时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语王-想说就说(五)


英语课
Section 1 three Customs 2 风俗习惯

So I'm on the fifth floor?How come this hotel has no fourth floor.

所以我在五楼?这间饭店怎么没有四楼?

Four is an unlucky number here,Peter.Four sounds like death in Chinese.Hotels often have no fourth floor.

"四"是不吉利的数字,Peter."四"在中文听起来像"死".这里的饭店常常没有四楼.

I see.Oh,I know what I wanted to ask.How much should I tip 3 this guy?

我懂了.啊,我想起来我要问你的问题了.我应该给这位老兄多少小费?

People don't usually tip here,but you can.Fifty dollars should be more enough.

通常我们不给小费,但是如果你要给也可以.五十块应该就很多了.

详细解说:

1.How come this hotel has no fourth floor.这间饭店怎么没有四楼?

同义例句:How come the bill was so high?账单怎么会这么贵?

How come you are so late?你怎么迟到这么久?

2.Hotels often have no fourth floor.这里的饭店常常没有四楼.

同义例句:It's quite normal that hotels have no fourth floor.这里的饭店常常没有四楼.

It's common practice that hotels have no fourth floor.

3.I know what I wanted to ask.我想起来我要问你的问题了.

4.Fifty dollars should be more than enough.五十块应该绰绰有余了.

同义词句:Fifty dollars should be fine.五十块应该可以了.Fifty dollars should do.五十快就可以了.Fifty dollars would do.五十块就可以了.Fifty dollars should do nicely.五十块就可以了.Fifty dollars sounds about right.五十块差不多.

补充例句:I've eaten more than enough.I've eaten too much.我已经吃太多了.

1 section
n.部分,章节,地段;断面,剖面;部门,科;阶层,界;vt.把…分成段
  • There is one section of very long road to leave. 有一段很长的路要走。
  • How many people work in your section?你部门有多少人?
2 customs
n.海关,关税
  • The customs officials turned the man over to the French police.海关官员把那个人移交给了法国警察。
  • They are collecting customs.他们正在收缴关税。
3 tip
n.顶,尖端,梢,末端;倾斜;垃圾场;小费;轻击;指点;秘密消息;vt.装顶端;使倾斜,使翻倒,泄露;告诫;暗示;给...小费,轻击;vi.倾斜,翻倒,倾覆,踮脚走,给小费
  • She nearly forgot to give him a tip for his service.她几乎忘记给他的服务付小费。
  • I have his name on the tip of my tongue.我几乎想起他的名字。
学英语单词
accounting of subordinate units
acetyl-spiramycin
additivity of information
agatiform
amended subject
amperemetre
Aragon
Archaeocyathida
attend the dedication of
autotrophic callus
axial forces
Bacillus neapolitanus
bad breaks
barela
bristol chan.
by a whisker
cevadine
chartering practice
chrome tanner
cirrenalia palmicola
cloxacillin sodium
debarrent
deinterlacing
dentulous
derreen bridge
distance calculating repeater
document for claim
Dīma Shet'
ECDC
excision filter
excon
exosporella rhois-javanicae
fang hsiang shih
fibrofatty degeneration of placenta
gas-diode switch
granary breads
graphic anode
hard-muscled
hardware reset
harlequins
head hunters
hepatic diarrhea
heulandite
jubilarians
kebaps
leukacytic ferment
Liograpta
locutorship
Maghama(Magama)
mandrill
mesosporium
missile test and readiness equipment (mtre)
mode-pulling effect
musical alexia
nondecreasing random function
of record
out-Herod Herod
paraneuronal cell
pathosticate
phosphorylases
Pintuyan
playcenters
pointed-toe
polar cartilage (or pole cartilage)
potassium fluorotellurate
protected system resource
psoadotomy
puccinia ruelliae
pusher for setting calendar
Ragusan
red-legged partridge
Reed-Hodgkin disease
rezzonico
ruckelshaus
salacities
salt of wisdom
Saratoga chip
search word
second ploughing
sheet-metal flat roof
sick notes
signal jamming
sintered aluminium product
soap dodger
social stratification in science
steady-state constant
stoats
sulfindigotic acid
surface-equivalent
tatanic contraction
these parts
thin dielectric capacitor
Thwaites Glacier
toplines
unit mould
vaccinatings
vant-
vertical knife divider
viscoelastic foundation
wall of death
X-extent
yarn guide roller