时间:2019-03-18 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄旅游观光英语通


英语课

   Stopping for Gas


  停车加油
  Kathy and Evan finish their picture taking and continue driving.
  凯西和艾凡拍完照后继续开车。
  E:Uh-oh. My gas gauge 1 is way down. I'd better stop someplace for gas.
  艾 凡:糟了。车子油表指针降到底了。我最好找个地方停车加油。
  K:There's always a gas station or two at every exit of a highway. Just take the next exit.
  凯 西:高速公路的每个出口都有一、两个加油站。就在下个出口下去吧。
  E:As luck would have it, there's an exit right here. You're right. There's the sign for gas. I'll get off here.
  艾 凡:运气真好,这里刚好就有一个出口。你说得没错。那里有个加油的告示牌。我就在这里下去了。
  (Evan drives off the ramp 2 and along the road to the nearest gas station. An attendant 3 comes out to their car.)
  (艾凡开车下了匝道,沿路开到最近的加油站。一名加油站服务人员从里面走出来,来到他们的车前。)
  E:Good morning. Er, do you speak English?
  艾 凡:早安。呃,你会讲英文吗?
  A:Some. Not too good. Can I help you?
  服务员:会一点儿。但不太好。需要我为你效劳吗?
  E:Yes, would you please fill 'er up?
  艾 凡:是的,麻烦你加满好吗?
  A:I'm sorry?
  服务员:对不起,你说什么?
  E:Uh, I'd like some gas. As much as you can.
  艾 凡:嗯,我想加汽油。加越多越好。
  A:Oh! I see. Just a minute. (She fills the tank.)
  服务员:噢!我知道了。请等一下。(她把油箱加满。)
  E:Thank you. Do you take credit cards?
  艾 凡:谢谢。你们这里接受信用卡付费吗?
  A:Sorry?
  服务员:对不起,你说什么?
  E:(showing her a credit card) Do you take these?
  艾 凡:(拿一张信用卡给她看)你们接受这种吗?
  A:Ya! Visa! Just a minute.
  服务员:啊!Visa卡!请稍等一下。
  E:(to Kathy) I guess credit cards are the international language!
  艾 凡:(对着凯西)我想信用卡是国际语言!
  单词短语精讲:
  1. gas gauge 油表
  =gasoline rare
  2. As luck would have it
  事有凑巧/幸运的是
  不巧的是/不幸的是
  例:It started to rain while we were hiking,but as luck would have it we found a small but to keep dry in
  (我们在徒步旅行时开始下雨,但很巧的是,我们发现一间小木屋
  避雨。)
  3. ramp 坡道,斜坡
  例:While driving u}, the name, onto the highway,Mr-. Chen put on his safety belt.
  (陈先生开车上高速公路斜坡时系上厂安全带。)
  4. Yes would you please fill' er up?
  是的,麻烦你把油箱加满好吗?

v.精确计量;估计;n.标准度量;计量器
  • Can you gauge what her reaction is likely to be?你能揣测她的反应可能是什么吗?
  • It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。
n.暴怒,斜坡,坡道;vi.作恐吓姿势,暴怒,加速;vt.加速
  • That driver drove the car up the ramp.那司机将车开上了斜坡。
  • The factory don't have that capacity to ramp up.这家工厂没有能力加速生产。
n.随从,跟班,出席者,服务员;adj.伴随的,出席的,注意的,在场的
  • She was interrupted by the entrance of an attendant.服务员进来,打断了她的话。
  • We met the officer attendant on the general.我们见到了随从将军的副官。
学英语单词
additive colour television
adobo
afterfiring zone
Al Fallūjah
alipeds
ampere-second characteristic test
balanced-piston governor valve
bamboo-stand regeneration
basic string
benzylpenicillin sodium
binarycoded Fraunhofer hologram
branch trace
brassworking
C-stage
campanist
capreomycinum
cataloged load module
chemical unconformity
Christmas club
Cizhu Wan
common policy
conditioning tank
coparticipation
current hogging logic circuit
current length of string
currycomb
dense waterway net region
density of pigment
differential-input impedance
diffused-base mesa transistor
disease and nonbattle injury casualty
dozia japonica lac.
drapery fabric
duct silencer
ecophysiology
educational norm
even-odd rule
feynman rules
filter washing
final cast
flood onto
geckos
genus Muntingia
geostrategy
gleek it
graphologist
green old age
Grimm discharge lamp
Gunnarsson
haveloks
hologram grating
host-baseds
hypermyotrophy
imaginary cube root
initial metacentric height
intelligentzia
ionization degree
junior debt
jute pulp
landing crafts
local background
locomotive cleaning
looney-tunes
management report
mcnear
mento-sternal adhesion
monkeypod
moon-go-round satellite
moote filter
muricola nipponica
Namorona
nasojugal
nonosecond
open oil system of the constant delivery pump
orbit velocity of spacecraft
Ostroda
palpitated
pathohistological
Pennisetum setaceum
perusable
plain-text
popular opinion poll
Puebla de Sancho Pérez
said yes
saipaia
saten
schmuck
sciomachia (italy)
seabury
single-double line layout
steaming chamber
Stroke Path
sum-rates method
super viscose fibres
take-off circuit
text hand
timocrats
trade weighting
treprostinil
verminicide
walking-around