时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2015年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

Bidding on Online Auctions 2 


Jermaine: Wait! You shouldn?t bid on that auction 1 right now. Wait until the last minute. 


Bethany: This auction has a buy-it-now price of $25 and free shipping 3


Jermaine: Don?t pay the buy- it-now price. The minimum bid on this item is $10 and the current bid is only $12.50. There?s no reserve, so if you wait to bid, you may snag it for a much lower price than $25. 


Bethany: Okay, I guess I can wait, but why can?t I place a bid of $15 right now? 


Jermaine: First of all, the bidding on this auction goes up by increments 4 of 50-cents, so the next bid would be $13.00. You could place a maximum bid of $15.00, but someone might outbid you at any time. 


Bethany: But couldn?t that happen anyway? Even if I wait until the last minute someone could sneak 5 in and bid a higher price. 


Jermaine: You mean they could snipe you? They could, but not if you snipe them back. It?s all in the timing 6


Bethany: You seem to know a lot about online auctions. 


Jermaine: That item you?re bidding on, guess who listed it? 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



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 auctions
n.拍卖,拍卖方式( auction的名词复数 )
  • They picked up most of the furniture at auctions in country towns. 他们大部分的家具都是在乡村镇上的拍卖处买的。 来自辞典例句
  • Our dealers didn't want these cars, so we had to dump them at auctions. 我们的承销商都不要这些车子,因此我们只好贱价拍卖。 来自辞典例句
3 shipping
n.船运(发货,运输,乘船)
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
4 increments
n.增长( increment的名词复数 );增量;增额;定期的加薪
  • These increments were mixed and looked into the 5.56mm catridge case. 将各种药粒进行混和,装在5.56毫米的弹壳中。 来自辞典例句
  • The Rankine scale has scale increments equal to the FahrenheIt'scale. 兰氏温标的温度间距与华氏温标的相同。 来自辞典例句
5 sneak
vt.潜行(隐藏,填石缝);偷偷摸摸做;n.潜行;adj.暗中进行
  • He raised his spear and sneak forward.他提起长矛悄悄地前进。
  • I saw him sneak away from us.我看见他悄悄地从我们身边走开。
6 timing
n.时间安排,时间选择
  • The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
  • The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。
学英语单词
aborted document
Acozid
adds up
advancing mining
American red raspberry
ammonium laurate
anayodin
arhythmia
assemblymember
Ban Kham Luang
basic transmission loss
bipolar relation
bishomo-gamma-linolenic acid
blood accentuated
bodyline
brake
brans
cement-rubber-latex
centellose
ceruloplasmins
champing
Chirita forrestii
conditioning of hay crop
conventional process
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
COTP
creep-feeding
data stream format
dedicateth
deliveryperson
diversifolia
dumbfoundedness
finessing
fish population pressure
free-roaming
ganancia
glasser
GM_as-if-and-as-though
Gradoli
hard-deision deoding
have one's nose in
HD makeup
hippocampus pontohi
hmogenic
Holy Joe
home-delivery service
horse-harness
hypoxylon cinnabarinum
idiacanthus fasciola
idria columnariss
imperance
injury potential
long period oscillation damping
make the point
Mexazolamum
microcirculation dysfunction
minimal erythema dose
n.n.
North Mamm Peak
NOT SELFISH
nursing bras
optimization of transport networks
pannoranic
Papaver argemone
petrohyoid
pizzaman
plug load
pneumocardiographic
polygon frequency
posthorn
potable-water
power law equation
powerfusion
praesternum
professional personnel
prosopdysmorphia
rajhara
Regio genus posterior
rule of iteration
salt soap grease
schroedinger wave equation
sequence of intervals
siegens
slipperworts
smoke prevention and dust control
stability problem
stairlift
stromboid
Three Mile Island
three-dimensional stress state
toforetime
trainless
tuberositas unguicularis
underpulling
volume of work
wagonry
watere
weathering stain
welfare traps
white radish
Ziggo
Zimri