情景会话口袋书人际篇222:支票业务(2)
时间：2019-01-21 作者：英语课 分类：情景会话口袋书人际篇
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5. It takes two days to clear a check.
支票过户要两天时间。
还能这样说：
We need two days to clear a check.
Clearance 1 of a check could take two days.
谚语：
Take a hair of the dog that bit you.
以毒攻毒。
6. To whom is the check payable 2?
请问支票付款人是谁？
还能这样说：
May I ask who will pay the check?
Please tell me the payee of the cheque.
应用解析：
pay sb. a compliment 就某事物夸奖某人；
pay dividends 3 产生效益，得到好处；
pay sb. (back) in his own 以其人之道还治其人之身
7. I'm sorry, this check is null and void.
对不起，这张支票已作废。
还能这样说：
Sorry, this check is long overdue 4.
It's a pity that this check has been invalid 5.
应用解析：
aching void 沉痛空虚之感；
emerge out of the void 凭空出现；
vanish into the void 烟消云散；
a void house 空屋
8. The check is good for 100 days.
支票有效期为100天。
还能这样说：
The check is not overdrawn 6 in 100 days.
The check becomes invalid after 100 days.
谚语：
A good horse can't be of a bad color.
良马的毛色不会差。
n.净空；许可(证)；清算；清除，清理
- There was a clearance of only ten centimetres between the two walls.两堵墙之间只有十厘米的空隙。
- The ship sailed as soon as it got clearance. 那艘船一办好离港手续立刻启航了。
adj.可付的，应付的，有利益的
- This check is payable on demand.这是一张见票即付的支票。
- No tax is payable on these earnings.这些收入不须交税。
红利( dividend的名词复数 )； 股息； 被除数； （足球彩票的）彩金
- Nothing pays richer dividends than magnanimity. 没有什么比宽宏大量更能得到厚报。
- Their decision five years ago to computerise the company is now paying dividends. 五年前他们作出的使公司电脑化的决定现在正产生出效益。
adj.过期的，到期未付的；早该有的，迟到的
- The plane is overdue and has been delayed by the bad weather.飞机晚点了，被坏天气耽搁了。
- The landlady is angry because the rent is overdue.女房东生气了，因为房租过期未付。
n.病人，伤残人；adj.有病的，伤残的；无效的
- He will visit an invalid.他将要去看望一个病人。
- A passport that is out of date is invalid.护照过期是无效的。