时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

 


Going Through Customs 


Customs Officer: Your passports, please. What is your final destination? 


?zkan: Los Angeles. 


Customs Officer: How long is your stay? 


?zkan: We’ll be there for a week. 


Customs Officer: What is the purpose of your trip? 


?zkan: I’m going there on business and my family is accompanying me on vacation. 


Customs Officer: Who are you traveling with? 


?zkan: This is my wife Ayse, and these are my children, Mustafa and ?mer. 


Customs Officer: Are you bringing in any restricted items? Any plants, fruits and vegetables, meats, or animals? 


?zkan: No. 


Customs Officer: Do you have anything to declare? 


?zkan: We bought some duty-free items in the airport. Here’s the receipt. 


Customs Officer: That’s fine. Step over to the exam station for baggage inspection 1


... 


We opened our bags for inspection, and luckily, the inspector 2 found nothing to confiscate 3 and we got off scot-free. I’m really glad they didn’t find that cat we’re smuggling 4 in as a gift for my favorite podcaster! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 inspection
n.检查,审查,检阅
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
2 inspector
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。
3 confiscate
v.没收(私人财产),把…充公
  • The police have the right to confiscate any forbidden objects they find.如发现违禁货物,警方有权查扣。
  • Did the teacher confiscate your toy?老师没收你的玩具了吗?
4 smuggling
n.走私
  • Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
  • The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
学英语单词
2-propanol
acher
agreement to transfer
alimentary albuminuria
ammunitionless
amplifying head
antifighting
augmenting operator
benefaction
body-beautiful
breadth over fenders
by-matter
campsotrichum circinatum berk. et curt.
carpoclonicum
China Ocean Shipping Tally Company
circumferential prestressing
closures by compartment
complex-amplitude distribution
counter-indemnity
crustalactea
crystal seeds
ctia
cure activating agent
cut into operation
direct broadcasting satellite (dbs)
direct recorder
discontinuous load
drum pallet
duration of peak value of rectangular impulse current
eco-homes
edge-thickness coefficient
efficiency of transformer
emergency contracting brake
ethnophilia
fine needle
finite element model
flesh colour
floating display
flying drum printer
gastroepiloic vein
generic number
genus thalassomas
hash table method
Helicteres obtusa
howlets
IBATAL
ill-at-ease
infuse new life into
inking wheel
instantaneoussound particle velocity
iodine azide
karpovs
law of labour relations
lift the needle
lukoil
match plate molding machine
mcgarrett
microdissector
model tectonics
morphine-scopolamine anesthesia
multicaulis
municipal heating systems
net gross margin variance
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories
on flote
open resource
opercular layer
orthophyre
pancake motor
Petrovskaya
preformationist
preupsilon
principal agrometeorological station
prism alignment
production scale
propylpyrazoletriol
Pushkin
rampions
Ribes fasciculatum
Robert Ranke Graves
rostislav
simplified covering table
solid coating
sorbus sitchenses
spiral polymer
standardized name
steam-power
subclass tree
superindividual crystal
sylvane
table pan torsion balance
take steps
tax assessors
the way of life
traffic mode
triticum boeoticum boiss.t.aegilopoides bal.
twofold frequency system
undergrounder
ungraded
vinsanity
vulvorectal
workers' autonomy