时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:Eztalk美语会话


英语课

Gilly and Nate are chatting on the phone


Gilly: Did you like the Chanel bag that I got?

Nate: You must have a rich boyfriend because that bag is so expensive!

Gilly: I bought it on eBay. It was only one-tenth of the original price. And the purchase was so easy.

Nate: No kidding! Then how do you know the bag's real?

Gilly: Well, it came with a certificate, and it looks real. But auctioning 2 on eBay is risky 3.

Nate: A risk I would never take...

Gilly: Then you haven't browsed 5 eBay before...get online. Don't hang up!


purchase (n.)

购买

A: Hi! Thank you for calling Fred's Furniture Warehouse 6.

嗨!感谢您来电费德家具大卖场。

B: Hello. I'm calling to make a sofa purchase.

哈啰。我打电话来要买沙发。


auction 1 (v.)

拍卖

A: Where did you get your computer so cheap?

你计算机在哪里买的,这么便宜?

B: I got it through an online auction.

我在网络拍卖上买的。


hang up

挂断电话

Don't hang up on me! I'm not finished.

别挂我电话!我还没说完。


one-tenth (a.)

十分之一的

I have only one-tenth the money that you have.

我的钱只有你的十分之一。


certificate (n.)

证明书

A: Are you an English teacher?

你是英文老师吗?

B: Yes. I even have my TESOL certificate.

对。我甚至有TESOL认证。


browse 4 (v.)

(上网)浏览

I like browsing 7 CNN.com.

我喜欢浏览CNN的网站。


吉莉和奈特在电话上聊天


吉莉:你喜欢我买的那个香奈儿包包吗?

奈特:你一定是交了个有钱男友,因为那个袋子超贵的!

吉莉:我在eBay上面买的。它只有原价的十分之一。而且很容易就买到了。

奈特:真的假的!那你怎么知道包包是真货?

吉莉:呃,有附一个证明书,而且看起来是真的。不过在eBay上面拍卖是要冒险的。

奈特:一个我绝对不想冒的险……

吉莉:那是你没上eBay看过才会这么说……去上网。别挂断电话!



1 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
2 auctioning
v.拍卖( auction的现在分词 )
  • The Army is auctioning off a lot of old equipment. 军队正在把大量旧装备拍卖掉。 来自辞典例句
  • So she's auctioning off a chance to go to an awards dinner? 那么她在拍卖与她共赴晚宴的机会了? 来自电影对白
3 risky
adj.有风险的,冒险的
  • It may be risky but we will chance it anyhow.这可能有危险,但我们无论如何要冒一冒险。
  • He is well aware how risky this investment is.他心里对这项投资的风险十分清楚。
4 browse
vi.随意翻阅,浏览;(牛、羊等)吃草
  • I had a browse through the books on her shelf.我浏览了一下她书架上的书。
  • It is a good idea to browse through it first.最好先通篇浏览一遍。
5 browsed
v.吃草( browse的过去式和过去分词 );随意翻阅;(在商店里)随便看看;(在计算机上)浏览信息
  • I browsed through some magazines while I waited. 我边等边浏览几本杂志。 来自辞典例句
  • I browsed through the book, looking at page after page. 我翻开了一下全书,一页又一页。 来自互联网
6 warehouse
n.仓库;vt.存入仓库
  • We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
  • The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
7 browsing
v.吃草( browse的现在分词 );随意翻阅;(在商店里)随便看看;(在计算机上)浏览信息
  • He sits browsing over[through] a book. 他坐着翻阅书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Cattle is browsing in the field. 牛正在田里吃草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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absorbancy
absorption chromatograph
adjacent channel frequency
advocatress
all-up service
amphibious demonstration
at midnights
Awasa
baby corn
bactericidal effect
bilsky
Borsodnadasd
brake magnet
burnt shale
chung-fuchs theorem
clearing summer-heat and tonifying Qi
constrained current operation
controlled head
conveyor chain
Copanello
creditours
current plane lineation
curved optical fiber
customed
departure frequency
descriptive metaphysics
diffuse lesion
diffuse neonatal hemangiomatosis
distal nephron
doxford
dryseal straight pipe thread
EJO
emittance
end-on-barrel steering gear
equilibrium selection
fibre-glass printed circuit board
fireys
Gomi
head-down display
high-priests
Hospital Grade
image focus
inkombank
intellectual education
iris diaphragm photometer
ISDN (integrated service digital network)
karlies
Konkoure
macrothelypteris oligophlebia var. elegaus (koidz.) ching
main shipping track
marchale
Micrococcus neoformans
military geography map
moich
Moyie
National Quotation Bureau
naval special warfare task unit
neutral stress
Ngoc Trung
ninjutsus
omnisky
out of circularity
paper standard
Pashto alphabet
percentage by weight
phonofiddles
polypentamethylene azelamide
prepared piano
proprietory software
rainproof cover
raising integrally
remingtonite
reversed erosion faultscarp
revilement
rigid-frame beam
rise time (of a detector)
Rocoum
roll-on/roll-off vessel
rotary sampler
sciurine
semi-closed shop
set theoretic data structure
shrinkage joint
single-population
slack time rule
special susceptibility
Staroye Shaymurzino
straplikest
supercritical medium
T maze
the FCIA
the hole
theater headquarters
thickness by reflection
Tissotia
tous frais faits
trachelectomopexy
transversospinales
tuteloes
uncoils
wooltons
work heat transformer