时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2015年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

Using a Pawnshop 


Jamaica: I need to raise some cash right away. I?m thinking of hocking a few things. You?ve used the pawnshop down the street before, right? 


Nolan: Yeah, a few years ago when I lost my job. I needed a short-term loan to tide me over until I could find a new one. 


Jamaica: Is the place legit? 


Nolan: It seemed to be. I have no complaints. 


Jamaica: That?s good. How would I go about pawning 2 something? 


Nolan: It?s pretty simple. You bring the pawnbroker 3 something that?s worth money to use as collateral 4 and then you get a loan for a fraction of its value. Then, you have 90 days to repay the loan, plus interest and fees. 


Jamaica: How do I redeem 5 my item? 


Nolan: You just show them your pawn 1 ticket. 


Jamaica: That sounds pretty simple. What if I can?t repay the money by the deadline? 


Nolan: Then you forfeit 6 your item. The pawnshop tries to sell it to recoup the money they lent you. 


Jamaica: Okay, I?m going to do it. I?m going to pawn my collection. 


Nolan: Your collection of what? 


Jamaica: Action figures. I have the entire collection of ESL Podcast action figures. There?s Jeff, Lucy, Warren, Jessica, Adriano, Pao, LeeAnn, Alison . . . 


Nolan: I said something worth money, remember? 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 pawn
n.典当,抵押,小人物,走卒;v.典当,抵押
  • He is contemplating pawning his watch.他正在考虑抵押他的手表。
  • It looks as though he is being used as a political pawn by the President.看起来他似乎被总统当作了政治卒子。
2 pawning
v.典当,抵押( pawn的现在分词 );以(某事物)担保
  • He is contemplating pawning his watch. 他正在考虑抵押他的手表。 来自辞典例句
  • My clothes were excellent, and I had jewellery; but I never even thought of pawning them. 我的衣服是很讲究的,我有珠宝;但是我从没想到要把它们当掉。 来自辞典例句
3 pawnbroker
n.典当商,当铺老板
  • He redeemed his watch from the pawnbroker's.他从当铺赎回手表。
  • She could get fifty dollars for those if she went to the pawnbroker's.要是她去当铺当了这些东西,她是可以筹出50块钱的。
4 collateral
adj.平行的;旁系的;n.担保品
  • Many people use personal assets as collateral for small business loans.很多人把个人财产用作小额商业贷款的抵押品。
  • Most people here cannot borrow from banks because they lack collateral.由于拿不出东西作为抵押,这里大部分人无法从银行贷款。
5 redeem
v.买回,赎回,挽回,恢复,履行(诺言等)
  • He had no way to redeem his furniture out of pawn.他无法赎回典当的家具。
  • The eyes redeem the face from ugliness.这双眼睛弥补了他其貌不扬之缺陷。
6 forfeit
vt.丧失;n.罚金,罚款,没收物
  • If you continue to tell lies,you will forfeit the good opinion of everyone.你如果继续撒谎,就会失掉大家对你的好感。
  • Please pay for the forfeit before you borrow book.在你借书之前请先付清罚款。
学英语单词
acclime
american movie
amount for note issue
Arc,d' Jeanne
ascochyta rheae
attenuation index
autofade
bacterial index
be drawn to scale
be drenched to the skin
be sticky about doing sth
beam gantry
bearing slackness
beef extracts
beryllium fluoride
blown tumbler with intaglio decoration
brake axle
bring discredit to
buffaloe
burnt stones
cam follower rocker shaft
center of storm
choranilamide
circle of celestial latitude
cleirach
closed mouthed
cm.
cold cloud
compensating surface
dallis grasses
Daniszyn
Desmarres' dacryoliths
disinvolving
engrafted valley
epicondylus extensorius
epidermic medication
expense of storage
external intensity modulator
feast your eyes on
foot-shock
French President
get customers
gibbs duhem relation
guro
hemochromatosis
heteroazeotrope
hitchhiking effect
Horcajo Medianero
hypermagnesemic
I.D.F.
inertial switch
infantage
interphrasal
leedham
length-dependence
LF (line feeder)
live pig
lodanum
Lys'venskiy Rayon
manicheans
maschwitz
microichthyurus ilanensis
mistressdom
multiple end yarn
Nanteuil, Robert
non-acceptation
nwi
onion bread
order Alismales
painims
pensive
plasma kinetics
points brush
postvisualization
programming abstraction
propositional calculuss
protocaryon
pulpers
ram type tubing hanger
rhin-
save address latch
sentencia
shuffled through
silylformylation
sneaking out
spectracon
Stanley (Puerto Argentino)
start-lag
Stephen Sondheim
superforming
surface accumulation-layer capacitance
Suycener
Svidneite
taxaceaes
theatrical performances
twazzock
valve-adjusting means
vibrometer
vollenhovia satoi
water-quencher
wide-angle V-belt
Willard's disease