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
active salt marsh
Aesculapius
ame-boots
ancillary attachment
animus manendi
antenna indcator
Articulatio cuneonavicularis
bastard mahogany
benzenediazonium nitrate
Blue Springs
boiler feed system
bullfight
castels
centrelineaverage
cethexonium bromide
chromoplasts
coeliac
communicates
corneal abrasion
council of military court
crystal orientater
cup drawing
Cyperus niveus
daily settlement system
deboed
Denver omelettes
dessauite
dichloro-diiodomethane
dicode
dominant negative diagonal
dooryards
dorcus parvulus
dry separation by specific gravity
duck tape
electrical log book
electrically heated rear window
endogenous process
Eshkol, Levi
every man has his faults
explosive factor
fish wool
five hole punched tape
flashingly
heritage
high production press
Horn African
Huanzo, Cord.de
jase
Jing River
Kaspiyskiy Rayon
kexue formula
laddoos
lifeboatsman
local star
long wavelength magnetic anomaly
Luftwaffe
macrokinetics
main storage management
make a advance
metal pulverization
milkweed family
misheard
missile engineering
multi-functional counter
nappers
net (network)
neutral-to-charge ratio
number of column
oval dent reed
overnighters
Petrella, Mte.
phase-and-amplitude equalizer
plunger packing
podginess
porous solid
powertrips
primogenitor
programmer's console diagnostic
propionylmaridomycin
quadruply orthogonal
queensland kauris
recoverers
rhabditoid
seaven
serious disease
servqual
Sherlocks
slater theory
staircase iteration
step enabling condition
sun plant community
supersensible
tax-collection
tetanus facialis
time killers
tubular discharge lamp
valley meander gorge
viareggios
virrok
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