时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

  I picked up my luggage off of the baggage carousel 1 and noticed that the handle was broken and some of my clothes were falling out of the open zipper 2. The bag looked like it had been mishandled, but could someone have tampered 3 with it, too? I went to the baggage claim office to report what I found.

Clerk: Next. How can I help you?

Jordan: I retrieved 4 my bag and found that it’s been damaged.

Clerk: What’s the problem?

Jordan: The handle is broken and I think someone has gone through my bag.

Clerk: That was probably security. They may have searched your luggage.

Jordan: Yes, but my camera is missing and everything is in disarray 5. I’m not sure if other things are missing.

Clerk: Why don’t you make a more thorough inspection 6 over there and then you can file a claim for anything that’s missing or broken.

Jordan: Will I be compensated 7 for the damage to my luggage and for my missing camera?

Clerk: I really can’t say.

Jordan: How long will it take for someone to contact me?

Clerk: I really can’t say. Next!

...

I knew a blow off when I heard it, but I looked through my bag anyway and filled out the forms. Who knows? Miracles do happen, don’t they?

Script by Dr. Lucy Tse



n.旋转式行李输送带
  • Riding on a carousel makes you feel dizzy.乘旋转木马使你头晕。
  • We looked like a bunch of awkward kids riding a slow-moving carousel.我们看起来就像一群骑在旋转木马上的笨拙的孩子。
n.拉链;v.拉上拉链
  • The zipper is red.这条拉链是红色的。
  • The zipper is a wonderful invention.拉链是个了不起的发明。
v.窜改( tamper的过去式 );篡改;(用不正当手段)影响;瞎摆弄
  • The records of the meeting had been tampered with. 会议记录已被人擅自改动。 来自辞典例句
  • The old man's will has been tampered with. 老人的遗嘱已被窜改。 来自辞典例句
v.取回( retrieve的过去式和过去分词 );恢复;寻回;检索(储存的信息)
  • Yesterday I retrieved the bag I left in the train. 昨天我取回了遗留在火车上的包。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He reached over and retrieved his jacket from the back seat. 他伸手从后座上取回了自己的夹克。 来自辞典例句
n.混乱,紊乱,凌乱
  • His personal life fell into disarray when his wife left him.妻子离去后,他的个人生活一片混乱。
  • Our plans were thrown into disarray by the rail strike.铁路罢工打乱了我们的计划。
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。
补偿,报酬( compensate的过去式和过去分词 ); 给(某人)赔偿(或赔款)
  • The marvelous acting compensated for the play's weak script. 本剧的精彩表演弥补了剧本的不足。
  • I compensated his loss with money. 我赔偿他经济损失。
学英语单词
alternating current tachogenerator
alto cumulus cumulogenitus
aluminized phosphor screen
amissum quod nescitur non amittur
amphiphytes
amplify
antecedents
auscultate
baba au rhums
Baker Life Chute
basewide
batch-processing system
biocybernetician
bottommost
bourla
bow troley
breisch
British Insurance Brokers Association
brush-strokes
camphyl alcohol
case bay part
Chloro-IPC
circumferentially compressible piston-ring
claviorgan
clover-leaf slin
cluster-cup
collisional half-width
conveyor weighing scale
debauch
decide in favor of somebody
digital right management
direct-current transducer
double sided floppy disk
economic rationalism
electroencephalogrraphy
erco-ler
f.w.d.
false eyelashes
fatiguability
fire brigades
free standing gravity davit
hilleman
hirsty
hob gear
honeypots
impersonal security
in hiding
indium arsenide photodiode
inhibitive factor
internal cooling generator
ISTN
jawline
Karroo syndrome
ketoaldehyde
labial-version malposition
line-sequential color-television
lipoma petrificans
main propulsion motor switchboard
monogyro compass
natlock system
Northumberland National Park
NWFZ
occipital ring
orderly marketing arrangement
oscillating piston
outbound parcel traffic
oxylophyte
paired feeding
pearly-shelled mussel
periodic payment with present value of l yuan
plateau lake
pricked
Priestley, Joseph
pyranisamine
quasi-continuous character(grunberg 1952)
radio-telemeter transmitter
red efts
remove from an account
right parasternal impulse
scanning hole
seat of honour
self-clearance
single-step debugging
south-southwestward
straight road
styroflex cable
supramine yellow G
synovial cyst of popliteal space
tahsish
tariff free zone
Teherani
the Revolution
tie adzing machine
townfolk
trimethyl-urea
turuq
unionless
unuse
Wien distribution law
wire chase
wuxing
x-x translocation