时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:2016年ESL之商务英语


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ESL Podcast 1180 – Price Gouging 1 


Pedro: Why are you changing the prices on all of those items in the store? 


Elisa: Haven’t you heard? There’s a hurricane coming. People will be stocking up on basic necessities. 


Pedro: I know that, but that still doesn’t explain why you’ve decided 2 to jack 3 up prices. 


Elisa: There’s nothing wrong with taking advantage of a spike 4 in demand during emergency situations. We’re in business to make money. 


Pedro: That’s price gouging and you know it. There are laws against that. And plus, we shouldn’t be exploiting people’s fear. 


Elisa: I’m not responsible for that hurricane and I didn’t tell people to hoard 5. I’m not hiking prices so high that people can’t afford it. I’m just increasing them to discourage hoarding 6, that’s all. 


Pedro: I don’t know. It still doesn’t feel right. It feels like we’re profiteering. 


Elisa: No, we’re not. We’re making a sound business decision. Hey, where are you going with those? 


Pedro: I’m putting some of these items in the back to reserve for people who can’t afford your new prices, the poorest and the most vulnerable in our community. 


Elisa: You’re not suggesting we give those items away! 


Pedro: You’ll thank me later for helping 7 you to assuage 8 your guilty conscience. 


Elisa: Hmph! 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 gouging
n.刨削[槽]v.凿( gouge的现在分词 );乱要价;(在…中)抠出…;挖出…
  • Banks and credit-card companies have been accused of gouging their customers. 银行和信用卡公司被指控欺诈顾客。 来自辞典例句
  • If back-gouging is applied, grinding to bright metal is required. 如果采用火焰气刨,则应将其打磨至可见光亮的金属表面。 来自互联网
2 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
4 spike
n.长钉,钉鞋;v.以大钉钉牢,使...失效
  • The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
  • They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。
5 hoard
n./v.窖藏,贮存,囤积
  • They have a hoard of food in the basement.地下室里有他们贮藏的食物。
  • How many curios do you hoard in your study?你在你书房里聚藏了多少古玩?
6 hoarding
n.贮藏;积蓄;临时围墙;囤积v.积蓄并储藏(某物)( hoard的现在分词 )
  • After the war, they were shot for hoarding. 战后他们因囤积而被枪决。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Actually he had two unused ones which he was hoarding up. 其实他还藏了两片没有用呢。 来自英汉文学
7 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
8 assuage
v.缓和,减轻,镇定
  • The medicine is used to assuage pain.这种药用来止痛。
  • Your messages of cheer should assuage her suffering.你带来的这些振奋人心的消息一定能减轻她的痛苦。
学英语单词
activizing
adsorption isostere
airmail packets
antilights
as mad as be hopping mad
avoidance reaction
baggingly
Ban Mu Si
bioaerosol
broadband antenna
bromous
can warmer
castanopsis fargesii franch. c. tatwaniana hay.
Ch'ǒnnae-gun
chair professor
charge air temperature regulator
cirro-ripples
close type injector
cloud in a box
copiamycin
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dog head
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dynamic constraint
ecological association
electropyroeter
element duration
embroiled with
expanded relative form of value
fair hair
field proven
flower-head
Frosterley
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geland
gnathal
gray power
gray snapper
high tide shoreline
hoodfar
hydrodynamic transducer
hyletics
interbedded coal seam
Isk.
julieta
junction point
Krasnohorivka
L.A.S.
lagants
lan tau
left, right and center
longitudinal data analysis
lube oil technology
lycoxanthn
maximum lethal oxygen concentration
mental alalia
Micro-Thermy
mistreater
mobidity
money-financed
motor driven switch group
National Botanic Gardens of South Africa
no hang up
non-causalities
non-destructive addition
nothing to write home about
orthotungstate
patungensis
pentatonic scales
power station nuclear
propellant level transducer
rain forest climate
read-out time
restricted selection
revival of wills
saponarias
Schiefferdecker's theory
septicum
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shower case
silk satin
solublest
stem chaplet
storge
subcooling condensate
supervacaneousness
Surt, Sha'bīyah
sutorian
syllable independent
telegram in secret language
Teleostel
televisionally
the immune system
third-wave feminism
Timms
unreliable process
usea salicylate
whirr
wrier
zemlianichenko