PETS－2语法讲解(167)

　　What a bargain!
　　对话
　　Jenny: Look what I've got.
　　Fay: Wow, that's the snazziest looking handbag I've ever seen .Where did you get it?
　　Jenny: I got it in Paris on my last trip.
　　Fay: I bet it cost a fortune?
　　Jenny: No it didn't, I got it for half price because the shop was having a clearance sale.
　　Fay: What a bargain! You'll have to take me with you next time.
　　珍妮：看我手上这东西。
　　费伊：哦，我从没见过这样漂亮时髦的手提包。你在哪里买的？
　　珍妮：我上次去巴黎时买的。
　　费伊：我想，一定十分昂贵吧？
　　珍妮：不贵，不贵。当时公司举行清仓大甩卖，这手提包是半价买的。
　　费伊：真便宜！下次你去巴黎，可得找我一起去。
　　Bargain除了解作‘交易’，还可解作‘便宜’或‘便宜货’，所以费伊认为珍妮的手提包买得便宜，就说：What a bargain! ‘她专买便宜货’可译做She always shops for bargains。Bargain还可作形容词，例如：The closing-down sale attracted a host of bargain hunters（停业大甩卖，吸引了大批要买便宜货的顾客）。这里所说‘便宜’可没有‘质劣’的意思。此外，俗语往往以buy（买）、steal（偷）二字作名词，指‘便宜’或 ‘便宜货’。除非说明是a bad buy（买得不合算），否则a buy是指a good buy（买得合算），例如：(1) "I got this antique vase for only $300." "What a buy/steal!"（‘我只花三百元，就买到了这个古董花瓶。’‘真便宜！’(2) At $300, the chair was a bad buy. You could easily get it for $200 elsewhere（花三百元买这张椅子，太贵了。在别处二百元就可以买到）。
　　Value是‘价值’，good value或(good) value for (one's) money也有‘便宜’的意思，例如：(1) You got the handbag for half price? That's good value!（你以半价买到这只手提包？那真便宜！）(2) Trying to stay within a tight budget, she has to look for value for money when shopping（她可以支配的钱很少，为免超支，买东西得拣便宜的买）。Good value的反义词是poor value，例如：If you paid $150 for this pair of shoes, you got poor value (for money)（假如你以一百五十元买这双鞋，那真是不值）。