听写037 BBC纪录片《中国新年》

00:19:19 – 00:21:35

The smell here is unbelievable. It’s not highly perfume perfumed but it’s just an amazing smell like a kind of fresh cut wood. It’s just wonderful.

This vast space serves as a viewing room, which gives potential buyers the opportunity to inspect the flowers before bidding on them.

What tells you these are good then and that you want to buy them?

In 2014, over 750 million fresh cut flowers were sold through here.

I’m used to agricultural options auctions, but this is quite unlike anything I have never seen before.

This in an absolutely fascinating process. I don't think I’ve never never been to an auction like this. I'm used to kind of buying sheep. Here, it's a bit like taking part in some sort of weird game show. Everyone is sitting in front of these little consoles. There is man talking but you have to wear headphones to listen to him, and obviously I don’t understand a word he is saying.

she is speaking so fast in such a low voice....

Unlike auctions we're used in Britain, this is a Dutch auction. This means that the auction begins at a high up asking price which is lower lowered until it reaches a price that someone is willing to pay.

The orange dot represents the price, when the dot stops someone has bought a batch of blooms.

On average, a lot is sold every three seconds, but it’s crucial to hold you nerve until the price is right.

A real sense of concentration, quite a lot smoking going on. There is quite a lot nervous energy in the air. The cheapest flowes can go as little as 1 pound.

But these bidders will be buying in a hundreds and thousands. Luckily, to help make sense of the bewildering numbers and lights, I got some help from a seasoned bidder.

看来光背单词是不够的， 比如bewildering， 仅仅是认识，不能运用~

[√ 2018.07.12] 加油加油！