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.u
additional voluntary contribution
agathidium (agathidium) discretum
as common as an old shoe
autodesmosome
available cash
bergomi
Bird centrifuge
bisecting compasses
blite
blue green
bodyweights
boiler circulation pump
Buldibuyo
carex mitrata aristata
close an account with
cluing
commutative algebraic group
compendiate
completely normal space
computer-based telemetering system
condemned parts
conduction carrier
crypto-fascist
decomposed rock
decoupled loops
diaphragm type cylinder
die pull
dilatational energy
dinocephalian
drilling fluids
ecomomic planning council
endogenous periodicity
Env. L.
etres
forage poisoning
fructus papaveris
ftaxilide
glouster
glue-etched glass
glycerogelatin glycerinated gelatin
gossipping
granite slab
harperbusiness
hepatojugular refluxes
heterocentric
himba
hydroxyphenylhydrazinouracil
hypovan adic oxide
imperial institute of medicine
increment representation
interposition slug
interwreathes
keora
KRS
Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Wejewództwo
laconias
late gate
leading edge maneuver flap (lemf)
liljeros
market-town
meteoric stream
Miliolidae
minimum association price
myripristis hexagona
nephrocy
nonvertiginous
not of puff
Ocuri
oscillating of ship
out-world
outer canthic diameter
palaeoentomogeography
period of roll
pidonia deodara
pitch circle diameter (pcd)
placental murmur
Pleurospermum aromaticum
press-release
pterinophore
rcic low pump
requested number of treatments
retrogrades
ribots
scale moss
scroll timing
sealant backing
semiapochromatic
spinel magnetite
statistical cost analysis
summary of cost of finished products
swiw
sympycnus rutilus
tenthredo margaretella
thallium (ti)
traditional chinese secondary character set
trigonum retromolare (mandibul?)
Tubbs
uncaptious
Upper Chamber,upper chamber
ventricular