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
Abra R.
acro-ischemia
alizarin monosulfonate
altiplanos
anomabu
anti-kickback attachment
arc hyperbolic function
archispore
art it
Berks.
Blastus auriculatus
boasberg
broach taper
broadbean
built like a brick shithouse
Calanthe trifida
Cerea
Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom
chelate fertilizer
chibouque
coarse whiting
coniferol
Consolan consol
cross-intensity function
current condenser
dassie rats
decemfoliate
deer grasses
dendrigrafts
deutzia staminea r.br.
dipicryl sulphide
distantiation
dynomic adaptive routing
easy come, easy go
extrarius
freight classification
fructan
fukusa
high - speed photography
hincty
huudus
in balance
indispensable amino acid
inebrieties
infrigidations
karakoram pass
katarins
krengs
lawfulls
limonlu (lamas)
Liplaster
Lithocarpus obovatilimbus
loranthuss
Maruia
Metlaltoyuca
money clips
occupational health and safety
oil product carrier
once-vibrant
over-heavy
oylet
ozone ageing
pen-nib
phoniatrics
pizzaiolo
plasmahaut
potassium diiodomethane disulfonate
priming arrangement
product analysis incident report
pseuduridine
Ptolemy XI Alexander II
radiation analysis
range-ionization telescope
Roscelin
salcalcitonin
semanticization
semispinalis cervicis
shaft neck
signalings
slents
Sohagpur
sound level meter attenuator
sphenopteris
spiral riveted pipe
starting apparatus
take the cowl
tampulbolon
tetrahydrocitral
tetramethyl tin
the fate of
thirst-quenchers
transmeta
unified judical supervision
unilateral transmission
vegetable shredder
veinlikest
verification of measuring instruments
wastage in bulk
wave train figure
weighted composite relative index
win an advantage over
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