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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activity-based physical education curriculum
afced
agricultural enterprise
alro quaternaries
anhydrocurcolone
antimension, antimensium
artificial sight
auspexes
automatic air brake equipment
automatic measuring unit
ballast recollecting machine
barrel blank
Betaretroviru
bfr.
brackenbury
bright field
C battery cab
casearia glomerata roxb.
cathodic-corrosion
chartings
checking load
chylidrosis
cious
coherent control
coughs up
cranopsis pelex
crossed field amplifier tube
dante alighieris
Destriol
digital system design
direct trunk
dolce
emergency survival system
error reset
Erysimum
extra-column effect
eymeux
face-centred cubic space lattice
fallout wind plot
fishbone diagram
force it
forced convective heat transfer
friction-free calibration
Friedlnder synthesis
get ... number
ground combat element
heada
IETLC
in-place permeability
internal politics
Iricize
kappa
laminariae/eckloniae thallus
laser frequency stabilization
light tender
lithionite-granite
livid brown
Long-boled
lower triangular
lug-type terminal post
maintainer script
mechanical hydraulic control
methyl ethyl ketazine
military command system
mixed population
Murskiy, Porog
nakanes
neuronal architectonics
north truchas pk.
Nueva Armenia
paleoentomology
papalised
Pentachlorofluoropropane
Phytospirochaetaceae
PIDDM
pressurized fluidized bed boiler
reconded
reporting system
saphier
septicopyemic
seresith
shepperde
Silesian
spring carrying block
sub-classified
Tarrietia
tartarite
tectonic metamorphism
tendency chart
tetraline
through switching exchange
Thārūkot
truffle-hunting
turcio
universe mean
unsymmetrical plan
untreated sewage
usques
Vigevano
wimped
wizman
Zarraga