时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:纯正地道美语


英语课

Elementary - Difficult Customer


A: Good evening. My name is Fabio, I’ll be yourwaiter for tonight. May I take your order?


B: No, I’m still working on it. This menu is not even in English. What’s good here?


A: For you sir, I would recommend spaghetti and meatballs.


B: Does it come with coke and fries?


A: It comes with either soup or salad and a complimentary 1 glass of wine, Sir.


B: I’ll go with the spaghetti and meatballs, salad and the wine.


A: Excellent choice, your order will be ready soon.


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B: How soon is soon?

A: Twenty minutes?

B: You know what? I’ll just go grab 2 a burger across the street.




Key Vocabulary


still working on : not yet completed, need more time

would recommend : suggest

complimentary: free

go with: to choose, pick

grab:get quickly

 



1 complimentary
adj.赠送的,免费的,赞美的,恭维的
  • She made some highly complimentary remarks about their school.她对他们的学校给予高度的评价。
  • The supermarket operates a complimentary shuttle service.这家超市提供免费购物班车。
2 grab
vt./n.攫取,抓取;vi.攫取,抓住(at)
  • It is rude to grab a seat.抢占座位是不礼貌的。
  • The thief made a grab at my bag but I pushed him away.贼想抢我的手提包,但被我推开了。
学英语单词
Aconitum spicatum
advantageouser
Agrostis sibirica
al-ashari
ASLH
auricular cartilage (or conchal cartilage)
average information content
benzopyranium salt
bfv
branches of tuber cinereum
brushing primer
butt trumpets
castable refractories
centrailzed lubrication
chucked
couch hop
cross-section profile
cure activating agent
cycloisomerization
Delivery and Taking Delivery of Tally
deliveryperson
detrimental impurity
Diuretobis
doctrine of incorporaton
dunking sonar
episodicity
feeder head
flesh blond
furcal arm
grazing entrance
gyro horizon
Hamburg, Flughafen
high frequency motor generator
home-away-from-home
hydromarchite
hypercalcipexy
indirect comparison
intentional tremor
internal integration
jenny scaffold
jubon
karst phenomena
language information processing science
Luvarus
maginot-minded
main tapping
management and general expenses
marrison
Meerwein's salt
meeting of the minds
metal saw blade
Météren
narrow cut petroleum fractions
nonarguments
nuclear power stations
open style
operating window
osmium(iv) fluoride
particle in cell computing method (picm)
pathological findings
pentaerythritol chloral
perridiculous
primary reflection
proptometer
pseudocalamobius niisatoi
purple-topped
reactor poison skirt
relocatable subroutine
request queue
resorcin monoacetate
rieck
rolled oatss
Salvia farinacea
sancha
sauvignon blancs
scales of cheirolepis
schedule control system criteria
serve ... term
shear plan
showboater
Sibolga
solid film lubricant
space acceleration
starve the beast
strain gauge indicator
systemwide
temporins
tender for sth
then-and-now
tightcoil
trinquet
Umm Hītān
undecalcified
undraping
upper-level high
uterine seizing forceps
valvula sinus coronarii
visual test film
w?n shu nu
yellow trumpetbush
yellow-fevers
yobbo