时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Competing in Business 


Yoko: We used to be the only game in town. Now we have three competitors and they are luring 1 away our customers. 


Cedric: I know. We need to do something before we go under. What about price matching? 


Yoko: Our prices are already competitive. If we want to focus on price, we’ll need to undercut our competitors. 


Cedric: Slashing 2 prices would be really hard on our profit margin 3, but these are desperate times. What do you think of a two-for-one deal? We could offer it for a limited time. 


Yoko: We can do that if lowering our prices doesn’t work. I’m thinking we could go in another direction. What do you think about offering freebies or gifts with purchase? 


Cedric: I think that’s a good idea. The more frills we include the better our services look. What kind of frills? 


Yoko: I’m not sure, but the more bells and whistles the better. 


Cedric: And if all of this doesn’t work? 


Yoko: Then we’ll be up the creek 4 without a paddle! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 luring
吸引,引诱(lure的现在分词形式)
  • Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
  • Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她:有危险,要出错儿,这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。
2 slashing
adj.尖锐的;苛刻的;鲜明的;乱砍的v.挥砍( slash的现在分词 );鞭打;割破;削减
  • Slashing is the first process in which liquid treatment is involved. 浆纱是液处理的第一过程。 来自辞典例句
  • He stopped slashing his horse. 他住了手,不去鞭打他的马了。 来自辞典例句
3 margin
n.页边空白;差额;余地,余裕;边,边缘
  • We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
  • The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
4 creek
n.小溪,小河,小湾
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
学英语单词
acute mediastinitis
alakai
Aminofilina
anti-detonation injection system
aphthae epizooticae
baby combine
Barzūk
bell-button
blue run
book signing
boring by percussion
Buzdyak
card loader
carlsbro
cavitation damage
centgener plot
citramalate
colysis henryi
comparator method
conchocelis breeding
corrupt practices
cross gauntry
d-shapeds
Dicarhoxyaziridine
diffraction spot
disseminatable
ebey
ethyl propyl-acetoacetate
everyone of you
extraalimentary
factory expense
fibrae pontis profundae
follicular cyst
fraudulent returns
gas-burning
genus Desmodium
glamorizer
glu(e)ing pressure
Greek Catholic church
grey polypody
grim-faceds
haloenol
head fall
headends
Heracles
horse-drenches
ifsccs
in-plane vibration
internegative
isotopic examination
iturralde
Katebo
koldewey
laserdiscs
legal address
low pressure high volume pump
luminous heater
manniskor
Marshalsea
mathematically
media attachment unit
mentalistic theory
Neerdar
Netlon
non-woven material
packet switched center
paper constant
parasitic thrombus
period of adjustment
punctuated equilibrium theory
reducible equation
saponized anthrax vaccine
scour-and-fill
see little of
seipei
self-oxidation (auto-oxidation)
short-weight
shrinkage joint
silty clay loam
sloggin'
slougish
snap ring ball bearing
standard atmospheric head
stereo-effect
structure integrity
structure material
subsonic airstream
substance of value
takes the point
the price is high
thousands and thousands of
threaded ends
to have an effect
tsutsugamushi diseases
unflaky
unpriggishness
urgency traffic
vibrational level
warranty test
whipray
will rogerss
workabler