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
abyssal basin
acropora florida
adams formula
agitation granulation
Amadi Ounaré
ashied
Bickerton I.
blasche
blocked currency
boehm lamellae
bucket arm length
centre by-pass
channelm engineering service
chlorine generator
coalescent pack
cog wheel casing
cointegrant
colorants
common corundum
concrete cover
crescent incision
cutting-off bushing
Cycas longipetiolula
Damocloids
digitigrades
dioscorine
drivein
electric gramophone pick-up arm
empathist
EOB (end of block)
evaluation of semen
evolvability
fair-maids-of-frances
fascinoma
foot lever press
footrope knot
glochidion ovalifolium
grunsels
hand telephone set
handwavium
harmal
hot subdwarf
hymeneally
hypersonic acceleration
Ilex mamillata
in sequence
incandescent detonator
Jamanota
Karkaralinsk
khorri
Kiffa
knapper
lava cupola
leave the nest
lengthen out
lindsaea commixta
maam
mesoscapular
minimum liquid rate
Moxotó
nicolieren budding
ninja sex
non-compliance with the notice period
nothing in common
oil leak detector
order xiphosuras
Packham
Paris Convention
pennate muscle
pergamons
phyllosticta yugokwa
planifications
positive-g period
pressure maintenance
pressurizer relief tank
progressive spiral
proportion set screw
psalm dance tunes (england)
relaycorrelator
releveling
rest of the world accounts
right component
rural hygiene
schr?dinger equation
selecting media
semen physostigmatis
single-phase regulating transformer
special purpose vehicle
specific surface (area)
sprouse
Stockton
sviatonossite(andradite sodasyenite)
teleseismic detection
teletrician
test subject
thymus dependent lymphocytes
traumatocomium
undreamedof
undulated sheet iron
vapor trail
vapour pressure isotope effect
Vegard law