时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

 


Going Through Customs 


Customs Officer: Your passports, please. What is your final destination? 


?zkan: Los Angeles. 


Customs Officer: How long is your stay? 


?zkan: We’ll be there for a week. 


Customs Officer: What is the purpose of your trip? 


?zkan: I’m going there on business and my family is accompanying me on vacation. 


Customs Officer: Who are you traveling with? 


?zkan: This is my wife Ayse, and these are my children, Mustafa and ?mer. 


Customs Officer: Are you bringing in any restricted items? Any plants, fruits and vegetables, meats, or animals? 


?zkan: No. 


Customs Officer: Do you have anything to declare? 


?zkan: We bought some duty-free items in the airport. Here’s the receipt. 


Customs Officer: That’s fine. Step over to the exam station for baggage inspection 1


... 


We opened our bags for inspection, and luckily, the inspector 2 found nothing to confiscate 3 and we got off scot-free. I’m really glad they didn’t find that cat we’re smuggling 4 in as a gift for my favorite podcaster! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 inspection
n.检查,审查,检阅
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
2 inspector
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
3 confiscate
v.没收(私人财产),把…充公
  • The police have the right to confiscate any forbidden objects they find.如发现违禁货物,警方有权查扣。
  • Did the teacher confiscate your toy?老师没收你的玩具了吗?
4 smuggling
n.走私
  • Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
  • The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
学英语单词
? la seconde
ALEURODIDAE
algae-covered
andaloes
angular unconformities
anthozoon
arithmetic type
bikkembergs
Birere
booster transmitter
cat cracker
caudal flexure
Chinese arborvitae
cladistic systematics
coconut scale
contemporary psychiatry
dealing with problems
decentralized execution
differential contact-type air plug gauge
Dorset, Ist Earl of
elliptical light
end-gut
Endonema
enduse testing
enterprise reorganization
epiphatic
eyeball-pulse reflex
F.Ast
fleet guide
following move capability
functionalise
hepatic failure
hickish
hospital door
hour wage rate
hydroelectric bath
Hφgsfjorden
i type conductivity
iminosugar
integrated air-defense system
interfacial sheer strength
japanese ivies
Jimmu
kafy
kefir milk
Kenebri
kuchta
laser mode
lock-following strobe
low-drag profile
lusory
machine furnace
macroinstruction linkage
mercury ion
mercury-in-steel thermometer
metal filament lamp
N'fiss, Oued
needle wood
nonmatrix
operation for cranial nerve
Oxted
oxycheilinus unifasciatus
PA key
petrium
pietras
plowmpe
polytropic equilibrium
potassium metabisulphite
pseudolycaea pachypoda
quickset hedge
regiones lumbalis
resistive matrix network
rock phosphorite
root curettage
rough-around-the-edges
Rusinga Chan.
San Miguel de Cruces
sensitivity of follow-up system
shudders
sing the praises of
situation phase system
slope error
spatula mallei
spleen governing muscles
spread sources
St Stephens
standard of roundness
Strophanthus kombe Oliver
symmetrical engine
sympatheticiess
synchro to digital vonverter
TayehFormation
upraisers
virtualised
wall thickness gauge
Welker-Marsh's methods
whelk stall
wireless time signal
with one's tongue hanging out
yellow rice wine
zealand (sjaelland)
zerbe