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
a counsel of perfection
actual clearance
Aetolia
agglutination of erythrocyte
amoebiasis of genito-urinary system
antinephritics
arcus tendineus fasci? pelvis
award-bearings
board trading system
boshintang
cable coiling drum
cable groove
cadastral control
calling up of capital
capacitance of bushing
capital credit
Carnaby
causativize
ceramic permanent magnet
cerne
Coelomomycetaceae
colonus
compiler-based test tool
control gene
cooled wine
cotless
cross-connection
crus longum incudis
cupolaed
cyclobutanetetrone
cywinski
D-Flavanoids
dancercise
denoting stamp
detinners
drimyl
effective data process
equilibratory
equivalent hull girder
euryoxybiotic
ex-vivo
fabness
fair trade registration
forerunner
gamelike
gedunk
googlish
granitising
half steel
Hanover metal
heat penetration curve
heinrich rudolf hertz
helbich
high level front
high-speed simulation
ill with
Intiyaco
iris forrestii dykes
lamellar ichthyosis
Malgham
manzanola
Mar. Mech. E.
meat scrap
metonomasy
musical intervals
Nggatokae I.
nonrecoverable status
oleo coarifying kettle
optical character reader(ocr)
ortho-nitrophenol
P band
padsaws
pale turquoise
phenol sulfuric acid
probe coil clearance
propenamides
rafflesiana
random queries
Rangeley L.
reboiler circulation pump
receiving cone
rewind crank
saucer-shaped wing
scheduled frequency offset
Shangsi Formation
shortcut keys
Silene nangqenensis
sokols
star earthballs
state-economies
stylocoeniella guentheri
tceq
titanic iron ore (ilmenite)
topotaxial reaciton
ubiquity of the king
uninuclate
vertical-centering control
water sprinkled bosh
whirling
Woodrufite
wrinkled pig leather
yaw moment