时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

Bargaining How much is the ivory box? It costs 750. It’s too much, it’s too much. What’s your best price? Well, the best best is 700. 700. Ok, I take it. Ok. Thank you very much. Thank you. Helen: Is bargaining common practice in the UK? And what do people do when they buy things from markets? So what do British people think of haggling 1? Let’s hear from a few of them. Here is Moira. I think it’s very un-British. The British aren’t used to haggling. They find it quite difficult, I think, if they go to countries where haggling is sort of normal. Yes, I do,I do,actually. In a market situation, I would always ask to see if I could get a little bit of extra value for money. But I wouldn’t do that in a supermarket, at Tescos. You know, the bill is the bill isn’t it?! The only thing I would say is, trading in England, is probably that you can’t really push too far. I would say about 10% is about normal really. If you do go a little bit too far, you can upset them, they can get a bit fraught 2 sometimes. Yes, it can be an enjoyable experience, definitely, because it’s an interaction between two people and obviously things like humour comes into it and charm and so on and so forth 3. So yes it can be. Helen: Well, when I try to get the best deal in a market, I always put on a big smile and say lots of nice things to people.And most of the time I’m able to get at least a few pounds taken off the asking price.


 

1 haggling
v.讨价还价( haggle的现在分词 )
  • I left him in the market haggling over the price of a shirt. 我扔下他自己在市场上就一件衬衫讨价还价。
  • Some were haggling loudly with traders as they hawked their wares. 有些人正在大声同兜售货物的商贩讲价钱。 来自辞典例句
2 fraught
adj.充满…的,伴有(危险等)的;忧虑的
  • The coming months will be fraught with fateful decisions.未来数月将充满重大的决定。
  • There's no need to look so fraught!用不着那么愁眉苦脸的!
3 forth
adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
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acute arrest of hemopoiesis
address reference
Africanized honeybee
air waybill
al-islam
Alpu
ammonieal nitrogen
Ap'o
applicant tracking system
automobile map
Ban Taphong
bananageddon
base of cochlea
bastard pennyroyal
beefburger
bitchiness
bror
cadder
Christmas seasons
clasps
coming down the pike
completeness relation
deattaches
direction annexed traverse
distance washer
downlisted
dysmorphic dwarfism
ecotypes
eczematid
enamel fiber
exaltedness
faced block
file space identifier
fused product
garotte
gerres erythrourus
go to rack and manger
golgi complexes
Gynostemma pentagynum
gypsyweeds
hammertime
harstad
Hong Kong society of accountants
hurry up!
ionic emulsifier
isogenic strain
karyosomes
lansfordite
load pressure
long-distant
loss condition
majorca
medical hall
milady
mill clearance
necessitously
nothing else than
one-screw
opines
over-view
paint someone oneself into a corner
Partnerships Liability
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pnagus
potatiskorv
qena
quickwittednesses
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removable internals
Rockdell
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rotating bath
Roy Orbison
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shapis
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sulfur monobromide
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terlinguarite
the agency
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twin-hearth furnace
ventersome
walk-in refrigerator
water jet fan
well-exposed
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