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2017全国英语等级考试四级口语考前必备(10)

来源 :华课网校 2017-03-09

  door-to-door selling

  a method of presenting and selling products or services in which a salesperson goes to the residences or homes of potential buyers, knocking on their doors to solicit business

  EXAMPLE:

  "Many homeowners dislike door-to-door selling and consider it to be disturbing to their privacy."

  feasibility test

  (noun)

  a procedure or basis for evaluation or assessment to see if something is capable of being accomplished or brought about, or is possible

  EXAMPLE:

  "A business will often do a feasibility test on a product before spending money to market it to consumers."

  feel the pinch

  a financially difficult, tight, strained, or squeezed circumstance or situation

  EXAMPLE:

  "Experiencing little demand for its products, the company began to feel the pinch."

  file thirteen

  any container to discard or throw away unwanted paperwork; in an office setting a container for rubbish; the wastebasket

  EXAMPLE:

  "The salesperson crumpled the cancelled order and tossed it into file thirteen."

  fat cat

  a wealthy and privileged person

  EXAMPLE:

  "More than one fat cat has been seen visiting the offices of political candidates."

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