时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:2016年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

ESL Podcast 1182 – Finding a Parking Space 


Alan: We have to find a parking space. Let’s drive around the block one more time. Did you say that the restaurant we’re going to has no off-street parking at all? 


Sasha: None. When I called the restaurant earlier today, I was told they have ample street parking. 


Alan: Obviously not on a Saturday night. Look, there’s a space! 


Sasha: No, look at the curb 1. That’s a loading zone and the area in front of it is a red zone. 


Alan: This is impossible. We’ve driven along this street four times and there are no parking spaces, not even ones with meters. I’d be willing to plug the meter all evening if we could just find a space. 


Sasha: I have an idea. Pull into that red zone. 


Alan: Okay, but we can’t park here. What’s that? 


Sasha: This is my grandfather’s handicapped placard. I borrowed it. We can park here with this. 


Alan: I don’t think so. We’re going to get a parking ticket or worse, and we really shouldn’t be using your grandfather’s placard anyway. 


Sasha: Do you know how many strings 2 I had to pull to get a reservation at the hottest restaurant in town? Come on, let’s go. Why are you checking your wallet? Dinner is my treat. 


Alan: I just want to make sure I have enough cash for a taxi when your car gets towed! 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 curb
n.场外证券市场,场外交易;vt.制止,抑制
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
2 strings
n.弦
  • He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上,随意地拨着吉他的弦。
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
学英语单词
abandonment of action
abdominocyesis
absent from work
Agriophyllum lateriflorum
air quality improvement area
albert edward mt.
alims
anti-symmetrical buckling
appomattox
APS (appearance potential spectroscopy)
ataraxic
atypical division
authority for issue
baju
Baradine
Blekinge
Brabeck-Letmathe
bult
cabbala
castras
cathedralesque
causing death
clenched shackle
cockerel chick
collector electrode pipe
complete synthesis
consequentiql damages
constitutional judiciary
decahydroquinoline
diffusible
dispensement
drawn yarn
enlightened political economy
eskimo curlews
ethyl susceptibility
ferruginous sediment
fibrotile
firouz
Futures option
gas bearing coal seams
half cargo condition
Hammett-Zucker postulate
hardware fault detection
horizontal multivibrator
horse-fish
imperial institute of medicine
international audience
isthmus urethrae
Kagungan
kimet
Köditz
line piping
locking code extension character
mariguana
monoxyhexaster
Neck-Futu
newly-defined
niguel
non-selfs
nonelastic elongation
noninflationary wage increase
organizational registration authority
overexposed
overload valve
paglia
Phaleucian
photoacclimation
photodegradative
Phyllostachys violascens
ponganis
Pregnan-3a-ol-20-one
Pritzker family
profits squeeze
prosecution history estoppel
pulse delay
remick
renix
reverse-flow muffler
rhodamine g
Rhododendron shimianense
rodmen
Rommel
shark form ship
sinderesis
siwi
skin drag
Sochong-do
spiling
stage manage
stallery
stichuss
stone soil
superior conjunctions
sus lydekkeri
tai-otoshi
tandjong
tankodromes
tape block
uncertificated shareholder
unstartling
vasana
well-liquored