时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   刚到美国,我利用课余时间在一家餐馆打工,负责接电话。


  有一次,一个电话问道:“What's your 'dress code' ?" 我想可能是我没听清楚,对方应该是要问 address 和 zip code 。我马上口述了一遍我们餐馆的地址。
  她先是愣了一下,然后解释给我听,原来 "dress code" 指的是餐馆对顾客服装上特别的要求。在美国,较高级的餐馆会要求顾客穿着正式的服装。







标签: 俚语
学英语单词
a B.A
A-IGP
alloy junction transistor
amelogenin
Amerikay
assay charge
astringent bath
balbuena
betimed
better hand
billiard-ball model
board feet
boot-haling
burning of bearing
charge packet
cluebats
collagenised
collect freight
complex linkage mechanism
componency
computation bound
conchoidal marking
coplasticizer
cybergenetic
denderah
diesel crane on railway track
drowh
earthquake statistics
echinine
english-men
epidemic roseola
fluorinated compound propellant
frequency-dependent selection
Frukama
gruening
helically grilled tube
homeomorphism problem
hydraulic slip
informal training
intertooth space
kajikia formosans
kibibyte
legitimate ground
lithium hydrogen oxalate
litho-porosity cross plot
loading pigment
louvered rain guard
manubriosternal synchondrosis
map manuscript
microchemistry
microscopico-
MILSTRAP
mokros
Moroccanness
Net operating margin
NGDP
nursing profession
ORNITHOPODIA
palpitation due to deficiency of blood
patents court
pitchpole, pitchpoll
posol
prontoes
protectionism
rail rest
readiers
rent-a-center
Righi-Leduc's effect
rocker-arm ratio
salad forks
sandora
screened cabtyre cable
scriba
sexual parasitism
shockexcite
shrinkage crimping
Sida rhomboidea
simplotan
single-blade stroke circular
smoke abatement
soapies
software radio
sonorous rhonchus
sougan
static visual acuity
sterm window
stiltner
strap iron inductor
syllabic verse
tenon joint
test criterion
thermal discoloration
time-stretch
under sb.'s thumb
virgin rock mass
Wenlockian Epoch
wershest
wind shear indicator (wsi)
Wontong-ni
woodhewer
xanthocreatinine
yerba mansa