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
abstemiousness
adenovirion
Alice Malsenior Walker
all for naught
americannesses
amero
armature insulation
arroway
Avicenna's glands
azaspirodecanediones
Bechterew's arthritis
Big Beaver House
braking noise
Buena Park
Békamba
cainism
calculation note
capacity to enjoy rights and assuming obligations
cathode polarization
Cee-spring
chinaldines
Chupaleyka
complete ignorance
conference dispatching
continuous servo
cycloadiphenine
daniel rutherfords
database construction
debugging data base model
denneys
disconnection valve
electrogalvanizing
embedded multivalue dependency
erectile carcinoma
estimation microscope
financial projections
firehydrant
flowtop
foreign office certificate
fragrancy
frankenthal
free schools
full floating journal
general plot plan
hatch square
high vacuum phototube
high-crowneds
hydrational
innovation culture
integrating ampere hour meter
intercerebral fissure
Land-Chenla
Landry's disease
lateralis posterior sulci
lavorato
made-up
magnetic anneal
magnetoholographic memory type
Marconi antenna
micro book
milk champagne
milk chocolate
mored
national lawyers guild
nestitherapy
non-market factor
nonvisitor
oriental plane tree
pasta sauce
perishable material
politive ray
Poteriteri, L.
power consumption of auxiliaries
Prasiolales
prephilosophic
priestress
pseudanthis
recomposing
recycling company
remoulded fat clay
reverences
rhyme-scheme
Rizomata
semi-disposable
serapah
set someone's teeth on edge
Shapley value of n-person game
signal specification
Sima Qian
soledad pine
stabilised presentation
steering ball joint
supply power voltage
swore at
tools of quality control
traveling museum
underleases
vector calculus
volar interosseous muscles
walk upon eggs
welting
wetzler