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
(musculus serratus dorsalis (posterior))
Acetylsal
advanced lines
amount billed
apparatus insulator
averaging interval
bearing no interest
blasphemer
break down clause
breather drier
car inspection and maintenance
central office exchange service
centrifugal oiler
chemically activepigment
clocking on
codon
concize
da-da-da
dendritic tentacle
design radial
detwiler
didymosphenia geminata
dilapidators
disagreeablenesses
discolorous clinquefoil root
discovertures
ellsworthite
fine soil grain
fjelde
four hundred,the
four-link mechanism
Fully Valued
fungosity
girly girls
gnomophobia
Gwenford
hapence
Hartman's solution
heart ostia
heterogamic copulation
high lead yarding
high resolution monitor
horizontal surface
horvitz
indifference schedule
inshow
invigorate the spleen to arrest diarrhea
keeping your shirt on
lower chain
lupas
lymphagogs
Mark Hopkins
martee
minisec
moise
moochary
multi cylinder turbine
neurological
nonarbitrariness
oxygen overpressure indicator
pantatrophy
parapodium (pl.parapodia)
permeation tube
preparation room
prismatic compressive strength
protection zone of water resources
quantivalency
rebalancings
reeky
reflective
representation problem
ribbon granulator
roistering
rufigallol
ruin a career
screw-gear
selfadmittance
serkins
Seventh Commandment
Sho-kawa
simplified optical construction
slay
social purpose
source point gap
spasm of fingers
statistic constant
sternocleidomastoid region
stiffening liner
subdistich
the Second Coming
thirteen-years-old
thyromegalies
tissue grasping forceps
trading calendar
tube resistance furnace
tug-barge
unfear'd
unified development
Varanidae
water pressure grid
weave in
wedge-type flow