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
aculeatin
alientation of state forest
alighten
alsberg
analog remote unit
anteconsequent stream
anthropophuism
ardisiaquinone
Arsem furnace
atony of uterus
brachiata
Bupleurum kweichowense
chirkest
Chirnogeni
chlorcyclizine
clips
coercive remoulding
colo(u)r proof
compensating feedback loop
confer with
coral bean tree
crystal morphology
cycle of carbon
dolefulnesses
donbega natalensis sond
double-bag
echini
factory testing
Fixed Rules
fluorannite
gate open
genre-specific
geometrical drawing
Gierszowice
had it not been for
Harwell Laboratory
have difficulty doing something
helotic
hill climbing ability
Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus
hydremic ascites
hyperdulia
imploiter
intrarepublican
isentropics
jointing plate
kroutil
laminae papyracea
large sized cable
lesion of globus pallidus
lungiss
Maguire
mapping class
market correction
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
megarchidium
modatrop
monoscope method
multiplicative growth
mylar-faced acoustical tile
nail wire
notice of expiry
oil-bearing crushed breccia
overplayed
platypodine
price
psephomancy
rattle off something
re engagement
religious revival
row and column design
Santee National Wildlife Refuge
segmental phonemics
septarchy
shannan
short-haul aircraft
Sir James Clark Ross
Sixsmith
spinalis capitis
standard procedure manual
stellarators
stock compensation
striped maple (acer pennsylvanicum l.)
switch stepping
tear loose
Tengen
thermal break
Trigonstylopidea
trisulfapyrimidines
TRL (transistor-resistor logic)
typicality effect
unsodden
vagulous
verlanised
verpa conicas
virilise
wave particle duality
what's wrong with
Wyszogród
xenospecific
yudah
Zelah