新视野大学英语视听说教程 4 Unit 9-14
时间：2018-12-17 作者：英语课 分类：新视野大学英语：视听说教程 4
Task3: Cars sell well in China.
Script
Although automobile 2 prices in China are among the highest in the world, cars are still selling like hotcakes, the Beijing-based reported.
Statistics show that China has been the top consumer of limousine 3 brands such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley, and their sales volume accounts for almost 20 percent of the total in the whole Asian continent.
According to German figures, China has been the biggest market for BMW and Mercedes-Benz in the world, combined with a sales volume between 6,000 to 7,000 units every year.
The newspaper said various famous international car makers 4 are competing with one another now for more market share in China. Mercedes-Benz is cooperating with Chinese institutions on car research and plans to establish a design center here. Meanwhile, Volkswagen, also from Germany, has set up a new lab center in Beijing. The founding of these research and design centers indicates that the competition among multinational 5 car producers in China now includes research in addition to sales.
As a price gap exists between China’s and the international auto 1 market, the returns on luxury cars from the domestic market are much higher than the five-percent profit margin 6 in the international market. Over 30 percent of the manufacturers’gains resulted from spare part sales.
Considering the steadying market demand experts estimated that the prices of luxury cars would not decrease by large margins 7 this year.
The newspaper noted 8 that major consumers of luxury cars in China are entrepreneurs, professional managers of foreign companies, professionals with high incomes,and young white-collar workers.
- Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
- The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
- He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
- The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
- A chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady.司机为这个高贵的女士打开了豪华轿车的车门。
- We arrived in fine style in a hired limousine.我们很气派地乘坐出租的豪华汽车到达那里。
- The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
- The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The firm was taken over by a multinational consulting firm.这家公司被一个跨国咨询公司收购。
- He analyzed the relationship between multinational corporations and under-developed countries.他分析了跨国公司和不发达国家之间的关系。
- 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。