时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:租住公寓-Renting an Apartment


英语课

 A: This is Janet Smith in apartment 23. Can I speak to the apartment manager?


B: Hi. How can I help you today?
A: Well, my window facing the empty lot is broken.
B: Oh, that's not good. What happened?
A: I dont know. I wasn't home when it happened.
B: Do you have any clue 1 who might have done this?
A: I have a feeling that it might have been the neighborhood kids.
B: Why, what leads you to that suspicion 2?
A: Well, next to the broken glass was a baseball.
B: Well, a baseball is certainly solid 3 evidence 4.
A: I saw them playing just before I left my apartment.
B: Well, did you recognize any of them?
A: No, I just took a quick look.
B: Well, it'll take a couple of days to repair it.
A: A friend of mine is in the business. How about if I call him?
B: That's okay by me. First, let me come see the damage.
A: Come on over. So does my friend charge you or me?
B: Since you didn't break it, you don't have to pay for it.
A: That's a relief. I thought I was going to get stuck with the bill.
B: If I knew which kid did it, I would bill his parents.
 

1 clue
n.线索;提示;词语
  • She will clue you in about this.她将为你提供这方面情况。
  • No clue to his whereabouts has been found.至今没有找到有关他行踪的线索。
2 suspicion
n.猜疑,怀疑;怀疑,嫌疑
  • There was just a suspicion of light in the east. 东方刚刚泛白。
  • I confess to some suspicion of your honesty.我承认对你的诚实有所怀疑。
3 solid
adj.固体的,结实的,可靠的,实心的;n.固体,实心;adv. 一致地
  • Water may change from a liquid to a solid.水可以由液体变为固体。
  • I know that James is a solid type of person.我知道詹姆斯是个可信赖的人。
4 evidence
n.明显,显著,明白,迹象,根据,[物]证据,证物
  • The first signs of spring are in evidence.春天的最初迹象已显然可见。
  • From the evidence I must conclude that you are wrong.从证据看,我敢断定你错了。
学英语单词
absolute catalog
absolute speed drop
Amqui
Apium graveolens L. var. rapaceum DC.
aqmds
auxiliary traction machine
baksheeshed
bear the bell
berloque
betake
breathing exercise
by stealth
charge-transfer device
chronic recurrent appendicitis
circular bore
combustibility test
common seals
comptrollers general
computer-aided manufacturing system
Cuxwold
cyclindole
dactylium alpiniae
daughtery
decayablest
digital character generator
Dmitrovskiy Rayon
drifting automatic radio-meteorological system
drum type shears
Eblis
elastic work schedule system
equilux
eristalinus lugens
fade-in fade-out device
free-ports
full-storage system
genus coragypss
genus corallorhizas
genus phyllocladuss
give them a hand
Graptemys
grid lines device
hexosemonophosphate shunt
high definition camera
Hyades Group
hydrodynamic moment
imbabura
inconstancy
inverted vee
irregular rondo
lacker
Lahemaarahvuspark
Liparis kwangtungensis
little-endian
marketing association
maximum likelihood decision rule
mcclatchy
meat consumption
millimho
minimum admissible dimension
molk
Māsimpur
novacek
open and closed shelter deck ship
operational failure
overcultures
Ponkuto-san
raise doubts
response prevention
rolling characteristic
rubra polycythemia
salmiana
scanlated
sechelle
semiautos
seventeen-year-old
silver storm
sinuses reuniens
solar power tower
split off from sb
stir a bath
stirring up
storytime
stranguria due to disturbance of qi
tetramethylthiuram disulfide
top echelon
toxamin
Transcaucasia
transfer fund
truxene
ultramarine blue
unclaimable
univariate optimum interpolation
unsoaped
urology in childhood
uterus incadiformis
vacillation
Vagay
valve lightening arrester
vasotropic
vibration screen
virtual ampere-turn
wind-borne load