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
A poor man's something
accidental death
Achorion quinckeanum
alarm handsetting wheel seating
all at one swoop
arbor chuck
arikaras
artists-in-residence
autoprints
auxiliary scaffold
baseball manager
benzenephosphonic acid
bepagin
bipolaris sacchari
borrowage
broken as designed
bullet lists
Calicut
choking feeling
cold one
commenting
congratulate sb on
conjugate surds
counter subject
cowberries
David Smith
decoagulant(anticoagulant)
definitive method of measurement
dent-
desexualizer
diduction
difazio
digital subscriber line
discriminant (noun)
e idol
else-something
Epirotes
exchange factor
excruciable
fixed die half
fluidglyceratum
ft-pdl, ft.-pdl.
gas-mixture carbon black
genus Harpullia
helical casing
heterodesmosome
housse
hybrid aligned nematic display structuremode
impact jet
improper symmetry
job message queue
kalisaccharic
kepler coordinates
labo
lower-middle peasant
mean solar day
membrana fibrosa
mergeability
micro-FCPGA
Midshipman Easy
milli-joules
moisture setting adhesive
NAVCALS
noninterviews
objective glass
odd ring sum condition
on a visit
Pervincamine
plexus cavernosus
portal bracing
presidential campaign
prominentia canalis n. facialis
propeller size
quadrulus
quasi-geostrophic motion
reciprocating aircraft
regrates
relict glacier
riol
rotary wings
RS-PC
Salvus set
setbottomrow
sex differentiation
side shading
simultaneous radiation grafting
sing the praises of sb
soil correctives
starkies
stroke end
temporary dentition
thymoma
tie a person down
topographic rossby wave
totally regular transformation
tu-whoo
Type B USB
tyre for motorcycle
utv
Welshy
Woltersdorf
X boson