house tube
low-damage
lubeluzole
Luisia ramosii
merchant developer
meronecross
moric
most widely
multiple-grooved shear
negative twist
Neptune's ring
nitrogen compounds
nonformatted
obdurating
packing procedure
partial renewal
pick-up order
pile hoist crane
podilymbus podicepss
polychromatic percolation
pompanoes
prescreening
ram seal
red soil?
reservoir level
royal authorization
s box
saddle-back board
Sarbox
saved system
sayst
seamless tube rolling mill
ship deck
sonograp
suction-port
tappa barks
thermal system
thermal testing
tongued
trin-immersion
turbine propeller
unsad
Yachiyo