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
absolute value of a vector
Acanthocoras
aerobic energy system
Ambrières-les-Vallées
Askern
attenuation cross-section
best-match
bioclastics
blaer
boiler utilization heat
boost gage
boutique hotel
Campbell, Alexander
cell typing
cercospora bidentis
Chenchu
circumcentre
closure of cleft palate by von Langenbeck operation
comfort foods
communication sound
cracked still gas
debye-scherrer-hull method
depot fat
disenrich
double penetrate
effect of steric hindrance
eightplace
emergency hand-drive
for-gotten
formal specification
Fukkianese
geochelone radiata
glucosaccharinic acid
green masonry
haemocuprein
heartener
heat exchanger wall
High Watermark
hydrostatic extruder
hypnoleptic state
Indija
international code used
Isotebezid
Italian yarn
Ityāy al Bārūd
kaiguos
kendall tests
knowe
knowledge-based inference system
lawnche
liberal-humanist
liceu
Ligamentum suspensorium ovarii
loss of right of recourse
masaw
maximowicziana
mechanically activated battery
mf-f
milli-radians
million floating point instructions per second
mulerie
neotanshinoneB
neritina plumbea
nocturnal urine output
normal coldest month
peakflowmeter
pelee
Peleus, Mt.
pennyroyal oil
posterior lacerocondylar syndrome
Presnovka
radioactive waste treatment
radiosurgery
rat-poison poisoning
rearward facing nozzle
recursive procedure for generation binary tree
relief displacement
sagramoso
scaling of concrete
scrutin uninomial systems
self-explanation
sexual congress
shield-fern
sigmoid-procto-anoscope
splayed edging
station technical working diagram
supervisory ability
swing-up door
syntroleum
tap screw
theory of planned behavior
third rail current collector
tilia nobilis rehd. et wils
top-six
total shaft resistance
troaked
Tyrannosaurus rexes
undervoltage sensor
ungagging
value of division
various color chlorinated rubber enamel
wireless security