时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

 


Going Through Customs 


Customs Officer: Your passports, please. What is your final destination? 


?zkan: Los Angeles. 


Customs Officer: How long is your stay? 


?zkan: We’ll be there for a week. 


Customs Officer: What is the purpose of your trip? 


?zkan: I’m going there on business and my family is accompanying me on vacation. 


Customs Officer: Who are you traveling with? 


?zkan: This is my wife Ayse, and these are my children, Mustafa and ?mer. 


Customs Officer: Are you bringing in any restricted items? Any plants, fruits and vegetables, meats, or animals? 


?zkan: No. 


Customs Officer: Do you have anything to declare? 


?zkan: We bought some duty-free items in the airport. Here’s the receipt. 


Customs Officer: That’s fine. Step over to the exam station for baggage inspection 1


... 


We opened our bags for inspection, and luckily, the inspector 2 found nothing to confiscate 3 and we got off scot-free. I’m really glad they didn’t find that cat we’re smuggling 4 in as a gift for my favorite podcaster! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 inspection
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。
2 inspector
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
3 confiscate
v.没收(私人财产),把…充公
  • The police have the right to confiscate any forbidden objects they find.如发现违禁货物,警方有权查扣。
  • Did the teacher confiscate your toy?老师没收你的玩具了吗?
4 smuggling
n.走私
  • Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
  • The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
学英语单词
acetabularia moebii
acetate wool
adverse witnesses
Amaranthus retroflexus
ambiguity feature in progrqmming language
angulate (rhombohedral) drainage
apopathetic
bhad-
Bicrenulla
bipolar i disorder
Bongoké
brigandism
cabomba carolinianas
cetrarate
consultative committee for units (ccu)
cowdreys
craziest
dangerous wreck
diamond skin disease of swine
early warning radar
Ebrāhīm Kheyl
epauxesiectomy
extended truth scale
exteroceptive system
family Solanaceae
fault modes and effect analysis
formula calculator
fungia (verrillofungia) repanda
genus tantillas
geographic distance
hog middle
ident
in a mood
inelative
infrared lamps
inspection instruction
interlobular bronchus
ionite (anauxite)
isometric snap style
kingrick
kissui
lack of bisque
line control word
loan account
manufacturer's price
marcus tullius ciceroes
Marine freight
Marsh L.
mfd.
minimal polynomial of matrix
Mirror, The
muck-fork
multiple mode operation
nanometrology
nerve of external auditory meatus
nonapeptides
nonviable transplantation
One Thousand Guineas
optic muscle nerve
oroonoko
orris oil
Pinus monophylla
plationoid contact
plothy
polybotryas
porcelain cone
potassium channel
poursue
power lead-in panel
Prandtl mixing length
prove a bit much
pyridine 1-oxide
quebec
random retrieval
read unit
reconnaissance mapper
resistive pulsed divider
right quotient space
ringneck snake
sahs
sapi-utan
schwendener
self-hatred
sell by inch of candle
serum IgA
shipbody deformation
site selection spectroscopy
sluds
soft X-ray diffuse background of galactic origin
sweathouses
Syntestrin
teniafuges
trigonal holohedry
two-wheel
uap
unbioctium
verbena families
warm-operation
weak caustic liquor
wide cut diesel fuel
wizard
work space pointer