时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:王强口语 第一册


英语课

  Lesson Seventeen

Short Conversations

Read aloud the concersation two times, and then listen to the tape without looking at the text.

Cutting Corners

Rathbone: Whittaker! What are you doing here? You got your transformers, didn't you?

Whittaker: Oh, I got them all right. I also got one of these flyers.

Rathbone: Oh, yeah yeah yeah, Rodney's been putting them on every car and front door in town.

Whittaker: So I understand. I also understand that he hasn't paid for them yet.

Rathbone: Oh, yeah, haha, that, haha. Well, uh, Rodney's a pretty shrewd businessman all right.

Whittaker: Shrewd?

Rathbone: Well, he only promised to pay Lucy if he liked the flyer. He was very specific about that. It just so happens he doesn't.

Whittaker: Come on, Bart - do you really think that's right?

Rathbone: Well, I think it's between Rodney and Lucy. And even if it isn't, can we work this out later? I've got the building inspector 1 inside right now. He's here now.

Whittaker: Oh, sure. I wouldn't want to let it slip out about all the shortcuts 2 you've taken to get this building up.

Rathbone: Shortcuts?

Whittaker: Yeah, you know - like using Eugene to wire the building instead of a certified 3 electrician.

Rathbone: There's nothing wrong with that. He did a great job.

Whittaker: Oh, I'm sure he did. Also did it for free,didn't he?

Rathbone: You got something against saving money?

Whittaker: Oh, not at all - in areas where money should be saved.



1 inspector
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
2 shortcuts
n.捷径( shortcut的名词复数 );近路;快捷办法;被切短的东西(尤指烟草)
  • In other words, experts want shortcuts to everything. 换句话说,专家需要所有的快捷方式。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • Offer shortcuts from the Help menu. 在帮助菜单中提供快捷方式。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
3 certified
a.经证明合格的;具有证明文件的
  • Doctors certified him as insane. 医生证明他精神失常。
  • The planes were certified airworthy. 飞机被证明适于航行。
学英语单词
ablutolmania
adenylic acid (AMP)
adopt a bill
affected region
Aksuat, Ozero
antiprevention
antisideric
aspectualizers
atlanto-occipital membrane
brushrocker ring
carbothermic smelting of aluminum
cash in bank special funds
cast plate
cattle cake
chairmat
classicalist
collision hypothesis
complete tree
create reference
dalgleish
dechlorinated
dioxynaphthalene
diphosphatidylglycerol
Décou Décou, Massif
eucalyptus karry
event based control
exiture
extraembryonic splanchnopleuric mesoderm
fcoes
finetooth
flattening pressure
fluid viscosity ratio
front-rowest
grosz
heated drum
Hedekas
hemicondylar
hemoprotein
hepatic coma
hollow arbor
hypothyroid
internal reflection element
introgressive-hybridization
jack kemp
jamsheed
Kikiongolo
kitazine
lade with
lateral contact pin
lewiston
lighteness
macknis
magnification constant
magnifying coefficient of eccentricity
mental institutions
metyl alcohol
milk intolerances
milling medium
mimomyia (mimomyia) chamberlaini metallica
Minoans
modestinis
molybdenum acid
monopteros
nilopolis
nominal calorific capacity
obstupefy
off-line printing
oil-freest
overlooker
physiologic allergy
plate neutralization
pope's formulae
post extractor
precooded rice
primitivistic
problem - based learning
producing platform
public footpath
pulse-Doppler radar
pulsed tungsten inert gas arc welding
quasi-homogeneous waves
queel
rotary plow feeder
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
santangeloes
Scotic
secure transmission
sluggardly
static track irregularity
stemphylium lycopersici
straight-path approximation method
thermal current
thermoelectrical type
transgressive variation
treating yin for the yang disease
underskirts
waubesa
wheat-colored
word control
working lives
XEF
zosteropid