时间:2019-01-21 作者:英语课 分类:Eztalk美语会话


英语课

Saturday morning, driving near Calgary


Paul:Hey, guys! Did you see that sign?

Wei:No. What did it say?

Paul:There's a garage sale around the corner.

Wei:A garage sale...that's where people check out cars, right?

Paul:[Laughing] What? Cars? Are you serious?

Wei:I'm pulling your leg, Paul. I'm a shopping queen, remember? So of course I know what a garage sale is all about!


around the corner

在附近

A: Where's the nearest gas station?

这近的加油站在哪里?

B: Just around the corner.

就在附近。


Calgary (n.)

卡加利,加拿大西部「亚伯达省」Alberta的一个城市

Expect beautiful scenery 1 when you visit Calgary.

期待来卡加利旅行看到美丽的风景。


garage sale

车库拍卖。在美国及加拿大,许多家庭常在自家车库或门前出清旧货,是一种很盛行的交易方式

A: Where'd you get this beautiful couch 2?

这张漂亮的躺椅你去哪买的?

B: At my neighbors' garage sale.

我邻居的车库拍卖。


check out

瞧一瞧

Let's go check out the sale at the shopping mall.

我们去购物中心看看大拍卖吧。


pull someone's leg

跟某人开玩笑

A: Did you hear that Mother Theresa had many secret love affairs?

你有说泰瑞莎修女有很多秘密外遇吗?

B: Stop pulling my leg.

别再开我玩笑了。


shopping queen

血拼皇后,指很爱购物的女人

She prides herself in being a shopping queen.

她以身为血拼皇后为荣。


all about

…是怎么一回事

What is this movie all about?

这部电影在演些什么?


星期六早上,开车到卡加利附近


保罗:嘿,各位!你们有看到那个标志吗?

小薇:没有。上面写什么?

保罗:附近有个车库拍卖。

小薇:车库拍卖……那是人们看车的地方,对吗?

保罗:(笑)啥?车子?你是当真吗?

小薇:我跟你开玩笑的,保罗。我是购物女王,记得吗﹖我当然知道车库拍卖是什么玩意



n.景色,风景,场景,场面
  • The west lake is famous for its beautiful scenery.西湖以风景优美著称。
  • She enjoys mountain scenery.她喜欢山景。
n.睡椅,长沙发椅;vt.表达,隐含
  • Lie down on the couch if you're feeling ill.如果你感觉不舒服就躺到沙发上去。
  • The rabbIt'sprang from its grassy couch.兔子从草丛中跳出。
学英语单词
A5D5W
agathology
Amboinese, Ambonese
amplitude versus frequency characteristic
AOI AND-OR-invert
attributive use
auxiliary circuit socket for shed supply
back injury
baltes
Beatrix, (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard)
bitumina
board drop hammer
carbon-12
channel point
chuen
coal-tar industry
cocoswood
cold fog
corrosivenesses
cryptocephalus swinhoei
cumulative firing mechanism
cushion plant
dialyzates
diousand
dola
electrolytic action
electromagnetic pulley
explosion index
floating point computer
foetometry
ghorbanifars
gnatho-stomion
GRAMMATIDAE
greeve
hard sauces
indophenol
initial appropriation
intra-cutaneous
inukshuks
iremonger
iterative method of estimation
keep one's head
kicking stops
kimo
kondos
laser measurement application
latent pollutant
lilium duchartrei franch.
lipophage granulomatosis
liquia air
logistic control center (lcc)
magnertic hysteresis
Mazus saltuarius
Megginson
mononitrotoluene
Montigny-lès-Metz
non-floating arithmetic sign
non-linear load line
noun of assemblage
oversexed
ownerless movables
par value capital stock
perpetual bloom
phentetiothalein sodium
physiologic anemia
plumbago pot
Port engine half astern!
power transmission shaft
prelaughter
prosocial television
pulse.
puppy fat
pyrolytic conversion of hydrocarbons
rampant caries
RE (real number)
roccus saxatiliss
rotor axis
round-trip echo
Sappey's ligaments
scape-wheel
sedative bath
self-cleaning oil
shrivalties
silver diamminonitrate
singularis
Songjǒnman
splay-mouthed
stimulus-response correlation
stove bottom
Strategic Defense Initiative
strombs
supermarket key-entry system
suppression pool nozzles
Syrianism
text entry
thunder-head
timber seal
timeconstant
trade character
upflow principle
Vaassen
water filtration tank