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。
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Aconitum delavayi
active-centre
alfies
ancestral chromosomal segment
average value theorem
AVNFRP
Ayrshire breeders
belit
big bro
Bürrig
cargo sweat
Chenonceaux
chessom
chitty-faced
chrysodema lewisii
continuous fever
courbarils
crane rating
creativity check list
dam site
data-directed input/output
de-airing
displacement formulation
dual currency convertible
elderfield
enniatins
esfar
family Balistidae
fillings
foreign agents
fuel-value
gadolinium gallium garnet
gianforte
Great Contract
halfdecks
Hamiticize
handicraft industry
haploblock
have the grace to
herfords
heyns
hydropathic compress
hypersofts
interior stress
intersystem communication
Java kapok oil
kickboxers
Kulgām
kurdufan (kordofan)
leipidic tumor
line hydrophone
loss analysis
magnetoencephalography (meg)
mass unbalance torque
mezzo-relievo
Microsoft Point to Point Encryption
more-equal
mycosphaerella nawae hiura et ikata
nerdistan
obelism
optimal parasite
pantuns
paragloboside
partisans
passive insulation
pectoral reflex
penas
photogenically
polacco
postage meters
prepared hole
propellant chemical
public transmission
Puccinia duthiae
reactivation of quoted shell company
recess in brick wall
refrigerating condenser pump
relate ... to
renewable natural resouces
replenish the Thoroughfare and Conception Vessels
resting keel
safety dose
Saraguro
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Saxonizing
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solid hygrometer
supporting schedules
system output writer
TAC (time-to amplitude converter)
Taganrogskiy Zaliv
tangential coordinate
Tannis Bugt
tension wood
testimony
tuffstone
underlap
valve spring housing
warrane
with meaning
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