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
acceleration in curves
adient
archaean (archaeozoic) era
arthritis sicca
aryldiazoic acid
autonomous customs duty
back purge
be disturbed
begalling
bio-informatics
birons
bread industry
burnt steel
by-pass ratio (bpr)
C3activativation
caryokinesis
catch yield
chanoine weir
coefficient of higher order
compound opium powder
constant voltage charger
covering mateiral
crociate
Cuban itch
cut out relay
daintith
daunder
defined file
dendrochronologically
diode oscillator
double cardan universal joint
electrostatic optics
entitlement budget
equal ignorance
escalation rate
first-cut
fish hatchcover
forecast of wave decay
forecasting power
full-colour
galley proofs
gamecock
general carcinosis
glut-herring
ground state maser
hackbut
Halifax County
headfasts
Hendersonula
humanistic landscape
i-faren
index type
ionic depositing method
LaxagenTriacephentinum
layoff survivor's sickness
legal realism
loop transfer
microproteinemia
misget
monetization of economy
monogranular
multidimensional phonology
nickel vitriol (morenosite)
non-load bearing
off land
Parantheropus
permanent-field synchronous motor
picotitre
pin bushing
plug-in connection
pollution of the sea by oil
prds
predetermined cost system
Probst rating scale
prone horizontal arm lift
radio energy
radioactive snow-gage
rope roll
Sarbox
search line center
sheate
slight rain
solid state oscillator
spodiosite
stiff stand
stoogings
straight-breeding
stsos-s
Södra Barken
Taraxacum sinicum
temper bead
testiculose
tetralocular synangium
thermalloy
this noon
through the proper channels
transromantics
Trinkitat Harbour
unprotected river bed
visitational
Visual Basic Windows
zigzag structure