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
acetyl-1-myrtenol
alluvial meadow soil
banded gneiss
beat-frequency system
bejumbled
bit in
bond scission
borthiin
brik
brockite
Buchner,Eduard
calcation
carburizei
casual house
central veins
Chinese furniture
Chinese Research Council of Technical Economy
chromatolyses
combination order
corylus americanas
counte line
CRT
de-escalate
deacon's bench
denverbased
discharge outfall
disrelishable
double-post
dual ideal
endogenous pigment
enumeration-i/o package
eotetranychus maai
flat as a pancake
folding pocketmagnifier
forecasting process
francis josephs
gainzas
Gordon sign
grasby
green cigar
gutturalizes
hectocycle
higher-mode coupling
in someone's boots
intestinalisation
isobutyl methyl ether
isotopic indicator
jumblement
lanius excubitors
laser-two-focus anemometer
loose pin
material usage standards
McCar.
misliterate
mobility constant
monochrome multipersistence screen
multi-column journal
nuptial coloration
one's own experience
ophthalmite
payroll deduction
phenyl ketone
pistacia lentiscuss
pneumoren
pork fillet
potamoplankton
press button sprinkling system
pressure control unit
probablistic logic
profit-maximize
putrefacton
radicalness
range in
re-group
real axes
record size
renounceable provisional letter of allotment
RMLV
sinostrangalia ikedai
spalacid
squiredom
stocking fillers
striple
superunda
Suspension Insulators
take a poor view of
technetronic
tetragonal parahemihedron
thalsimidine
thickening in region of a joint
Thraupidae
timer programmer
to pour oil on troubled waters
trading hours
train mates
trimethylacetates
triquarks
undissembling
vena caudalis dorsalis
Venus' comb
virgater
whenwes