时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

 


Shopping for a Used Car 


Mario: Do you want to go with me to test drive a car I’m thinking of buying? 


Danica: Sure. Which dealership 1 are we going to? 


Mario: I’m not buying a used car from a dealership. I’m buying it from a private party. Dealerships rip you off. 


Danica: Are you sure about that? My sister bought a certified 2 used car from a dealership and she even got a one-year warranty 3. She’s very happy with it. 


Mario: Dealerships jack 4 up the price. Buying from a private party means getting a better deal. 


Danica: If you say so. What kind of car is it, and how much is the owner asking for it? 


Mario: It’s a McQ Racer and the owner is asking $12,000, $3,000 below blue book value. 


Danica: That is a good price. In fact, that’s too good a price. Doesn’t that raise some red flags? 


Mario: Like what? 


Danica: Well, the car could be have been totaled and is now considered salvage 5. Its odometer could have been rolled back. It could have major mechanical problems... 


Mario: You can be skeptical 6, but I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth. If this guy wants to sell his car for much less than its value, who am I to ask questions? 


Danica: You’ll do a title search and ask to see the pink slip before you buy it, right? 


Mario: I think you’d better stay here. With you along, I see this great deal going up in smoke! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 dealership
n.商品特许经销处
  • The car dealership has a large inventory of used cars. 这家汽车经销商拥有数量庞大的二手车。
  • A key to this effort is the experience in the dealership. 达到这个成果的关键是销售的体验。
2 certified
a.经证明合格的;具有证明文件的
  • Doctors certified him as insane. 医生证明他精神失常。
  • The planes were certified airworthy. 飞机被证明适于航行。
3 warranty
n.担保书,证书,保单
  • This warranty is good for one year after the date of the purchase of the product.本保证书自购置此产品之日起有效期为一年。
  • As your guarantor,we have signed a warranty to the bank.作为你们的担保人,我们已经向银行开出了担保书。
4 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。
5 salvage
v.救助,营救,援救;n.救助,营救
  • All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
  • The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。
6 skeptical
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
学英语单词
1-BROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE
a hair
abra
activated zinc flower
Anicuns
antibiotics modification
autonomous channel operation
Bain, River
break-bulk
caino-
cedrelate
chilled cast steel
cilium
clatterfart
comfort with
compensating circuit
component stocks
conditioned stop instruction
conservation of movement of the centre of gravity
cottagely
Croton howii
crotonyl-CoA
deck chair
detergent builders
dialogue de sourds
didiers
disguiseth
dog fashion
domain tip
electrochromic behaviour
epiglottiditis
essential resistance
Euphorbia L.
exclusion policy
extension cord
flary
frequency stabilized power source
genus Echinocereus
Glidji
glomerella cingulata(stonem) spauld et v.sch.
good ol'
groggeries
haikal
harmonic aerial
hermetic separator
high level production
hydroarch succession
Iigg.
image matching
immunohematologic
in(to) sight
included sapwood
inferior ligament of epididymis
inner work
international quarantine regulations
intracavity laser
kabocha
kotron
kubacki
landing gear track
leime
lithotype of coal
lupulina
make a big difference
metalepses
miello
mismarking
model following
n-amyl penicillin
nccb
normal test output
Nyquist stability theorem
onion grass
ordinary pressure
overdo it
percent snow of river basin
phenol(a)-
pleasure-ground
polynomial approximation method
pure rice seed
Rabenholz
representation of plan
represente
Ringen
RIPH
ropewalk
sales promotion planning
scaplellum (pl.-lli)
shepster
soulforce
stationary bike
styches
Tanakaea radicans
target indicating
tilt rod fuze
to give rise to
tooth-space
transition point
unconclusive
vacuum fusion analysis
vehicle identification number
warm runner mould