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
abjudicates
Arctic Arch.
auricularia cornea
biotic index
bounding rectangle
broad hatcher
bubble screen
building height zoning
calliandra eriophylla benth.
cantabrias
check-valve ball
chronic rectal schistosomiasis
Cone of silence.
congenital hypertrophy of retinal pigmented epithelium
convail
cook a meal
cooling in pile
corral breeding
Daisen
darkest mark
data secure computer network
Deja boo
distracts
electric-chair
enhanced integrated device / drive electronics
erp system
excavating plough
excretion rate
flowing-pressure gradient
force comparison
fuel combustion efficiency
gage pole
go-off
goes to the toilet
Goldstripe
holder type transplanter
home landscape
Hydrangea arborescens
hydrological geology
idle stand
inner electric potential
intermediate proof
interspinal plane
iron wind
Knudsen effusion method
kyota
Lambert-Bouguer law
leaderboards
Like father,like son.
limb-kinetic apraxia
loss of acid washing
maximum diameter of work ground
mckinly
mechanization moulding
Meregate
method of characteristics nozzle
Meuse-Argonne operation
MGDA
microsatellite
Moran's test statistic
multi-people
natatile
ncse
nogged
nucleus accessorius (mesencephalicus) n. trigemini
offer a bribe
omentohepatopexy
ovarian endometriosis
overcovers
pin-key
pouring kettle
prefixation
raise Cain
ratum
reciprocal identity
remote arming system
Rhaphiolepis major
riras
roll for hot rolling
rupture of semimembranous muscle
sage air traffic integration (satin)
Seal Pt.
shadow line label
sheras
shortspoken
siphunculina striolata
spida
stock argument
thiolysis
total image
tractional detachment of retina
trewbute
tumping
Turkmanchai
two-dimensional location
ugg boots
undercapacities
unitarisations
whetsall
wing-supporting float
witchhazel
zinc diethyl dithiocarbamate