时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

I just moved to L.A. and don’t have a car. Everybody says that you can’t get around this city without one, but I wanted to prove them wrong.


I asked my neighbor to take me to the downtown bus station so I could try taking the bus home. She thought I was crazy but gave me a ride. When I got there, I went inside and got a bus schedule. I looked at the map and figured out that I needed to take three buses to get home. The fare was $1.75 per ride and I could buy a single ticket, a booklet 1 of 20, or a bus pass. I would need transfers 2, too, to change buses.


I took my map and went outside to wait at the bus stop for the Number 8 bus. Soon it pulled up and I got on. I gave my ticket to the bus driver and took a seat. At the stop where I needed to get off, I rang the bell, the bus stopped, and I got off. I waited for the next bus. I waited and waited. A man who was also waiting for the Number 14 bus said that it wasn’t unusual for the bus to be delayed 3. It finally got there and I found out that the bus had broken down along the route 4 and they had to get another bus to take its place. By this time, I was getting pretty tired. Maybe getting a car in L.A. wasn’t such a bad idea.


 



1 booklet
n.小册子,目录单
  • Detailed instructions are included in the booklet.小册子中有详细说明。
  • I picked up a free booklet on tooth care at the dentist's.我在牙医那里拿了一本关于牙齿保健的免费小册子。
2 transfers
n. 接送服务
  • Some proposals to make transfers automatic have been made. 人们已提出了一些自动转让的方案。
  • Embryo transfers speed up the process of building a high-quality herd. 胚胎转移加速了培养优质牛群的步伐。
3 delayed
adj.延时的,定时的v.(使)耽搁,延误( delay的过去式和过去分词 );推迟;使延期;使延迟
  • Deliveries of mail could be delayed because of cost-cutting. 由于削减成本,邮件的递送可能会延迟。
  • The most likely explanation is that his plane was delayed. 最可能的解释是他的飞机晚点了。
4 route
n.路径,途径,路线;vt.确定路线,按规定路线发送
  • On the way home, we took an indirect route.回家的路上,我们绕了一个大圈。
  • The plane did not fly the usual commercial route.飞机没有沿通常的商业航线飞。
学英语单词
a soft mark
active draft
AETVO2
akathisias
alpha humus
antennarius
anthropologic
ANTI-LNPF
anticapacitance
ATCAA
autotuning
backpropagational
bathurst (banjul)
boundary combustion
Bū al Hīdān, Wādī
caudocranial
ceraniol
cervical atypical hyperplasia
characteristic length (scale)
cleft scrotum
clerodendron fragrans vent.
cloistre
collection of betting duty
comere
consecutive fifths
craggier
decelerating screen
deformation of wave
degranulates
digging it
discaging
drilling pain
ecological ampliture
epoxylignanes
espaliers
f.a.b
Filippi's gland
flowing pressure gradient
fluxgates
for size
frienge
gear type locating ring
hawser twist
heavy ion spectrometer
Horchheim
internal tank insulation
jumpin
laser heating
light capacity of floating dock
lophocomi
magmilor
MBS (megabyte/second)
merchant shapes
mixed economies
multi-jet weaving machine
nasty
negative sequence polyphase system
Nexa fly-trap
nickels and dimes
nonisochronous
nonlimit ordinal
normal minimum spacing
o'goblin
overhyped
parallel added
pneumatic motor
power transmission efficiency
pretexing
prima case
primary basalt
proctotomy
profit-sharing
put in a nutshell
quick ear
re-allocation
reactor coolant piping
real management language
remote sensing application in agriculture
retire into obscurity
Savannah River
service signal
Sesbania grandiflora
silica sesquioxide ratio
sodial
stabilizing ability
steam-brake
sulfomycin
tbytes
teletexts
thecodont reptile
time anticoincidence circuit
total-head orifice
toxic colonic dilatation
transportation network
traveling carriage
tuning-fork control
unbreathably
Urechinidae
Veltchitina
wades in
work location
zero profits