时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

   Sybil: Oh, this is it! This is the perfect location for our new store!


 
  Leo: Sorry, but this space isn’t zoned 1 for retail 2. It’s zoned for offices.
 
  Sybil: But couldn’t we get the zoning commission to re-zone it?
 
  Leo: That’s not an easy process. The city’s urban planners decided 3 that this space would be best suited for offices. Changing their minds won’t be easy.
 
  Sybil: I’ve heard that a lot of new developments are being zoned for mixed-use. That’s all we need to do. We just need this building to be re-zoned for mixed-use. Then, we can use the space downstairs for commercial purposes and use the upstairs space for offices or even housing.
 
  Leo: This area was zoned for industrial purposes over 30 years ago. It took 10 years for it to be re-zoned for offices. It may take another 10 years to get it re-zoned for commercial purposes. Do you think you can wait 10 years to open your store?
 
  Sybil: No, I guess not. What if I rented this space for an office and then ran my store out of it?
 
  Leo: You’ll never get a business license 4 for your store if you do that. Each type of zoning has different ordinances 5 and the inspector 6 won’t be fooled.
 
  Sybil: All right. I’ll look for another space, but nothing will live up to this one.
 
  Leo: That’s the spirit!
 
  Script by Dr. Lucy Tse

adj.划成区域的,束带的v.(飞机、汽车等)急速移动( zoom的现在分词 );(价格、费用等)急升,猛涨
  • This small town has been zoned as a shopping area. 这个小镇已划作商业区。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They zoned the house into sleeping, sitting and dining rooms. 他们将房子区分成卧室、客厅和餐厅。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
n.条例,法令( ordinance的名词复数 )
  • These points of view, however, had not been generally accepted in building ordinances. 然而,这些观点仍未普遍地为其他的建筑条例而接受。 来自辞典例句
  • Great are Your mercies, O Lord; Revive me according to Your ordinances. 诗119:156耶和华阿、你的慈悲本为大.求你照你的典章将我救活。 来自互联网
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。
学英语单词
AAFPRS
Acantholimon kokandense
accommodated party
algologist
anaerobic fluidized bed
arctium minuss
autoset road marking
bellman's quasilinearization technique
blind head
braggatory
carlines
cascade everlastings
cavum medullare ossium
CCCCP
cherepovetss
cinnamon-red
conceits
coupling changement
crewpeople
cum explosions
data base facility
data centers
dataphone
elastic and plastic flow
electrocholecystectomy
equistar
erthotropous
floating harbor
fundamental need
gens d'armes
golimumab
gwati
heat insulating fire brick
hexanediol
Humphrey equation
identifying plate
inq.
instantaneous impulse
judicial errors
Kaikoura Range
Kamskatchan
keep one's own advice
ketching
Laghouat, Wilaya de
Lysionotinum
marsh treaders
meninigocele
meteorologic instrument
modern-era
moose deer
munida asprosoma
Niger
nitrogen-bearing
not in any sense
obseek
octagon steel
overperform
partial shipments and transhipment
photometric solution
pipetongs
pitching syncline
plotty
Porsonian
portfolio movement
punching powder
Pwegan
quasi-thermal light
re-expression
remote power feeding system
RNIB
Rossiya
scalping-knife
schizocarpie
screen center
semi-central system
sensationish
Siguero
sizing-up
Skanda
sodium fluorosulfate
soldered splice
strawberry-shrub family
stream tube approach method
structurebreaking
subcollector
subnotebook computer
sulcuss
Tax Reserve Certificate Scheme
thiones
tie-down device
tunforss
u-quark
underwater stage decompression
vain glory
vibration abatement
videomail
visual fire control
wetteth
Winisk L.
work-soiled
xanthothricin
yellow cypness