时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语王-想说就说(五)


英语课
Section 1 three Customs 2 风俗习惯

So I'm on the fifth floor?How come this hotel has no fourth floor.

所以我在五楼?这间饭店怎么没有四楼?

Four is an unlucky number here,Peter.Four sounds like death in Chinese.Hotels often have no fourth floor.

"四"是不吉利的数字,Peter."四"在中文听起来像"死".这里的饭店常常没有四楼.

I see.Oh,I know what I wanted to ask.How much should I tip 3 this guy?

我懂了.啊,我想起来我要问你的问题了.我应该给这位老兄多少小费?

People don't usually tip here,but you can.Fifty dollars should be more enough.

通常我们不给小费,但是如果你要给也可以.五十块应该就很多了.

详细解说:

1.How come this hotel has no fourth floor.这间饭店怎么没有四楼?

同义例句:How come the bill was so high?账单怎么会这么贵?

How come you are so late?你怎么迟到这么久?

2.Hotels often have no fourth floor.这里的饭店常常没有四楼.

同义例句:It's quite normal that hotels have no fourth floor.这里的饭店常常没有四楼.

It's common practice that hotels have no fourth floor.

3.I know what I wanted to ask.我想起来我要问你的问题了.

4.Fifty dollars should be more than enough.五十块应该绰绰有余了.

同义词句:Fifty dollars should be fine.五十块应该可以了.Fifty dollars should do.五十快就可以了.Fifty dollars would do.五十块就可以了.Fifty dollars should do nicely.五十块就可以了.Fifty dollars sounds about right.五十块差不多.

补充例句:I've eaten more than enough.I've eaten too much.我已经吃太多了.

1 section
n.部分,章节,地段;断面,剖面;部门,科;阶层,界;vt.把…分成段
  • There is one section of very long road to leave. 有一段很长的路要走。
  • How many people work in your section?你部门有多少人?
2 customs
n.海关,关税
  • The customs officials turned the man over to the French police.海关官员把那个人移交给了法国警察。
  • They are collecting customs.他们正在收缴关税。
3 tip
n.顶,尖端,梢,末端;倾斜;垃圾场;小费;轻击;指点;秘密消息;vt.装顶端;使倾斜,使翻倒,泄露;告诫;暗示;给...小费,轻击;vi.倾斜,翻倒,倾覆,踮脚走,给小费
  • She nearly forgot to give him a tip for his service.她几乎忘记给他的服务付小费。
  • I have his name on the tip of my tongue.我几乎想起他的名字。
学英语单词
absolute catalog
absolute speed drop
Amqui
Apium graveolens L. var. rapaceum DC.
aqmds
auxiliary traction machine
baksheeshed
bear the bell
berloque
betake
breathing exercise
by stealth
charge-transfer device
chronic recurrent appendicitis
circular bore
combustibility test
common seals
comptrollers general
computer-aided manufacturing system
Cuxwold
cyclindole
dactylium alpiniae
daughtery
decayablest
digital character generator
Dmitrovskiy Rayon
drifting automatic radio-meteorological system
drum type shears
Eblis
elastic work schedule system
equilux
eristalinus lugens
fade-in fade-out device
free-ports
full-storage system
genus coragypss
genus corallorhizas
genus phyllocladuss
give them a hand
Graptemys
grid lines device
hexosemonophosphate shunt
high definition camera
Hyades Group
hydrodynamic moment
imbabura
inconstancy
inverted vee
irregular rondo
lacker
Lahemaarahvuspark
Liparis kwangtungensis
little-endian
marketing association
maximum likelihood decision rule
mcclatchy
meat consumption
millimho
minimum admissible dimension
molk
Māsimpur
novacek
open and closed shelter deck ship
operational failure
overcultures
Ponkuto-san
raise doubts
response prevention
rolling characteristic
rubra polycythemia
salmiana
scanlated
sechelle
semiautos
seventeen-year-old
silver storm
sinuses reuniens
solar power tower
split off from sb
stir a bath
stirring up
storytime
stranguria due to disturbance of qi
tetramethylthiuram disulfide
top echelon
toxamin
Transcaucasia
transfer fund
truxene
ultramarine blue
unclaimable
univariate optimum interpolation
unsoaped
urology in childhood
uterus incadiformis
vacillation
Vagay
valve lightening arrester
vasotropic
vibration screen
virtual ampere-turn
wind-borne load