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
a man of action
a-ps
adjustable stop hook
Bermo Res.
birnbaum-saunders distribution
bisesi
bottom water plugging
bradleyite
breeds
broussonetine
bundled steel wires
burn-up monitor
burning kiln
Caerleon
carminophil
cherry currant
CHYAR
ciliary muscles
claim secured by a lien
comparative crystal chemistry
copper glances
coryphaenoides
customer design
Decumaria
digresseth
dreaded lurgy
duerr
dulbeccoes
Equipertine
ermisches
etaminal
fibrohemorrhagic
fluorescent plate technique
foreign body sensation
Fructose-1-6-phosphate
genus lomatias
ghbs
goal-conditions
golden farewell
Gomphotheriidae
Hercules'-club
highly-geared
huene
inductors
laminated stator
lamprolonchaea metatarsata
Larsson
Lauenburg
leukoplakic
long term assets
longest common substring
look out for yourself
mach trim coupler
malar stripe
marsileaceous
masuring bin
Microsoft Foundation Classes
nagyvary
neutron detection efficiency
newsholmes
nijazi
Nizmennyy, Mys
nunciatures
ode
oil-well
pangeosyncline hypothesis
pass partition(plate)
payoff perturbation
performance process
Plexus vasculares
politz
Potentilla rupestris
printing sequence
read-in
reference sound intensity
regulated fees
resetment
ring-roads
rio florido
scientific technological advance
sea-oak
shoulder length
snail-shell
solar thermal technology
spandrel beam
st. crispins
static coincident code rate for Hanzi
stirket
streptotrichal
subscription ledger
surgical sutures
T-iron
thickening material
thraupid
to avert
tranquilizing agent,tranquilizing drug
Tsuga formosana
unsearchable
Watling-street
Wemba-Wemba
whole current classifier