时间:2019-02-12 作者:英语课 分类:商务礼节美语


英语课

  Chris告诉同事Jason, 准备买辆新车。

Jason: Hey there Chris, what are you up to?

Chris: I'm just poring 1 over some brochures about various car models.

J: Oh, so you're thinking about buying a new car?

C: Yeah, it looks that way. My wife has been bugging 3 me about it. I thought we could probably survive without one, but with a baby on the way, maybe it is time to get a car.

J: So this would be your first automobile 4?

C: That's right. For quite a few years, I rode a bicycle to work. Then I got a motorbike.

Chris太太怀孕,所以不得不考虑买车。Chris说,my wife has been bugging me about it. 意思是我太太一直在软磨硬泡要说服我,to bug 2 someone是没完没了烦某人的意思,比如说,Stop bugging me. 意思就是别烦我了。这是Chris的第一辆车,他以前都是骑自行车或是骑摩托车上班,但现在 with a baby on the way 眼看就要有孩子了,所以只好考虑买车。Jason表示理解。

J: Yeah, I think I can understand your wife's position. Asking her to ride on a motorcycle when she's pregnant 5 is a tall order.

C: Oh...I don't let her ride with me. It's just too dangerous. She takes the bus to work, but it is sometimes difficult to get a seat and it's crowded and hot.

J: So it's time to buy your very first car! Wow, that's exciting!

C: Yes, but it's also a pretty big financial responsibility.

J: Yeah. I still remember my first car. It was an old clunker that my dad gave me when I turned 17. I drove it around for a couple of years until I scraped together enough money to buy a better secondhand car.

Jason说,让太太挺着大肚子坐Chris的摩托车确实有点强人所难,It's a tall order. tall order 意思是很难完成的任务或要求。Christ解释说,其实太太不坐他的摩托车上班,但是挤公交车也很辛苦,所以才必须买车。Jason说,他的第一辆车是 17岁过生日时老爸送的,It was an old clunker. clunker is spelled c-l-u-n-k-e-r, clunker, clunker 是老破车的意思,开了几年后,攒够了钱才自己买了辆稍微像点儿样的 secondhand car 二手车。Chris 说,

C: I'm having a hard time deciding which model is best for us.

J: Yeah, it is a tough call. Each one has its pros 6 and cons 7. Are you looking for a sedan?

C: Yes, I'd like a Jeep, but my wife says we have to get a comfortable sedan for long drives home to see her relatives.

J: I'd advise you to listen to your wife. She will be sitting in the back taking care of the kids so whatever she prefers is probably the best choice.

Chris说,拿不定主意应该买什么型号的车。Jason承认,It's a tough call. tough call意思是很难做的决定。他还说,不同型号的车有各自的优缺点,pros and cons 是指一件事情的正反面,pros 是优点,正面的,cons 是缺点,负面的。Chris想买吉普车Jeep,但他太太坚持要买轿车sedan, 因为sedan开长途坐着更舒服些。买车还要考虑其他哪些因素呢?我们下次继续听。



细看(pore的现在分词形式)
  • He spent hours poring over the statistics. 他花了数小时钻研这些统计数据。
  • To plan, we spend several poring over the travel brochures. 为了做好计划,我们花了好几个夜晚来研究旅游手册。
n.虫子;故障;窃听器;vt.纠缠;装窃听器
  • There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
  • The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。
[法] 窃听
  • Okay, then let's get the show on the road and I'll stop bugging you. 好,那么让我们开始动起来,我将不再惹你生气。 来自辞典例句
  • Go fly a kite and stop bugging me. 走开,别烦我。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语
n.汽车,机动车
  • He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
  • The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
adj.怀孕的,怀胎的
  • She is a pregnant woman.她是一名孕妇。
  • She is pregnant with her first child.她怀了第一胎。
abbr.prosecuting 起诉;prosecutor 起诉人;professionals 自由职业者;proscenium (舞台)前部n.赞成的意见( pro的名词复数 );赞成的理由;抵偿物;交换物
  • The pros and cons cancel out. 正反两种意见抵消。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • We should hear all the pros and cons of the matter before we make a decision. 我们在对这事做出决定之前,应该先听取正反两方面的意见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.欺骗,骗局( con的名词复数 )v.诈骗,哄骗( con的第三人称单数 )
  • The pros and cons cancel out. 正反两种意见抵消。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • We should hear all the pros and cons of the matter before we make a decision. 我们在对这事做出决定之前,应该先听取正反两方面的意见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
'Ammīq
accessory respiration muscles
ADFVd
antimony trichloride reaction
as easy as falling off a log
attached sash window
attraction of
biofriendly
bone inlay
bottom quarks
butte temoin(outlier eeugenberg)
cherry red
colyar
comedywright
common apse interface set a
computerphobias
computerphones
coscinodiscus thorii
costalia
cross wall temperature curve
Damn Small Linux
degree per second
deryabins
discoloured water
dispensing bottle
double-breasted
dynamic raster shapecorrection
dynaramas
elastic trip
Erave R.
family courts
felt-tip
fire proofing
flue-gas analyzer
fore-stock
Gabor, Dennis
gearing shaft
gerontechnology
gias
Gr(a)eco-Roman style
greatests
Grφnbjerg
Guye's sign
halwachs refractometer
hardware color fill
Huandoy
hydrargyri
idromagnesite (hydromagnesite)
illusration
indesinently
iron-containing alloy
Keihanshin Industrial Zone
kurn
laich
lawful occupier
lillianites
lumped capacity technique
marnis
maturity gap
Meizhou
merchantabilities
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monitoring cell
moving belt interface
MVOS
nitarsone
nodulizing
off the line
order Acarina
pandeistic
Pit.
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prerigor freezing
rat tat tat
ratchetness
Reelfoot L.
residential construction
retrieval technique
Riantec
rubber uses
running weigher
scarecrowing
schuppen structrue
souari nut
stroboscopic pulse radiolysis
sugar-acid
synclinal
Tetramavan
the long ball game
tin(ii) telluride
transport equipment industry
treated tape
unbared
under-ice fishing
vertical coil winding machine
vesico-vaginal fistula
vynal
withdrawal of motion
within ... limits
zinc halide