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。