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
A-service area
aerospace craft
augure
base loading
bases on balls
be in league to do
beehler
Bellarmino
cat-ear
catastrophic-illness
chape
cheveron notch
click-bait
closeness of relation
cold junciton
commonizes
complete limit
Conium maculatum poisoning
constantly acting load
continuous production process
critical bearing point
cyclic load-elution test
david gruns
deoxidized steel
developmental norm
differential capstan
dihaploid
dry construction
economics of consumption
edit test
edulious
elephant's ear
emptily
encrustment
entreprenetwork
epizoic
equation of state (EOS)
esophagical
family lactobacteriaceaes
fen-lich
fiber spinning
fit the action to the word
frauen
Galidzga
Ghon complex
goitrogenicity
Hanzi ink jet printer
hard-to-please
honey mouse
hoovers
humane studies
is in agreement with
k-spar (k-feldspar)
know something for a fact
Kogaku
landtied island
Letha Ra.
macromorphology
mammifer
method of spot parameter measurement
microbrachia
multipactor breakdown
nansen ridge
naren
newtons disk
non critical item
nondeterministic nested stack automaton
normal form of vector fields
nsn
osmotic effect
parastasia ferrieri formosana
pearlweeds
phylum cycliophoras
plane of uniform expansion or contraction
poltroon
power points
propyl p-hydroxybenzoate
Putnam.
Quiniluban Is.
ransack one's brain wits
repeat offender
rock soap
skeleton sledding
snapping turtle
spit venom
squooshing
Stephen's spots
stone releaser
sulpho-salt
takt time
theobromide
Thermomonosporaceae
throneroom
Tiroungoulou
tit for tat
utmost vacuum seal
verified copy
wire gauze with asbestos
with regard to
wriggle off the hook
yacoscope
yggdrasils