✔ 最佳答案
I would like to take this opportunity to share an experience with you.
Once, I went to Watsons to get myself some daily items as usual. When I was pondering which facial cleansing cream to buy, a saleslady came up to me and asked me to fill out a questionnaire for her. Seeing there was time, I agreed. As I was doing so, she started selling me some cosmetics products she said were good. I knew if I continued to listen to her, it would surely not be easy to shrug her off. So I said, “I think I don’t have the need. I’ll buy from you when I do.” But then she began looking for defects in my skin, such as uneven complexion, unusually large pores, scars of pimples, and stuff like that. I found it more and more annoying, but she kept on selling her products, saying there were bargain prices during the special offer period. Tell me, would anyone be in the mood for shopping under such criticism?
As I was about to leave and listened no more to her bullshit, she was still clinging on to me like a fly, and I was extremely disgusted. It amounted to a full twenty-minute talking before she stopped that terrible act of hers.
Of course her promotion skill was a complete disaster, to say nothing of my skin which I believe was absolutely not as bad as she said !
Irritating ways must be put right, so I think. If customers show they are not interested at all, you should stop all promoting at once !
2006-11-28 20:27:09 補充:
pondering = 考慮;to fill out (something) = 填寫 (表格等);selling me cosmetics products, 這個 ‘sell’ 不是售賣, 是 ‘推銷’、‘推薦’;to shrug somebody off (phrasal verb) = 擺脫某人;stuff like that = 諸如此類、等等;bargain prices = 價格相宜;in the mood for = 有沒有心情 (做某事);‘criticism’ 似乎在文章內稍為嚴重了點, 可改為 ‘negative judgement’
2006-11-28 20:40:58 補充:
bull**** 是粗俗些, 應改為 ‘nonsense’;to cling on to something (phrasal verb) = be unwilling to stop doing something;a complete disaster, 這個 disaster 不解災難, 而是 a complete failure ‘徹底失敗的事’;to say nothing of something (idiom) = 更不用說、更何況;to put right = 更正