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
acute hematogenous osteomyelitis
aerodynamics of bodies in combination
antimeningococcus serum
aphasia from apoplexy
arthrocleisis
astatic controller
auxiliary generator room
Baby Yar
Baleares, Islas
bank-inset reef
belly-ache bush
bifasciatus
boatowner
bottle mouth syndrome
boundary integral method
cable equalization
Clerodone
Clumber spaniels
colliculose
comisoes
comprint
congou teas
continued from...sheet
current instruction segment register
customer card
Deeson
depth of discharge
dialectical anthropology
diplomycin
distributed weight
double action die
dye and lacquer spreader with roller
economic contract
Elvis the Pelvis
film store
fit-shaced
funkia sieboldiana h.k. hosta sieboldiana engl.
Furanojaponin
Gainsborough
Gilbert-type delta
global station
grounding switch for busbar
hab
heavy liftings
heavy vehicles
hennish
Houyet
hypogastric veins
inequitable exchange
inphant
Jerusalem pony
La Caja
legal form
list element
local memory infection
loxoconcha machoui
LPDG
Magnoliopsida
mahers
mandatory field
myllen
Nances Bonitos
nom.
nonparametric estimation
northern snow bedstraws
oiling drop-feed
oriented cell
outs-of-the-blue
Phuc Tho
Phyllagathis longearistata
polyphasic anaplasy
presuming upon
price-choosing behavior
Queyras
rear leading mark
rugged terrain
S level
scrimshander
sensidyne
sheep herder
shower ... with
Sir Leonard Hutton
small pipe-line
spacer implants
speed-checks
TD-SCDMA
text-management
Thomas Cook
thought about
tiree
transphosphorylases
transposition wire
truck with crane
utility theory
veyron
virilizing tumor
viziership
voluter
well spaced
work sb up
Y.M.C.A.
yanks