时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:Eztalk美语会话


英语课

Paul checks out the collectible area


Salesman:[Walking over] Do you like that vintage clock? It's almost fifty years old.

Paul:Really? It almost looks brand new. And the color designs are so retro.

Salesman:Well, in the fifties, that clock used to be inside a drive-in burger joint 1.

Paul:No way! My parents used to hang out at those places.

Salesman:This is one of my favorite items.

Paul:How did you get it?


collectible (n.)

= collectable (n.) 珍品(古董、搜藏等)。collectible area 旧品的区域

I can sell you my collectible baseball cards.

我可以卖给你我收集的棒球卡。


vintage (a.)

古老的,陈旧的。

A: What do you do in your free time?

你空闲时都做些什么?

B: I collect vintage clocks.

我搜集古董钟。


retro (n.,a.)

复古的;复古的事物

A: What kind of music does the club play on Fridays?

这家俱乐部星期五晚上演奏哪种音乐?

B: Retro. And it's usually from the 80s.

复古的。而且通常都是八○年代的。


the fifties

五○年代

My dad grew up in the fifties.

我爸生长在五○年代。


drive-in burger joint (n.)

停车场餐厅,是一种五○年代常见的营业模式,客人购买食物后,就直接在店家的停车场食用。drive-through (a., n.) 免下车的,就是「得来速」;免下车餐厅、商店。burger joint 是「汉堡店」。joint是「场所,店」

Our parents used to eat at drive-in burger joints 2.

我父母常在停车场餐厅吃饭。


hang out

闲逛

We should hang out more often.

我们该常常一起出来玩。


item (n.)

对象,物品

Would you like to try on this item, miss?

小姐,您要试试这一件吗?


保罗在卖搜藏品的区域闲晃


售货员:(走上前)你喜欢那个古董钟吗﹖它已经快五十岁了。

保 罗:真的﹖看起来跟新的一样。而且这配色好复古。

售货员:呃,在五○年代,那个钟曾放在停车场汉堡店里。

保 罗:不会吧!我爸妈从前常在那种地方约会。

售货员:这是我最喜欢的搜藏品之一。

保 罗:你怎么取得的



1 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
2 joints
接头( joint的名词复数 ); 关节; 公共场所(尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所) (非正式); 一块烤肉 (英式英语)
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on gas mains. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在煤气的总管道上了。
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on steam pipes. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在蒸气管道上了。
学英语单词
aggrege
airshows
antiglare
asteraceaes
at the instant brunt
atrai r.
autogenous soldering weld
barn-red
Boussieres
bridgeless
bull press
butterfly doors
calappa calappa
calocycletta virginis (haeckel)
casing blowing
chaovalit
Charles the Bald
Chausu-yama
Civ. Pro.
cladonia floerkeana
Comechingones, Sa.de
condylus medialis tibiae
covalent component
curvet
cut the cable
Cymbidium micranthum
different poultryfarming
Digital Micromirror Device
diphosphopyridine
Don Liang
dramatic expression
elliptic waveguide
emission delay
end-point analysis
enslaveth
expansion furnace
flowingly
Frankland's method
fullers' asthma
genus Lecanopteris
grandison
gross national products deflator
hand axe
hinge shaft for bed cover
hoil
hybrid comparator
hyper-media
idlebird
in situ perfusion
inebriate
interior packing
internal defocusing
intravenous narcosis
Italian monetary unit
kinetic reactivity unit
m-index
machineshop
microregulates
Nicholsicypris normalis
nickel delay-line
night vision goggles
northern sea robins
oeconomicuss
pale crepe
peek-a-boo check
performance parameters of motor vehicles and trailers
periareolar incision
pit out
pleiotropism
powder diffraction camera
preapply
predelinquent
professional certificate
psychopathics
pulse jamming
puopulsion control stand
pure laminar flow
qadhi
quadruple cyclone
R band
railway axle box
relative amplitude preserve
retenue
salt plug
scatter loss
school-community
scroll bar director
seepage gauge
self-vulcanizing
shut together
snoot
steam disengaging surface
sternoclavicular disc
strain transducers
Tebonin
tensides
transparency film
two-way carrier acquisition time
under way lamp
unens
Wolstanton
Zoysia macrostachya