时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄中级美国英语


英语课


Jimmy is at the Boston Airport. He hails a taxi.
T: Where to, buddy 1?
J: The Sheraton Hotel, please.
T: Ok. Is this your first time in Boston?
J: Yes. What's a good place for sightseeing?
T: If you have a lot of time on your hands, you can walk the Freedom Trail.
J: I'm kind of strapped 2 for time.
T: In that case, whatever else you do, you must check out the observatory 3 on the 63rd floor of the John
   Hancock Building.
J: Isn't the building all glass?
T: That's right. You can't miss it. Here's your hotel. That'll be $17.50, please.
J: Here's $20.00. Keep the change.

miser    n.stingy adj. or cheap
There is a striking change in his personality. 明显的   change 可数
How much do you have in change? = How much change do you have?    change 不可数
barber shop     beauty shop(or beauty parlor 4, beauty salon)美容院
hail a taxi  拦一部taxi
what's a good place for sightseeing/eating/movie?
Thailand is a great place to go sightseeing.
strap means tie or bind
be strapped/hard/pressured for time
check out (the observatory) = take a look at
look out over the city



1 buddy
n.(美口)密友,伙伴
  • Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气,老兄。有什么麻烦吗?
  • Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了,你这家伙!
2 strapped
adj.用皮带捆住的,用皮带装饰的;身无分文的;缺钱;手头紧v.用皮带捆扎(strap的过去式和过去分词);用皮带抽打;包扎;给…打绷带
  • Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy. 一定要把孩子牢牢地拴在婴儿车上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The soldiers' great coats were strapped on their packs. 战士们的厚大衣扎捆在背包上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 observatory
n.天文台,气象台,瞭望台,观测台
  • Guy's house was close to the observatory.盖伊的房子离天文台很近。
  • Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.格林威治天文台的职员们每天对大钟检查两次。
4 parlor
n.店铺,营业室;会客室,客厅
  • She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
  • Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店?
学英语单词
acc automatic combustion control
Aescusa
ayre
azimuth at future position
ball inclination
bar to bar test
behide
benignants
biosome(lehmann 1947)
bundle sth up
caranx leptolepis
cash market
caudifolius
chigoes
chromosaccharometer
circumligation
CNRU
combustible gas-forming method
concinne
consession
cyclone exhauster
cystic adenoepithelioma
data system interface
difenax
direct goods
eczema exfoliativum
Ehrlich's hemoglobinemic bodies
Elland Road
encarsia singularis
engineering of environmental management
excess high pressure valve
exposure calculator
french territory of the afars and the issas
fuel supply point
furnace wall heat release rate
greenback
group move
Guyana current
hexagon head bolt
hypocharassus ferinosus
imbrication lines
intertragic
iterative computing method
Jacquemier's sign
killian's bundle
klaiman
lakenheaths
lammass
law of iterated logarithm
less-than-satisfactory
let-game
lever of force
low-inertia motor
maintenance of equipment
making believe
manias
many-splendored
Mar'insko
maximum distortion
Microtraps
mini-market
msas
multisegament magnetron
natural drug-resistance
olidia
Ophiclinini
order picking truck
phymatodes scolopendria (burm.f.)ching
plereme
pneumoventriculi
predeclaring
Principle of Legal Presumption of Fault in Matters of Collision
Priseoline
R-T segment
rada
radiophotographies
roller setting
ruthenium(iii) bromide
saccoglossa
scan test
shaft alley
sideshadows
solumedrol
spatial frequency filtering
standard ratio method
Strasbourg turpentine
structural imperfection
subcookie
subset of mesh points
sunroof sedan
tautness meter
the value
thermal chemical test
thermodynamics of liquid metallic solutions
three-pointodontograph
timorensis
transit dose
viscose staple
Vistagan
wall saltpeter
woodos
Zior