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
airborne infrared gunfire locator
aircraft instrument panel
ala kul
anas zonorhyncha
aprosopous fetus
Artemisia annua
Asteridae
at ecological stability
bed bugs
boat crane
bourgets
bovine staggers
cadis
campylotrop
cee-lo
cenobal
character of classification
charcuterie
chief development officer
close tolerance flame cutting
common ancestor
delta-wye power
dioctyl phthalate test
discuring
dry amputation
edkins
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
effective from
flask opener
flow net
free-center-type clamp
fuffies
greater peritoneal sacs
hamamelis
hearsay testimony
high power amplifier (hpa)
homochromatography
hooded cape
infrunite
islanditoxin
IUT
lactonase
lantibiotics
laredoes
laveaga
law review
laying-up machine
leptosporella clinopodii
lonely-heartedness
loss of amenity
Loyalty Islands
LSSE
make a secret of
Mansuyia
Millard-Gubler paralysis
mineralogist
Negishi coupling
nominal assets
non-reverse coupling
nonpreemptive discipline
nordlingen
over-night dough
parabolic bundle of rays
perforated stone
place and date of issue
preassumes
price ex-farm
prickless
Production Information Control System
Prφven
pygidial
quasi-linearization
ratio of the investment contributions
s.c.f.
salting strength
scaffold hopping
self grooming
semiforced
set point station
Shen-k'uei
short-wave receiver
stealth aircrafts
steel spirit level
sunkuli
telecommunicational
telephone cross-talk
temperature characteristics of capacitance
time delay
trade diversion effect
trimerogaster cincta
trux
try ... on
ultra-happy
ultrasonic carver
Unari
uncertainness
unible
vertical form control
vinaconic acid
voltage-operateds
westernisers
zucchero