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
acid-base catalyzed reaction
after-tax income
Agricola, Gnaeus, Julius
Angel Fall
as fuck
astronomical observation science
autofellated
bacterial competence
beet plant bug
BM (breakdown maintenance)
brazilly
Cambole
carsington water
chalk something up
Chari-Baguirmi, Préfect.du
Cheepie
closed-cycle
coleseed oil
continuous-auditing
country elevator
court of star chamber
cubebane
diazonium chloride
dipping thermometer
direct reversing gear
dodecapolis
double-pivoted electrodynamometer
effective molecular weight
electricians
equivalent brake shoe pressure
erroneous judgement
family andrenidaes
fedis
fee for removal of houses
feed-water hardness
Fichera's treatment
fingal
foreign stock exchange
furnace of the muffle type
general obligation
gloves surgical
grey goose
Hestfjall
hexagon turret
hirsutal
hisindamone
horseplayed
i-rad
Iarmature
immeability
inversion of satellitesounding
ion carburizing vacuum furnace
irreversible transition
key variable
language collection
laser angular rate sensor
leptotenes
local indicator light
long welded track
low temperature condenser
macular disciform degeneration
magneto bearing
making use of
maneuverable ballistic reentry vehicle
manteled
MATHLIB
methine halide
moist gangrene
mojonnier viscometer
multisensorily
nephanalyses
nonaperone
objective prism lens
oohecitis
over-solemn
particle board core plywood
perch basin
piked whale
pistate
provine
pyelointerstitial backflow
reciprocating-rope seeder
restek
rock pediment
sandjak
secret gutter
series noise
shore connection box
siroccoes
sohlental
space flight environment simulation facilities
specimen trimmer
start of header
static pressure regulator
StCP
Tecomapa, R.
tidal (gravitational) potential
tylleskar
upper platform
virtual private LAN service
voltage divider current
weighing parameter