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
a man of his hands
Abundances of elements
al jazah (jiza)
american watercresses
anglophilic
antisubmarine suport aircraft carrier
approach receiver
arrester
battle-line
black acanthosis
bluesnarf
Bāhtarān, Ostan-e
cadaline
called line identification facility
cambril
cast sth into the shade
Celastrus L.
cholesterololeate
chrzypsko wielkie
classification of income by organization unit
clove-like
colicine
conformers
Conkal
Cullen, Countee
current modulation
DC signalling
dickeybirds
dishful
earliest activity start time
enopla
exhaust-nozzle
f?ng yang ko
Faraway Place
fated throttle
ficoin
flips the script
genus Ursus
golden crownbeard
half-pay
heckova
highjackings
hoboism
honor bound
in the stress of the moment
indexing fixture
india formation
infortune
initial deformation point
interfering signal
kabylie
kida
kinesiological
Kwan-tu
lamellar compound
law of elasticity of demand
legacy port
lipotropin (lph)
luthmer
mai-tai
morphology of lakes
mosaic cracking
motor-speed controller
next best thing
Nine Inch Nails
non-available nutrient
obscurantism
parametric resonance
Pegomya hyoscyami
perichaetium
photoisomerizing
pot-et-fleur
pottery figurine
poultrymen
pseudocomplement
qala-i-jangi
read it and weep
Redband
rerendering
reversible metabolic pathway
schoolmistressly
Shostakovich Peninsula
sloping roof skylight
soren peter lauritz sorensens
specific unbalance
spetsdods
sphenopalatine canal
stover
strong focusing accelerator
superfuel
sword-sliper
Tabasco
tar-macadam
thin-wall steel tube
tilia mofungensis chun et wong
to keep someone company
Torx screwdriver
tropical ameba
twin-passage bucket elevator
variety shop
visible peristalsis visible intestinal peristalsis
weather-headed