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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abacates
acromegalics
agitator
Allanche
antigospel
Arab street
araecerus fasciculatus (de-geer)
bash sb up
berthrong
bistratified
blowdown pressure of safety valve
boiler bracket
campanelli
capronia glabra
carving-grade talc
cazenovia
Chocope, R.
confectionery centre
connected word recognition
copying to
coupon teller
CPITN
CWG
cyanophyceae(bluegreen algae)
Cyathopus
dendrologous
Diamantina Trench
disjunctive syllogism
duckert
durnin
edge water limit
Egyptianness
endoxy-
ependymoastrocytoma
epiblem
equation in plane coordinates
Eucommiaceae
export certificate
FICA,F.I.C.A.
finely-ground coke
flash-flood
fornix of stomach
fuel handling and lifting device
glacial geomorphology
go on foot
harmonic section
have bellows to mend
helm nothing to the right
high-speed comparator
high-water season
hollow glass fiber
housewide
hydroxysolasodine
hypomorphic allele
ileojejunitis
Investment Horizon
keeps the peace
kosse
light component
Madikeri(Mercara)
maintaining period
mechanicians
melogales
microdrops
milk runs
Miltitz
nayikas
obarmate
OMCI
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period of a variable star
photo chromic recording
pin type insulator
probability ratio sequential detector
rough-terrain crane
sandwichboard
screwtaping
search into
seeding machinary
seedling stock
senate race
Service Integration Maturity Model
shut up!
sidesteppers
single-tube tv projector
sinkage experiment
sowbreads
sprinkler system
steel hypo-eutectoid
suppl
surface absorptivity
sysomus
tally
temporary storage area
tetraspores
thermal vortex burner
thinking model
thorny lacewing
tightness of stitches
university textbook
varactor
Zeravshan