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1 .<-NARRATOR:->Listen to a conversation between a student and a bookstore employee.

旁白：听一段学生和书店店员的对话。

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->Hi, can I help you?

工作人员：你好，需要帮忙吗？

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah, [inquiring upspeak] Mm, I need to sell back a textbook … are you the person I speak to about that?

学生：是的。我要卖回一本教科书。我应该找你说吗?

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->[apologetic] I am, but we can't buy textbooks back just yet because the bookstore's buyback period isn't until next Thursday.

工作人员：是的。但是我们现在还不能买教科书，因为书店的回购日期是从下周四开始。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->I thought it started this week.

学生：我以为是这周开始。

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->It's only in the last week of the semester, after classes are over.

工作人员：只在课程结束后，学期的最后一周。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Oh, well, can you tell me if this book will be on the buyback list?

学生：你能告诉我这本书是否在回购的名单里吗？

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->I can look,but we're still putting the list together.

工作人员：我可以看看，但是我们仍在组建这份名单。

2 .Professors have to tell us what books they'll definitely need again next semester, and the deadline for them to let us know isn't for a couple of days.

教授们必须告诉我们他们在下个学期肯定会用哪些书，而他们告知我们的截至日期可不只是几天。

3 .So the list I have here is not really complete. Um … what class was the book for?

所以我这里的名单还没有真正完成。这本书是哪个课程的？

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Intro to Economics, with, uh, Professor Murphy.

学生：墨菲教授的经济学介绍。

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->Professor Murphy?OK. I checked earlier and I know she hasn't gotten back to us on that class yet, so we don't know if she'll use the same book next time.

工作人员：墨菲教授。好的，我早先查了一下，她还没有就这个课程给我们答复。所以我们不知道她是否下次还用一样的书。

2 .Usually if an updated edition of a textbook is available, professors will go for that one.

通常如果更新版本的教科书可用，教授们会用那一本。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Um, so if this book doesn't end up on the buyback list, what can I do? I spent over a hundred dollars for it, and I want to get something back.

学生：那么如果这本书最后没在回购名单上，我该怎么办？我为它花了一百多美元，我想要收回一些钱。

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->Well, if a professor didn't assign it for a class here, we could buy it back for a wholesaler who would distribute it for sale at another university bookstore.

工作人员：如果一个教授没有在这里指定它为课程教科书，我们会回购这些书给批发商，他会把书分配到其他的大学书店销售。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->[following] OK.

学生：好的。

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->Anyway, if Professor Murphy does put it on the list, it's important that you come in as early as possible next Thursday … there's only a limited number of books we would buy back.

工作人员：总之，如果墨菲教授把它算在名单内，那么重要的是你要在下周四尽早来这里。我们回购的书数量有限。

2 .Once we get the number of books we'd need for next semester, we would stop buying them.

一旦我们收到下学期所需的书的数量，我们就不会再买了。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->OK. So, how much money will I get for the book?

学生：好的，那么我能从这本书上得到多少钱？

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->Well, if it's on the buyback list, we'll pay 50 percent of what the new price was.

工作人员：如果它在回购名单上，我们将按照新的价格支付50%。

2 .But that also depends on what condition the book is in,so it needs to be cleaned up as much as possible.

但是也要取决于书的成色，所以要尽可能地清理干净。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->[whaddya mean?] Cleaned up?

学生：清理干净？

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->Because used books show wear and tear-you know, water stains, scruffy covers,yellow highlighting … You really need to make sure there're no pencil marks on the book. The price you can get for a text depends on the shape it's in.

工作人员：因为二手书有磨损，你知道，像水渍、破旧的封面、黄色标出的记号...你必须确保书上没有铅笔记号。你能从书中得到的价格取决于它的外观。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->[whining] You mean I have to erase all the pencil marks?

学生：你是说我必须擦掉所有的铅笔记号吗？

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->If you want the best price for it.

工作人员：如果你想要高价的话......

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->And what if you decide the book's too beat up and don't buy it back?

学生：如果你认为这书太旧了不想回购怎么办？

1 .<-FEMALE BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE:->[sympathetic] That does happen.

工作人员：确实发生过这种事。

2 .Hmm …Well,one more thing you can try is to place an ad in the student newspaper to see if you can sell it directly to another student.

还有一件事你可以做的是试着在学生报纸上发广告，看看是否可以直接卖给其他学生。