时间:2018-11-28 作者:英语课 分类:旅游英语口语


英语课

OFFICER: May I see your passport please?

CHARLES: Here is my passport. And this is the declaration form.

OFFICER: What is the purpose of your visit to the United States?

CHARLES: Business. I have a trade convention I'm attending in Chicago.

OFFICER: This visa is good for two weeks. Do you intend to stay longer than that?

CHARLES: No. I will fly back twelve days from now.

OFFICER: And you will do some traveling while you are here?

CHARLES: Yes, I want to spend a couple days in New York. I have friends there I will visit.

OFFICER: What do you have in the bag, Mr. Lee?

CHARLES: Just my cameras, my clothes, and some books.

OFFICER: You're not carrying any food with you today?

CHARLES: No.

OFFICER: Okay, Mr. Lee. This is just a routine check. Would you mind opening the bag for me?

CHARLES: Alright.

OFFICER: Hmm. You have three cameras. Are you a photographer?

CHARLES: No, my company makes cameras.Well, I'm also a photographer, but two of these are for our display.

OFFICER: I see. And what's in this bag?

CHARLES: Egg tarts 1.

OFFICER: I thought you said you didn't have any food with you today.

CHARLES: I thought you meant vegetables and meat when you asked me. Things like that.I don't have any vegetables.

OFFICER: I'm sorry, Mr. Lee. Egg tarts are food too. We will have to confiscate 2 these.

CHARLES: Confiscate?

OFFICER: Yes, we will have to dispose of them.

CHARLES: It's too bad. They are very delicious.

OFFICER: I know. One out of every three travelers from Taiwan seems to be carrying them.They are being smuggled 3 in by the thousands.

CHARLES: Oh, well. Not by me.

OFFICER: No, not today at least. Enjoy your visit to the United States, Mr. Lee.

CHARLES: Thank you.

海关人员:我可以看一下你的护照吗?

查尔斯:这是我的护照,这是入境申请表。

海关人员:你到美国的目的是什么?

查尔斯:商务,我要到芝加哥去开商务会议。

海关人员:你的签证期限是两个星期,你打算待更久吗?

查尔斯:不会,我十二天之后就要回去了。

海关人员:这段期间你会去旅行吗?

查尔斯:是的,我想去纽约几天,我在那儿有朋友,要去拜访。

海关人员:李先生,你的袋子里有些什么?

查尔斯:只是一些照相机、衣服和书籍。

海关人员:你没有携带任何食物吧?

查尔斯:没有。

海关人员:好的,李先生,这是例行检查,请你把袋子打开让我看看好吗?

查尔斯:好的。

海关人员:嗯……有三台照相机,你是摄影师吗?

查尔斯:不是,我们公司是生产照相机的。我自己也是摄影师,但是有两台是展示用的。

海关人员:我明白了,那这个袋子里面装什么?

查尔斯:蛋挞。

海关人员:我以为你没有带任何食物。

查尔斯:我以为你是指蔬菜和肉品之类的食物。我并没有带蔬菜。

海关人员:李先生,对不起,蛋挞也算是食物,我们必须充公。

查尔斯:充公?

海关人员:是的,我们将会处理掉。

查尔斯:太可惜了,蛋挞非常好吃。

海关人员:我知道。台湾来的旅客,三个就有一个会带蛋挞。成千的人就成走私了。

查尔斯:我没有。

海关人员:至少今天没有,祝您旅途愉快,李先生。

查尔斯:谢谢。

 



1 tarts
n.果馅饼( tart的名词复数 );轻佻的女人;妓女;小妞
  • I decided to make some tarts for tea. 我决定做些吃茶点时吃的果馅饼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They ate raspberry tarts and ice cream. 大家吃着木莓馅饼和冰淇淋。 来自辞典例句
2 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?
3 smuggled
水货
  • The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网
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a tale of woe
acetolactic acid
acousto-optic mode-locker frequency double
alchies
allowance for bad debts
AND-NAND-OR-NOR
automatic distribution phonogram equipment
auxiliary air pump
banklike
Beās Dam
biodiplomatica
borreliosis
Brenta, Fiume
Brown-Eye
bullock's heart tree
Caesalpinia bonducella
cipher symbol
clectroencephalogram
Clesidren
co-venture
congealing die
Coping Out
Cornarin
defensive tackle
dippable
dust sb's coat
endophora
ensher
estery
expansion-exsiccation machine
extractable matter
fat extender
field spectroscopy
fore-sign
gain stability margin
ganaches
genus Meniscium
guardees
gynandromyxis
hairshirted
hard vacuum
high-grade alloy structure steel
holomyarian type
hydraulic brake system
ice tackle
impression die
ink mist process
janus (biology research reactor)
kajima
leather apron
less-skilled workers
liquidation balance sheet
make the shot
Mantang
medicine bundle
melopepon
min dialects
minimum quotations
narrow band charactascope
noselite melteigite
organophosphorus compounds
overtone
pancreatic extract
past-tensest
pc-at
pelmet
photo-shoots
postfloral movement
proposed law
Radew
radio controlled flight
resaleable
rheological response
Rimini
rotary index drum
round bilge
rubber landing ship
sabre - toothed cat
sitting magistrate
sneakin'
spliceosome
stayovers
stop shift
stub-to vessel weld
sun-shading
Sutta Pitaka
telegraph operator
texasin
thermite reactions
throwball
toluene diamine
Troyekurovo
UDF
UHFO
United Fruit Company
unloading machine with chain buckets
unusualities
Warrender, C.
WFW
yellowwort
yoricks