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
4-Chloro-8-(trifluoromethyl)-quinoline
actinocythereis sinensis
Alenquer
amount of taxiing
AMRL
backshock
bevel gear shaper
blind tiger
book of hours, Book of Hours
bufr.
Campana, I.
Ciudad Guzmán
columbarium pagoda stellatum
composite artwork
congenital hyperammonemia
coral reef community
coria del rio
crastinal
cyclabilities
definition of constraints
die-pin
dodecyl-
doesn
double-effect lithiumbromide absorption refrigerating machine
down corner
dtm
ecological indicator
edge disjoint circuit union
edgecombe
Eggleston
El Zapote, R.
electric rock drill bit
emergency engine
erratics
expediting setting
fireman's outfit
franlinic
Fuller,John F.C.
galbas
gray kingbird
hyperbolicity
immiserable
in default of acceptance
inquiry form
intransitive system
Karangasem
Kempton
less-toxic
ligameata pubicum inferius
Ligusticum kingdon-wardii
Luna Park
M.P. absorber
magnesium carbide
mahmudi
Montg.
multipunching
muzzle flash
nickel sulphate
nonchosen
open core transformer
optical resolution
organ (orgaoun)
Paki-bashing
pantopon
patch board programming
plant chemicalecology
plectomycetous
plumbous fluoride
polyester mimeograph film
prenotification
prisa
prosphyses
ramming plate
rational screening
Reaburn, Mt.
reel out
Rodna
rollerdrome
rudder failure
scondary inductance
search for problem
sick-day
sodium dihydrogen phosphate
spyhole
standard operating conditions
store-and-forward processing
stuhlman
sunchokes
surge chamber
syndrome of heat accumulated in large intestine
tanns
task the intelligence of
temporals
tool setup
Torreya nucifera
trigamy
trunk-deck beam
upper abdomen
vertebrectomies
vomit nut
vould
well-scented