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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air cooled motor
allocated space
aluminide
ancient objeet
assessment test
average cash balance
Baengnyeong
bahrus
barcas
blower slinger screen
calogero
carbaryl
Carlytene
carpetbags
cesarean
citronellas
clutch time
collge
continue to hold a deposit
coolant mixing device
cylinder efficiency
d. unicolor (bull.)fr.
Daphne gnidium L.
delay action detonator
Dembeni
di-n-hexylamine
drumming area
dwarf Cepheids
e-leader
edisbury
enantio-
encampment
engineering phase
euesthesla
extruding-desiccation machine
fiordalisoes
fixed control area
fragmentation (of chromosome)
frostbite of scrotum
gambadoing
genus dioons
greetest
habropoda bucconis
Hiram King Williams
homologating
incomplete finite automaton
interthecal septum
inverter output frequency control
iodine in ring
iron concentrate
jack panel
Jaunpils
joint logistics
jumper table between vehicles
knock - knock joke
land-grabs
langmuir dark space
leverman
magnesite chrome refractory
muzzle velocities
near-magic
noncausalities
nonsna interconnection
oil dilution valve
ostfront
pass entries
perceive as
Phenesin
phenoxycaffeine
piazines
piecewise interpolation
pithart
Platygaster
pocket filter
polyphase asynchronous motor
pot-luck
promise sb. to sb.
reflexive lattices
restraint stress
Rhamnus crenata
Rhode Islander
routinizes
saddled prominent
salicyls
Satema
sewage lagoon
shadow grid
shitter
shitwad
side-curtains
spanker gaff
stability under irradiation
swosh
Taeniopaedia
thionol
three-peat
toquher
Tower of Hanoi
trick sb. into doing
underground pipe
waste silk
weideman