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
- morphy
abitylguanide
AC rectifier
Amya P.
An excess of yang brings about heat syndrome
andreas-salome
annunciation days
aperture synthesis radio telescope
aphoristically
as - go
as dead as the dodo
autotransplants
Ayyrtas
babacars
back dividends
blow-over
brierwood
brount
budgetary control system
caperberries
capitalist agriculture
carolina spring beauties
casazza
cemented carbide tool
chowan
clay slurry
cloud-point
compensated loop
corpuscules
credit ratings
Cutbank R.
cyprodenate
dark current shot noise
deactivating
decoupling dish
different time observation
eastern turkis
electric cabinet
Fabian socialism
giraffe
girondins
glucotrols
gradines
halation by diffusion
half-uncle
harlequinesque
Heath, Edward Richard George
hebetudes
heniquen
His-Werner
histonuia
home delivery
hot-chip coating
hula hoops
impoisonment
index of reliability
ink cap
insinuate into
jumped seam
kappa particles
kumera
lanthanum tartrate
legality of dividend
lofting
lower your sights
marching time marching
moderator band
Mweru Wantipa National Park
necessarians
net budget
nonreviewable
nucle-
on off servo-mechanism
one bit microprocessor
pends
period of ergodic class
photographic rays
Pick up Sticks
pivot tripod
Polymnia
post-millennial
reconsignment
reordaining
reservoir support
rice car
Rio Grande Abyssal Plain
sell limit order
sign of aggregation
Simson line
skin the cat
specificity analysis
surface yeast
switcht
topamax
undazzle
vacuole formation
voluntary failure
water sail
water-based dressing
waveguide lens
waviness curve
weed sb out