地道美语听力播客913： 飓风来袭，赶上敲竹杠的好时机？

Pedro: Why are you changing the prices on all of those items in the store?

　　佩德罗:为什么要改店里货的价格?

　　Elisa: Haven’t you heard? There’s a hurricane coming. People will be stocking up on basic necessities.

　　艾丽莎:没听说吗?飓风要来了，人们一定会囤一些必需品。

　　Pedro: I know that, but that still doesn’t explain why you’ve decided to jack up prices.

　　佩德罗：我听说了，可是我还是不明白你为什么要抬高价格。

　　Elisa: There’s nothing wrong with taking advantage of a spike in demand during emergency situations. We’re in business to make money.

　　艾丽莎:在危急时刻，需求上涨，抓住机遇赚钱也没错啊。我们是商人，当然要赚钱了。

　　Pedro: That’s price gouging and you know it. There are laws against that. And plus, we shouldn’t be exploiting people’s fear.

　　佩德罗 ：这是敲竹杠，你知道的。法律是禁止的。再说，我们不应该引发人们恐慌。

　　Elisa: I’m not responsible for that hurricane and I didn’t tell people to hoard. I’m not hiking prices so high that people can’t afford it. I’m just increasing them to discourage hoarding, that’s all.

　　艾丽莎:又不是我让飓风来的。我没让人们囤货，再说我又没抬到天价，让人们都买不起。我只是抬高价格，让人们别囤货了，就这样。

　　Pedro: I don’t know. It still doesn’t feel right. It feels like we’re profiteering.

　　佩德罗 ：我不知道，我还是感觉不太对。觉得我们是那种惟利是图的人。

　　Elisa: No, we’re not. We’re making a sound business decision. Hey, where are you going with those?

　　艾丽莎:不，我们不是。我们采取了明智的商业决策，嘿，那些东西你要做什么?

　　Pedro: I’m putting some of these items in the back to reserve for people who can’t afford your new prices, the poorest and the most vulnerable in our community.

　　佩德罗 ：我把一些东西放到后面储存起来，要是有人按你的新价格买不起这些东西，我就把这些东西留给咱们社区里最穷苦和最易受影响的人。

　　Elisa: You’re not suggesting we give those items away!

　　艾丽莎:你不是说你要把那些东西送人吧!

　　Pedro: You’ll thank me later for helping you to assuage your guilty conscience.

　　佩德罗 ：你待会儿得谢谢我帮你减轻你的罪恶感。

　　Elisa: Hmph!

　　艾丽莎:哼!