时间:2019-03-18 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄旅游观光英语通


英语课

   Stopping for Gas


  停车加油
  Kathy and Evan finish their picture taking and continue driving.
  凯西和艾凡拍完照后继续开车。
  E:Uh-oh. My gas gauge 1 is way down. I'd better stop someplace for gas.
  艾 凡:糟了。车子油表指针降到底了。我最好找个地方停车加油。
  K:There's always a gas station or two at every exit of a highway. Just take the next exit.
  凯 西:高速公路的每个出口都有一、两个加油站。就在下个出口下去吧。
  E:As luck would have it, there's an exit right here. You're right. There's the sign for gas. I'll get off here.
  艾 凡:运气真好,这里刚好就有一个出口。你说得没错。那里有个加油的告示牌。我就在这里下去了。
  (Evan drives off the ramp 2 and along the road to the nearest gas station. An attendant 3 comes out to their car.)
  (艾凡开车下了匝道,沿路开到最近的加油站。一名加油站服务人员从里面走出来,来到他们的车前。)
  E:Good morning. Er, do you speak English?
  艾 凡:早安。呃,你会讲英文吗?
  A:Some. Not too good. Can I help you?
  服务员:会一点儿。但不太好。需要我为你效劳吗?
  E:Yes, would you please fill 'er up?
  艾 凡:是的,麻烦你加满好吗?
  A:I'm sorry?
  服务员:对不起,你说什么?
  E:Uh, I'd like some gas. As much as you can.
  艾 凡:嗯,我想加汽油。加越多越好。
  A:Oh! I see. Just a minute. (She fills the tank.)
  服务员:噢!我知道了。请等一下。(她把油箱加满。)
  E:Thank you. Do you take credit cards?
  艾 凡:谢谢。你们这里接受信用卡付费吗?
  A:Sorry?
  服务员:对不起,你说什么?
  E:(showing her a credit card) Do you take these?
  艾 凡:(拿一张信用卡给她看)你们接受这种吗?
  A:Ya! Visa! Just a minute.
  服务员:啊!Visa卡!请稍等一下。
  E:(to Kathy) I guess credit cards are the international language!
  艾 凡:(对着凯西)我想信用卡是国际语言!
  单词短语精讲:
  1. gas gauge 油表
  =gasoline rare
  2. As luck would have it
  事有凑巧/幸运的是
  不巧的是/不幸的是
  例:It started to rain while we were hiking,but as luck would have it we found a small but to keep dry in
  (我们在徒步旅行时开始下雨,但很巧的是,我们发现一间小木屋
  避雨。)
  3. ramp 坡道,斜坡
  例:While driving u}, the name, onto the highway,Mr-. Chen put on his safety belt.
  (陈先生开车上高速公路斜坡时系上厂安全带。)
  4. Yes would you please fill' er up?
  是的,麻烦你把油箱加满好吗?

v.精确计量;估计;n.标准度量;计量器
  • Can you gauge what her reaction is likely to be?你能揣测她的反应可能是什么吗?
  • It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。
n.暴怒,斜坡,坡道;vi.作恐吓姿势,暴怒,加速;vt.加速
  • That driver drove the car up the ramp.那司机将车开上了斜坡。
  • The factory don't have that capacity to ramp up.这家工厂没有能力加速生产。
n.随从,跟班,出席者,服务员;adj.伴随的,出席的,注意的,在场的
  • She was interrupted by the entrance of an attendant.服务员进来,打断了她的话。
  • We met the officer attendant on the general.我们见到了随从将军的副官。
学英语单词
4-methylpyrazole
a thumb in someone's eye
Abū Gamal, Jab.(Abu Gamel)
action sub-coefficient
advanced turbine system
angle of maximum stability
annual cutting-area
antie
anton gregor rubinsteins
aperture colo(u)r
Arzens
baiyuneboite
barbacks
barred pickerel
bernouli's theorem
bottom sieve frame
boundary layer trip
brash
broad band relay network
bum-trip
camara
car allowance
Carcassonne
cargo container
carrier effect
Cashleen
clearance of virus
constant dollar spending
contact radiotherapy
costermonger
countergesture
cum-rags
depeptidized
depth measurement meter
diesel driven power source
diplazium crassiusculum
dome-like
dual code theory of memory
duration of flash
dust setting chamber
editorial
Elsby
FeRAM
fictitious payee
Flinders' bar
ha'
hyperbolisms
hyperpolyglots
in thunder
incenter
instrumentalised
intervention analysis
Kasetsart
Keelby
kill steals
Kistiakowsky-fishtine equation
Listowel
live-bearer
manual transfer pump
marciela
metharbitals
mirifical
mold mould
multiple lesions
navigation missile
necked-and-rough turned roll
noninterlocked switch
notorniss
nuclear ralaxation
oratorially
Paleyan
Pamiri
permutite
pigeon-chested
postdiluvian
prompt decay
reichelt
retrosection
settle your stomach
slsasnsds-s
Spacenet
spore coat
subluxationofatlantoaxialjoint
subsume
thin-film thermoelectrics
threaded shaft
to apply for a job
transcortisol protein
TURBT
turpith
union department store
universal wheel wright machine
unshift on space
V belt drive
vasoconstrictor
vertical flow settling basin(tank)
wild barley
winepresses
winnington
wocts
wormroot
zone leveler